Posted on 06/02/2005 6:39:54 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Thursday, June 2, 2005 1:37 p.m. EDT Nixon Horrified Jew Could Head FBI
Two months after the Watergate break-in, President Nixon already knew that FBI official W. Mark Felt was leaking information to reporters – because Nixon had his own spy at the FBI, an Oval Office tape reveals.
The tape also discloses that Nixon was shocked to learn Felt was Jewish and became horrified that a Jew could become head of the FBI.(Vanity Fair described Felt, whose ancestors were Irish, as claiming "no religious affiliation.")
In the conversation between Nixon and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, taped on Oct. 19, 1972, Haldeman mentions Felt by name and refers to Nixon’s spy as "our source.”
And when Haldeman discusses Felt’s ambition to head the FBI, Nixon says: "Christ, put a Jew in there?”
It’s not the only time Nixon was taped making an anti-Semitic remark.
On the tape of a February 1972 conversation with evangelist Billy Graham – made public in February 2002 – Nixon complained that a number of major news publications were "dominated” by Jews, and Graham responded: "The stranglehold has got to be broken, or the country’s going to go down the drain.”
Nixon said: "You believe that?”
Graham: "Yes sir.”
Nixon: "So do I. I can’t ever say that, but I believe it.”
Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.”
Later on the tape, after Graham left, Nixon told Haldeman: "The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”
The tape citing Felt as a leak mentions FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, whom Nixon had appointed after J. Edgar Hoover died – passing over Felt, who was expected to get the top job.
Here are excerpts from the tape:
Nixon: "Well, if they’ve got a leak down at the FBI, why the hell can’t Gray tell us what the hell is left . . . ?”
Haldeman: "We know what’s left, and we know who leaked it.”
Nixon: "Somebody in the FBI?”
Haldeman: "Yes, sir. Mark Felt. You can’t say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there’s a real concern. [Attorney General John] Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . .”
Nixon: "Do anything? Never.”
Haldeman: "If we move on him, he’ll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that’s to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything . . .”
Nixon: "You know what I’d do with him, the bastard? Well that’s all I want to hear about it.”
Haldeman: "I think he wants to be in the top spot.”
Nixon: "That’s a hell of a way for him to get to the top ... Is he Catholic?”
Haldeman: "Jewish.”
Nixon: "Christ, put a Jew in there?”
Haldeman: "Well, that could explain it, too.”
For background on the standup guy "Deep Throat" really was, please see the following links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414131/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414100/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414117/posts
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What is that I hear in the background? Buchanan laughing softly to himself?
NIxon's Long dead and gone...
Anyways if GOD ALmighty can send his only Son into this world as a JEW who the heck has a right to question GOD!
I don't think Nixon's opinions of jews should be confused with the fact that Felt was a leak down at the FBI and had access to everything.
The Billy Graham portions of the Nixon tapes seem also to indicate that Nixon had problems with Jews, perhaps even was anti-semitic.
Perhaps that wasn't the reason Felts, a Jew, ratted out Nixon, but it does have a low level, Mordecai/Esther feel about it.
I don't want my presidents anti-semitic. If I discover through certain evidence that they truly are, they will automatically lose my support. No exceptions.
==I don't want my presidents anti-semitic. If I discover through certain evidence that they truly are, they will automatically lose my support. No exceptions.
Couldn't agree more. Thanks for the post--HUAC
Funny thing is, it seems like Nixon is more worried that Felt is Catholic.
A sweeping statement. Yet given the secularism among many, if not most Jews in the US, not altogether untrue.
However despicable Nixon's reason for rejecting Felt might be, we are fortunate that he kept a Hoover protege out of the Director's office. It may be the best thing ever done by an anti-Semite.
Good grief the man is dead, dead, dead. He's been dead a long time. He screwed up, he resigned, he wrote a book and he died.
Is this what is meant by "beating a dead horse"??????
Wow, this really raises my "deep admiration" for Nixon. (/ SEVERE sarcasm off)
Heck, we are not talking about the Savior, we are talking about an important job-Head of the FBI!
Felt isn't a Jew. Nixon wrongly believed that he was.
Mark Felt isn't Jewish.
Well, for all the anti-Semitic accusations against Nixon, it seems ironic that it was Nixon who saved Israel's azz in 1973 when he put U.S. Armed Forces on a global alert when the Soviets were threatening to put their forces into the Middle East to save their Arab proxies from being utterly destroyed by Israel.
The bottom line to all this is that W. Mark Felt is a rat bastard who violated his own oath of office and federal laws by disclosing investigative data to two unauthorized parties (Woodward & Bernstein), and 91 years old or not, he ought to be prosecuted for it, unless that pardon he received from the Reagan Administration covers ALL offenses?
Felt and his clan are doing this to cash in, and they have admitted as much. Felt is a hero like John Dean is a hero.
And John Dean is a lying, treasonous POS.
How do I know?
G. Gordon Liddy said so, and HE is a man of honor.
Amen!
Wasn't Henry Kissinger Jewish? I don't understand why Nixon would appoint him as Secretary of State if he disliked Jews so much.
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