Posted on 05/16/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Jeb Stuart Magruder, the former White House aide who served seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal that forced Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974, has died. He was 79.
Magruder, a retired Presbyterian minister, died Sunday in Danbury, Conn., of complications from a stroke. Jeffrey H. Hull of the Hull Funeral Home in Danbury confirmed his death.
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It does, but the liberal media apparently isn't interested in doing investigative journalism, except against conservatives.
The book “Silent Coup” makes the argument that the burglary was in order to get the Democrats “black book” so as to keep from embarrassing John Dean's future wife who was a prostitute.
G. Gordon Liddy spoke highly of the book and I figured he was in a position to recommend the most truthful account.
I have heard that story too but I am standing by my story of the democrat treason.
I would love to know the definitive truth. The whole affair has always fascinated me how close we actually came to a coup by the leftists.
Either way, democrat treason is as safe a bet as you will ever find.
RIP.
Time magazine prepared a very interesting perspective on Watergate.
It well supports G. Gordon Liddy’s account.
The whole thing was John Dean’s idea and it had nothing to do with the election.
It was to recover a little black book that would have proven his wife’s “occupation”, working out of the Watergate hotel.
Larry O’brien’s office was on the wrong side of the suit of offices targeted.
If the motive were political intel, they would have gone after his office and they did not.
Click on magruder above comment #1 for articles in the FR archive about Mr. Magruder.
Two words: Alger Hiss. Democrats, the Left, and other fellow travelers never forgave Nixon for going after Alger Hiss.
Oh,You Can RELY On That!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It had a lot to do with the Kennedy team. In 1960, there was much discussion of which candidate was more liberal or more conservative and whether there was really any difference. The Kennedy people played up the "class" angle. Kennedy was the noble young prince, and Nixon the crude churl. Somehow that meme stuck and liberals and the media didn't really ask themselves how and why they became supporters of the aristocratic principle in politics.
Of course, Hiss and McCarthy were also factors. The left couldn't forgive Nixon for Hiss and associated Nixon with McCarthy. The cartoonist Herblock was a link between the left and more orthodox Democrats. He had it in for Nixon for years and did what he could to make a Nixon-McCarthy association stick. Herblock portrayed Nixon as a vicious partisan mudslinger in part perhaps because he was that way himself, and the repeated sting of his cartoons did a lot to make Nixon into just that kind of politician.
Nixon not that conservative? Liberals were riding high in the 1960s. They assumed that anybody who didn't go along 100% was standing in the way of progress and had to be defeated. Later on, conservatives got more confidence and liberals more timid, so conservatives could find Nixon wanting and liberals could accept the once despised Eisenhower (if not quite Nixon) as almost one of their own.
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