AUSTIN , Texas, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Prior to the 1968 U.S. presidential election, President Lyndon Johnson suspected his eventual successor, Richard Nixon, of treason, LBJ tapes reveal.
Johnson suspected that Republican Nixon, running against Hubert Humphrey, Johnson's vice president, was interfering in the Vietnam war to sway the election, a move he classified as political sabotage or more to his view, treason, the recordings say.