10 Oct 2012 23:36:52
if you can try and watch "the most dangerous man in america" its a documentary about a man called Daniel ellsberg a Pentagon insider that leaked top-secret government papers that disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam War and Nixon's presidency. in fact he was part of the lies at the start,he mentions that the USA used a false flag lie that USA ships were being attacked which meant the USA could invade Vietnam and the top secret files he copied goes on to tell that that presidents Truman/ Eisenhower/JFK/Johnson and Nixon all lied in some way about Vietnam, you hear secret tapes of Nixon saying to Kissinger "we need something big Henry,lets put a nuclear bomb on them"That, I think, would just be too much," Kissinger replies Nixon replies "does that bother you?" for gods Henry you got to think big" there are loads more i could say about this documentary btw made by a independent group , so no glossing over the facts. if you cant get the documentary try read about Daniel ellsberg who gave up a very high position and a very very good income knowing that he could get sentenced for life for leaking top secret papers , a true whistle blower.
frankyscouse
Ellsberg if i remember correctly was why Nixon originally set up the "plumbers dept" to fix leaks and then excalated into house breaking and witretapping to find evidence to discredit people, specifically Ellsberg. Then bang: Watergate.
Incidentally a lot of people in the plumbers dept were connected to the Bay of Pigs and implicated in Dallas '63.
Mort
frankyscouse
Carlin&hicks
Our old friend Prescott Bush afther of George Sr. Nixon had long been on the Bush payroll.
I wouldn't say evil, or even thick. He was quite calculating himself. He was a very paranoid individual though, with good reason given he knew every dirty secret from US foreign policy since the end of the war. Don't forget his role in Cuba, mafia connections, and also JFK. He almost certainly knew what went on there and who. The wiretapping was to find out what Ellsberg knew and to get the dirt to destroy him. These things always tend to escalate when you think your surrounded by enemies.
I once saw a study by some psycological profilers on the kind of personality best suited to the presidency and the comparions against various presidents, the 2 highest scorers were Nixon and Clinton!
Mort
frankyscouse
Both of them were pathological liars. Both almost got impeached. Both went on tv and lied to the world. Nixon for Watergate and Checkers and Clinton for Whitewatergate and Lewinsky. Nixon resigned before they could impeach him and Clinton somehow wriggled off the hook despite calls to impeach him.
Clinton was involved in a lot of shady deals and i think the truth isn't fully out there yet.
Nixon was a pathological liar and paranoid, and did a lot of wrong things. But he wasn't the only one to use wiretaps on suspected enemies. The Kennedy's did pretty much the same, its just that getting murdered keeps them from a lot of criticism.
Mort.