On 15 May, 18:31, curtjester1 <curtjest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Without Johnson and Kennedy, former Vice-President Richard NIxon
> finally managed to become the 37th President of the United States,
> with no serious opposition. After taking office Nixon discussed the
> Warren Re****t with aides H.R. Haldeman and Charles Colson and said,
> "It was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated."
>
> The new Preident soon created a "dirty tricks" department to harass
> politcal opponents that included CIA veterans E. Howard Hunt, Frank
> Fiorini Sturgis, Bernard Barker, James McCord, G. Gordon Liddy, and
> many anti-Castro Cubans from Miami. Their job was to create
> situations and fabricate do***ents to embarrass and humiliate those
> who opposed Nixon and his policies. Their targets were the most
> pominent democratic leaders of the late 1960's and included Senator
> Edward Kennedy, and Presidentail hopefuls Edmund Muskie and George
> McGovern.
>
> By early 1970 the war in Vietnam continued to divide the country and
> haunted Nixon as it had President Johnson before him. In Febrary
> National Security advisor Henry Kissinger began secret one-on-one
> meetings with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho outside of Paris,
> and by the end of the year the Nixon administration ordered large
> numbers of troops were withdrawn from combat. As increasing numbers
> of troops were withdrawn and peace negotiations with the North
> Vietnamese dragged on, Nixon began to pursue detente with both
> communist China and the Soviet Union. He was eager to end the war in
> Vietnam and win back the sup****t of the public before the election in
> the fall of 1972. But like Presidents Kennedy and Johnson before him,
> Nixon earned the animosity of the military industrial establishment as
> he tried to end their war in Vietnam.
>
> As Nixon and his political machine geared up to run for a second term,
> the Committee to RE-Elect the President was formed. Known as "CREEP"
> the committeee was comprised mostly of CIA agents and was funded by
> the Mullen Company, a notorious CIA front. On June 17, 1972 members
> of CREEP, including Frank Sturgis, Bernard L. Barker, Virgllio R.
> Gonzales, Eugenio R. Martinez, and James W. McCord, broke into the
> Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate apartment-office
> complex in Wa****ngton. These people had access to the most
> sophisticated electronic and burglary tools in the world, yet they
> used an ordinary piece of tape to keep the latch on the door unlocked.
>
> A security guard, Frank Wills, noticed the tape and called the
> Wa****ngton, D.C. police. When the police arrived at 2:30 A.M. and the
> men were arrested, and had in their possession a walkie-talkie, 40
> rolls of unexposed film, two 35 mm cameras, lock picks, pencil-sized
> teargas guns, and bugging devices. Their tools made it appear that
> they though they were going to "bug" the Democratic National
> headquarters, but most political analysts agree that their efforts
> were unnecessary. President Nixon was so far ahead of his opponents
> in the polls that to most political observers the "Watergate break-in"
> didn't make any sense.
>
> In jail the veteran intelligence agents said nothing, but the police
> found E. Howard Hunt's telephone number on one of the men. The
> following day the police learned that one of the men worked for the
> Committee to Re-Elect the President, which soon led investigators to
> the White House. The FBI soon began an investigation.
>
> (According to E. Howard Hunt, the burglars were trying to learn what
> information the Democrats had concerning President Kennedy's
> assassination. Frank Sturgis(Fiorini) said, "The reason we
> burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping
> news leaking related to the photos of *our role* in the assassination
> of President John F. Kennedy." OUR ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF
> PRESIDENT KENNEDY??? Hunt and Sturgis' accusations made it appear as
> though Nixon was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy,
> which would have destroyed his political career.)
>
> Less than a week after the break-in, and long before the Watergate
> burglary made national headlines, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R.
> Halderman, discussed how to stop the FBI investigation. Nixon told
> Haldeman to ask CIA Director Richard Helms to pressure FBI Director L.
> Patrick Gray into curtailing the FBI's investigation. Helms refused,
> perhaps because he may have been part of the plot to destroy Nixon
> politically.
>
> Two months later veteran CIA agent E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy
> were arrested as co-conspirators and indictments were issued on
> September 15, 1972. Within a month it became clear that all of the
> men involved in the Watergate break-in were linked to the CIA and to
> the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP).
>
> (Hunt, while in jail, attempted to blackmail the President by
> threatening to expose many of Nixon's "secrets." White House Chief of
> Staff John Ehlichman responded by ordering FBI Director L. Patrick
> Gray to remove the contents of Hunt's safe and "deep six" them. On
> December 8, 1972 Hunt's wife, former CIA agent Dorothy Wetzel Hunt,
> was carrying a large amount of cash and was killed when United
> Airlines flight #553 crashed prior to landing at Chicago's Midway
> Air****t. Her death ended Hunt's threats to reveal Nixon's "dirty
> secrets."
>
> After CIA Director Richard Helms refused Nixon's requests to pressure
> the FBI into curtailing their investigation, Nixon fired him on
> February 2, 1973. Five days later, on February 7, 1973, the Senate
> Watergate Committee was formed as public interest in the affair grew.
> (Helms was replaced by 53-old William Colby, a lawyer and OSS veteran
> from WWII.)
>
> After firing the Director of the CIA President Nixon's days in the
> White House were numbered, just as Kennedy's days were numbered after
> he fired CIA Director Allen Dulles. Six weeks after Helms was fired
> his close friend James McCord, who had worked for the CIA in the
> Security Research Staff, wrote a letter to Watergate Special
> Prosecutor Judge John Sirica and said that he and other defendants had
> been under pressure by the White House to remain silent about the
> Watergate break-in.
>
> From March 25-29 McCord testified before the committee and named
> Nixon's former Attorney General, John Mitchell, as their "overall
> boss" and said that John Dean and Jeb Magruder were also involved. He
> also claimed that E. Howard Hunt had promised him an executive
> (Presidential) pardon if he would plead guilty. CIA -asset James
> McCord's revelations were the beginning of the end for Nixon's term as
> President.
>
> On June 25 White House counsel John Dean testified before the
> committee and further inplicated the President. He said that Nixon
> proposed to raise $1,000,000 to pay the Watergate burglars for their
> silence. He also told the committee that for the past 4 years the
> Nixon White House had used the powers of the Presidency to attack
> political enemies by harassing those who disagreed with his policies.
> Dean's testimony was sup****ted by Donald Segretti who also told the
> committee about Nixon's "dirty tricks."
>
> While Nixon continued to deny any knowledge of involvement in the
> Watergate affair one of his aides, Alexander Butterfield, told the
> Watergate committee on July 13 that Nixon had secretly recorded all
> conversations to and from the Oval Office. On July 17, 1973 the
> Senate Committee requested that President Nixon turn over the secretly
> recorded White House Tapes. Nixon, who feared exposing the contents
> of the tapes, refused and soon an 18-minute segment in one of the
> reels was erased. One of the recorded conversations, in which the
> President was talking with H.R.Haldeman, shows that Nixon was very
> concerned that E. Howard Hunt's involvement in the "Bay of Pigs Thing"
> would be exposed:
>
> "....Hunt, you will-that will uncover a lot of things. You open that
> scab there's a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it
> would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further....This
> involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky...the problem is
> that this will open up the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing...Just
> say....very bad to have this fellow Hunt, ah, he knows too damned
> much, if he was involved....If it gets out that this is all involved,
> the Cuba thing, it would be a fiasco. It would make the CIA look bad,
> it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it's going to blow the whole
> *Bay of Pigs thing* which we think would be unfortunate-both for the
> CIA and the country....."
>
> (According to Haldeman, Nixon always used code words when talking abut
> President Kennedy's assassination. Haldeman wrote in his book, "The
> Ends of Power," that whenever Nixon referred to the "Bay of Pigs
> thing," he was referring to President Kennedy's assassination. If
> Haldeman is correct, then during their conversation President Nixon
> was very concerned that E. Howard Hunt would expose the CIA's
> involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy.)
>
> (During the same conversation Nixon also referred to the
> "Cubans." (Felix Rodriguez, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, etc.)
> and the "Texans" (George H.W. Bush, Robert Mosbacher, and James
> Baker.).
>
> Amid the political turmoil of Watergate Nixon's Vice President, Spiro
> T. Agnew, resigned on October 10 after pleading "nolo contendere" (no
> contest) to charges of tax evasion. Two days later, On October 12,
> 1973, Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as the new Vice-President a man
> described by Newsweek as the CIA's "best friend in Congress."
>
> As members of Nixon's staff continued to implicte him in the Watergate
> affair he continued to deny any involvement and on November 17, 1973
> told the nation in a nationally televised speech, "I'm not a crook."
>
> On April 30, 1974 the Nixon White House released more than 1200 pages
> of edited transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee, but refused to
> release the tapes. The Committee then sought help from the Supreme
> Court who, on July 24, ruled unanimously that President Nixon had to
> turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations,
> rejecting the President's claims of ...
>
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I think that with Reagan and after the role of US President is just a
mouthpiece. So the Presidential Office itself is now defunct.
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