This summer is the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s anniversary. It’s called history. “Those who fail to understand it are doomed to repeat it.”
I appreciate those willing to listen to 3000+ hours of boring tapes and document what’s in them.
Yep. Not so much interest from the writer in current day tapes, errr uh emails.
I can’t imagine anything more boring than listening to 3,700 hours of someone else’s conversations. Even if that someone was president. Even if some of the tapes were classified.
Now, I would like to know what is in some of the IRS emails and so-forth—because I think they probably contain evidence of politically motivated persecution. The evidence would be the only interesting part of those emails.
They went so far yesterday as to release tapes of Nixon talking about (get ready for it!): PANDAS! Yes, Nixon had an opinion on the 70s obsession with pandas. Then Morning Joe hauled out the truly ancient and senile John Dean to go through his heroic struggle with that ole cancer on the presidency. This while the world burns...
A very controversial Nixon tape released in 2010 was the conversation between Nixon and Kissinger about the Russian Jews emigrating to Israel.
The NeoCon republicans used that tape to attack Kissinger as an anti-Semite, but since he is a Jew, they could only call him a self-loathing Jew.
But, beneath the surface, the NeoCons were actually using the tape as way to undermine support for the Senate's ratification of the new START treaty, which Kissinger was a strong and outspoken supporter of.
Ultimately, the senate ratified the treaty with 71 votes.
And the Obama media has dwelled on 18 minutes of accidentally erased tape for 40 years, yet they ignore willfully destroyed hard drives, emails, and erased backup tapes by the Obama IRS.
I find it a little hard to believe that conversations the President has now are not in some way recorded.
Since Nixon’s problems, we have had the first elected president ever impeached in America, yet few Americans even know that Clinton was impeached.