Richard Nixon Was Not A Great President. Accept it!

Time and truth are on the same side!

By Rich Kozlovich

The first site I visit when doing my searches is American Thinker, where I find really excellent commentaries from a number of writers,  However,there are pieces that appear there, as is in every site I visit, when reading their views I wonder what planet they're living on.   Then there are some that are pretty good, but still fail in their history.  

One such article was this piece, Confessions of an 'old' Millennial, by Monroe Wesson, discussing this penchant for conservatives to be "classy" by not refuting the lies and crap leftists spew out against them, and he does a pretty good job of outlining that failure, but his train went off the rails saying:

As a child, I remember being taught how terrible Nixon was as a president, at least in TV shows, movies, and media.  However, when I asked people who lived through the time of Nixon being president, every one of them told me, "They did him wrong" and "He was a great president!"

Saying Richard Nixon was a great president to me I shake my head, roll my eyes, and chuckle to think there are still people who are so clueless.While I agree they did him wrong, as it really was a conspiracy to get Nixon, which included the much lauded Judge Sirica, who was nothing more than a corrupt political hack, and was a part of that conspiracy, none of that changes the fact Nixon was a terrible President.  

1. He created the EPA, a virtual lava flow of scientifically dubious regulations, which Jay Lehr, my recently passed friend, and one of the original founders of EPA, said they've not done anything worthwhile since 1980 and need to be dismantled, and developed a five year plan to do so.  
2. He also passed a plethora of environmental laws that are detrimental to the nation, and just like all this global warming scam, they do little or nothing to save the environment, but they're costly to America.
   
3. Nixon created OSHA, now a tyrannical monster, illegally used to force Americans to accept these fraudulent vaccinations which are killing untold thousands all over the world,   
4. He passed the Endangered Species Act, which has been another disaster, and over and over again it's the environmentalist's fall back position to prevent any number of projects, often fraudulently. 
5. He caused the ban on DDT, which was based on the lies of Rachel Carson’s science fiction book Silent Spring, which resulted in de-facto bans all over the world killing hundreds of millions of people since that ban in 1972.  

When I read prominent people talking about how brilliant Richard Nixon was on foreign affairs that really "triggers" me, and I put Henry Kissinger in that same category.  Nixon opened China up to the world's economy, and Kissinger was a major part of that. And now?  Now he's lauding Trump, who's views are diametrically opposite of Nixon's and everything Kissinger stood for and promoted.  

We shouldn't forget that Kissinger has been a globalist for all of his life, and the mentor and sponsor of World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab who has been one of the most destructive forces against capitalism and freedom in the world.  And now, shocker of shockers, Kissinger's saying all the nations that bought into his globalism crap made a terrible mistake.  Remarkable!  This falls under the category of - "Whodda Thunk It!" 

One has to ask:  How can anyone so educated and so smart be so stupid?  Answer:  Ideology makes smart people stupid.   This seeming support of Donald Trump's foreign policies is so out of character for him and the world view he's presented over and over again.  It gives one pause wondering what's he up to.  He's 100 years old, and he's out of time, and he knows it.  I'm thinking he's taking this new tact in an attempt to ameliorate the disaster of his legacy.  But I'm betting history will not be kind to Kissinger, his legacy, or his character.  All of which I consider disgraceful.  

Many years ago I had an account who was related to Kissinger, and while at an event he went up to Kissinger and said his grandfather, and Kissinger's grandfather were brothers, making them third cousins.  Not that close by close enough to recognize each other as family, as my family has done.  

I asked his wife what did Kissinger say?  She answered, Kissinger said, "Ja", then rudely turned on his heel and walked away.  That told me all I needed to know about Kissinger.  If he told me day was light and night was dark, I'd have to go outside to make sure. 

Nixon's Presidency was filled with huge mistakes, but opening up China to the world was his biggest mistake.  Mao's economy after his violent and destructive Cultural Revolution was in shambles, and if Nixon had stayed home and minded the business of America, I seriously doubt the Chinese Communist Party would still be in existence.  But he didn't, and now the world is paying the price for his, and Kissinger's stupidity.  That gave the CCP the economy they needed to fund their war against America. 

Nixon was a RINO before there were RINO’s, at least officially, and mostly because the Republican party didn’t have hardly any members who weren’t RINO’s in those days, and the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats was paper thin.  That changed with the election of Ronald Reagan, and far more after the election of Donald Trump.  

So please pay attention.  Nixon was a terrible President.  Accept it!

The Federal Judiciary is Filled With Political Hacks

By Rich Kozlovich 

On July 5th, 2020 Henry P. Wickham, Jr. published this piece, Watergate and the Corruption of the DC Judiciary, filled with interesting insights from two books, Geoff Shepard's book, The Real Watergate Scandal and the just published book by Garrett Graff, Watergate, a New History.  I've decided to break this piece down into sections.  The first dealt with John Dean and this next section deals with the federal judiciary, and Judge Sirica.  

He goes on to say:

The handling of the criminal cases against "all the president's men" was disgraceful as Shepard makes clear. What the president's men did was criminal, but that shouldn't have been a pretext for denying them fair trials and due process.

I remember those days and the nation pretty much thought Judge John Sirica was the nation's judicial giant who was going to make sure "justice" was served.  When in reality acted in an illegal and unethical way as an investigator and prosecutor, he wasn't a judge, he was a bigger crook than Nixon, who I consider one of the worst Presidents of the 20th century.  We'll come back to that. 

Sirica used his power as a judge to manipulate the circumstance to be assured of a guilty verdict by making sure the case would be heard in Washington, and the article notes he apparently interfered with jury selection saying:

'"voir dire" of potential jurors that guaranteed biased juries.  He made prejudicial comments in front of the jury. He sought to bolster John Dean's credibility by giving him a long prison sentence following his guilty plea. He did so knowing that Dean would never serve a day, and that he would commute or cancel this sentence once Dean testified as Sirica wanted.

Apparently Sirica and his team of co-conspirators decided Dean needed credibility so he sentenced him to a lot of prison time, all knowing he would never serve out that time.  Which must have been part of the conspiracy he and the prosecutors cooked up during one of the illegal private meetings regarding this case.  No defense counsel was ever present at any of them.  Meetings where tactics and strategies were discussed and:

Sirica even provided a list of more persons he wanted the special counsel to indict. So much for due process and trials overseen by an impartial judge.

Sirica wasn't the lone jurist in this criminal behavior:

In a blatantly unethical meeting, Archibald Cox met with Bazelon with no defense counsel present. He was able to get Bazelon to agree that all appeals from any Watergate case coming out of the DC District Court would be heard "en banc," or before all nine judges. By so agreeing, Bazelon guaranteed that there would never be a case where there could be a three-judge panel with a Republican majority. The Democrats would always have the majority and the prosecutors would win any appeal. Not surprisingly, no appeals of Watergate defendants were successful. 

The author goes on to state: 

At the very least, the actions in these Watergate criminal cases by Sirica, Bazelon, and the prosecutors were unethical and prejudicial. Had these meetings come to light at that time, they would have been grounds for new trials or changes of venue outside the DC District Court. These prejudicial actions could have led to impeachment of the judges and even disbarment after an honest accounting of how these cases were prosecuted. But these meetings were never disclosed when it mattered.

When it comes to the federal judiciary there are a number of things I've stated over and over again.  

The federal judiciary is out of control acting in violation of their Constitutional boundaries.  Congress has gutlessly allowed them to get away with it, and until SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, the Democrats rapturously defended their ability to find unstated "rights" from previously unknown and unrecognized "   Epiphanous visions only left wing political hacks masquerading as jurists could see.    

Only now is the Congress talking about standing up for their Constitutionally defined rights in overturning that decision with legislation.  It's sad when the Congress only discovered it's spine when a "right" that was a "wrong" has been overturned.  They've decided it's time to stand up to SCOTUS because the court finally and actually stood up for the Constitution as intended, instead of corrupting it.  

Finally, the federal system of justice is filled with corruption, from the prosecutors to the judiciary, both of which are filled with ideological political hacks, not impartial jurists. Political activists  who have allowed power to corrupt them and corrupt their decisions.  The federal judiciary is in serious need of age and term limits, along with Congress.  Including U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan who was thought at times to be a courageous jurist standing against and his corrupt band, but in the end he overturned every ethical standard for impartiality there is.  

We've seen this outrageous corruption, especially in the DC District, in dealing with these January 6 demonstrators, many of whom have been imprisoned illegally without bail or the right to counsel for many months, forcing guilty pleas just to be released or give light sentences.  We saw this with General Michael Flynn, all part of an Obama motivated Deep State conspiracy, an American hero that was grievously wronged.

Back to Richard Nixon.  I consider Nixon to be one of the four worst Presidents in American history.  

First on my list is Teddy Roosevelt, because he gave personality to the progressive movement.  He laid the intellectual, emotional and psychological groundwork which allowed the second worst President, Woodrow Wilson, called America's first fascist President, to impose his fascist dictatorial policies, using America's unnecessary involvement in WWI as a justification, or excuse if you like, where he had opponents to his visions imprisoned without charge or trial, many of whom didn't get released until Harding became President. Sound familiar?

Both Roosevelt and Wilson believed the Constitution was an impediment to human progress and subscribed to the concept of L'état, c'est moi .  I am the state.   Next came Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wanted to pack the court to get his clearly unconstitutional New Deal policies passed, which wasn't a new deal at all, it was in fact a recycling of Wilson's fascist policies with many of the same people from that administration heading up Roosevelt's many agencies, all of whom were thoroughly infested with communists, socialists, Soviet agents and fellow travelers.  His administration is considered the most enemy infiltrated government in the history of the world.  

Then Nixon.  We're still suffering the consequences of the Carter administration, but Nixon created long term negative consequences in more areas than Carter ever could have ever  done.  Nixon ended the gold standard, he opened China to the world in effect financing their efforts to defeat America.  He created the EPA, passed the Endangered Species Act and a host of other laws that have been used as bludgeons by unelected and out of control bureaucrats redefining the laws to their personal liking and passing unwarranted regulations.  Which now SCOTUS has decided doesn't really have the Constitutional authority to impose.  

So, it's hard to bleed all over ourselves over what happened to Nixon and his band of crooks.   But it's easy to bleed all over ourselves over the corrupt way the federal judiciary and corrupt prosecutors conducted themselves then and are conducting themselves now.  

The author concludes with this statement:

Among many lessons, Watergate shows us how power can corrupt and how investigations and legal processes can be abused. This is just what we saw with the case of Michael Flynn, among many others, post 2016, and as we now see with the selective and politically motivated prosecutions by the Biden Justice Department; Attorney General, Merritt Garland being every bit the light weight, political hack that John Sirica was. 

America is in crisis.

John Dean: A Snake Yesterday, A Snake Today, and He'll Be a Snake Tomorrow!

By Rich Kozlovich 

On July 5th, 2020 Henry P. Wickham, Jr. published this piece, Watergate and the Corruption of the DC Judiciary, filled with interesting insights from two books, Geoff Shepard's book, The Real Watergate Scandal and the just published book by Garrett Graff, Watergate, a New History.  I've decided to break this piece down into sections, and this first section isn't first in this piece, but its really high on my list for contemptuous people.  John Dean.  

He goes on to say:

Both books portray John Dean as a self-serving weasel, who testified only after saving his own skin. In his role as legal counsel to the President, he coordinated efforts to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations, concealed and destroyed evidence, helped prep witnesses for their perjured testimony. As events became more dire, it was Dean who was the first to seek immunity for his testimony against his colleagues. Despite his many crimes, Dean skated, and he never served a day of prison time. John Dean was "Guilty as hell, free as a bird," as domestic terrorist Bill Ayers once put it. 

Dean's account of his experiences in Watergate were set out in his book, Blind Ambition. However, in a later civil case he disavowed much of his own book and claimed that much of it was the invention of a ghost writer. Why Graff cites this book as authority in his footnotes is beyond me. Yet Dean sold the book as its author and no doubt kept his share of the sale proceeds, which is consistent with Dean's character as portrayed in these books.  Dean has since appeared occasionally as a commentator on MSNBC or CNN, which are the lower circles of hell where he richly deserves to be.

John Dean: Hutchinson Testimony Showed Trump’s ‘Criminality’ – Grand Jury Next, which is bogus as the Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President and he can fire them for any reason he pleases.  More fog to cloud the corruption of the January 6th Commission. Perfect fit for Dean.  Apparently he thinks talking too much deserves to be prosecuted, much like Pelosi thought it deserved impeachment.

John Dean: Republican Party Has Decided it’s ‘OK to Be Openly Authoritarian’.  Let's face it, the Republican party has never been as dangerous or authoritarian than the Democrats and became less so when Dean left. 

John Dean has no shame, and apparently Dean doesn't believe his lies, as the author says:

Dean's account of his experiences in Watergate were set out in his book, Blind Ambition. However, in a later civil case he disavowed much of his own book and claimed that much of it was the invention of a ghost writer. Why Graff cites this book as authority in his footnotes is beyond me. Yet Dean sold the book as its author and no doubt kept his share of the sale proceeds, which is consistent with Dean's character as portrayed in these books.

Is there anyone who can believe anything he says?  Is there anyone who thinks he's credible in anything he says ore does?  Yes, the main stream media.  Perfect fit!  Dean has always been a weaselly little snake, and here was Sean Spicer's take on Dean during the bogus Mueller probe, where the main stream media, the propaganda wing of the Democrat party trotted Dean out.

“I find it interesting that your lead witness is a convicted felon, part of the cover-up at Watergate, disbarred from ever serving as a lawyer again and serving four months in prison. That’s the person that you lead with?

John Dean is a snake, and a viperous one at that, and he's not changed in these last 50 years.  But he's not alone.  We have John Kasich, Liz Chaney, George Will, Adam Kinzinger, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, and more, so he's not breathing the stench of the leftist Outhouse of Mendacity all by himself. And my favorite snake, Mitt Romney

The Truth You Never Learned about Watergate

John Dale Dunn  

 

In 2019, I wrote here and here at American Thinker of the work of Geoff Shepard — certainly the reigning expert on the Watergate Affair because of his long history of scholarship and archive- and document-diving.  At the time, I interviewed Mr. Shepard.  I asked him to assess what he knew about Watergate and to compare the Watergate affair to what was happening in D.C. with the Trump coup attempt.  I also solicited his opinions on what is being called the Deep State and its role in the Russia/Trump collusion plot.  By that time, both Mr. Shepard and I were convinced that there were some lessons to be learned, but he withheld his opinions because he is a careful writer and attorney and had not investigated the Trump matters in depth.........To Read More...

 

 

Nixon’s Shenanigans vs. Obama’s Shenanigans

May 12, 2020 By Christopher Chantrill

As we discover the depths to which the Obama operatives and holdovers went to skewer the Trump campaign/administration from 2016-20, I find myself wondering just what the Nixon operatives were up to, back in the bad old Watergate 1970s.

Back in the day the eeevil Republican Richard Nixon thought he needed to spy on the opposition in the run-up to the 1972 election. So he set up a nongovernmental Special Investigations Unit to go a-burgling.

Just the day before yesterday the noble Democrat Barack Obama -- or his henchmen -- wanted to spy on the opposition presidential campaign. So they went to their pals at the FBI and Main Justice and the intelligence community and got them to go a-spying.

Just yesterday the patriotic Obama holdovers in the Trump administration spent three years trying to trip up President Trump based on fake accusations that we now know -- because said holdovers didn’t want to risk lying under oath -- that they knew were fake.

So why did President Nixon start the “plumbers unit” that eventually burgled the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate back in 1972?.......But honor among liberals is different, because all liberals are the good guys bending the arc of history towards justice.

Thus, it’s okay to break the law and violate procedures and use government power to oppress the opposition. Liberals are the good guys, and they are on the right side of history. So when liberal government functionaries break the law it’s not really breaking the law, because it’s all in the good cause of bending the arc of history towards justice..............To Read More

Troubling Watergate Revelations, Too Late to Matter

Nixon was destroyed by prosecutors’ secret, but erroneous, accusation of personal wrongdoing.

by Geoff Shepard, August 9, 2019

August 9 is the 45th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon, the only president in American history to resign or be removed from office. We know what triggered his resignation. He was already on the ropes after two and a half years of Watergate revelations, but what ended any and all defense was the release of the “smoking gun” transcript on August 5. It showed that Nixon had concurred with his staff’s suggestion that they get the CIA to tell the FBI not to interview two Watergate witnesses.

As astonishing as it may be to Americans, who have been assured that the smoking gun tape is proof positive of Nixon’s early cover-up involvement, every person connected to that particular conversation now agrees that the CIA gambit was an effort to prevent disclosure of prominent Democrats who had made substantial contributions to Nixon’s re-election campaign under assurances of absolute secrecy.

I should know. I was there: a member of Nixon’s Watergate defense team, the third person to hear the smoking gun tape, the one who first transcribed it, and the one who termed it “the smoking gun.” Here is a much fuller explanation of what actually happened. But the bottom line remains unchanged. Nixon’s Watergate defense lawyers completely misinterpreted the tape, and their mistake ended his presidency.

John Dean, Nixon’s principal accuser, has known of this mistaken interpretation from the very outset, but found it in his interest to keep quiet. He was, after all, the one who had suggested the CIA gambit to Bob Haldeman in the first place. Yet it was not until his 2014 book, The Nixon Defense, that he finally got around to admitting the truth. Read his full footnote, which concludes, “had Nixon known that he might have survived its disclosure to fight another day. In sum, the smoking gun was shooting blanks,” here..........To Read More, a lot more....

 

Was it really 45 years ago?

August 9, 2019 By Silvio Canto, Jr.

I was forty-five years ago whis week when the unthinkable happened: President Richard M. Nixon announced that he had resigned the presidency. He made his announcement on TV the night before and formally resigned at noon on this day in 1974.

As I recall, I rushed home to watch President Nixon's departure from the White House and President Gerald Ford's inauguration. I kept telling myself that I was a witness to history -- a new president who was not part of the 1972 election day ticket.

Later my dad came home with a business friend visiting from Venezuela. We sat down for dinner and the friend commented that it was impressive to watch a transfer of power without tanks or shots.

After the speech and his departure from Washington, President Nixon went into political exile but made a comeback in the 1980s with some great books, one of them his memoirs, RN. He became one of the premier foreign-policy statesmen in the world. .........To Read More....

My Take - It's clear now there really wasn't enough real evidence to impeach him, but public opinion fueled by the press made it impossible for him to win such a battle.  See Troubling Watergate Revelations, Too Late to Matter. 

Having said that, it's clear to me the Democrats saved the nation from Nixon.  Remember he's the guy that crated the EPA, OSHA, the Endangered Species Act and passed all sorts of green legislation that has become a plague on the nation today.  I hate to think how much worse it would have been if he hadn't been preoccupied with the Congressional investigation, Judge Sirica, and his impeachment, and lasted the rest of his term.  He was one of the worst leftist Presidents the nation had to contend with, but he laid the groundwork for Reagan, and he can't take credit for that.

One more thing.  I keep hearing how he was such a great foreign policy wonk, and mostly it was because he went to China.  Let's stop being stupid already.  That action led to the problems we have with China today.  We gave them an economy, opened our markets to them, let them steal technology and even sold advanced technology that created a challenge to our secutiry, and worse yet, Nixon saved Mao from his own machinations.  Nixon was a globalist, just like Henry Kissinger, and if Nixon were alive today, he would have sold us down the river to the UN and all the other leftists confams just as he did with China.

It's also my opinion he really wasn't a big communist hater so much as he was a big Nixon lover.  For him, the McCarthy hearings were merely a tool to promote Nixon, and if the public feeling was pro-communist, so too would have been Nixon.  Let's stop praising Nixon for his foreign policy expertise.....please!  He was a disaster in everything he touched.

Mark Felt and the 'Collusion' Conspiracy

January 2, 2019 By J.R. Dunn

Mark Felt is a unique figure in American history, an FBI official who actually did bring down a president. The president was Richard M. Nixon, the occasion the legendary Watergate scandal.....As legend has it, Nixon was about to tear the Constitution into shreds when a pair of WaPo reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, rode into town on white steeds and with the help of info from a shadowy gnome known only as “Deep Throat” ............For decades afterward, speculation was rife concerning the actual identity of Deep Throat.........It wasn’t until 2005 that Felt’s role was at last revealed.........It seems that his family, visions of lucrative book and film deals dancing in their heads,.............. The big book deal failed to materialize.............Rather than a high moral crusade led by the country’s liberal journalistic elite, an effort that would redeem liberalism after a decade of corruption and incompetence, the scandal was and irrevocably transformed into a squalid campaign by a disgruntled employee............. Mark Felt.......was perfectly self-aware...........

But the anti-Trump crowd didn’t see it that way. No – they clearly saw that Felt was left standing when the music stopped. No honors, no bestsellers, no Oscar-winning flicks. Felt remained the odd man out while others collected the rewards.

That wasn’t going to happen this time. The collusion crowd wanted their share of glory. They wanted the NYT Bestseller List. They wanted the cash. They wanted to hobnob with Hillary and Barack. They wanted to appear on Oprah. They wanted prominent mention in the history textbooks. They wanted to be patted on the head...............To Read More