Posted on 10/06/2019 9:35:12 AM PDT by Chainmail
I don't recall if Colodny talks about it, but the gap in the tapes was right after Nixon said something about the break-in like “...and the whole Cuban thing.”
I wondered if that refers to the assassination of Kennedy (I think it was Haldeman that later thought that as well). Or perhaps the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Neither one of which had anything to do with Nixon. Nixon I believe was trying to protect our country by doing the coverup to protect a former President (Johnson/assasination, Kennedy/Bay of Pigs, or CIA/assasination, etc.)
Nixon also used the “plumbers” and his dirty tricks against the guy that released the Pentagon Papers. The Papers were a harsh and critical assessment made during (and of) Johnson's administration, and his poor execution of the Vietnam War. While it would have been perhaps good political fodder for Nixon to use - Nixon tried to suppress it as it put America in a bad light.
Hence Nixon's reason to resign - to save America from a drawn-out legal battle that would make his presidency ineffective - and probably future presidencies as well.
Notice also the similarity between the Nixon tapes and Trump's phone call leak. Nixon didn't want to release the tapes due to foreign leaders speaking with him with the expectation of privacy. It would be a terrible precedence if those leaders couldn't rely on that anymore.
I don’t know if it had been proven that Nixon was a participant of a coverup but what caused his downfall was the 18 ½ minute gap in a tape he had recorded. This article in the Washington Post describes the length the democRats go to when a Republican’s data is deleted. On the other had it is quite Ok for a democRat to purposely delete over 30 thousand emails?
Thanks Chainmail.
Actually, no: the 18 minute gap in the White House tapes was never actually linked to President Nixon - his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, allegedly made some mistake with the tape that was never solved.
The main fact was that once the White House taping system was disclosed, President Nixon refused to destroy any of the tapes as his advisors had recommended. There was no "obstruction of justice".
If you really want to see Obstruction of Justice, try the IRS' wholesale destruction of computer hard drives and files - against congressional instructions - during Obama's reign - and Hillary's destruction of all evidence during her highly illegal use of a personal computer and server to transmit classified information.
All I remember is the missing 18 minutes of tape. Sadly all he had to do was not try to cover up. I do believe this country owes an apology to Nixon for what they let Obama get away with.
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