Posted on 02/06/2005 4:44:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
In a word, YES.
In "All the President's Men", for instance, Deep Throat was hinting at possible assassinations, which never happened of course, but that dramatization has been a hallmark of Woodward's books ever since.
Remember "Veil" where Woodward had the dramatic hospital death bed confession of the former CIA Director, Bill Casey, right before he died? Woodward asked Casey why he'd done what he had and Casey gasped, "I believed....", and then croaked shortly after.
The only problem was that Casey's family gave TV interviews saying that they or guards had been there 24 hours a day and that Casey had been in a coma the whole time. That is, Woodward couldn't have sneaked in there for the death bed interview without being seen, and Casey was comatose anyway. Woodward's honesty was questioned severely for that, but his Watergate reputation still protected him.
My prediction is that Woodward will produce a really melodramatic dying statement by his Deep Throat and expect everyone to believe it.
Go to base #202.
I did not say no-just lived in a time when it was great to see the tapes exposed,who knows what the hell is going on.
LOL re the re-lighting etc, remember it well, I smoked a pipe & cigarettes too before quitting in 1984 when Nicorette became available.
Still, pipes could lead to mouth or throat cancers even if you didn't inhale as a relative of mine found out.
One writer calling another.Thank you for your answer."All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name on first base."
Excellent book, and I would also recommend Raymond Price's "With Nixon", if you can still find it. Price was Nixon's "liberal" speech writer, and he was an honest observer.
I just did some Googling, and found that
1) Rehnquist is a life-long smoker,
2) he's 6'2", tall enough to have left the note on the ledge in the parking garage that was above Woodward's head, and
3) that his wife worked for the CIA.
Hmmmm..... who woulda thunk it?
I'm old enough to remember the whole thing, watched all the hearings live, am familiar with all the characters, was sickened as, bit by bit, the nastiness of the Nixon administration came to light.
It wasn't the Washington Post, or any other media, or Congress, or the Democrats, or anyone else who did Nixon in. He did it to himself. It's all on his tapes, in his own voice.
It's simplistic to dismiss the Watergate scandal as some conspiracy to take down a presidency. Nixon filled the White House with thugs and, unfortunately, did the country a grave disservice by disrespecting the office and his powers. He let his party and his supporters down.
whooooohoooo!!!
bulbous..now that he has lost all that weight, his nose is now more prominent...or is he vulnerable to the Pinocchio syndrome?
Ford would have known about most of the events that were written. He becomes the mostly candidate.
I don't know why I'm being nice at this late hour, but go here if you want to find out who's on first.. :)
Nixon was already toast by the time Ford became VP.
Nixon was the first Pres to use the 25th Amendment to nominate Ford as his V.P. after Agnew resigned.
Uh-huh...
"It wasn't the Washington Post, or any other media, or Congress, or the Democrats, or anyone else who did Nixon in. He did it to himself. It's all on his tapes, in his own voice"
LOL...the liberal media was just soooo enamored of Richard Nixon, eh? And you claim you lived through that era and had a functioning medulla oblongata? Can you honestly do that with a straight face? I think we know the answer to that...
"It's simplistic to dismiss the Watergate scandal as some conspiracy to take down a presidency. Nixon filled the White House with thugs and, unfortunately, did the country a grave disservice by disrespecting the office and his powers. He let his party and his supporters down"
Your "version" of those events is sheer crap, period. Peddle that revisionist trollish garbage elsewhere, and to those who don't know any better.
If you're any kind of "conservative," my kitty cat is the King of Siam.
Cute the way you've managed to cruise under the ZOT radar, though, I must confess.
So far
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"'Deep Throat' lives up my ass. I pulled him out of my ass when my editor insisted on a verifying source. Lately someone pointed at my ass and asked: 'Did something die in there?' So now I'm coming forward."
I agree.......
Jovial --
Are you this insulting and angry all the time, or only when asked to think?
I am who I say I am, almost certainly more deep-down conservative than you sound, with a voting record and intense involvement in political and community affairs to prove it.
I did live through the Watergate mess and feel that the lack of integrity and respect for law that Nixon and his gang demonstrated is largely responsible for the distrust of government and cynicism evident in society today, as well as in your posts.
If Nixon is one of your heroes, he let you down, big time. You should feel betrayed instead of trying to rewrite history. This is not some conspiracy theory -- it's all there, on tape and paper, documented for the ages, a sad chronicle of a bitter man who did his country great harm.
Nixon's transgressions and Ford's pardon of him is also responsible for the election of Jimmy Carter, more's the pity. Although I think Ford did the right thing in putting the matter to rest.
I'm the real deal, a thinking, caring conservative. Perhaps I'm just not as jaded and bitter as you sound.
LOL...pretty much all the time when confronted with a troll, as certainly appears to be the case here...
"If Nixon is one of your heroes, he let you down, big time"
Not a bit of it; Richard Nixon was the third best Republican President of the United States in the twentieth century, behind only Reagan (1) and TR (2). He (Nixon), didn't let me or anyone else down: he simply was the first president held to the higher standard of a new media age. And that new media age, at the time, was controlled and directed by liberals/leftists of the worst stripe.
I say again: peddle your bilge elsewhere, and among those who don't know any better. Thank-you.
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