Posted on 06/20/2022 7:35:17 AM PDT by FarCenter
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When Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA was first published by Random House in November 1984 – more than a decade after the resignation and pardon of Richard Nixon – it presented such a large volume of new and revelatory information about a subject so widely considered exhausted that the book was greeted with the staggered astonishment typically reserved for apparitions.
“If even half of this is true,” wrote J. Anthony Lukas in the New York Times Book Review, “Secret Agenda will add an important new dimension to our understanding of Watergate.” ...“But,” Lukas added, “it may be months before reporters can sort through this material, check Mr. Hougan’s sources and decide which of these revelations is solid gold, which dross.”
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Introducing his findings, Hougan described Secret Agenda as “an attempt to correct the record … and to suggest avenues of further investigation.” Several authors over the ensuing decades ...took him up on that challenge, and a couple of epic lawsuits unfolded, with the result that the book’s central thrusts were only strengthened.
Reckoning with Secret Agenda is hardly an academic matter. If Hougan and the other Watergate revisionists are correct, then the scandal that toppled Richard Nixon from power was about much more than a third-rate burglary attempt, the wiretapping of the opposing party, or even a series of covert crimes ordered by a paranoid president. Secret Agenda and its progeny force us, instead, to conceive of Watergate as a Cold War-era power struggle between a duly elected president and the national security state, with Nixon as much a victim in the affair as he was a perpetrator. In a time when legions of Americans believe in the existence of a “deep state,” getting the history of Watergate right takes on new urgency.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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Watergate was a big nothing.
Silent Coup got it right, the weasel John Dean was responsible for the break-in all the rest was Nixon’s henchmen trying to protect their gig.
Liddy was a patriot who would do anything to protect the country..anything. We sure could use him now.
“Watergate was a big nothing”.
Yep.
Nixon should never have stepped down.
“Watergate was a big nothing.”
I disagree.
Watergate was the first coup in the then United States.
This was the first time the Deep State, both political parties and the national media decided a president must go.
All Nixon had was the people and that was not enough. The Deep State, both political parties and the national media were able to convince a large majority that Nixon really was a crook.
They pulled it off and damn near pulled it off again between 2018 and 2021.
Now they are all four happy with the most corrupt man in history in the White House.
In 1972, I was just a working stiff, not very politically aware and not a big Nixon supporter, but even I could see what they were doing.
But the incident itself...the break in to a political headquarters....has happened 100s of times
Fun fact — G Gordon Liddy is the “Daddy G” referred to in Steely Dan’s “My Old School”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_School
First I have ever heard of the “Maureen Dean/prostitute theory”. I remember her being sorta cute, but she didn’t strike me as “high priced call-girl” material. Maybe it was because she wore her hair in a bun?
Compared to that 8 year spectacle called the Obama administration, spying on Trump, Russia hoax and Hunter Biden, I agree.
Oh ya mo dean was a hi $$ call girl.
“Watergate was a big nothing.”
“I disagree.
Watergate was the first coup in the then United States.”
Probably not the first coup......the probable first was public and bloody.
Thank you very much for posting this. Rosen did a phenomenal job of leading us through everything. I compressed it for my audience, linking to the original of course, and my Larry Schweikart substack.
I KNEW this was a call-girl related op, and knew that slimy Dean was involved, but now the involvement of the CIA makes this a total Deep State takedown of Nixon as well.
In essence, after instigating it and concealing the true op from Nixon, Dean entrapped him into being a “conspirator.”
A friend recently sent my Geoff Shepard’s website, which links to a multi-part interview with Hugh Hewitt. Well worth listening to...
https://shepardonwatergate.com/
Shepard worked in the Nixon White House & has spent considerable time researching all that happened. John Dean appears to be the true culprit.
Watergate at 50: Revelations From Newly Declassified Evidence
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