'Damaged goods': Alleged fraud has GOP bracing for loss of N.C. seat

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15. One of the first detailed public summaries was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2000

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08hitchet.html (it's been mentioned many more times since)

In his book that year, he mentioned suspecting that one of the directives of Nixon's burglars during the famed 1972 DNC break-in was to look for any evidence Democrats may have uncovered of the Kissinger/Anna Chenault bribery of Saigon officials to boycott LBJ's Paris Peace talks.

Nicon was convinced the McGovern campaign had been looking for said evidence, and that they could have been in a position to reveal it in, say, October.

Republicans, as you know, love giving October surprises; but not getting them.

As it happened, the DNC had no such dirt (unfortunately) - but the break-in, of course, resulted in Nixon's own downfall.

Karma is a dick.