Posted on 06/19/2022 2:38:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty years after the Watergate burglary that led to the downfall of US president Richard Nixon, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is still haunted by one question.
"The unanswered question that pulses through all of this is 'Why?' Woodward said at an event at Post headquarters with his former reporting colleague Carl Bernstein.
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The left was coming for Nixon no matter what he said or did. They had had it in for him for years for outing their hero, Alger Hiss, as a Soviet spy working for Dim presidents.
The real reason, it now seems - if "Silent Coup" is correct - was that Nixon's lawyer, John Dean, was hiding an embarrassing personal liaison.
Dean's wife, Maureen Biner Dean, had been a roommate and close friend of a woman who headed a ring of Washington, D.C., prostitutes. That information was locked inside the DNC office.
"The real ops (operations) officer was Hunt; and his principal, the man who conceived and commanded the Watergate operation, was John Dean. John Mitchell and Richard Nixon had nothing whatsoever to do with it," Liddy said.
"In other words," I asked him, "if Nixon had known Dean's real reasons for the break-in, he would not have protected the `burglars' and the cover-up would never have happened?"
"That's exactly correct," Liddy said. "He would have flushed the whole thing right at the start. Mitchell would not have gone to jail and Richard Nixon would have retained his presidency."
Woodward, one act obsession!
All Woodward had to do was to ask John Dean. Of course, he should ask while the weasel is on a polygraph.
It has been many years since I’ve read a serious survey of the literature. The last time I did so, probably 15-20 years ago, there seemed to be a consensus among the serious historians — as opposed to democrat hacks doing their usual thing — that Nixon probably didn’t know about the break in.
Occam’s Razor always suggested to me that this was correct. Nixon completely bungled his reaction to and long-term management of the crisis. The simplest explanation is that he didn’t know what he was dealing with, and he was being lied to by the people who did.
Has anyone read a more recent literature review that covers the state of play among real historians?
I do not pretend to any great expertise on the subject, but in my own life I have encountered three people, none of them professional historians but all of them sober, intelligent, politically savvy professionals, who took enough interest to actually read the infamous White House tapes. They all had the same reaction: the tapes make it abundantly clear that Nixon was in the dark.
The most adamant proponent of the call girl theory I’ve ever met was a very well-wired democrat operative who swore it was true. But he never told me his sources.
Woodward has yet to write about the fact that Hillary and DNC lied about the Russia Russia Russia hoax to over throw a sitting President.
“The left was coming for Nixon no matter what he said or did. They had had it in for him for years for outing their hero, Alger Hiss, as a Soviet spy working for Dim presidents.”
As hard as they tried, the media couldn’t touch him in 1972. Hell, he won in the biggest landslide up to that time: 520 EVs and 49 out of 50 states (only Massachusetts went for McGovern, who couldn’t even carry his own state!).
Then Nixon handed the media the gift in 1973, and it sank him in 1974.
Standing by your faithful employees is hardly a flaw. Failing to recognize that what they did was illegal, though, certainly is.
All the President’s Men screwed him. Muskie would not have beat Nixon. The break-in broke him.
Those two luckups need to just die already and go away. Watergate, Watergate, Watergate. Everything to them only relates in the context of Wategate.
The stumbled over a story handed to them on a silver platter and are still living that nonsense half a century later...
yeah.. I guess it’s a little interesting why Nixon felt the next for a little dirty trick.
But over 20 years later and I am still wondering why Bill Clinton felt the need to rape multiple women?
Maybe it’s just me.. but I am far more concerned about women being raped than political dirty tricks.
“Standing by your faithful employees is hardly a flaw.”
It depends on your perspective. It’s one thing to stand by your employees when they followed your instructions and it didn’t work out; and standing by them when they acted without your knowledge and consent and broke the law to boot, imperiling the government and the interests of the country.
“Failing to recognize that what they did was illegal, though, certainly is.”
See my comment above.
And one of the former call girls listed in the blackbook in the Dems office was Dean's wife. That is why Dean broke in. It was to get the blackbook
And one of the former call girls listed in the blackbook in the Dems office was Dean’s wife. That is why Dean broke in. It was to get the blackbook
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Bingo....Nixon was clueless but he stood with his people and in the end, the ‘coverup’ was just something that took on a life of its own. Meanwhile, Woodward and Bernstein are going to ride the narrative they created right to the grave.
The call-girl thing is often brought up, and there’s some speculation that Dean’s wife was in some Baltimore swinger group (maybe some evidence in that safe that they were breaking into).
This whole discussion has never been brought up and openly covered.
To find out where the democrats were getting their off shore money form.
Russia China?.
50 years later, and he still doesn’t understand even what he reported, much less the context.
Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 (15,951,287 votes).
For only the second time a dem presidential candidate carried South Dakota
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