The Disturbed Bobby Fischer; the Cockamamie Jimmy Hoffa Pardon and POW Scheme; George McGovern, Pro-Nixon Democrats, and the Thomas Eagleton Debacle; Bombing Dikes; the Nixon Campaign and Fundraising; Swifty Lazar’s Pursuit of Kissinger’s Memoirs; and the Jackson Amendment on SALT

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter discusses the troubled chess master Bobby Fischer, a Jimmy Hoffa scheme to secure the release of American POWs from North Vietnam that required a presidential pardon for his past crimes to travel, and Kissinger’s dealings with Hoffa’s shady representative and a Teamsters vice president over the plan. The chapter also discusses Kissinger’s denials of press reports that he had helped raise money for Nixon’s reelection from Democrats who found Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern too far left, and McGovern running mate Thomas Eagleton’s acknowledgment of having received electric shock therapy. Also, the chapter discusses U.S. bombing of dikes in North Vietnam, the Hollywood agent Irving Lazar’s pursuit of Kissinger’s memoirs, and an amendment by Senator Henry Jackson to the SALT agreement that Kissinger did not want the administration to back but told Jackson he was completely behind him.</jats:p>