Nixon knew that Ford would be acceptable to Congress and the country, and to himself because Ford agreed in advance to pardon him.
Everyone on the Warren Commission knew what their job was, which was to have a long investigation, then publish the definitive report naming Oswald as the lone gunman.
That reminds me of Richard Feynman’s torpedo of the Challenger investigation, where he asked his own questions of the people of his choosing, reached the correct conclusion, and then demo’d his conclusion in a press conference.
Weird that he died a little earlier than might be expected.
Anyway, there’s an anecdote John Ehrlichman, I think it’s cited in Fawn Brodie’s bio of Nixon, “the shortest distance between two points is across four bodies,” a reference to Nixon’s own brother (died of TB I think), JFK, RFK, and I forget who (and may have the number wrong in my recollection of the quote).
Our form of government has become nothing more than a reward system rewarding the criminally corrupt. No wonder the prison populations are jealous. My apology for ranting, Civ. Am seeking to control what I say about our criminal class in dc and the damage they have done. Saying what one knows of our dc criminals is becoming more unhealthy by the minute.