HE WAS NOT A CROOK

nypost.com ^ | May 18, 2008 | JAMES ROSEN

[Free ThinkerNY]

HOW AN OUT-OF-CONTROL MEDIA INDICTED NIXON WITHOUT A TRIAL

May 18, 2008 -- Swarmed by photographers, former Attorney General John Mitchell - once President Nixon's closest adviser, an awesome figure, with his wintry demeanor and trademark pipe, throughout the capital - emerged shaken and unsmiling from a three-hour grilling before the grand jury. It was April 20, 1973, and the Watergate cover-up was fast unraveling. Federal prosecutors and reporters smelled blood.

"Mitchell had good reason to be grim," reported Daniel Schorr. "CBS News learns Mitchell admitted to the grand jury that he authorized payment of legal fees and expenses for the Watergate defendants months after he ended his official connection with the Nixon campaign committee."

This was almost certainly false. For while those grand jury proceedings remain sealed, in none of the ensuing forums - the Senate Watergate hearings; the House impeachment hearings; or U.S. v. Mitchell, the trial of the former attorney general on criminal charges that stemmed, in part, from his unhappy appearance before the grand jury that day - did Mitchell ever admit authorizing payments to the Watergate burglars. Nor did the prosecutors, who tried Mitchell for that exact offense, ever produce, in his indictment or trial, any such grand jury testimony by him.

[stboz]

Trickie Dickie open trade with China.....now, alla you berong to us! Sank you, Richard Milhouse Nixon.

[Past Your Eyes]

You mean the indictment is supposed to come AFTER the trial?

[Enchante]

Maybe there was something to Liddy's claim that there was a call-girl ring associated with the DNC and John Dean's future wife?? Have THESE tapes ever been released or were they deep-sixed to history??

"By contrast, the device planted in the telephone of R. Spencer Oliver, Jr. - an obscure DNC official whose office directly overlooked Virginia Avenue, and on whose line the wiretap monitor, Alfred Baldwin, later reported hearing conversations so sexually graphic that, as Baldwin testified, eight of ten lay people would believe them to be associated with a call-girl ring - did work and was monitored"

[Ron Jeremy]

I wish conservatives would stop defending this guy. We will always owe him a debt of gratitude for fighting the communists in the 50’s, but otherwise he was an awful liberal. As Charles Murry points out in “losing ground”, Nixon was the one who had the initial results in from the Great Society and could have killed it, but didn’t.

[Ron Jeremy]

"By contrast, the device planted in the telephone of R. Spencer Oliver, Jr. - an obscure DNC official whose office directly overlooked Virginia Avenue, and on whose line the wiretap monitor, Alfred Baldwin, later reported hearing conversations so sexually graphic that, as Baldwin testified, eight of ten lay people would believe them to be associated with a call-girl ring - did work and was monitored"

I always assumed Liddy would just say anything to piss off the "rats". But, would a call girl ring have sexually graphic talk? Isn't it in essence just an appointment setting operation?

[LucyT]

Was Nixon set up?

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_342685.html

Richard Nixon Reconsidered:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/richard_nixon_reconsidered.html

[Glenmore]

Yeah, he was a crook, but far less so than his immediate predecessor, and probably less so than most politicians at that level. Furthermore, his motives were considerably less reprehensible - his crimes were committed in support of his team members who committed crimes claimed to be in support of him (depending on who you trust least, it may have all been for Dean & by Dean), and not for his own gain. He could have easily survived had he hung his underlings out to dry, which is what most politicians did and do in similar circumstances.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

He might or might not have been a crook, but he definitely was a government-expanding leftist who did much damage to the country. Case in point: the EPA, wage-and-price controls, use of the IRS against political enemies...

[Reagan Man]

Agreed, good post.

I was a member of the Young Republicans Club in high school back in the sixties. Richard Nixon received my first vote for a presidential candidate. Even though he was a tough on communism, he quickly became an enabler of the Great Society policies. His call for “peace with honor” and his going to Red China were two worthy efforts. However, as a politician Nixon always lived on the edge. The leftwing establishment was out to get him since the late 1940s. The Watergate Affair gave the left ammunition to take Nixon down. I see no evidence that Nixon was anything but a crook. A cheap crook, nonetheless. If Nixon did nothing wrong, he should never have stepped down.

[BilLies]

Schorr was always a POS.
There are many references to R Spenser Oliver in the 1991 book “SILENT COUP” BY Colodny and Gettlin who believed the that John Dean (now the darling of the current newsliars) set up the break-in to get photos of his then girlfriend and (later wife Mo) whose picture was in the photo book of available escorts. Liddy, on his radio show, interviewed the cops who captured him and the others during the books distribution. The interview was a hoot, they backed up everything Liddy contended. Liddy did not have a clue that John Dean was using him; he also did not have any respect for McCord if I recall correctly. Liddy also beat Dean in a slander suit Dean filed against him. Dean is pure S.

[Mikey_1962]

He also gave us:

The EPA

OSHA

Wage and Price controls

Nixon: Most Liberal President ever!

[donna]

G. Gordon Liddy Wins Again
July 19, 2002

Liddy spent four years in prison for his role in organizing the break-in.

A federal jury in Baltimore has opened the door to freer discussion of the “Silent Coup” explanation of the Watergate break-in that took place thirty years ago. The jury found G. Gordon Liddy not guilty of libeling Ida “Maxie” Wells, who had sued for him for the third time for over five million dollars. The first suit was dismissed by the judge and the jury in the second split seven to two in Liddy’s favor. Wells was a secretary at the Democratic National Committee when the break-in occurred.

Liddy spent four years in prison for his role in organizing the break-in. He claims that it wasn’t until he read “Silent Coup,” a book by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin published eleven years ago, that he learned the real reason for it. Wells sued him for saying that the first break-in was to bug a phone on her desk that was used to arrange dates with call girls for visitors and the second was to see if photos of the girls believed to be in her desk drawer included one of White House Counsel John Dean’s girl friend, Mo Biner.
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http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/g-gordon-liddy-wins-again/

[Sonny M]

Nixon was a crook, a leftist, and political con artist.

There is a reason why Reagan loathed him so much.

Reagan hated him with such a passion, that he just could not, for even a moment, be nice to him (respectful, yes, nice or friendly, nope).

[donna]

Nixon wasn’t a crook. He was a politician of his time and the media hated him like they hate Bush. Nixon was liberal but he loved this country.

I’ve never heard that Reagan said anything about Nixon much less loathed him. Reagan most likely did not loath anyone.

[return to sender]

And on top of the EPA, he gave us the Endangered Species Act. Now, that’s an accomplishment few RINOs can match. But McCain, by gosh, I think with his AGW ideas, he has the makings to surpass Nixon and various others to become the biggest RINO in history!! Go for it Juan! Greatness awaits!!

[Bondesman]

There is a fascinating book, a real eye opener ‘The Amendment a novel’ about Nixon and the 25th Amendment. It’s on Amazon a great read and follows this viewpoint.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>Nixon wasn’t a crook. Nixon was liberal ...

A contradiction in terms. Liberals take from the rich and give to the poor. By definition that makes them crooks. ;^)

But you're right, Reagan didn't loathe Nixon. Nixon didn't think much of Reagan, however. I figure, Nixon didn't like the fact that Reagan was a better man and a much better POTUS then he was. Its all about resigning in disgrace for Nixon.

[A.A. Cunningham]

He was a Keynesian which is just another way to spell crook.

[WOSG]

This is more about exposing an artificial liberal MSM + New Left hit-job than about defending Nixon per se.

I think a comment on another blog is relevent here ... where I discuss the roots of partisan blood sport politics ... It goes WAY back to the fact that Nixon knocked off a leftist Senator inCalifornia by callign her a pinko (which she was).

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The disgusting no-hold-barred politics has been a product of the marxists, who begat the New Left in the 1960s, who used this “end justified the means”. They started this hateful vitriol against Nixon, it worked, and so the left has used it since then: Against Reagan, against Newt Gingrich, against G W Bush.

Its poisoned the well, and so today over the top hysterical politics is practiced on all sides. the biggest joke/lie is that Obama is different. Obama grew up with leftists and his pastor gave sermons saying stuff like “God damn America”. Obama and Clinton both are student of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” which is a part of what has caused this degeneration in political discourse. Expect more of the same if Obama becomes President.
Obama’s wife has threatened to make us do more and to ‘cure our souls’ (like we are somehow sick people) if obama is elected. This is all subtle left-wing derived agitation, just like the “yes we can” slogan, lifted from leftwing union slogan of Cesar Chavez.

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If we let the liberals write the history and white-wash their partisan use of false testimony or media bias; well, they will just do it again. The Plame Affair of 2004 to 2007 was another example of that. Another hit job from the left.