On Oct 20, 7:56 pm, ***@marquette.edu (John McAdams) wrote:
John, I'm getting off the merry go round. My main reason for this post
was to highlight that two men (3 if you talk about E.H. Hunt) changed
their stories several times of where they were/how they heard about JFK's
assassination. There have been many sources that have mentioned that
Nixon changed how he heard about the assassination 3 times! If you have
been researching this case you had to have read this before. Bush was
iffy on where he was too. My only question is why? You have taken this
to saying that I said they were involved, maybe they were, maybe they
weren't. I just wanted to hear other people's point of view.
Yes, I think Nixon was guilty of alot of crimes, thus the need to be
"pardoned". If he was innocent that wouldn't have been unnecessary and
yes, I find it funny the man who did pardon him was his leak on the WC
(and co-author of the ridiculous SBT) - Gerald Ford.
One can learn a lot about the this case by examining the years before and
after the actual event. We have the benefit of nearly 44 years of
hindsight now and when one sees all the things Nixon was alledgedly tied
to it is obvious he was a bad man even if only 30% of it is true.
This is my last statement on this:
By Sue Morrison
On November 22, 1963, quoted in the New York Times after having made a
timely evacuation from Dallas, Richard Nixon publicly recognized his
anti-Kennedy zeal through the bold assertion: "I am going to work as hard
as I can to get the Kennedys out of there. We can't afford four more years
of that kind of administration."
While Nixon publicly exposed his commitment to get rid of the Kennedys, he
did not say how he planned to accomplish his goal. At any rate, the fact
that Nixon did not plan to defeat the Kennedys through legitimate
political elections is quite obvious. In 1963, Nixon was the most popular
Republican in the nation, yet despite the declared intention "to get the
Kennedys out of there", he refused to run for the presidency until a
shadowy committee to elect Richard Nixon was created in 1967. Political
pundits, experts at creating a theory which matches the limit of public
awareness, have repeatedly claimed that Nixon's decision not to run in
1964 was a brilliant tactical exploit. It was, they claim, foolish to
challenge the unbeatable wave of popularity that brought Johnson a
landslide victory in 1964. And so, it is popularly asserted, Richard
Nixon, the brilliant statesman, staged one of the greatest political
comebacks in American history, when he became the President in 1968. It is
indeed a convenient theory but it ignores the fact that Nixon was not a
typical politician but a man immersed in the shadowy world of secret
politics. The fact that Nixon was largely a low key behind-the-scenes
political operator until the Kennedys were assassinated, suggests that the
so-called Nixon comeback was anything but legitimate. Politics, in the
Nixon tradition was about behind-the-scenes plotting to destroy political
enemies, it was not about fair play elections. And if Nixon did not aim
for the presidency in 1964, it was not because he thought he couldn't win,
but because the plotting of political cronies like J. Edgar Hoover
precluded the possibility of a Nixon presidency in 1964. John Ehrlichman,
Nixon's former counsel, made that quite evident when he said:
Hoover and Nixon had kept in touch during all the years Nixon was out of
office. Rose Mary Woods had been Hoover's Nixon contact for the exchange
of information and advice between them. Whenever Nixon travelled abroad as
a private citizen, the FBI agents who posed as "legal attaches" in U.S.
embassies were instructed by Hoover to look after Nixon. Hoover fed Nixon
information during those years via Cartha De Loach, and through Lou
Nichols, a retired Bureau assistant director who had become a distillery
executive. But Hoover was more than a source of information -he was a
political advisor to whom Nixon listened. (Witness to Power; The Nixon
Years, 1982, Simon & Schuster, New York p.156-7)
http://crimemagazine.com/03/richardnixon,1014.htm
Robert
