Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought

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6. And there's more than that...

Remember that much of the motivation for the break-ins was to get some never-disclosed but explosive information of "the Bay of Pigs." Since it's very unlikely that Nixon would have been covering-up potentially embarrassing information about the Kennedy administration, most believe that "Bay of Pigs" was code for something else. A recent book on the subject (whose author I currently can't remember) asserts that it was Nixon's leading role during the last days of the Eisenhower administration in recruiting a covert force to attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. This suggests that Nixon himself might have been largely responsible for recruiting what LBJ went on to describe as "a goddamn Murder, Inc." made up of Cuban exiles. And if it had come out that said Cuban expatriates, as was looking increasingly likely as people began to debunk the Warren Report, were behind the JFK assassination...well, it wouldn't be good for Nixon if it turned out that he, however unwittingly, put together the group that murdered his main political enemy, a sitting U.S. president. I'm sure it wouldn't have taken much more that that revelation to get people to start wondering whether it really was unwitting, or whether they really acted without direction from the people who put them together in the first place.