I too wonder why Nixon did it.
By ‘it,’ I mean:
1. Have a constant audio surveillance system installed in the White House ***at your own request***.
2. Forget you installed an audio surveillance system in the White House and then get recorded discussing/ordering things that at best would make you look bad and at worst would be used in evidence against you in your impeachment/criminal trial.
3. Having done point 2, failing to erase the tapes the same day and put them back for reuse.
You have to be really, really, really, really stupid to do that. I know there’s some Nixon worshipers here, but between the above stupidity and China, I’m sorry, we were better off without him.
I think Johnson had the recording system put in. Nixon just decided to keep it.
“””I too wonder why Nixon did it.
By ‘it,’ I mean:
1. Have a constant audio surveillance system installed in the White House ***at your own request***.”””
Yes but, come forward to 2020 and why does Trump have something like 20 people listening in on a conversation he has between himself and Zelensky from Ukraine?
Does Joe Biden have 20 people listening in when Hunter Biden gives him a call?