Hardy had just returned to Los Angeles when his secretary handed him a file bag: "Boss, this is the information sent over by the Hong Kong branch of the Global Times."

Hardy was very interested in the East, so he asked the Hong Kong Global Times to send him recently published newspapers and information they considered important at regular intervals.

Communications today are not as developed as they were in later times, and the content reported by newspapers in different places is not exactly the same. Of course, some information is shared, mostly focusing on local content.

Hardy opened the file bag and looked.

"The battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China is in full swing, and the gap in power between the two sides is narrowing. It seems that a big war is brewing."

Hardy thought for a moment, and it seemed that three major battles were about to begin.

"In Far East Japan, MacArthur signed the 1948 Allied Command Order No. 4, releasing 19 Japanese war criminals. This was the fifth wave of war criminals released by MacArthur since 1946. These war criminals included notorious Class A war criminals, soldiers who participated in the war, and wealthy families and arms manufacturers who made a fortune in the war."

"According to the agreement reached at the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in 1945, the Allied commanders only had the right to implement Japan's surrender conditions, and the Potsdam Declaration did not give the Allied commanders the right to pardon war criminals."

After reading this report, Hardy's face became much gloomier.

This MacArthur has been collecting money in Japan to the point of being crazy. He dares to let anyone go, no matter who they are, as long as they are paid enough.

When we go to Japan in the future, we will send those damned people to hell.

I turned a few more pages.

Suddenly, Hardy saw a big headline in the newspaper: "The Nationalist Government held a parade in Beijing to support Dewey's presidential campaign."

There were a few more photos on the newspaper, a group of people holding up a paper elephant, and someone holding a picture of Dewey. Behind them was a person holding up a sign that said, "Good luck to Dewey!" It was in both Chinese and English. Behind them was a group of guys in costumes, and some were playing gongs and drums.

The elephant is held because the US election is also called the 'donkey-elephant battle' and the "elephant" is the emblem of the Republican Party.

After seeing these photos, Hardy just found them funny.

This doesn't look like a parade, it looks more like a funeral.

The newspaper wrote: "Dewey's support rate in the United States is very high. He is very likely to win the presidential election this year. With the support of Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist government, a grand parade was held in Beijing to cheer for Dewey. The team passed through several blocks in Beijing and attracted a large number of spectators."

Hadi laughed when he saw this report. Mr. Jiang really has political acumen.

Or maybe,

This is just a desperate move.

In the end, it was his own fault.

Hardy felt that it was necessary to show this report to President Johnson, perhaps he would be happy.

Hardy called the editor-in-chief of the Global Times and personally instructed him to "Publish the news that China supports Dewey on the front page."

The editor-in-chief took a look and asked, "Mr. Hardy thinks this report is important?"

"I find it very interesting," said Hardy.

"I understand." The editor-in-chief said quickly.

Originally, Hardy wanted to publish the report about MacArthur as well, but later he thought that doing so would have no effect at all. Americans would not care about what happened in the Far East, and it would not have any impact on MacArthur at all.

After the editor-in-chief of the Global Times left, Hardy picked up the phone and called Mike. Now Mike has joined Johnson's campaign and is currently on a nationwide speaking tour with Johnson. At the same time, Johnson also gave him a position, assistant to the president and director of the liaison office.

Although Mike is young, he is also a member of the New York Congress, so he is more than qualified for this position.

Mike was very happy to get Hardy's call. After exchanging pleasantries with Hardy, they talked about their recent tour. There were only two stops left, namely San Francisco and Los Angeles. These were also the two most important cities on the West Coast.

Hardy smiled and said, "Tell President Johnson that I have made arrangements in San Francisco. When we arrive in Los Angeles, I will let him feel the enthusiasm of the people of Los Angeles. There will be many guests to support him, and there will also be a live broadcast."

"I think President Johnson will be very happy to hear this news," Mike said with a smile.

"Mike, there is something. No matter how busy President Johnson is, you must let him see tomorrow's Global Times, especially the reports about the East," said Hardy.

Mike knew that this was the purpose of Hardy's call, and he immediately agreed. He was a personal assistant, and this was not a difficult thing for him.

......

The next day.

salt lake city utah.

President Johnson was giving his speech when his campaign team members came over in the morning and they all had breakfast together. Johnson thought this was a good opportunity for communication.

The others were eating and chatting about today's schedule. Johnson put a fried tomato in his mouth and talked to others. Mike walked in with a copy of today's Global Times in his hand.

He had already read the content. Today's Global Times sub-page news was about China. It reported that China's current Chiang Kai-shek openly supported Dewey and held a parade in Beijing to cheer for Dewey.

After reading this news, Mike didn't think much of it. He knew the country in the East and that they were still in the middle of a war, but it wasn't worth Hadi's attention. However, he knew Hadi very well and he felt that this matter was by no means that simple.

Mike sat at the table and helped himself to food. After President Johnson and the others finished speaking, Mike smiled and said, "I just read a very interesting piece of news. Across the ocean in China, their leaders held a parade to support Dewey."

After hearing what Mike said, Johnson's face darkened slightly, and he frowned and said, "Michael, which newspaper did you read that in?"

"Global Times."

Mike said as he handed over the newspaper.

Johnson put down his knife and fork and looked at the newspaper. He quickly found the article, which showed a group of Chinese people holding elephants and banners and walking on the streets of oriental buildings.

The report said that a Global Times reporter in Beijing saw an interesting scene: the US was holding a general election, and even Eastern countries were paying close attention. Their leaders expressed their opinions and clearly supported Dewey's victory.

After reading the newspaper, Johnson's face turned very ugly.

These were his closest team members. He did not hide anything and angrily cursed: "This Jiang and his group are a bunch of parasites, a bunch of corrupt people from head to toe."

"We gave them billions of dollars in aid, and you know what he did. He embezzled $750 million of it, which we found out a long time ago. They stole the money and invested it in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and even bought real estate in New York."

"They are a bunch of incompetent guys, rotten from top to bottom. I once asked Marshall to mediate, but he refused. Stilwell once told Marshall that those people were doomed to fail."

"After I became president, they continued to ask for money, equipment and aid, and even asked me to send millions of people to China to help them eliminate their so-called enemies. I felt that they were simply hopeless."

Johnson glanced at the newspaper again. The words "Good Luck Dewey" on the photo made him angry. "From now on, he will never get a bullet of aid from the United States, nor will he get any political help. I will not send millions of troops to help him. I will never waste American lives to save him.

...As for Chiang and his army, these bastards should be thrown into jail."

Johnson threw the newspaper aside, continued eating, and chatted with his assistants about the upcoming election campaign.

Faced with humiliation, all he had to do was disappoint his enemies.

Yes,

Johnson believed that Chiang's move was a humiliation to him.

He once helped Chiang, and he is now the President of the United States. As a qualified politician and leader of a country, he thinks that man's behavior is ridiculous and stupid.

There is no way a person like that could win.

He had thought about supporting Chiang before, but now he has no such idea at all. Chiang doesn't know yet, but because of his action, Johnson has completely given up on him.

Salt Lake City Lecture Event.

There were about five to six thousand people.

Johnson goes on stage to give a speech without a script in hand. He now likes to give speeches without a script more and more, and after giving so many speeches, he has become more and more free and easy.

The people who supported him in the square cheered from time to time.

Mike called Hardy and said, "He's read the newspaper at breakfast."

"What did you say?"

"He had a very ugly look on his face and cursed at that person, saying they were corrupt, that they had embezzled the aid money, that they were incompetent and that failure was inevitable. He also said that from now on he would never receive any aid from him or help him politically," said Mike.

A smile appeared on Hardy's face.

He felt Johnson had made the right choice.

Not long after Hardy hung up the phone, Henry came over and said, "Boss, you asked us to monitor Dewey before, and we got some intelligence."

"What information?"

"A group of Chinese people visited Dewey. The leader was called 'T.V. Soong.' They chatted for an entire afternoon. We don't know what they talked about. They chatted at the golf course, but we secretly took some photos of their meeting."

Henry pronounced the three words "T.V. Soong" phonetically, but Hardy still understood it. Information about T.V. Soong flashed through his mind. Among the four major families of Chiang, Soong, Kong and Chen, T.V. Soong was the older brother of Soong Ailing and Soong Ching-ling, the older brother of Soong Mei-ling, and also the brother-in-law of someone.

He once served as the Minister of Finance of the Nationalist Government, controlling financial power. Later, he stayed in the United States for a long time, seeking aid from the United States.

"But not long after 'T.V. Soong' left, an additional $5 million appeared in Dewey's secret campaign fund account."

"We put a lot of effort into it and finally found out that the money came from an account in Brazil. We analyzed that the money should have been given by the Chinese."

Campaign funds are divided into public and secret, which are both legal, but the United States also has clear regulations that political donations from foreigners cannot be accepted.

And it’s such a large amount.

If no one checked, maybe that would have been the case. After all, it was a secret fund account and the money would have been spent and that was it. But now that Hardy knows about it, the situation is different.

For someone who is crying poor and asking for aid every day, 5 million US dollars is not a small amount of money. In order to get Dewey to support him after winning, it is a huge expense.

As for where this money comes from.

hehe,

That is the part of US aid that they secretly embezzled.

This really proves the old saying,

Take from rice, use for rice.

Next, Hardy considered how to take advantage of this incident.

The media reported this?

Doing so would indeed deal a certain blow to Dewey. After all, the law expressly prohibits accepting funds from other countries. For example, if Trump accepted money from President Donald Trump during the election, if this matter were to be exposed, it would not be as simple as not being allowed to participate in the election.

However, Henry and his team did not have sufficient information on this matter. They could only infer from the existing clues that the money was given to someone, but they had no evidence.

This left Dewey with an opening.

Hardy thinks that

This matter can actually be used well. If handled well, it can deal a heavy blow to Dewey.

hehe.

Looking for someone to run my casino business.

Don't blame me for messing with your people.

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