As it turns out Nixon never really had to resign because there was no crime.
The alleged Gap in the taping in his office was apparently
accidental after all and did not contain anything of substance despite media's
playing it up as if they were
While the so cold smoking gun piece of tape was
misinterpreted by Nixon's lawyers, it turns out that he was not talking about
the cover-up of the Watergate break-in but asking the CIA too talk to the FBI
about protecting Democratic donors who had been giving money to his campaign
The fact that some of this money wound up in the pockets of
those who actually did the break-in raised a lot of questions at the time but
clearly showed that someone overseeing them use that money inappropriately
Dirty tricks of course have been common going back to the
1930s and used equally among Democrats and Republicans
This includes break-ins to campaign headquarters and bugging.
For instance Kennedy and
others associated with the Kennedys authorized wiretaps illegal on Nixon during
the 1960 campaign, again the California campaign in 62, and later during the
1968 campaign they booked his airplane
The watergate commission that looked into the Watergate
break-in was not allowed to look into the wider aspects and so it seemed like
an isolated incident
Even Bernstein made it clear that the Watergate break in was
rather insignificant and made significant only because the president was forced
to resign
Although Bernstein and Woodward tried to imply and actually
published material claiming that there was a wider campaign against Democrats
recent documentation show this was not true and was perhaps misguided at best
A lot of what Woodward used came from a anonymous source called
deep throat who turned out to be the deputy director of the FBI Mark felt
Woodward had an agreement with felt to never use him as a
source. never mentioned the FBI and not reveal his identity all of which
Woodward betrayed from the very first article he did for the Washington Post
Of course, authors defending felt making seem to be a saint
when he was hardly that
Felt authorized illegal wiretaps and warrantless searches on
whether underground facilities for which The Washington Post later wanted him
prosecuted, a strange situation since felt was responsible for the success of
the Washington Post and Woodward
I have several personal connections to the Watergate scandal.
Felt let the search for one of the survivors of the East
village explosion who I hid out in my apartment for a few months until the FBI
stop looking for him
I did not know that felt would eventually become deepthroat
Years later I would work for the son of Elliot Richardson
who was fired by Nixon for refusing to fire the Kennedy connected prosecutor
Cox – who Bork fired because Cox was in bed with the democrats and apparently
held secret meetings with the judge and others overseeing the cst.
Still later after 9:11 I got to interview Alexander Hague
who denied being deep throat but by which time it was clear felt was
The book All the President's Men turned out to be almost
complete fiction at least from one perspective in that it violated every
journalistic ethic and yet became the model for investigative reporting ever
since
Woodward and Washington Post in order to take advantage of
revealing deep throat actually did a bunch of hit pieces on him and his family
in order to discredit him
Woodward eventually plagiarized felt’s book when finally
writing a book about deepthroat
Following along trail of questionable journalism as he tried
to recreate his perceived god-like Watergate status
A lot of this becomes very obvious now after all of the
failed attempts to bring down Trump with fake crimes including those of January
6th so-called insurrection and his paying off of a pornstar.
It is no accident that John Dean who's inconsistent
testimony in Watergate was never questioned when he implicated Nixon in the
cover up which Nixon probably was not guilty of it all
As noted by several authors Nixon was in fact against
cover-ups and lying saying that they both did more damage than good
Nearly all of the lawyers associated with Watergate were
connected to the Kennedys and the effort by media including Washington Post to
get Ted Kennedy elected president and to bring down Nixon
This is very similar to contemporary times where most of the
judges and lawyers involved in the scandals against Trump are connected to
Obama who is taking the place of Ted Kennedy as perhaps the most unethical
politician in America
Woodward could never get back his Glory Days even coming
after Trump, partly because many people suspect that his unnamed sources and
other activities in follow-up books were either dishonest or slanted in an
unethical way
The problem is that John Dean became the principal witness
against Nixon and like many of those who turned on Trump Dean did what he did
in order to escape punishment.
In a game of corruption if you can give up somebody higher
than you in the food chain you get off Scot free which is what happened to Dean
even though much of his information may be dishonest and self-serving
Fortunately, Trump was stronger than Nixon in that he fought
tooth and nail against the distortion being promoted by The Washington Post, the
New York Times and other legacy Media and ultimately people in the public got
to see just how corrupt the Democrats were although everybody still seems to
think Nixon and Watergate were legitimate when they were just another version
of Russia gate
At the end of the day hopefully historians will look back on
Nixon and vindicate him for a crime he did not commit and hopefully the next
batch of attacks from The Washington Post New York Times and the Democrats will
not have the believability that the lies told against Nixon did
Over the last 8 years we have heard over and over how what
Trump did was worse than Watergate. I do
agree it was worse than Watergate but not because Trump did it but because
legacy Media and people like Woodward were doing the same kind of dirty work
they did back then only magnifying it.
Hopefully, the mythology of Watergate the lies and
distortions will fade as our generation dies out and becomes something like
Tippecanoe or some other silly political of the great past
And hopefully the historians will look at Woodward as the
kind of phony he is just a stooge for the Kennedys at the time along with his
editor
Unfortunately, there are no good guys in any of these
stories even though some people are painted as saints when they're not
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