Editing John N. Mitchell (section)

===Vietnam===
Allegedly, Mitchell also played a central role in [[Anna Chennault#Paris Peace Accords|covert attempts]] to sabotage the 1968 [[Paris Peace Accords]]  which could have ended the Vietnam War (the “Chennault Affair”).<ref>[[KC Johnson|Robert "KC" Johnson]]. [http://hnn.us/articles/60446.html “Did Nixon Commit Treason in 1968? What The New LBJ Tapes Reveal”]. [[History News Network]], January 26, 2009. Transcript from {{YouTube|i10VxpAGQUg|audio recording}} of [[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Lyndon Johnson]]: "The next thing that we got our teeth in was one of his associates — a fellow named Mitchell, who is running his campaign, who's the real [[Sherman Adams]] ([[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]'s chief of staff) of the operation, in effect said to a businessman that 'we're going to handle this like we handled the Fortas matter, unquote. We're going to frustrate the President by saying to the South Vietnamese, and the Koreans, and the Thailanders {{sic}}, "Beware of [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]]."' 'At the same time, we're going to say to Hanoi, "I [Nixon] can make a better deal than he [[Lyndon B. Johnson|(Johnson)]] has, because I'm fresh and new, and I don't have to demand as much as he does in the light of past positions."'"</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Seymour|last=Hersh|authorlink=Seymour Hersh|url=https://archive.org/details/priceofpower00hers|title=The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House|publisher=[[Summit Books]]| date=1983 |<!-- [quote=“I'm speaking on behalf of Mr. Nixon. It's very important that our Vietnamese friends understand our Republican position and I hope you have made that clear to them".  p. 21.]--> quote="A few days before the election, she wrote, Mitchell telephoned with an urgent message. [[Anna Chennault|'Anna,' (Chennault)]] she quotes him as saying. 'I'm speaking on behalf of Mr. Nixon. It's very important that our Vietnamese friends understand our Republican position and I hope you have made that clear to them.'".}}</ref><ref>[[Jules Witcover]]. [http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801882470&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y “The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat”]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. [[Johns Hopkins University Press]], 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ePRIONzLmEoC&pg=PA131#PPA132,M1 p131.] "I tracked down [[Anna Chennault]] (...) she insisted she had acted under instructions from the Nixon campaign in contacting the Saigon regime. 'The only people who knew about the whole operation,' she told me, 'were Nixon, John Mitchell and [[John Tower]] [senator from Texas and Nixon campaign figure], and they're all dead. But they knew what I was doing. Anyone who knows about these thing knows I was getting orders to do these thing. I couldn't do anything without instructions.'".</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Clark M.|last1=Clifford|authorlink1=Clark M. Clifford|first2=Richard C.|last2=Holbrooke|authorlink2=Richard C. Holbrooke|title=Counsel to the President: A Memoir|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=New York City|date=1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eeJ4AAAAMAAJ|page=582| isbn=9780394569956 |quote=It was not difficult for Ambassador Diem to pass information to Anna Chennault, who was in contact with John Mitchell, she said later, 'at least once a day.'}}</ref>