Comey's Memo Is the Smoking Gun of Donald Trumps Watergate

[John1956PA]

11. Last evening, I posted here about Nixon plotting to call off the investigation.

My post is at https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029075370 .

Nixon's conversation with Haldeman has always intrigued me ever since August 1974 when the newspapers reported excerpts of the transcribed version of it. It was immediately termed the "smoking gun," and Nixon resigned soon thereafter. Years later, I read a theory that the "Bay of Pigs" term which Nixon employed was a code term for the JFK assassination. I do have an opinion on whether that theory is true.

I have also read that CIA director Richard Helms, when confronted with the Nixon smokescreen that the Watergate investigation would "bring up the whole Bay of Pigs thing," exclaimed to whomever was telling him that, "This has nothing to do with the Bay of Pigs!"

My impression of Richard Helms has always been favorable. I recall watching him in the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings as Senator Howard Baker tried to get him to retreat on a particular testimony point which I can not recall. Richard Helms stood his ground, and Howard Baker was the one who backed off.