A handful of Nixon’s aides, including White House counsel John Dean, testified before a grand jury about the president’s crimes; they also testified that Nixon had secretly taped every conversation that took place in the Oval Office.
Nixon struggled to protect the tapes during the summer and fall of 1973. His lawyers argued that the president’s executive privilege allowed him to keep the tapes to himself, but Judge Sirica, the Senate committee and an independent special prosecutor named Archibald Cox were all determined to obtain them.
Nixon struggled to protect the tapes during the summer and fall of 1973. His lawyers argued that the president’s executive privilege allowed him to keep the tapes to himself, but Judge Sirica, the Senate committee and an independent special prosecutor named Archibald Cox were all determined to obtain them.
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The Saturday Night Massacre
When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest. (These events, which took place on October 20, 1973, are known as the Saturday Night Massacre.) Eventually, Nixon agreed to surrender some—but not all—of the tapes.
Early in 1974, the cover-up and efforts to impede the Watergate investigation began to unravel. On March 1, a grand jury appointed by a new special prosecutor indicted seven of Nixon’s former aides on various charges related to the Watergate affair. Here is the list of those sides and advisors:
When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest. (These events, which took place on October 20, 1973, are known as the Saturday Night Massacre.) Eventually, Nixon agreed to surrender some—but not all—of the tapes.
Early in 1974, the cover-up and efforts to impede the Watergate investigation began to unravel. On March 1, a grand jury appointed by a new special prosecutor indicted seven of Nixon’s former aides on various charges related to the Watergate affair. Here is the list of those sides and advisors:
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Tomorrow we will discuss Nixon’s reaction to Watergate.
I will also share an article that questions if those break-ins even happened. This rabbit hole goes deep!!
I will also share an article that questions if those break-ins even happened. This rabbit hole goes deep!!
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I can’t wait for Trump’s turn!
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1581005141758836739?t=-nh4oq_StOgdNgtFRscfZQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1581005141758836739?t=-nh4oq_StOgdNgtFRscfZQ&s=19
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Q told us MIDTERMS are SAFE. Q’s first post was on 10/28/2017. We’ve had one set of midterms since then, and we know the 2018 Midterms were not safe then.
What if this is our year?
What if things will finally get exposed?
What will YOU do? Sitting at home and not voting will be the one thing you SHOULDN’T do.
GET OUT AND VOTE!!
Yes, there is always a chance the elections go sideways again, but at the very least if [they] are going to cheat...make them try and overcome the massive red wave we know we can generate.
This thread is dedicated for legitimate candidate recommendations.
What if this is our year?
What if things will finally get exposed?
What will YOU do? Sitting at home and not voting will be the one thing you SHOULDN’T do.
GET OUT AND VOTE!!
Yes, there is always a chance the elections go sideways again, but at the very least if [they] are going to cheat...make them try and overcome the massive red wave we know we can generate.
This thread is dedicated for legitimate candidate recommendations.
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In his memoirs, Nixon described how he learned about the “Watergate Break-ins” while vacationing in Florida, from the morning newspaper. He recalled his reaction at the time:
“It sounded preposterous. Cubans in surgical gloves bugging the DNC! I dismissed it as some sort of prank… The whole thing made so little sense. Why, I wondered. Why then? Why in such a blundering way… Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to go for inside information on a presidential campaign. The whole thing was so senseless and bungled that it almost looked like some kind of a setup.”
Nixon was actually suggesting not just a setup, but one intended to harm him.
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“It sounded preposterous. Cubans in surgical gloves bugging the DNC! I dismissed it as some sort of prank… The whole thing made so little sense. Why, I wondered. Why then? Why in such a blundering way… Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to go for inside information on a presidential campaign. The whole thing was so senseless and bungled that it almost looked like some kind of a setup.”
Nixon was actually suggesting not just a setup, but one intended to harm him.
(The notifications will be turned off while I copy/paste this long presentation into the channel).
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Less than a week later, on June 23rd, 1972 Nixon suddenly learned more…and this gave him much to think about.
Nixon’s chief of staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, came into the Oval Office to give the president an update on a variety of topics, including the investigation of the break-in. Haldeman had just been briefed by John Dean, who had gotten his information from FBI investigators. Dean would eventually become a traitor.
HALDEMAN: …The FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that’s what it is. This is CIA….
NIXON: Of course, this is a…this is a [E. Howard] Hunt [operation, and exposure of it] will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further.
This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves… This will open the whole Bay of Pigs thing…
Nixon’s chief of staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, came into the Oval Office to give the president an update on a variety of topics, including the investigation of the break-in. Haldeman had just been briefed by John Dean, who had gotten his information from FBI investigators. Dean would eventually become a traitor.
HALDEMAN: …The FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that’s what it is. This is CIA….
NIXON: Of course, this is a…this is a [E. Howard] Hunt [operation, and exposure of it] will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further.
This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves… This will open the whole Bay of Pigs thing…
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Nixon knew everything he said was being recorded. Like Kennedy and Johnson who came before him, he had decided to install a taping system so that he could maintain a record of his administration. He was, in a way, dictating a file memo for future historians. There would end up being 3700 hours of tape recordings. There was a Tape with 18 minutes of missing content. What was on that tape??
Nixon never minced words. He swore. And he routinely called out the very people who he felt were against him and trying to bring down his presidency. In addition to the C_A, Nixon believed it to be the Askenazi Jews…though he specifically said “The Jewish Cabal is out to get me.”
Nixon never minced words. He swore. And he routinely called out the very people who he felt were against him and trying to bring down his presidency. In addition to the C_A, Nixon believed it to be the Askenazi Jews…though he specifically said “The Jewish Cabal is out to get me.”
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Nixon recognized certain things about the implementation of the burglary that seemed very fishy. How could the bugging of the DNC headquarters be carried out by pros, but have so many amateur-ish and bungling maneuvers? He also thought…”A break-in at Democratic Party headquarters…on whom would that be blamed?” Well, who was running against a Democrat for reelection that fall? Why, Richard Nixon of course.
Nixon knew how this would play out publicly. Dick Nixon: ruthless, paranoid, vengeful. Wouldn’t this burglary be just the kind of thing that Dick Nixon…aka “Tricky Dick” (the “liberal media’s” version of him)...would do? Nixon’s opponent, George McGovern, made this charge repeatedly during the 1972 campaign.
Nixon knew how this would play out publicly. Dick Nixon: ruthless, paranoid, vengeful. Wouldn’t this burglary be just the kind of thing that Dick Nixon…aka “Tricky Dick” (the “liberal media’s” version of him)...would do? Nixon’s opponent, George McGovern, made this charge repeatedly during the 1972 campaign.
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It was clear their was a plan to get him out.
So what really happened with Watergate?
Before we get to the HOW and the WHY, we have to understand why Nixon was involved with the cabal in the first place? Lets review some things we discussed a week or so ago regarding Nixon’s beginnings.
Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents.
Allen Dulles (who would go on to become Director of Central Intelligence, 1953) told Nixon to keep quiet about what he had seen and, in return, arranged to finance Nixon’s
first congressional campaign.
Dulles was part of Project Paperclip, and would later become Director of Central Intelligence.
So what really happened with Watergate?
Before we get to the HOW and the WHY, we have to understand why Nixon was involved with the cabal in the first place? Lets review some things we discussed a week or so ago regarding Nixon’s beginnings.
Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents.
Allen Dulles (who would go on to become Director of Central Intelligence, 1953) told Nixon to keep quiet about what he had seen and, in return, arranged to finance Nixon’s
first congressional campaign.
Dulles was part of Project Paperclip, and would later become Director of Central Intelligence.
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What were the documents that Dulles was eager to cover up for Karl Blessing… then head of the Nazi oil cartel called Kontinentale , or “Konti”?
Dulles was covering up for Blessing in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose family ruled the Arabian peninsula… thanks to Nazi collaborators within British and U.S. intelligence…as well as Aramco: the Arab-Ameri- can Oil Co.).
If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles.
Dulles was covering up for Blessing in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose family ruled the Arabian peninsula… thanks to Nazi collaborators within British and U.S. intelligence…as well as Aramco: the Arab-Ameri- can Oil Co.).
If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles.
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The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing. Nixon became Dulles’s mouthpiece in Congress. During this time (1948) Nixon and Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information about people in President Truman’s administration that might have been Communist or Communist sympathizers. They.called these type of people “pinkos.”
We know that McCarthy went after these people hard…including many in Hollywood.
Some felt McCarthy went too far, concerned that he would uncover too much.
During this McCarthy era , Nixon worked with then CIA director, Bedell Smith, to steer investigations against the intelligence community.
The CIA was grateful for Nixon’s assistance!
We know that McCarthy went after these people hard…including many in Hollywood.
Some felt McCarthy went too far, concerned that he would uncover too much.
During this McCarthy era , Nixon worked with then CIA director, Bedell Smith, to steer investigations against the intelligence community.
The CIA was grateful for Nixon’s assistance!
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