Jules Archer - Watergate: A Story of Richard Nixon and the Shocking 1972 Scandal

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CONTENTS

PRESIDENT: So believe me, dont ever lie.

DEAN: The truth always emerges. It always does.

PRESIDENT: Also there is a question of right and wrong, too.

DEAN: Thats right.

PRESIDENT: Whether it is right and whether it is wrong. Perhaps there are some gray areas, but you are right to get it out now.

from the Watergate tapes, April 16, 1973

FOREWORD

Historical biographies and narratives can reflect the times in which they were written. Such is the case with Jules Archers Watergate: A Story of Richrd Nixon and the Shocking 1972 Scandal , which was first published in 1975, just three short years after the infamous break-in at the Watergate office. Now, forty years later, so much information has come to light about the Watergate scandal and Nixons role in the events that it is important for you to understand that the details surrounding the break-in, the investigation, and Nixons impeachment are not as clear as they once appeared. Sadly, the mainstream story of Watergate and President Richard Milhous Nixons subsequent removal from office is actually a great distortion of historical truth. President Nixon, it now seems, was taken down in a coup dtat of sorts. The narrative of events, which was carefully crafted by former Nixon counsel John Dean, as well as the tailored interpretation of events spun by Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, ignore a backstory that reveals a very different truth. So before you start in on Archers narrative, its important to see what forty years of investigation and history have to say about Watergate and President Nixons last years in office.

When Nixon was vice president he headed a task force aiming to assassinate Fidel Castro of Cuba and green-lighted Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contacts with the Mafia. Because of this, many anti-communists in the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Defense Intelligence thought Nixon would be the ultimate hardliner on Communism when he finally became president in 1968. However, they all were outraged when it became known that Nixon and his foreign policy advisor, Henry Kissinger, were secretly talking with the communist Chinesewhich later led to Nixons opening relations with China. Furthermore, the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) arms agreement that Nixon signed with the Soviets, which the military tried to repeatedly sabotage, inflamed the anti-communists in the government. Very soon, it seemed that Nixon was at war with his own foreign policy. His pro-peace policies were vigorously opposed by the Pentagon and the future neocons.

As president, Nixon was extremely progressive, which was demonstrated by his desegregating public schools without violence and bloodshed, by giving eighteen-year-olds the vote, by increasing funding for the poor as well as family assistance, by ending the eighteen-year-old military draft, by pioneering environmental protection, and by launching a war on cancer. More importantly, Nixon single-handedly saved the State of Israel from total annihilation in 1973s Yom Kippur War when he ordered the airlift of $121 million in lethal military aid to the Israelis who were caught short by a joint attack from Egypt and Syria on the highest of holy days.

Additionally, Nixon seemed at war with his own CIA and he deeply distrusted CIA director Richard Helms, whom he viewed as a Lyndon Johnson man. But when Nixon asked Helms to turn over the file on John F. Kennedys assassination, Helms simply refused to do so. This further exacerbated Nixons friction with the CIA. Nixon wanted the files as insurance against the CIA, which he distrusted.

Senator Howard Baker and Watergate Committee Minority Counsel Fred Thompson filed a minority report in the Watergate Committee Report, which showed the CIAs numerous connections to Watergate, and which outlines the role of CIA loyalist and Watergtate burglar James McCord to sabotage the break-in and also establishes that no bug was actually ever found in the Watergate by law enforcement, other than one clumsily planted there many months after the investigation. Researchers also established that McCord had arranged for transmitters that allowed the CIA to listen to Watergate taps via a satellite connectionvery high-tech for 1972. The CIA would destroy all of its Watergate records despite an order from Senate Watergate Committee Chairman, Sam Ervin, that they be preserved.

According to many sources, the CIA actively aided the Watergate burglars and would later infiltrate and sabotage the Watergate break-in that was being planned, pushed, and later covered up by White House Counsel John Dean. Dean pushed the Committee to Re-elect the Presidents Director Jeb Stuart Magruder to order G. Gordon Liddy into the Watergate, which Magruder did. In his sworn testimony Magruder said, [John] Dean knew of the break-in in advance. Furthermore, two decorated former policemen, Jack Caulfield and Anthony Ulasewicz, both said in oral histories available at Texas A&M that Dean ordered them to case-out the National Democratic Committee at the Watergate six weeks before the initial break-in, which implies that Dean knew about the break-in in advance.

At least three respected authors established that the actual Watergate eavesdropping was being conducted on the call-girl ring, and the facility was in fact being monitored for blackmail evidence on Democrats who were conducting business with the high-end call-girl ring. When Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez was arrested, he had the key to a locked desk drawer where a portfolio of the available call girls was. When Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy wrote about this in his book, he was sued and prevailed in three legal decisions. Although a self-described desk officer of the cover-up, John Dean and White House aides H. R. Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman tried to pin approval of the Watergate break-in on Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell but that was later proved false in a biography on Mitchell.