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In Reply to: Nixon: Guilty of "Mens Rea," but not of being the brains of the outfit. posted by John Marks on March 6, 2007 at 12:54:11:
I agree! And just as with JFK there was no one, single "killer".Further note: The abhorrent press still to this day almost invariably refers to Nixon's "expletive-laden" conversations -- yet in the two decades before he was preceded by two truly foulmouthed military men (one of them a *Navy* man fer chrissake) -- and LBJ. But they still hate Nixon.
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...JFK, LBJ and Nixon are a potent (and potentially bottomless) discussion.There's not enough time to type it all; it demands good ale, lots of pretzels, and a long evening even to get started....
;-)
(I've *got* to resist these OT threads on American history!)
For all you trivia buffs... .(JFK said she was the absolute best. Too bad she worked for STASI.)
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS I agree with that.
And there's a different, long-term strategy,
which I think would be far more explosive.
White House allies are already starting to
whisper about what I'll call the Ellen Rometsch
strategy.
SAM DONALDSON I remember her.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS You remember her.
SAM DONALDSON Oh, yes.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS She was a girlfriend
of John F. Kennedy, who also happened to be an
East German spy. And Robert Kennedy was charged
with getting her out of the country and also
getting John Edgar Hoover to go to the Congress
and say, don't you investigate this, because if
you do, we're going to open up everybody's
closets. And I think that in the long run, they
have a deterrent strategy on getting a lot of
...
GEORGE WILL Monica Lewinsky is an East
German spy? (Laughter)
SAM DONALDSON No, but that's a good point.
Are you suggesting for a moment that what their
beginning to say is that if you investigate
this too much, we'll put all your dirty linen
right on the table? Every member of the Senate?
Every member of the press corps?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS Absolutely. The
President said he would never resign, and I
think some around him are willing to take
everybody down with him.
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