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Posted on 02/18/2026 5:42:58 AM PST by Twotone
YORBA LINDA, California — Fifty yards from Richard Nixon’s grave, which sits not quite in the shadow of the modest home where he was born, a series of exhibits at his presidential library describe him as a psychologically unbalanced fool.
The Nixon White House, museum display panels announce, was consumed by “a climate of deep suspicion.” The infamous Plumbers took action against “perceived political opponents within the Federal Government.” A video display allows visitors to choose clips on the theme of Nixon’s “Conspiracy Thinking.” Paranoid, the president mindlessly lashed out at enemies that he hallucinated. This is still the official history, in museum exhibits curated by the National Archives and Records Administration.
On Friday morning, the consistently pro-Nixon docents hadn’t heard about the important Feb. 8 story in The New York Times that describes a plot within the government to spy on the Nixon White House, with Navy Yeoman Charles Radford stealing documents and sending them to the Pentagon as insurance against budget and policy meddling from the person serving as the president of the United States.
The revelation from a newly declassified document, longtime journalist James Rosen concluded, “bears directly on allegations by President Trump and his supporters about the existence of what was once called the permanent bureaucracy, better known today as the ‘deep state.’ … Nixon proved to a team of federal prosecutors and grand jurors not only that such a beast existed but also that he, guilty as he was in Watergate, had been its victim.”
It wasn’t Nixon’s first encounter with the deep state, since President Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president would also have witnessed that chief executive’s battle against a “colonels’ revolt” that sought to embarrass the president and undermine post-World War II military policy.
Nixon didn’t live long enough to watch the National Security Council officials Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill testify against President Donald Trump before a congressional committee, charging that he deserved to be impeached because he had improperly interfered with the policy choices of his subordinates — in Vindman’s words, with the “interagency consensus.”
Hill similarly warned that Trump was an example of someone who “impedes or subverts” national security, somehow mistakenly thinking that he was in charge of it. The cart has been trying to drive the horse for quite a while, and it hasn’t been above taking the occasional shot at the horse.
Nixon deserves better. We’ll see if he gets it.
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“Oh my God. They framed Nixon.” - Bill Murray
I never felt Nixon was framed. But I did feel that what he did was nothing compared to what other politicians had done and were doing, and is a drop of water in a bucket compared to what Democrats since Bill Clinton have been doing in office.
I have always admired Nixon, and still do.
Anybody who has read “Silent Coup” already knows this.
Which obviously means that most people do NOT know this, though they should if they are interested in factual information about Watergate and everything that was behind it and led up to it.
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Coup-President-Len-Colodny/dp/0312051565?tag=ustxtaddt-20
John Weasely [sic] Dean needs to burn in Hell at the earliest possible opportunity.
That the real story is still struggling to come out 53 years later is a testimony to how deep the deep state is
Yes, the Colodny book is required reading. Another excellent book is Geoff Shepard’s “The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down.”
I watched the whole Joe Rogan interview where Bill Murray said that. He was no fan of Nixon, policy wise, but is intellectually honest enough that he immediately understood what went down with Nixon because he saw Woodward’s dishonesty in something he was very familiar with, that being John Belushi.
Yep. I felt that even at Dean was turning traitor, the pussy trying to save his own skin.
Interesting. So the Deep State manipulated Nixon and the United States by creating the Watergate scandal.
Nixon's mistake was resigning. Clinton, Obama and Biden were caught up in scandals that made Watergate look like a Sunday School picninc. And they didn't resign.
My father called Howard Dean a “rat”.
I mean, Deep Throat was the deputy director of the FBI and the so-called ‘incompetent burglars who were easily caught’ at watergate were CIA (”former” or contractors). What more do you need?
Tricky Dick was framed.
Nixon resigned because he lost the PR battle with the minority senate republicans.
i read about this event in the LA Times back in 1974.
Nixon took us off the gold standard. That was his purpose for the Deep State. Once that was accomplished, he had absolutely no value to them and he was framed by the Watergate plumbers by INTENTIONALLY being caught breaking into DNC headquarters. Over half of the plumbers were CIA at the time of the break in and we know now that the CIA orchestrated the JFK assassination 10 years later. Nixon may have been guilty of of ordering the erasure of 18 minutes of tape, but he was put in that position by the Deep State plan to get rid of him.
He was a big government globalist rhino, and they still did him because he exposed commie spying in the 50’s.
Nixon was a Sunday School teacher compared to the Kennedys.
Nixon was not right about everything (like price controls and China) but as far as “Watergate” and what it meant, he was set up from within and without his administration.
“So the Deep State manipulated Nixon and the United States”
It was during the Nixon years that Transactional Analysis emerged as a way to explain much of human behavior.
Nixon played the games of TAR BABY and BRER RABBIT in the same way that ICE/BP recently played them. When you see an ugly baby, kick it...and get your foot stuck to it.
Nixon was the worst “Repbulican” president of my lifetime just as LBJ was the worst “Democrat”. The two of them expanded the role of the Central government at the expense of the states. Every US politician since then has been adjusting to that centralization of power.
That centralization of power created the SWAMP that President Eisenhower warned us of and called the Military-Industrial complex.
Currently the HHS is the biggest part of that SWAMP.
Dean should have Mark felt with him
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