Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal" Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon turned out to be not just a very uncommon criminal himself, but he also surrounded himself with others. His senior White House staff, attorney general, and campaign staff all went to prison in connection with Watergate. His vice president, Spiro Agnew forced to step down for a bribery and extortion. Tip of a very large iceberg of spying scandals involving the intelligence community, scandals that unfolded throughout the ‘70s. Unmaking the presidency by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes pg 210

[Nixon] ushered out the expansive liberal consensus of the New Deal and the Great Society and brought to the mainstream a darker, racialized, nativist, fearmongering strain of the Republican Party and American Politics that would a half century later find its natural conclusion in Donald Trump. Watergate, A New History by Garrett M. Graff

Richard Nixon

Spiro Agnew (VP)

Bombing of Cambodia

John Dean

Plumbers

Watergate Burglary

Ellsberg Burglary

Roger Stone

E Howard Hunt

We Are Living in Richard Nixon’s America. Escaping It Won’t Be Easy. (7/31/2022)

Nixon was a Bush protégé, hired from a newspaper ad placed by the Bushkins in 1945

Nixon was part of operation paper clip. A collection of papers putting Nixon in the middle of smuggling the Nazis in to the GOP after WW2. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-04,GWYA:en&q=Nixon+Paperclip&spell=1

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Karl Rove and most of the PNAC cabal were Nixon CREEPs. See notes on the Bush administration and http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/2/reich-r.html

In 1968, Nixon and his operatives were determined that they wouldn’t get outmaneuvered again. As the race entered its final weeks, their great fear was that President Johnson would negotiate a settlement to the Vietnam War and thus push Vice President Hubert Humphrey over the top to victory

Tom Charles Huston, the national security aide assigned by President Richard Nixon to investigate what President Lyndon Johnson knew about why the Vietnam peace talks failed in 1968, concluded that Nixon was personally behind a secret Republican scheme to sabotage those negotiations whose collapse cleared the way to his narrow victory – and to four more years of war."
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The evidence is now clear that the Nixon campaign dispatched Anna Chennault, a fiercely anti-communist Chinese-American, to carry that message to South Vietnamese president Nguyen van Thieu. From Consortium News

Richard M. Nixon told an aide that they should find a way to secretly “monkey wrench” peace talks in Vietnam in the waning days of the 1968 campaign for fear that progress toward ending the war would hurt his chances for the presidency, according to newly discovered notes. (New York Times 1/3/2017)

Richard Nixon conspired with a foreign power to win the 1968 election, enlisting the South Vietnamese to sabotage peace talks. Reagan was a race-baiter who said, during his campaign for governor, “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, it is his right to do so.” An official from Bush’s administration — widely believed to be Karl Rove — spoke contemptuously of the “reality-based community,” prefiguring Trump’s assault on truth. Michelle Goldberg (9/3/20918)

The GOP's History of Hostage Taking (11/6/2011)

Kissinger works both sides before the election.

Eventually, Nixon won by just 1 percent of the popular vote. “Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968,” says the BBC. Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Gain—And Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest Nixon ran on a platform that opposed the Vietnam war, but to win the election, he needed the war to continue (3/18/2013)

Following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, state-sponsored deindustrialization and suburbanization supported white flight and hollowed out urban centers. In 1971, U.S.President Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs to intentionally disrupt urban Black communities. Incarceration quickly swelled, and jails and prisons began popping up all over the country, particularly in rural areas that were struggling to replace jobs in waning industries like farming and mining. Prison Industry: How It Started, How It Works, How It Harms (12/2020)

The World's largest prison system is an effective form of voter suppression.

International War Crimes

Seymour Hersh

Illegal War in Cambodia

Pentagon Papers

Invasion by Suharto of East Timor (Amy Goodman's account)

Assassination and overthrow of Salvador Allende, and installation of Pinochet.

Wiretapping of Kissinger associates

Kissinger subpoenaed in Paris

Movie: The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Arrest of Pinochet in London

Judge Jaworski's opinion of Nixon: See Leon Jaworski's book: The Right and the Power. the Prosecution of Watergate. Many of the White House staff were indicted. Nixon, an unindicted co-conspirator, was pardoned by his successor, Ford. His interference in the Vietnam peace negotiations for his personal election prospects was a grave crime.

The Powell Memo

History and Politics Out Loud(Hear the Nixon tapes at this website.)

The Lyndon Johnson Tapes: Richard Nixon's Treason (3/15/2013)