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To: Hillary'sMoralVoid

Nixon used government resources to install and service his recording devices and you consider it ‘his’ property?


8 posted on 10/22/2016 3:13:14 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

The best book on Watergate l,ve read is ‘WATERGATE AMENDMENT’ by John Fitzgerald. It’s an eye opener.


10 posted on 10/22/2016 3:22:54 AM PDT by bondsman (kbernards/4995cop)
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To: Theoria; Hillary'sMoralVoid; okie01

A funny anecdote: A rare treat, a few years ago I was invited to Disneyland Club 33. For those who don’t know, look it up it’s full of lore. But in short it is a private members-only club that serves a full service meal on fine China, and is the only place in the park that serves alcohol. Supposedly it was originally set up as a club for executives of the corporate sponsors who helped finance building the park (but there are a lot of legends not all of them are true). It was a real treat to get in.

Anyway, one thing Walt wanted was for this club to have the best service of any restaurant in the world. So I took some time to talk with the host/manager about the club’s history and decor, and one of the things she told me was that Walt had originally installed microphones in many of the items of decor in the dining room. She specifically pointed out a stuffed bird mounted on the wall by our table as one place a mic used to be hidden. Walt did this, so the story goes, purely to deliver exemplary service. So if you are sitting at the table and say to your table mate something like “oh I just dropped my fork under the table”, someone inside a listening room would hear this and send a waiter over with a new fork before you would even have a chance to flag down a waiter to ask for one.

So the legend goes that Nixon was eating in Club 33 when he learned about the hidden microphones, and that is how he got the idea to install microphones in the Oval Office.

True or not, I don’t think we’ll ever know. But an interesting aside to me, anyway.


14 posted on 10/22/2016 3:43:09 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Theoria

Nixon considered the tapes as his personal property, and a legal settlement (98) agreed and they became part of the Nixon library. They were later voluntarily released to the national archives.

Interestingly, there was a purported conversation with Nixon and LBJ, in which LBJ recommended taping important conversations.


25 posted on 10/22/2016 7:26:15 AM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid
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