Did you read the article? Jude explains the tapes and why he thinks they have been misused by Nixon's opponents.
The problem is, we have been forcefed by a liberal media concerning Nixon's guilt for so long, it creates some problems in our heads to think it might all be wrong. I suggest a re-examination.
Yes, I read the article, and I have spent hours and hours of my life reading everyone's side of the story, and listening to the tapes and/or reading the transcripts. Despite what Jude says, I beleieve that there was a lot of unethical behvaior going on in the White House, and that it is the unethical behavior that is what brought Nixon down. No unethical behavior = no Nixon being brought doen.
"Jude explains the tapes and why he thinks they have been misused by Nixon's opponents."
Yeah. I also noticed that in the article, he says this statement: "The "Cuban thing," as Nixon called it," referring to the "smoking gun" tape. A transcript of the recording:
okay -that's fine. Now, on the investigation,
you know, the Democratic break-in
thing, we're back to the-in the, the problem
area because the FBI is not under control,
because Gray doesn't exactly know how to
control them, and they have, their
investigation is now leading into some
productive areas, because they've been able
to trace the money, not through the money
itself, but through the bank, you know,
sources - the banker himself. And, and it
goes in some directions we don't want it to
go. Ah, also there have been some things,
like an informant came in off the street to
the FBI in Miami, who was a photographer or
has a friend who is a photographer who
developed some films through this guy,
Barker, and the films had pictures of
Democratic National Committee letter head
documents and things. So I guess, so it's
things like that that are gonna, that are
filtering in. Mitchell came up with
yesterday, and John Dean analyzed very
carefully last night and concludes, concurs
now with Mitchell's recommendation that the
only way to solve this, and we're set up
beautifully to do it, ah, in that and
that...the only network that paid any
attention to it last night was NBC...they
did a massive story on the Cuban...
PRESIDENT: That's right.
HALDEMAN: thing.
PRESIDENT: Right.
HALDEMAN: That the way to handle this now is for us to
have Walters call Pat Gray and just say,
"Stay the hell out of this...this is ah,
business here we don't want you to go any
further on it." That's not an unusual
development,...
PRESIDENT: Um huh.
The President doesn't say "the Cuban thing," Hadleman does. Funny mistake for a person who claims to have "read the transcripts over for the tenth or 15th time[s]." If he is that sloppy with misattributing quotes, what else is he sloppy in?
Moreover, it took him 15 times of listening to the tapes to come up with this explanation? Sounds like he's looking for an excuse to me. Occam's Razor, folks.
Finally, the Nixon's handling of the subpoena and the Saturday Night Massacre did him in for me. No respect of the constitutional process.