Our favorite snippet from the latest round of newly-released Nixon tapes is one that is completely anachronistic now that such school of thought by Republicans has been thoroughly discredited in the wake of Nixon’s disgrace. This quote from Nixon to Kissinger, from an Oval Office recording from December 14, 1972, has no relevance whatsoever to the current occupant of the White House…
NIXON: Remember, we’re gonna be around to outlive our enemies. And also never forget: The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.
Here’s the completely irrelevant audio (:30 seconds)…
[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/NixonToKissinger_PressIsTheEnemy_121472.mp3%5D
He should have said “The citizens are the enemy.”
That would properly include those smaller sets that he specified.
So much for the President serving at the pleasure of the citizens.
Rove has announced that he’s writing a book and naming names of those that impeded the president.
I hope he does. We will then have a list of people that deserve medals for being true patriots.
Thanks again Brad.
And nixon was elevated to an “elder statesman” before he passed away.
The criminal cabal he danced for are the same interests behind dur chimpfurher.
Is it my imagination, or does Nixon say, talking over Kissinger at the end of the clip, “Freedom is the enemy.”
With the release of the latest round of Richard Nixon’s White house tapes, no doubt any longer exists that he operated in almost all political situations in the most cynical, underhanded and often illegal manner necessary for accomplishing his goals, which were not just to defeat, but to destroy his political enemies.
Throughout Nixon’s career, in fact, he used the same standard: His own victory, and his victim’s destruction, by any means necessary or possible.
Thus the anticommunist Congressman Jerry Voorhis became “soft on communism,” Helen Gahagan Douglas became “The Pink Lady,” and Alger Hiss went to jail because of Nixon, as we now know, “pleading” the Grand Jury, of the FBI deliberately and unlawfully withholding exculpatory evidence, of Whittaker Chambers switching dates in sworn testimony, of HUAC technicians remanufacturing a typewriter to produce to a jury’s satisfaction documents that appeared to duplicate exactly the typing on Hiss’ Woodstock machine.
As a matter of historical reality, Alger Hiss’ perjury conviction had Richard Nixon’s political dirty tricks fingerprints all over it, including a judge’s refusal on appeal to hear new evidence in the case, evidence about the remanufactured typewriter, about Chambers lying, about withheld evidence. It is time for Alger Hiss to be posthumously exonerated.
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jim crawford
Westwood NJ