Robert Parry Quote

The 1968 bugging issue revolved around a Republican initiative to undermine Johnson's Paris peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War and brought home 500,000 American soldiers then fighting in Indochina. The Nixon-Agnew campaign, however, feared that this 'October Surprise' would catapult Vice President Hubert Humphrey to victory and again deny Nixon the White House.

Robert Parry

The 1968 bugging issue revolved around a Republican initiative to undermine Johnson's Paris peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War and brought home 500,000 American soldiers then fighting in Indochina. The Nixon-Agnew campaign, however, feared that this 'October Surprise' would catapult Vice President Hubert Humphrey to victory and again deny Nixon the White House.

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Robert Parry (poet) (1540–1612), Elizabethan Welsh poet
Robert Parry (priest), Dean of Lismore from 1647 to 1660
R. Williams Parry (1884–1956), 20th-century Welsh poet
Robert Parry (politician) (1933–2000), British politician
Robert W. Parry (1917–2006), American chemist
Robert Parry (journalist) (1949–2018), American journalist
Bob Parry (born 1953), Australian cricket umpire