tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post6338262014367870519..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: Hager, rhymes with macabrePeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-87082117261700856172014-08-15T20:14:26.682+12:002014-08-15T20:14:26.682+12:00Mr Lineberry
Afraid you don't know what you a...Mr Lineberry<br /><br />Afraid you don't know what you are on about. Nixon lobbied Ford and won a pardon. That is an established historical fact which you are not going to be able to wish away. As for his going on trial, do you really think that Nixon was so stupid he believed he'd get a fair trial, let alone get exonerated? Come now. Don't be so naive. Nixon was a lot of things but even he wasn't that foolish.<br /><br />Anyway, they were all crooks and criminals. Nothing good came from what they did. It never could have.<br /><br />AmitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-66766848571286708332014-08-15T09:46:53.410+12:002014-08-15T09:46:53.410+12:00Not correct Amit; Nixon did not demand a pardon be...Not correct Amit; Nixon did not demand a pardon because he wanted to go on trial and be acquitted, and it was Jerry Ford (and Democrats in Congress) who wanted the pardon in order to justify Nixon's resignation.<br /><br />Nixon's health collapsed within 3 weeks of resigning; his ill health, the fact it would take 18 months to recover, the cost of legal fees, the stress involved, the pressure on his family all added up to Nixon agreeing to accepting a pardon.<br /><br />Whatever the burglary was about is irrelevant (and don't pay any attention to what loons like Lamar Waldron say); I was commenting on the claims swirling around the last couple of days about Nixon 'covering up' when he didn't.Mr Lineberrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-70388094902643515802014-08-14T20:55:01.055+12:002014-08-14T20:55:01.055+12:00Ah not quite. There was a bit more. Nixon did go d...Ah not quite. There was a bit more. Nixon did go demand the pardon from Ford. The pardon was in return for Nixon to remain silent about what dirt he had on Ford (which was considerable). <br /><br />Did you know the Watergate break-in was really about a call-girl ring? There was a diary with some important names in it. The diary needed to go away. That was the goal of it. Meanwhile there were some who saw the break-in as a means to an end. Nixon was what they wanted to end. He was lucky this was the end they used on him. There were more severe possibilities.<br /><br />In the end analysis though, crooks is crooks. All of these fellows were crooks right through, round and back again. <br /><br />Amit<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-69202471275915898772014-08-14T15:40:11.036+12:002014-08-14T15:40:11.036+12:00Richard Nixon did NOT try to cover up anything in ...Richard Nixon did NOT try to cover up anything in the Watergate matter, and was quite innocent of any wrongdoing.<br /><br />He was recorded on tape, a supposed 'Smoking Gun' - (<i>and doesn't the media created term "Smoking Gun" sound oh so sinister? that means GUILTY!</i>) - listening to his Chief of Staff announcing a rather odd plan to get to CIA Director to contact the FBI Director and say the Watergate break in was a CIA operation.<br /><br />Nixon then gave a mumbled "yes, okay fine" response to what he had just listened to, whilst knowing full well Richard Helms, the CIA Director, would never agree to actually do it.<br /><br />These mumbled three words apparently constituted the crime of the 20th century.<br /><br />What history glosses over is that Nixon was EXONERATED in a second tape recorded a couple of days later where he basically says "Oh you spoke to Helms and he refused to do it? oh well that's how it goes".<br /><br />It should be noted that when Nixon resigned (40 years ago last weekend) he was more than happy to go on trial, more than happy to let a Jury listen to the <i>second</i> tape and then bring in an inevitable not guilty verdict.<br /><br />It was the socialists and Democrats who pressured Jerry Ford to issue a pardon because they, too, knew that a not guilty verdict was a certainty, and then questions would be asked by the American public (pesky questions about whether a Coup d'tat had effectively taken place, or perhaps they had swallowed whole a jack up by Nixon's political opponents).<br /><br />But when Nixon accepts a pardon it is mission accomplished - history records the socialist/liberal Democrat version of history "oh that means he is guilty like we always said he was".<br /><br />The autobiographies of various liberal Democrat participants - Tip O'Neill, Carl Albert, Peter Rodino, Herbert Talmadge - all confirm the enormous pressure applied to Ford to get Nixon to accept a pardon [and not go anywhere near a Jury].<br /><br />The only similarities between Watergate and this silly book is the media and left wing political opponents convening a Star Chamber to decide the guilt of the 'conservative' party and individuals.Mr Lineberrynoreply@blogger.com