On May 8, amid this latest flurry of Democratic disarray, the president went on TV to sell another escalation in the air campaign. Connally urged him, “Don’t worry about killing civilians. Go ahead and kill ’em. People think you are now. So go ahead and give ’em some.” “That’s right,” concurred the president. “There’s pictures on the news of dead bodies every night,” chimed in Haldeman. “A dead body is a dead body. Nobody knows whose bodies they are or who killed them.”
