We are all the president’s men. Henry Kissinger
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn’t want to hear anything about it. It’s an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. Henry Kissinger
I had spent three presidential campaigns backing governor Nelson Rockefeller against Richard Nixon. Henry Kissinger
He [Nixon] didn’t enjoy people. What I never understood was why he went into politics ... Isolation had become almost a spiritual necessity to this withdrawn ... tormented man. Henry Kissinger
What are we to make of these accusations? Henry Kissinger is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the most famous American diplomat in history. Yet armed with recent evidence critics claimed that some of his past actions amounted to Crimes against Humanity. In a new climate of international justice a re-examination of Kissinger’s career may be in order. The Trials of Henry Kissinger, 2002
Kissinger’s critics charge that his world view blinded him to the human cost of the Cold War. Recently released documents reveal episodes in Indo-China, Indonesia and Chile when Kissinger may have needlessly sacrificed human lives to pursue strategic goals. ibid.
The prospect of peace gave [Hubert] Humphrey a last minute surge in the polls. ibid.
‘I had spent three presidential campaigns backing governor Nelson Rockefeller against Richard Nixon.’ ibid. Kissinger
Less than a month into Nixon’s Presidency he and Kissinger began planning an attack against North Vietnamese sanctuaries in neighbouring Cambodia. ibid.
Under the US constitution, bombing Cambodia was an act of war and it would require the approval of the US Congress. In February 1969 in a secret meeting on Air Force 1 Kissinger and his aide Alexander Haig met with Air Force Colonel Ray Sitton to plan for the secret bombing of Cambodia ... Under Kissinger’s supervision the US flew 3,600 secret missions over Cambodia in 14 months, dropping 110,000 tons of bombs. ibid.
Nixon decided to invade Cambodia to send a message to North Vietnam. ibid.
Kissinger told his staff: Our peerless leader has flipped out. ibid.
The Khmer Rouge drew strength from the chaos of the country. When they seized power in 1975 they forced populations of entire cities back to the countryside. Then they began a policy of exterminating their enemies in execution grounds that came to be known as Killing Fields. By 1979 another three million Cambodians had lost their lives. ibid.
In July 1973 the detection of Nixon’s taping system would lead to the discovery of the Watergate cover-up, the indictment of key members of the White House staff and the end of the Nixon presidency. Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment. One of the original articles of impeachment addressed the concealment of the Cambodian bombing from Congress. When the impeachment was dropped so was the investigation into the secret bombing. ibid.
Watergate: Washington DC on 17th June 1972: the Watergate office building. Five burglars broke in that night to photograph documents and plant listening devices at the Democratic National Committee headquarters based in the building ... The burglars were caught redhanded ... The White House Plumbers were working on behalf of President Richard Nixon’s election campaign. America’s Book of Secrets: Presidential Cover-Ups s2e7, H2 2014
‘What did the president know and when did he know it?’ ibid. Democrats in Senate
Had he orchestrated a cover-up? ibid.
Additional abuses of power on Nixon's part: he’d authorised wire-taps, approved payments to cover up the scandal, and misused the CIA to divert an FBI investigation. Nixon, however, appeared unfazed. Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: Mantle of Power 1965-2013, History 2013
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream. Hunter S Thompson
According to Haldeman, Nixon told the FBI that investigating Hunt would uncover ‘the whole Kennedy assassination thing’. PSTV.tv – Dark Legacy, 2009
Was Nixon involved in the Kennedy assassination? ... Jack Ruby, the Mafia thug who shot Oswald, who was spotted by a Dallas reporter in Parkland Hospital in the area where the magic bullet was found on the wrong stretcher, was working for Congressman Richard Nixon in 1947. Nixon admits he was in Dallas the day Kennedy was murdered. ibid.
Prescott [Bush] found another young man to sponsor in politics: Nixon. ibid.
Nixon, who hired Hunt, was created and sponsored from the very beginning by Prescott Bush. ibid.
The circumstantial evidence does not suggest Nixon was a powerful devil in 1963 when Kennedy was murdered. ibid.
He [Nixon] won’t be controlled, Clyde. He’s a menace. He’ll do anything to hold on to power. I never played his game, that’s the problem. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Ed Westwick & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Edgar
I want those fucking files. ibid. Nixon
It was accountability that Nixon feared. Bob Woodward
The Nixon interviews took place over thirty hours, with Watergate forming just four hours of the total time. Sir David Frost: That Was the Week That Was, BBC 2013
‘We’d won the greatest gamble of our lives.’ ibid. Frost, re Nixon interviews
There were two historic events in America last year: the first was the removal of the crook Richard Nixon; the second was something you will have almost certainly heard nothing about: for the first time since the beginning of the atomic age almost thirty years ago the United States formally and quietly abandoned its policy of the ultimate nuclear deterrent. In other words the old game known in Washington as MAD – mutual assured destruction – is out, and a new more insidious and more dangerous game is in. It is called Counterforce. Counterforce means the United States is prepared not merely to deter its enemies by the threat of annihilation but to actually wage a flexible, acceptable nuclear war. John Pilger, Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy, 1975, Youtube 26.51
President Nixon and Mr Kissinger unleashed 100,000 tons of bombs, the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. The bombing was their personal decision. Illegally and secretly they bombed Cambodia, a neutral country, back to the Stone Age. John Pilger, Return to Year Zero, ITV 1993
In the Spring of 1969 American B-52s had begun the secret bombing of neutral Cambodia ... The Cambodians who died were called collateral damage, and their burning villages were called friendly fire ... In 1970 the United States invaded Cambodia. ibid.
Of course If you’re in Geneva, New York or London you can’t hear the screams of the little boy I mentioned. ibid.
My name is Sam Bicke and I consider myself a grain of sand. On this beach called America ... The least grain of sand has in him the power to destroy them. The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2004 starring Sean Penn & Don Cheadle & Jack Thompson & Naomi Watts & Brad William Henke & Michael Wincott & Mykelti Williamson et al, director Niels Mueller
He sold us on the exact same promise all over again. ibid. boss
There’s plenty for the few and nothing for the plenty – is that the American dream? ibid.
Who are the men, maestro, who keep us waiting at their feet? The meek shall not inherit the Earth. The Earth belongs to the bully who do not care how they get to the top as long as they arrive. I am an honest man, and if that is to be my undoing so be it. But I will not go quietly. ibid.
Unlike the powerful I was not so arrogant as to be sure my actions were righteous. Certainty is the disease of kings, maestro. ibid.
They’re not romantic revolutionaries; they’re the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued the good people. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, 2002, Richard Nixon
Once Richard Nixon was elected president and was inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program, at the same time, by very crude and violent police. ibid. Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party
The James Bond plot that took place in Washington – they found these people sneaking in with eavesdropping devices and one of them is a CIA man. Dick Cavett’s Watergate, Dick interviewing Ted Kennedy
There’s nothing new about this – and frankly, what can be gained – nothing. We know every caper they can put; they know everything we can pull. ibid. Barry Goldwater
He invited crises and that he couldn’t stand normalcy. ibid. Kissinger
They still don’t get it. They don’t realise that there was some larger questions at issue. ibid. Cavett