Rumbles in Nixonland Over Watergate
h/t Newstalgia
The Nixon Library is a little miffed at the moment. It seems they don't care for the Watergate exhibit at the National Archives because, well, they feel it's just too harsh.
Officials at the National Archives have curated a searing recollection of the Watergate scandal, based on videotaped interviews with 150 associates of Richard M. Nixon, an interactive exhibition that was supposed to have opened on July 1. But the Nixon Foundation — a group of Nixon loyalists who controlled this museum until the National Archives took it over three years ago — described it as unfair and distorted, and requested that the archives not approve the exhibition until its objections are addressed.
The group of 'loyalists' include George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and James Schlesinger(see 990 for full list).
According to the NARA announcement in 2007 when the Nixon Library became part of the NARA system, archives and displays become the exclusive province of the National Archives.
This "let the chips fall where they may" approach, of course, means that both positive and negative information about our former Presidents will be revealed. President Lyndon Johnson, for example, wanted visitors to his library to see the record of his presidency "with the bark off," and not everything in the archives of NARA's presidential libraries is complimentary to the men whose names are on the buildings.
President Nixon's allusion to the "deepest valley" and the "highest mountain" in his farewell speech also has relevance here. As we assume the stewardship now of all the Nixon records, it is our intention at the National Archives to preserve and make accessible to everyone the records of Richard Nixon's time in the deep valleys as well as on the highest mountain of his career.
Evidently, there is some objection to the presentation of the Watergate story without corresponding cross-references to other wiretapping Presidents. From the objection filed by Bob Bostock, former Nixon aide:
“Taping and wiretapping go back as far as F.D.R.,” Mr. Bostock said. “It lacks the context it needs: that Nixon was not the first president to do some of these things and that some of these things had been going on with many of his predecessors, in some cases, much more than he did.”
Ah, the old "they do it too, two-step". I'm curious though -- were FDR and Nixon's predecessors caught breaking into the national headquarters of the opposing party?
Ultimately, this group doesn't have a lot to say about it:
The Nixon Foundation does not have veto power and by law serves in an advisory role. The final ruling will be made by officials of the National Archives within the next few weeks.
But I saved the best for last, just because it will make you laugh on a Monday, maybe even belly laugh. From Bostock, again:
“I worked for Mr. Nixon during the last five years of his life,” Mr. Bostock said. “Definitely the president did things that were wrong. He said so himself. The real question always comes to, Did the actions that he took that were wrong, did they merit impeachment and removal from my office? My view is that they did not reach the level of offenses for which he could be impeached and convicted."
I'm guessing Bill Clinton might beg to differ.
liberal President alone.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
At least he had a decent proposal for Health care.
Wow, that really says a lot about today's democrats.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Democrats then and and now.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
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today.
Along with the commentary track by Robert Redford and the interviews with Woodstein.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
To think, they actually worked for the Washington Post!
Today's WaPo would be in full court press going after the thugs who were trying to besmirch ole tricky Dick.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
"...did they merit impeachment and removal from my office?"
Should the word "my" be in there?
for last. You left out that the director of the Nixon Library is a gay Canadian.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I'm just a patsy" ~ Lee Harvey Oswald
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Bush needing a 'library'...more like a bookcase. We all know what won't be included in HIS...
"I gave them a sword [whimper whimper, sniff sniff]".
Lying about a break-in....lying about a blow job....lying about a war and being responsible for over 6,000 american lives and still counting...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..i wonder what George is doing today?...
Can't wait to see what moanica crowley says about this exhibit.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the word for 'idiot', 'moron' or some such in whatever ethnic langauge was the native language of Bostock's original people? I'm betting it is.
... if you're a Rethuglican.
BID
There is quite a bit of literature which suggests that Nixon, for all his faults, had very little to do with the so-called “Watergate scandal.” In fact, Nixon may have even been on the receiving end of a concerted effort to remove him from office by deeply ingrained (and deeply powerful) forces within Washington. According to this line of reasoning, Nixon became a “loose cannon” shortly after assuming the presidency (e.g., environmental regulations, price controls, “Nixon goes to China,” etc.). The man wasn’t crazy; it’s just that he was too brazenly independent for those who actually pull the strings in Washington. So he was set up by the C.I.A. and ultimately removed from office.
Russ Baker’s “Family of Secrets” provides a voluminous array of evidence (along with additional sources and footnotes) to support this hypothesis.
If this interpretation is correct, then it’s quite understandable why Nixon’s entourage would object to the “official” portrayal of the Watergate scandal. Instead of enlightening the American public about presidential malfeasance, it would instead promote a false narrative at the expense of Nixon’s reputation.
Personally, I’m inclined to believe Baker’s account. A number of Nixon’s closest associates felt (and presumably still feel) that Nixon was set up by the C.I.A., and there is more than enough evidence to make one scratch their head.
Don't forget that the first task of the "White House Plumbers" was to break into a psychiatrist's office to try to get dirt on Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.
Also, until the library came under the auspices of the National Archives:
"The exhibit previously maintained that the scandal was a coup plotted by Democrats, and that journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein had offered bribes to their sources. The museum also included a heavily edited version of the Smoking Gun Tape and insisted that the infamous missing 18½ minutes of audio tape of the subpoenaed June 20, 1972 conversation was due to a mechanical malfunction."
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes
or that pages sources at Federal Archivists Take Control of Nixon Library - washingtonpost.com
and A physical, historical renovation of Nixon's Watergate room - The Boston Globe
JM Weleski: Yeah, that's gotta be it. Nixon was set up. Crucified by his enemies, just like You Know Who.. Honest, naive, trusting Richard Nixon, who never did nothin' to nobody.
Always the conservative agenda. break as many laws you want, undermine the constitution and outright lie about current events, then re-write history to suit you.
"The Nixon Library is a little miffed at the moment. It seems they don't care for the Watergate exhibit at the National Archives..."
Excuse me, but it's the Nixon Library that has created the Watergate exhibit; the National Archives runs the Nixon Library.
An outside advisory group (with no veto power) is the one that "is a little miffed at the moment." If you are going to post about a news item, please have the basic facts in order, lest you give the Nixon-loons unnecessary ammo.
The "outside advisory group" is the Nixon Foundation which oversaw the construction of the Nixon Library and its operation as a privately funded facility until it was made part of the federal presidential library system 3 years ago.
Karoli's characterization is not that far off and the correct details are in the excerpted paragraph right below the sentence you are taking exception to.
is at the Library in Yorba Linda, CA (an armpit in CA to be sure). As a musician I've played a few gigs there and wandered over to the gravesite. I've always fantasized about taking a leak on ol' Tricky Dick, letting him know that though he was a president, that piece of shit never had my respect, and never will.
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