"They" are all of the above, except "bankers". I never mention bankers. Pretty sure they would just be the lackeys to the real players, don't you think?
And yes, the "elite' is always changing and evolving. In the 1860s it was pretty much Boston, New York and Washington DC, but nowadays it's more diverse and spread out, but still mainly concentrated in the Northeast.
The big newspapers hated Nixon, but it's unlikely that either the CIA or New York bankers wanted him removed. But you immediately jump to your usual assumption with no evidence whatsoever.
You declare and assert there is no evidence, but it looks like there is quite a lot of evidence to me. The Washington Post has long been the house organ for the deep state, and if the Washington Post is screaming for Nixon's blood, it is because this is what the Deep State wanted.
Nixon did make peace of sorts with China. That didn't cut defense budgets. What did cut defense budgets was the swing to the Democrats after Nixon had to leave office. Intelligent members of the military industrial complex would generally have supported Nixon because they recognized what the Democrats would do.
That is one theory. Here's another. They thought Nixon's peace overture might threaten their corporate backers income stream, and so they worked to get rid of him while thinking they could manage the Democrats.
Either theory could be correct, or both could be wrong and another theory we hadn't put forth could be correct.
Much of the defense industry was in the West. Some was in the South.
Who owned it? Where were the owners located? I found out a long time ago that a lot of businesses are owned in the Northeast, but located elsewhere.
I don't see any indication that Northeastern money men were more involved in defense industry than Los Angeles or Seattle or Houston or Atlanta money men were.
Ships, Submarines and aircraft are built where? Where do they build Tanks? Where does all the big ticket stuff come from?
But you don't care. You just keep coming back with your big idea whether it's relevant or not.
And you dismiss it just as easily and without any more facts than you accuse me of having.
Why does all the money keep ending up in Washington DC and all the industries connected to Washington DC?
Vaccines anyone? New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have made quite a lot of money from this scam.
Then they were truly idiots. They certainly trusted Nixon more than they trusted McGovern and the Democrats, and getting rid of Nixon would have opened the door for the Democrats and defense cuts. Military spending was bound to go down after Vietnam, but nobody seriously thought that Nixon would slash new weapons budgets or gut the military industrial complex. While détente was going on the Soviets were flexing their muscles and there was still a need for weaponry to counteract that.
Ships, Submarines and aircraft are built where? Where do they build Tanks?
Tanks are made in Lima Ohio. Jets are made in Texas and Oklahoma, also maybe in California and Washington State. The manufacturers are headquartered in Maryland (Moved in recent decades from California), Virginia (moved in recent decades from Missouri), Missouri and Washington State. Ships and subs are made in Maine, Connecticut, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and California.
Wealthy New York money men spread their money around and are unlikely to have all their eggs in one basket. With many investment opportunities available, it's unlikely that the defense contractors are going to be able to determine what some power elite pushes for.
And you dismiss it just as easily and without any more facts than you accuse me of having.
If you make a claim, it's up to you to prove it. If you want to prove that George Bush killed Kennedy or that Michelle Obama is a man or that Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau's father or that New Yorkers run the country or that the CIA and the defense industry took down Nixon, you have to provide the evidence. You are just attaching your pet idea to everything that comes along without evidence and without any serious investigation.
Why does all the money keep ending up in Washington DC and all the industries connected to Washington DC?
Before 1933 New York had a lot of power. A lot of money ended up in New York and the private sector concentrated in New York did make a lot of decisions. It's only since then (or since 1913 if you like) that Washington DC has been getting substantially more power.
The really big money only started to flow into DC in the 1960s and 1970s. Those defense contractors only moved to Maryland and Virginia in the 1990s. In other words, for most of our history people didn't go to Washington to make really big money. The gains of the DC area and other parts of the country, particularly California and Texas were very much at the expense of the New York area. People who do business with the government move to where the government is. There's no conspiracy involved. It's business.
What you're missing here is that during the long years from the Thirties to the Nineties the Democrats controlled Congress. They weren't a party dominated by the Northeast in those years. Much of their strength came from the South. It was in their interest to move bases and defense plants away from the Northeast. Land and labor were also cheaper in the South and West. With more factories being built, the South and West began to have more power economically than they had before, as well as more political influence. So rather than simply doing the bidding of some Northeastern elite, the federal government did much to weaken that region.