The Camelot Legacy [Part 2]
How blackmail, corruption, espionage, romance, and murder shaped the future of American politics
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Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
I know who shot John.
— President Richard Nixon
If you missed the previous parts of this series, you can find it here.
The Camelot Legacy [Part 1]
Now that we have the background done, let’s get into the real story here.
If you would like to read this in substack form, you can find the link here.
elizabeththepunisherdove.substack.com/p/the-camelot-…
How blackmail, corruption, espionage, romance, and murder shaped the future of American politics
Thread 🧵
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
I know who shot John.
— President Richard Nixon
If you missed the previous parts of this series, you can find it here.
The Camelot Legacy [Part 1]
Now that we have the background done, let’s get into the real story here.
If you would like to read this in substack form, you can find the link here.
https://x.com/ElizabethPDove/status/1790467765066666475
elizabeththepunisherdove.substack.com/p/the-camelot-…
Nixon Was Innocent
I wanted to do what was right. But I wanted to do it in a way that would cause the least unnecessary damage in a highly charged political atmosphere to the administration.
— President Richard Nixon, May 3, 1974
Nixon was the target of a Deep State Coup. In a bid to get ahead of the narrative being painted about him, president Nixon released the transcripts to the Watergate Tapes himself. On May 3, 1974, President Nixon made a public address to the nation.
I wanted to do what was right. But I wanted to do it in a way that would cause the least unnecessary damage in a highly charged political atmosphere to the administration.
— President Richard Nixon, May 3, 1974
Nixon was the target of a Deep State Coup. In a bid to get ahead of the narrative being painted about him, president Nixon released the transcripts to the Watergate Tapes himself. On May 3, 1974, President Nixon made a public address to the nation.
Excerpts from this video:
I was assured by those charged with conducting and monitoring the investigations that no one in the White House was involved. Nevertheless for more than a year, there have been allegations and insinuations that I knew about the planning of the Watergate break-in and that I was involved in an extensive plot to cover it up. The House Judiciary Committee is now investigating these charges.
But the problem I confronted was this. Unless a President can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. This principle is recognized in the Constitutional doctrine of Executive Privilege, which has been defended and maintained by every president since Washington and which has been recognized by the courts whenever tested as inherent in the presidency. I consider it to be my constitutional responsibility to defend this principle.
During the past year, the wildest accusations have been given banner headlines and ready credence as well — rumor, gossip, innuendo, accounts from unnamed sources of what a prospective witness might testify to — have filled the morning newspapers and then are repeated on the evening newscast, day after day.
Time and again, a familiar pattern repeated itself. A charge would be reported the first day as what it was — just an allegation. But it would then be referred back to the next day and thereafter as if it were true. The distinction between fact and speculation grew blurred. Eventually, all seeped into the public consciousness as a vague general impression of massive wrongdoing — implicating everybody — gaining credibility by its endless repetition. The basic question at issue today is whether the President personally acted improperly in the Watergate matter.
Month after month of rumor, insinuation, and charges by just one Watergate witness, John Dean, suggested that the President did act improperly. This sparked the demands for an impeachment inquiry. This is the question that must be answered. And this is the question that will be answered by these transcripts that I have ordered publish tomorrow.
I realize that these transcripts will provide grist for many sensational stories in the press. Parts will seem to be contradictory with one another and parts will be in conflict with some of the testimony given in the Senate Watergate Committee Hearings.
I have been reluctant to release these tapes. Not just because they will embarrass me and those with whom I have talked, which they will. And not just because they will become the subject of speculation and even ridicule, which they will. And not just because certain parts of them will be seized upon by political and journalistic opponents, which they will.
I have been reluctant because in these and in all the other conversations in this office people have spoken their minds freely never dreaming that specific sentences or even parts of sentences would be picked out as a subjects of national attention and controversy. I've been reluctant because the principle of confidentiality is absolutely a essential to the conduct of the presidency.
I was assured by those charged with conducting and monitoring the investigations that no one in the White House was involved. Nevertheless for more than a year, there have been allegations and insinuations that I knew about the planning of the Watergate break-in and that I was involved in an extensive plot to cover it up. The House Judiciary Committee is now investigating these charges.
But the problem I confronted was this. Unless a President can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. This principle is recognized in the Constitutional doctrine of Executive Privilege, which has been defended and maintained by every president since Washington and which has been recognized by the courts whenever tested as inherent in the presidency. I consider it to be my constitutional responsibility to defend this principle.
During the past year, the wildest accusations have been given banner headlines and ready credence as well — rumor, gossip, innuendo, accounts from unnamed sources of what a prospective witness might testify to — have filled the morning newspapers and then are repeated on the evening newscast, day after day.
Time and again, a familiar pattern repeated itself. A charge would be reported the first day as what it was — just an allegation. But it would then be referred back to the next day and thereafter as if it were true. The distinction between fact and speculation grew blurred. Eventually, all seeped into the public consciousness as a vague general impression of massive wrongdoing — implicating everybody — gaining credibility by its endless repetition. The basic question at issue today is whether the President personally acted improperly in the Watergate matter.
Month after month of rumor, insinuation, and charges by just one Watergate witness, John Dean, suggested that the President did act improperly. This sparked the demands for an impeachment inquiry. This is the question that must be answered. And this is the question that will be answered by these transcripts that I have ordered publish tomorrow.
I realize that these transcripts will provide grist for many sensational stories in the press. Parts will seem to be contradictory with one another and parts will be in conflict with some of the testimony given in the Senate Watergate Committee Hearings.
I have been reluctant to release these tapes. Not just because they will embarrass me and those with whom I have talked, which they will. And not just because they will become the subject of speculation and even ridicule, which they will. And not just because certain parts of them will be seized upon by political and journalistic opponents, which they will.
I have been reluctant because in these and in all the other conversations in this office people have spoken their minds freely never dreaming that specific sentences or even parts of sentences would be picked out as a subjects of national attention and controversy. I've been reluctant because the principle of confidentiality is absolutely a essential to the conduct of the presidency.
The next day, on May 4, 1974, an article was published by the New York Times with the headline Nixon Innocence Affirmed In Brief. Here are some excerpts from that article:
The White House declared today that President Nixon was never criminally liable in the Watergate cover‐up attempt despite damaging statements he made in conversations with key figures in the scandal.
The declaration of Mr. Nixon's innocence came in a 50‐page legal argument accompanying the 1,308 pages of edited transcripts made public today and sent to the House Judiciary Committee.
Within the White House, the release of the transcripts was viewed as “an act of courage” by the President, and the strategy, both in the legal brief and in conversations, was to depict John W. Dean 3d, the President's former counsel, as the villain in the case.
President Nixon in his television address last night said the transcripts would be embarrassing to him and would become a subject of “speculation and even ridicule.”
His prophesy was fulfilled tonight when the contents of the transcripts became known and new questions were raised as to why he made public the documents.
White House officials said that, in addition to the reasons given by the President last night, it was believed that the transcripts would have leaked out, bit by bit, and depicted him in the worst possible light.
This way the President was able to control the editing of the transcripts, omitting obscenities and the names of innocent persons accused in private conversations, and to put the President's own interpretation on what the conversations meant. His action was also designed to keep the tape recordings themselves in the secrecy of the White House files.
Despite the material damaging to Mr. Nixon, official sources said, the legal brief was designed to show that the transcripts, if read in their entirety, would raise considerable doubt about his criminal involvement In the cover‐up. Criminal involvement, his lawyers have said, is needed to constitute an impeachable offense.
“Throughout the period of the Watergate affair,” Mr. St. Clair wrote, “the raw material of these recorded confidential conversations establishes that the President had no prior knowledge of the break‐in and that he had no knowledge of any cover‐up to March 21, 1973.”
nytimes.com/1974/05/01/arc…
The White House declared today that President Nixon was never criminally liable in the Watergate cover‐up attempt despite damaging statements he made in conversations with key figures in the scandal.
The declaration of Mr. Nixon's innocence came in a 50‐page legal argument accompanying the 1,308 pages of edited transcripts made public today and sent to the House Judiciary Committee.
Within the White House, the release of the transcripts was viewed as “an act of courage” by the President, and the strategy, both in the legal brief and in conversations, was to depict John W. Dean 3d, the President's former counsel, as the villain in the case.
President Nixon in his television address last night said the transcripts would be embarrassing to him and would become a subject of “speculation and even ridicule.”
His prophesy was fulfilled tonight when the contents of the transcripts became known and new questions were raised as to why he made public the documents.
White House officials said that, in addition to the reasons given by the President last night, it was believed that the transcripts would have leaked out, bit by bit, and depicted him in the worst possible light.
This way the President was able to control the editing of the transcripts, omitting obscenities and the names of innocent persons accused in private conversations, and to put the President's own interpretation on what the conversations meant. His action was also designed to keep the tape recordings themselves in the secrecy of the White House files.
Despite the material damaging to Mr. Nixon, official sources said, the legal brief was designed to show that the transcripts, if read in their entirety, would raise considerable doubt about his criminal involvement In the cover‐up. Criminal involvement, his lawyers have said, is needed to constitute an impeachable offense.
“Throughout the period of the Watergate affair,” Mr. St. Clair wrote, “the raw material of these recorded confidential conversations establishes that the President had no prior knowledge of the break‐in and that he had no knowledge of any cover‐up to March 21, 1973.”
nytimes.com/1974/05/01/arc…
Why would he want to keep the tape recordings themselves a secret? Because they probably contained everything from intelligence briefings to personal information. In other words, what happened in the Oval Office was never meant to make it to public ears. Nor were they ever meant to be leaked. If I were to hazard a guess, they were also probably some form of insurance policy for President Nixon. A record if you will of his words and actions.
Well... why would President Nixon need an insurance policy? He was President of the United States, right?
Nixon did not have any prior knowledge to the break-in at the Watergate Office Building. However, President Nixon had some idea regarding what he was up against — what he was fighting against. He had been exposed to the edges of that monster his entire career.
Well... why would President Nixon need an insurance policy? He was President of the United States, right?
Nixon did not have any prior knowledge to the break-in at the Watergate Office Building. However, President Nixon had some idea regarding what he was up against — what he was fighting against. He had been exposed to the edges of that monster his entire career.
Nixon Fought the Deep State
What people don't realize is that Nixon spent his entire career fighting what we've come to know as the Deep State. At the time, they called it communism. Personally, I believe it is because the people at that time did not know what it was that they were up against.
From 1947 until 1950, Richard Nixon served as a congressman. During this time he sat on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). This later became known as the House Committee on Internal Security.
Richard Nixon started out his political career hunting down the very communists who created and wrote the United Nations Charter.
On the morning of August 3, 1948, the House Un-American Activities Committee's chief investigator, Robert Sterling, took [Whittaker] Chambers to a closed hearing room to being the interrogation. First question: Had Chambers been "aware at any time when you were a member of the Communist Party of a so-called espionage ring that was being set up or functioning in Washington?"
"No, I was not," Chambers replied.
That was a bald-faced lie. But when the committee convened in public that morning, before a crowd of reporters and photographers in the Ways and Means Committee hearing room, the biggest public arena on Capitol Hill, Chambers changed his story. He said he had belonged to "an underground organization of the United States Communist Party" from 1932 to 1938. He named eight members of the ring. The most recognizable name by far was Alger Hiss.
"The purpose of this group at that time was not primarily espionage," Chambers said. "Its original purpose was the Communist infiltration of the American government. But espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives." This was a crucial point. Infiltration and invisible political influence were immoral, but arguably not illegal. Espionage was treason, traditionally punishable by death.
The distinction was not lost on the cleverest member of the [House Un-American Activities Committee], Congressmen Richard Nixon asked Chambers the most pointed question that day. He knew the right questions to ask because he knew the answers in advance. He had been studying the FBI's files for five months, courtesy of J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon launched his political career in hot pursuit of [Alger] Hiss and the secret Communists of the New Deal.
Internet Archive: Enemies: A History of the FBI (page 158)
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What people don't realize is that Nixon spent his entire career fighting what we've come to know as the Deep State. At the time, they called it communism. Personally, I believe it is because the people at that time did not know what it was that they were up against.
From 1947 until 1950, Richard Nixon served as a congressman. During this time he sat on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). This later became known as the House Committee on Internal Security.
Richard Nixon started out his political career hunting down the very communists who created and wrote the United Nations Charter.
On the morning of August 3, 1948, the House Un-American Activities Committee's chief investigator, Robert Sterling, took [Whittaker] Chambers to a closed hearing room to being the interrogation. First question: Had Chambers been "aware at any time when you were a member of the Communist Party of a so-called espionage ring that was being set up or functioning in Washington?"
"No, I was not," Chambers replied.
That was a bald-faced lie. But when the committee convened in public that morning, before a crowd of reporters and photographers in the Ways and Means Committee hearing room, the biggest public arena on Capitol Hill, Chambers changed his story. He said he had belonged to "an underground organization of the United States Communist Party" from 1932 to 1938. He named eight members of the ring. The most recognizable name by far was Alger Hiss.
"The purpose of this group at that time was not primarily espionage," Chambers said. "Its original purpose was the Communist infiltration of the American government. But espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives." This was a crucial point. Infiltration and invisible political influence were immoral, but arguably not illegal. Espionage was treason, traditionally punishable by death.
The distinction was not lost on the cleverest member of the [House Un-American Activities Committee], Congressmen Richard Nixon asked Chambers the most pointed question that day. He knew the right questions to ask because he knew the answers in advance. He had been studying the FBI's files for five months, courtesy of J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon launched his political career in hot pursuit of [Alger] Hiss and the secret Communists of the New Deal.
Internet Archive: Enemies: A History of the FBI (page 158)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-…
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
He would later go on to co-sponsor the Mundt-Nixon Bill, formerly known as the Subversive Activities Control Act. This was a piece of legislation that would require all members of the Communist Party of the United States to register with the Attorney General.
Nixon described it as a bill to implement "a new approach to the complicated problem of internal communist subversion... It provided for registration of all Communist Party members and required a statement of the source of all printed and broadcast material issued by organizations that were found to be Communist fronts."
Wikipedia: Mundt-Nixon Bill
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Nixon described it as a bill to implement "a new approach to the complicated problem of internal communist subversion... It provided for registration of all Communist Party members and required a statement of the source of all printed and broadcast material issued by organizations that were found to be Communist fronts."
Wikipedia: Mundt-Nixon Bill
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He started putting pressure on Hollywood and studio executives to produce anti-communist movies.
As the Cold War began, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee descended on Hollywood with a young Republican congressman named Richard Nixon asking studio executives why they didn’t produce anti-Communist movies. The studios quickly responded with anti-Red films such as Iron Curtain (1948) and The Red Menace and I Married a Communist, both released in 1949. None did well at the box office.
JSTOR Daily: How Hollywood Thrived Through the Red Scare
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As the Cold War began, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee descended on Hollywood with a young Republican congressman named Richard Nixon asking studio executives why they didn’t produce anti-Communist movies. The studios quickly responded with anti-Red films such as Iron Curtain (1948) and The Red Menace and I Married a Communist, both released in 1949. None did well at the box office.
JSTOR Daily: How Hollywood Thrived Through the Red Scare
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I am going to make an assumption here. Richard Nixon was intimately familiar with the files J. Edgar Hoover had on communists in America. His approach and confrontation with Hollywood could have been more than just coincidence.
During that time, a certain writer, producer, director, and president of the Cinema Education Guild by the name of Myron Fagan was in correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover, then Director of the FBI. Myron Fagan helped launch the careers of actors such as Humphrey Bogart. Plus he more than likely knew the patriarch of the Kennedy family, Joseph P. Kennedy, who was owner of Pathe Pictures where Myron directed films.
As a little aside, Myron was a pamphleteer who wrote about the Illuminati, satanic practices in Hollywood, the United Nations plan to create a New World Order, the ADL, the Council of Foreign Relations, and so on... all back in the 1940's. He also wrote about the communist actors in Hollywood, which helped form the Hollywood Black Lists. There are several direct communications between himself and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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During that time, a certain writer, producer, director, and president of the Cinema Education Guild by the name of Myron Fagan was in correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover, then Director of the FBI. Myron Fagan helped launch the careers of actors such as Humphrey Bogart. Plus he more than likely knew the patriarch of the Kennedy family, Joseph P. Kennedy, who was owner of Pathe Pictures where Myron directed films.
As a little aside, Myron was a pamphleteer who wrote about the Illuminati, satanic practices in Hollywood, the United Nations plan to create a New World Order, the ADL, the Council of Foreign Relations, and so on... all back in the 1940's. He also wrote about the communist actors in Hollywood, which helped form the Hollywood Black Lists. There are several direct communications between himself and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Image: Internet Archive: Federal Bureau of Investigation: FOIA Files on Myron C. Fagan
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But back to Nixon...
From 1950 until 1953, Richard Nixon served in the US Senate. During this time he continued to oppose global communism and what we would call the globalist agenda. This included opposing benefits for illegal immigrants and price controls as well as other monetary restrictions. He was a supporter of civil rights. But history won't remember this.
Then in 1953 until 1961, Richard Nixon served as Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Richard Nixon lost his first presidential run to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then lost the election to California Governor in 1962. Everyone thought his political career was finished.
Surprisingly, he ran once again for President of the United States in 1968 and won.
Richard Nixon was a patriot. He was also a conspiracy theorist. At least that is my conclusion from listening to portions of the leaked White House Oval Office tapes.
From 1950 until 1953, Richard Nixon served in the US Senate. During this time he continued to oppose global communism and what we would call the globalist agenda. This included opposing benefits for illegal immigrants and price controls as well as other monetary restrictions. He was a supporter of civil rights. But history won't remember this.
Then in 1953 until 1961, Richard Nixon served as Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Richard Nixon lost his first presidential run to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then lost the election to California Governor in 1962. Everyone thought his political career was finished.
Surprisingly, he ran once again for President of the United States in 1968 and won.
Richard Nixon was a patriot. He was also a conspiracy theorist. At least that is my conclusion from listening to portions of the leaked White House Oval Office tapes.
Nixon on Bohemian Grove, Date Unknown
Nixon on Jews in Politics, July 3, 1971
Nixon and Reverend Billy Graham discussing the Synagogue of Satan, February 1, 1972
And as we all know... what happens to those who fight the Deep State? They must be taken out. President Nixon had to go. So, Watergate was staged by the CIA to do just that.
If you would think this is President Nixon's last act, you would be wrong. They underestimated him.
I know who shot John.
— President Richard Nixon
If you would think this is President Nixon's last act, you would be wrong. They underestimated him.
I know who shot John.
— President Richard Nixon
Nixon's Fall From Grace
This is what happened after Nixon was forced out of the White House. His reputation was in tatters. He was outcast from the political scene. The Atlantic reported that:
When Richard Nixon, the first president to have been driven from office, landed at his “Western White House,” in San Clemente on August 9, 1974, the same day he’d resigned, his career and life lay in ruins. He had strived for decades to reach the highest office in the land, and in 1968 had finally achieved his ultimate triumph, and had been overwhelmingly reelected. But now, as he saw it, he had been done in by a conspiracy of his “enemies.” When friends and acquaintances picked up Nixon’s phone calls from San Clemente shortly after he arrived there, they heard a deeply depressed man, sometimes in tears, convinced that “they” would never relent. “They won’t be satisfied until they have me in jail,” Nixon said.
Nixon’s fatal flaw was that he saw “enemies” everywhere; he was filled with resentments. He’d been looked down on all his life, he believed, by people of greater means. An awkward man, essentially a loner — he had very few friends — he never quite fit in, and he resented those who did. Most seriously, he confused political opponents with enemies. And so he came into office prepared to “get ’em.”
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
I think it was at this moment that Nixon finally understood what the Deep State was and what it was capable of. And President Richard Nixon wasn't a quitter.web.archive.org/web/2014051715…
This is what happened after Nixon was forced out of the White House. His reputation was in tatters. He was outcast from the political scene. The Atlantic reported that:
When Richard Nixon, the first president to have been driven from office, landed at his “Western White House,” in San Clemente on August 9, 1974, the same day he’d resigned, his career and life lay in ruins. He had strived for decades to reach the highest office in the land, and in 1968 had finally achieved his ultimate triumph, and had been overwhelmingly reelected. But now, as he saw it, he had been done in by a conspiracy of his “enemies.” When friends and acquaintances picked up Nixon’s phone calls from San Clemente shortly after he arrived there, they heard a deeply depressed man, sometimes in tears, convinced that “they” would never relent. “They won’t be satisfied until they have me in jail,” Nixon said.
Nixon’s fatal flaw was that he saw “enemies” everywhere; he was filled with resentments. He’d been looked down on all his life, he believed, by people of greater means. An awkward man, essentially a loner — he had very few friends — he never quite fit in, and he resented those who did. Most seriously, he confused political opponents with enemies. And so he came into office prepared to “get ’em.”
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
I think it was at this moment that Nixon finally understood what the Deep State was and what it was capable of. And President Richard Nixon wasn't a quitter.web.archive.org/web/2014051715…
Project Wizard
... The nation had every reason to think that at last he was gone. He had made his troubles ours, had taken us on a wild ride through history but now he would be out of sight. Finished.
What do you do when you get knocked down? You get back up one more time.
But this was a great misunderstanding of Richard Nixon: As he’d said so many times before — he wasn’t “a quitter.” It wasn’t in his nature to give up. He’d come back from innumerable defeats and setbacks throughout most of his existence. He’d lost the presidency in 1960 and the governorship of California two years later. Everyone knew that Nixon was finished then. Six years later he was elected president. (Only three other people in our history had lost the presidency and then won it, none of them in modern times.)
And so this remarkably resilient man wasn’t about to quit now. Determined and methodical as usual, with the help of aides who had gone with him to San Clemente at government expense, Nixon made a plan. This secret plan, codenamed Wizard, was one to regain respectability. He would show ’em again. What would have crushed most people to Richard Nixon was another crisis to be overcome.
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
web.archive.org/web/2014051715…
... The nation had every reason to think that at last he was gone. He had made his troubles ours, had taken us on a wild ride through history but now he would be out of sight. Finished.
What do you do when you get knocked down? You get back up one more time.
But this was a great misunderstanding of Richard Nixon: As he’d said so many times before — he wasn’t “a quitter.” It wasn’t in his nature to give up. He’d come back from innumerable defeats and setbacks throughout most of his existence. He’d lost the presidency in 1960 and the governorship of California two years later. Everyone knew that Nixon was finished then. Six years later he was elected president. (Only three other people in our history had lost the presidency and then won it, none of them in modern times.)
And so this remarkably resilient man wasn’t about to quit now. Determined and methodical as usual, with the help of aides who had gone with him to San Clemente at government expense, Nixon made a plan. This secret plan, codenamed Wizard, was one to regain respectability. He would show ’em again. What would have crushed most people to Richard Nixon was another crisis to be overcome.
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
web.archive.org/web/2014051715…
Nixon had a new plan to supposedly regain respectability. However, I think the plan that started to form was much more than just a restoration of reputation. After all, he did end up blackmailing President Bill Clinton.
In perhaps the most brazen act of his effort to be a foreign-policy guru, he blackmailed Bill Clinton into consulting him on Russia. A few months after Clinton took office in 1993, Nixon got word to him that if he weren’t paid proper respect as a foreign-affairs expert he would write an op-ed in a major newspaper attacking the president’s handling of foreign policy. Following Nixon’s subterranean threat and some lobbying by his allies, Clinton telephoned him, appearing to seek his advice. Still under pressure from the Nixon camp, Clinton then reluctantly invited him to the White House on the eve of a two-man summit with Boris Yeltsin in April 1993. The meeting was held at night so that no press would be around to ask questions and take pictures of Clinton and Nixon together.
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
Image: Richard Nixon with Donald Trumpweb.archive.org/web/2014051715…
In perhaps the most brazen act of his effort to be a foreign-policy guru, he blackmailed Bill Clinton into consulting him on Russia. A few months after Clinton took office in 1993, Nixon got word to him that if he weren’t paid proper respect as a foreign-affairs expert he would write an op-ed in a major newspaper attacking the president’s handling of foreign policy. Following Nixon’s subterranean threat and some lobbying by his allies, Clinton telephoned him, appearing to seek his advice. Still under pressure from the Nixon camp, Clinton then reluctantly invited him to the White House on the eve of a two-man summit with Boris Yeltsin in April 1993. The meeting was held at night so that no press would be around to ask questions and take pictures of Clinton and Nixon together.
Internet Archive: The Atlantic: Project Wizard: Nixons Post Watergate Plan for Redemption
Image: Richard Nixon with Donald Trumpweb.archive.org/web/2014051715…
What if President Nixon never stopped trying to take down the Deep State? As we saw before, this certainly seemed to be the case. But it wasn't going to be him who carried out these plans. It would be someone else. Someone specifically groomed to take on this role.
Image: Letter provided by New York Times
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Trump and Nixon were pen pals — a relationship that started back in the 1980's. In the series of letters that have been released to the public, they had more than one thing in common. But the two biggest things that stand out in my mind are that Nixon wanted President Trump to run for office. They both had a huge distrust towards the media and fake news.
Trump, putting his usual self-congratulatory stamp on the exchanges, said shortly after the 2016 election that he didn’t know Nixon “but he would write me letters. It was very interesting. He always wanted me to run for office.”
The last letter in the Trump-Nixon series is dated Jan. 26, 1993. Trump writes to Nixon not long after his 80th birthday to thank him for a birthday photo and says, “You are a great man, and I have had and always will have the utmost respect and admiration for you. I am proud to know you.” Nixon died in April 1994; Trump did not attend the funeral.
Politico: Trump and Nixon were pen pals in the ‘80s. Here are their letters.
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Trump, putting his usual self-congratulatory stamp on the exchanges, said shortly after the 2016 election that he didn’t know Nixon “but he would write me letters. It was very interesting. He always wanted me to run for office.”
The last letter in the Trump-Nixon series is dated Jan. 26, 1993. Trump writes to Nixon not long after his 80th birthday to thank him for a birthday photo and says, “You are a great man, and I have had and always will have the utmost respect and admiration for you. I am proud to know you.” Nixon died in April 1994; Trump did not attend the funeral.
Politico: Trump and Nixon were pen pals in the ‘80s. Here are their letters.
politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
To be continued…
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And just to keep you hanging, here is another shameless promotional teaser…
Bill and Hillary Clinton were CIA assets… since college.
I really hope you like how the story ends.
To read this in substack form, you can find the link here.
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