Richard Nixon: here being congratulated on his success by his new master Prescott Bush … In 1947 Nixon engaged the services of a Jewish gangster who was working for Sam Giancana called Jacob Rubenstein, a man who the world would one day come to know as Jack Ruby. Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick, 2014
1972: Washington DC police arrest five burglars with political connections at the highest levels. The president is under fire. The Final Report: Watergate, National Geographic 2007
What does the Nixon campaign hope to learn? ibid.
The next morning the story of the break-in falls to two low-ranking reporters at the Washington Post. ibid.
‘I could not muster much moral outrage over a political bugging’. ibid. Nixon’s memoires
A federal grand jury indicts the five Watergate burglars along with Liddy and Hunt. ibid.
Nixon is now facing both a criminal probe from the Justice Department and a political inquiry in the Senate. ibid.
Nixon releases edited transcripts of the White House tapes. ibid.
The House Judiciary Committee passes an article of impeachment. ibid.
He [Nixon] created the Plumbers Unit. ibid.
Nixon’s crime was the Watergate cover-up which he instigated. ibid.
‘This was much worse than we thought. Nixon was worse than we thought. What happened was worse then we thought.’ All the President’s Men Revisited, Carl Bernstein, Discovery 2013
Because the American people had learned the truth about Richard Nixon … Nixon’s downfall had begun two years earlier when five men were caught spying and wiretapping at the Democratic National Headquarters at an office complex called Watergate. ibid.
Nixon’s Law and Order platform was very popular. ibid.
There was something just as odd about the White House response: ‘A third rate burglary’. ibid.
It was a Haldeman operation; it was driven by Nixon. ibid.
‘We are going to use any means; is that clear? ibid.
Woodward met with a highly placed government official … Deep Throat. ibid.
[Mark] Felt was Deep Throat … The number two guy at the FBI. ibid.
Congress: What did the president know and when did he know it? ibid.
‘John Dean’s testimony was on for four days. It was mesmerizing.’ ibid. Alexander Butterfield
Watergate was becoming a bloody mess. Nixon was a wounded president. ibid.
Some 40 people pleaded guilty to Watergate-related crimes. ibid.
‘His dislocated relationship with truth.’ ibid. David Frost
‘I don’t think the public ever really understood the real sin, the crime, the import, of Watergate.’ Watergate: The Secret Story, Walter Cronkite, CBS 1992
‘This was third-world dictatorship. This was lawlessness. This was above the law and beyond reproach. These were people who had satisfied themselves they could not be touched.’ ibid. Berl Bernhard
20 years ago on June 17th 1972 in the dead of night a group of men working for the Committee to Re-Elect Richard Nixon President broke in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee here at the Watergate office complex. ibid.
There were two break-ins: the first was actually undetected, but when the burglars discovered one of the wire-taps they planted wasn’t working they went in a second time. ibid.
The president was unaware his own phone had been bugged. ibid.
The money trail was leading to a slush fund. ibid.
Nixon refused to give up the tape, and Archibald Cox was about to have him held in contempt. ibid.
Three days after the Saturday Massacre, 22 bills of impeachment were introduced in Congress, and the president released the subpoenaed tapes. ibid.
In the fall of 1968, an election year, candidate Richard Nixon and three of his senior associates evolved a plan to win the election by sabotaging the official US government negotiating position in Paris … by the simple method of opening an illegal back channel … to the South Vietnamese military junta. Christopher Hitchens, interview TVO April 2001
The subversion and tainting of an American presidential election and the extension of a war for four years and this extension of two neutral countries which can be described as one single action would count as the wickedest thing I know of in American history. ibid.
The bombing of Cambodia was likewise concealed from Congress. ibid.
The most powerful individual on Earth is the president of the United States. During President Nixon’s final year in office long-standing concerns about his mental balance became widespread in Washington. Reputations: The Secret World of Richard Nixon I, BBC 2000
His wife Pat bore the brunt of his disappointment. ibid.
Dilantin … Nixon was already taking sleeping tablets. ibid.
Day by day revelation followed revelation. ibid.
He promised the American people peace in Vietnam. It is now clear that Richard Nixon and close aides conspired to sabotage peace talks to get him elected in 1968. Reputations: The Secret World of Richard Nixon II
Nixon favoured the use of tactical nuclear weapons. ibid.
Johnson decided he could not blow the whistle on Nixon by going public with the secret wiretaps. ibid.
Republican candidate Richard Nixon feared that the president was going to come up with an October surprise that would bring peace to South East Asia. Secrets of War s5e8: Cold War: Nixon’s Secrets, History 1999
Nixon’s concern that his opponents were concealing something drove him to resort to clandestine tactics to uncover their secrets and seize the advantage. ibid.
Between March 1969 and May 1970 over 3,000 raids were flown across the Cambodian frontier … hundreds of thousands of civilians lost their lives. ibid.
It wasn’t a third-rate burglary; first off, there were four attempts to burglarize the workaday offices of the Democratic National Committee; plus, the very same crew tried to break into the Chilean embassy here in Washington looking for the same thing. Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann radio show 2012, Youtube parts I II III
The Southern Strategy: that subtly racist but more appealing to those middle of the road independent voters, that Southern Strategy was Nixon’s creation. ibid.
It was Nixon personally that had the CIA do a deal with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel before the election. ibid.
The Mafia [connection with Nixon] is the reason for Watergate. ibid.
Nixon flew out the day of the [Kennedy] assassination. ibid.
Nixon could not let this information – that one secret Cuban dossier compiled by Fidel Castro … He did not want all that stuff to come out. ibid.
It wasn’t just Woodward & Bernstein … James McCord [CIA] wrote a letter … to the judge … The story would have died but for McCord’s letter. ibid.
A $500,000 bribe to stall charges against Jimmy Hoffa. ibid. part III: The 18 Minute Gap 11.14
A new bribe for $1 million to let Hoffa out of prison with special conditions that the Mafia wanted. ibid.
The police said they were thoroughly professional, the suspects are saying nothing, and the Democrats say they have no idea who would want to spy on them. ABC News: Dark Days at the White House: The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of Richard M Nixon, Youtube 1.00.33, news
McCord implicated two Nixon aides in the break-in. ibid.
‘While the president was involved, that he did realise or appreciate at any time the implications of his involvement.’ ibid. John Dean, evidence to committee
‘Let others wallow in Watergate; we’re going to do our job.’ ibid. Nixon press conference
White House Tapes: 18 Minute Hum. ibid. caption