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★ Watergate

‘I don’t think the public ever really understood the real sin, the crime, the import, of Watergate.’  Watergate: The Secret Story, Walter Cronkite, CBS 1992

 

‘This was third-world dictatorship.  This was lawlessness.  This was above the law and beyond reproach.  These were people who had satisfied themselves they could not be touched.’  ibid.  Berl Bernhard

 

20 years ago on June 17th 1972 in the dead of night a group of men working for the Committee to Re-Elect Richard Nixon President broke in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee here at the Watergate office complex.  ibid.

 

There were two break-ins: the first was actually undetected, but when the burglars discovered one of the wire-taps they planted wasn’t working they went in a second time.  ibid.  

The president was unaware his own phone had been bugged.  ibid.  

 

The money trail was leading to a slush fund.  ibid. 

 

Nixon refused to give up the tape, and Archibald Cox was about to have him held in contempt.  ibid. 

 

Three days after the Saturday Massacre, 22 bills of impeachment were introduced in Congress, and the president released the subpoenaed tapes.  ibid.   

 

 

In July 1973 the detection of Nixon’s taping system would lead to the discovery of the Watergate cover-up, the indictment of key members of the White House staff and the end of the Nixon presidency.  Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment.  One of the original articles of impeachment addressed the concealment of the Cambodian bombing from Congress.  When the impeachment was dropped so was the investigation into the secret bombing.  The Trials of Henry Kissinger, director Eugene Jarecki, 2002

 

 

It wasn’t a third-rate burglary; first off, there were four attempts to burglarize the workaday offices of the Democratic National Committee; plus, the very same crew tried to break into the Chilean embassy here in Washington looking for the same thing.  Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann radio show 2012, Youtube part I

 

The Mafia [connection with Nixon] is the reason for Watergate.  ibid.  part II

 

Nixon could not let this information – that one secret Cuban dossier compiled by Fidel Castro … He did not want all that stuff to come out.  ibid.   

 

It wasn’t just Woodward & Bernstein … James McCord [CIA]: wrote a letter … to the judge … The story would have died but for McCord’s letter.  ibid.

 

 

The police said they were thoroughly professional, the suspects are saying nothing, and the Democrats say they have no idea who would want to spy on them.  ABC News: Dark Days at the White House: The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of Richard M Nixon, Youtube 1.00.33, news

 

McCord implicated two Nixon aides in the break-in.  ibid.

 

‘While the president was involved, that he did realise or appreciate at any time the implications of his involvement.’  ibid.  John Dean, evidence to committee

 

‘Let others wallow in Watergate; we’re going to do our job.’  ibid.  Nixon press conference

 

White House Tapes: 18 Minute Hum.  ibid.  caption

 

 

February 22 1975: The men who work closest to Richard Nixon in the White House and in politics today were sentenced to prison for their role in the Watergate cover-up.  Watergate, US news, History 2019

 

For over two years President Richard Nixon secretly taped his White House conversations.  ibid.  caption

 

Vietnam threatened to dominate the 1968 election … Over a million Americans had been drafted.  ibid.  commentary

 

Kissinger Aide Quits in Protest Over War: Dr Morton I Halperin, one of the first men recruited by Kissinger in 1968 for a White House job, wrote Kissinger a letter of resignation last week.  ibid.  newspaper article     

 

He [Nixon] intensified American bombing … They also used Napalm and cancer-causing defoliants.  ibid.  commentary

 

The Pentagon papers, seven thousand pages long, documented the history of American failure and dishonesty in Vietnam, evidence that many had known the war was unwinnable.  ibid.

 

Chuck Colson was a ruthless ambitious young lawyer who quickly became Nixon’s favourite hatchet man.  ibid.

 

Infuriated by leaks to the media, Nixon ordered Ehrlichman to create a secret White House organisation to identify leakers and attack them – starting with Daniel Ellsberg.  ibid.

 

Nixon was truly loyal to Mitchell and refused to make him the fall guy.  ibid.

 

How high up in the White House does it go?  And is the president himself involved?  ibid.  Dan Rather

 

Again and again over the following months Nixon pressured his staff to attack the Democrats.  ibid.  commentary

 

The crown jewel of Nixon’s strategy was Vietnam.  ibid.

            

Watergate just wouldn’t go away.  There had already been rumours of payoffs to the Watergate burglars and suddenly they weren’t just rumours any more.  ibid.

 

Katharine Graham and the Washington Post didn’t give an inch.  ibid.

 

The Watergate committee took its job seriously.  Starting in May 1973 its hearings produced a series of shocks, all broadcast live on national TV.  ibid.

 

 

John Dean has gotten to the bottom of page 90 in a statement that is expected to to be about 245 pages … Almost every paragraph contains some sort of bombshell.  Watergate II, television news 

 

Though increasingly isolated, Nixon continued to fight including blocking requests from Ervin’s Watergate Committee.  ibid.      

 

The Senate Watergate Committee has just voted unanimously to issue a subpoena to President Nixon for the tapes that he has refused to release to the committee.  ibid.  television news 24 July 1973          

 

Vice-president Agnew is under criminal investigation by federal authorities in his home state of Maryland.  ibid.   

 

For the first time in over a century Congress started thinking about impeachment.  ibid.

 

 

He [Nixon] had set up a conspiracy based in the White House.  It was run by a group of ex-intelligence agents, and they already planning to bug, burgle, and blackmail Nixon’s opponents.  Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head III: Money Changes Everything, BBCiplayer 2021     

 

 

There were four Watergate break-in attempts.  White House Plumbers I, Sky 2023

 

The president asked for a real son of a bitch to handle the Pentagon Papers leak.  And naturally they thought of you.  ibid.

 

Good luck with your little project.  ibid.  Dean to Hunt

 

I guess it’s just you and me against the entire radical left.  ibid.  Hunt to Liddy    

 

What kind of drug addict brings his own drugs to the crime scene?  ibid.  Liddy to plumbers  

 

Hunt: What are we talking about here?

 

Dean: Espionage, sabotage, infiltration, disinformation, electronic surveillance, recruiting … The same shit they do to us every election.  ibid.

 

 

Reminds me of the time I busted Timothy Leary.  White House Plumbers II: Please Destroy This, Huh, Liddy

 

Leaders are returned unharmed but disorientation after the Convention …  ibid.  Hunt

 

A million dollars is a hell of a lot more money than I had in mind.  ibid.  Attorney General

 

Miss, I assure you nothing I do is accidental.  ibid.

 

Remember, photograph everything.  White House Plumbers III, Hunt

 

I don’t think I’m cut out for this, sir.  I’m sorry.  ibid.  inside man

 

That plastic gun in a recipe for disaster.  ibid.  Liddy  

 

I have the right tools.  In Miami.  ibid.  Plumber  

 

We cannot break in a third time, Gordon.  ibid.  Hunt  

 

Is any of this nickle-and-dime cloak-and-dagger stuff necessary?  ibid.  Hunt’s wife  

 

I have to tell you, Gordon, this is sounding more and more like the Bay of Pigs.  ibid.  

 

 

I fucked up.  I fucked up so badly … My job just went fubar.  White House Plumbers IV, Hunt to son

 

Liddy’s wife: How was work?

 

Liddy: Comme ci, Comme ca.  There is a chance I will be going to prison.  ibid.  

 

Bloke on golf course: What the fuck did you people think you were doing in there?    

 

Liddy behind tree: Saving the country from communism, sir.  

 

Hunt and I are beginning to take the fall.  But we expect to be taken care of company-style.  ibid.  Liddy  

 

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