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In reply to the discussion: The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)37. Nixon was a saint compared to that line of 'Texans.'
Nixon's "The Bay of Pigs Thing" line meant for delivery to Richard Helms at CIA shows that the same people as got JFK got him.
H. R. Haldeman, in his book, "The Ends of Power," cites several conversations where Nixon expressed concern about the Watergate affair becoming public knowledge and where this exposure might lead. Haldeman writes:
"In fact, I was puzzled when he told me, 'Tell Ehrlichman this whole group of Cubans is tied to the Bay of Pigs.' After a pause I said, 'The Bay of Pigs? What does that have to do with this ?' But Nixon merely said, 'Ehrlichman will know what I mean,' and dropped the subject."
Later in his book, Haldeman appears to answer his own question when he says, "It seems that in all of those Nixon references to the Bay of Pigs, he was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination."
In taped conversations with Haldeman, Nixon is obviously worried about what would happen if Hunt's involvement in the Watergate burglary came to light. Nixon says, "Of course, this Hunt, that will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot of things, and we feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further...But, you can say, this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it, the President believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again."
http://dirtypolitics.50megs.com/dirty.htm
And that guy's protégé was some serious Old Money.
Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.
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absolutely. They should be chilling, as well as abhorrent to most of our sensibilities
bigtree
Jul 2014
#9
"I have more books by or about Nixon...." I have over 80, if we count the topic of Watergate. Plus,
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#23
I'm Class of '71; my 19th birthday was Election Day '68. When I was 10, I quit Girl Scouts because
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#33
Heh--Irish here, too! PA coal-cracker (Up the Mollies!), and my Sicilian great-grandparents dropped
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#40
Rumor has it that what "W-gate" was about was covering up details of Dallas '63. I find it
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#34