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Still Trying to Clear Nixon’s Name

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Posted on Feb 4, 2009
White House / Ollie Atkins

Two Truthdig contributors are under siege by an “independent historian” and The New York Times. If that sounds preposterous, just wait until you see what made it onto the front page. Last Sunday, the paper of record cited an unpublished article contending that historian Stanley Kutler deliberately altered transcripts of Nixon’s secret tapes in order to protect John Dean.

To what end? Kutler explains that it’s the latest salvo in a decades-long effort to create “Watergate Without Nixon.” As Dean puts it, “these Watergate revisionists elevated by The Times seek to create a false history.”

The former White House counsel, whom Kutler suspects is the real target of the smear, said that after he read the article, “I was sure I could hear a desperation death rattle of dead-tree journalism.”

Kutler and Dean have each systematically refuted the claims, here and here. The original Times piece can be found here.

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By Purple Girl, February 6, 2009 at 7:28 am Link to this comment

Only needed to see Dick Cheney’s name in relatin to this to realize Who is responsible.
Cheney’s Crimes span 4 decades! No doubt Watergate was the least unlawful.
Reagan was Clearly an Alzheimers patient upon taking the oath after his first ‘win’. What’s better than having to manipualte a clinically paranoid to move your agenda forward, one who can’t remember the agenda. Next round, get a whimpy ass CIA Director in the Oval office.
Must have taken some effort to buy off the Clintons- endless sex surrogates, freeing Hillary from her wifely ‘duties’. Obviously owed her big for taking ‘One for the team’ all those years after her Goldwater assignment.
Then the finally ‘Kill shot’ get a Retard in Office. Not only intellectually stunted ,but emotionally deprave.
It must have pissed DickCo off when his perfect Manchurian was defeated by mass voter turn out. McCain is a perfect combination of All of the above-mentally unstable, senile,malable, ignorant, arrogant and blindly ambitious.
Cheney has been bedfellows with murderous dictators (Saddam), terroist Organizations (‘Afghani Freedom Fighters, aka AQ) and Corp Raiders and Robber Barons (Halliburton, KBR) for Decades.
In fact that recent Politco interview should be reviewed with a fine tooth comb to deterine if Subliminal messages were being conveyed to his proteges and minions.
DickCo has been covertly running this country for decades. His goal is to finally defeat US damned Unruly ‘Colonists’. DickCo may not operate for the ‘Family Crest’ but ceratinly proved he works for the Monarchy which bears a Logo.
Perfect analogy of the last 8 yrs- ‘Pinky & the Brain’- ‘What we gonna do today,Brain?’ ‘conquer the World, Pinky’

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By Outraged, February 6, 2009 at 1:42 am Link to this comment

Shame on the NYT.

We realize subscriptions are down and no one is “buying what you’re selling”, but really…....

It does not take a genius to realize that CURRENTLY something hard-edged, gutsy and truthtelling would bring in “a buck or two”.

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By G.Anderson, February 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment

This is typical of the irrationality of conservative politics.

They worship, and reason is just a disguise that they hide behind.

For them, belief prevails in the end, and reason is only used to serve belief.

I’m sure right now, there are conservative writers somewhere working on books about how if Bush, hadn’t made a left turn somewhere, he would be remembered as a great president.

You just can’t talk someone out of their religion, or the insane out of their insanity.

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By bEHOLD_tHE_mATRIX, February 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment
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Just one more example of Republican victimization of criminal perpetrators.

Instead of heeding Orwell’s warning of totalitarianism in his “1984” novel it has become a textbook for modus operandi for the party.

It is perfectly conceivable that through privatization of the web and advanced technological means in the future that any negative content concerning the Bush Adm. could be expunged, blocked or blacked out.

Canis facimimis is halfway through the gate and the sheep aren’t even bleating.

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By Lester Shepherd, February 5, 2009 at 10:27 am Link to this comment
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I think all the pundits and politicians should begin copying and using Hunter’s prose to desciribe today’s greedy Mother Friggers.  How is it we became so susceptible to bribery?  These are all Christians, right?  Don’t they believe in the talking snake theory of Genesis?  Frig all of the bastards in Congress.  I ain’t kissing your rings anymore, you Nixonian/Reagenite/Bush/Bush thieves/whores!

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By wildflower, February 5, 2009 at 9:18 am Link to this comment

I suspect this so called “historian” was inspired by Joe the Plumber. Yes, I bet he just woke up one morning and thought if Joe can do it, so can I. As for the NYT, I’m baffled.  It’s not like there is a shortage of news these days.

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By Big B, February 5, 2009 at 8:15 am Link to this comment

Americans have always had an unhealthy obsession with changing history. I don’t know how many times I have heard the comment that if Nixon had not got caught up in Watergate that he would have been considered a great president.

Bullshit

This was a beast that bombed cambodia, had countless thousands killed by his support of pro-american military juntas in central and south america, and had people killed to cover up his complicity in the watergate break in. But we forget that, all the while he was comitting attrocities on a world scale, he was representing us. Nixon was a shadowy reflection of us americans. Oh, we will look sad and send money and food overseas to poor nations, but we will never admit that is was our politcal meddling that has caused their poverty. Nixon was the perfect symbol of americana. A paranoid old codger, longing to go back to the good ol days that we never really had, all the while, cheating on our taxes and feeding chocolate to the neihbors dog.

Everything we are today we owe to Richard Nixon. And we freely elected this prick!

twice!

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