Today marks the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Watergate on 17 June 1972.
Roger Stone is setting a record for the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon on his exclusive TGP trip today.
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Roger Stone and President Richard Nixon
As the youngest member of Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign re-election committee, I remember crying uncontrollably as we watched our 37th.th Presidential resignation on television. It was a moment that broke the back of American politics, perhaps forever. This gave rise to five decades of scandals, lawlessness, dirty tricks and evil guerrilla fighting. Back then, that summer, the official story of Watergate suffered like wet cement.
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It was created by Bob Woodward, Richard Bernstein and Washington Post. It reads: “Officials working on Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the office of the Democratic Party National Committee at the Watergate Hotel. President Richard Nixon was caught hiding the crime. Unmasking the hide would eventually lead to Nixon’s resignation. White House counselor John Dean became a brave alarmist and exposed Nixon with his criminal group.“
But as the 50th anniversary of the Watergate intrusion approaches, it is more complete precisely – A story about Watergate appears.
Not that the facts threaten how many Americans still understand these events. The traditional wisdom of Watergate continues to live on for the last time Gaslit (2022), a TV series on STARZ starring Julie Roberts. She plays Martha Mitchell, the controversial wife of Nixon’s campaign manager and Attorney General John Mitchell. Like many of Watergate, the series is historically inaccurate. It claims that Mitchell was both aware of the intrusion and confirmed it. Until the day of his death, Michel insisted that he had never confirmed the burglary. Gaslitthen calls for historical adjustments.
When I watched Nixon resign, it was impossible for me to know that, like him, I would one day join a small class of U.S. citizens to receive the President’s pardon. I was convicted of a Soviet-style trial in Washington for the crime of “lying to Congress” over Russia’s agreement with the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. (Derem’s investigation revealed that “crime” was nothing like it.)
So, like Nixon, I was seated on the railroad. My sympathy for my old boss has spread to extensive writing Nixon’s secrets (2014) to correct a historical record of Watergate.
The central question in this whole case is whether President Nixon knew in advance of the sensible plan to break into the Watergate complex. All the evidence, which is appearing more and more year after year, shows that this was not the case.
In Men of the President (2022), Nixon’s longtime traveling assistant Dwight Chepin torpedoes the traditional story. According to Chapin, it was John Dean, a White House counselor, who conceived, hid, hid and lied to Nixon for more than nine months about the origins of the intrusion and its connection to Nixon’s White House.
It was only after it became clear that the concealment would not take effect that Dean secretly approached Watergate prosecutors to come to terms with himself. The fact that Dean was locked up and imprisoned for four months was never mentioned when he later went to the lecture chain to talk to legal associations about legal ethics.
Dane, not Nixon, was the villain of the plot. According to Chapin, Watergate’s special prosecutors found significant inconsistencies between Dean’s oath to prosecutors and his sworn testimony on a televised Senate Watergate inquiry committee. These discrepancies were mentioned in the FBI report of 5 July 1974. Of course, Dean was not held accountable for giving false testimony. He quickly became a media lover for his attacks on Nixon.
In your book Nixon protection (2015), Dean mostly skipped his role in Watergate, saying that those who want to understand what he was doing should read his book. Blind ambitions (2009). However, when confronted with an oath of inconsistency between his jury’s testimony and this book, Dean said he had not written. Blind ambitions first blaming the Pulitzer Prize – winning ghost writer Taylor Branch and later his legendary editor Alice May – both denied it. Meiju told me The New York Times that Dean’s claim was a lie. Meanwhile, Dean said he had never even read Blind Ambition before it was published.
There were other distortions. Dean admitted that he knew that transcripts of Watergate’s mistakes had been sent to Gordon Stračan, a White House assistant, on June 19, 1972, but he later told Nixon that there was no connection to Watergate at the White House until March 17, 1973.
In other words, Dean lied to Nixon for nine months. This omission explains Nixon’s misunderstanding of the whole thing, as well as his repeated denials that anyone in the White House knew about or was involved in the burglary. Based on an analysis by his White House advisor, Nixon believed he was telling the truth.
Dean claims that Nixon protection is the final report of Watergate. However, his book either shortens or omits his book altogether own recorded conversations with Nixon on 13, 16, 17 and 20 March 1973. You can clearly hear Dina urging Nixon to commit crimes. We hear the clear voice of a lawyer urging his client to break the law. In a conversation on March 16, 1973, Dean told Nixon, “we will win“- essentially rejoicing over the covering.
At every step, Dean reduces his role in Watergate. Who destroyed the notebook found in the safe at Whitehouse burglar E. Howard Hunt’s White House? Dean. Who arranged the early silent payments to Khanty and another burglar, G. Gordon Lydia? Dean.
Jack Kolffield and Anthony Ulasevich, both former New York police officers who worked for Dean at the White House as investigators, say in their published memoirs that Dean himself had asked them to call the Democratic National Committee offices in Watergate six weeks before the break. -in. Unlike Nixon, Dinam had prior knowledge of this.
Others, from Clark Mollenhof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning research journalist, to Jeb Stewart Magrudder, director of the presidential election committee, have said Dean knew everything about the intrusion before it happened.
Examining the evidence reveals a darker, darker image of John Dean. Nixon protection forgets to mention, for example, that Dean ordered Caulfield to hang out the CEO’s mercy in front of Watergate burglar James McCord to keep him silent. It does not mention Dina’s payment to seventh Watergate burglar Lou Russell (who was not detained) to hide in Silver Spring, Maryland, following Watergate’s arrests. The amounts in Russell’s bank account exactly coincide with the dates and amounts Dean took from the White House.
What exactly was the theft about? Christopher Coldwell recently said that “a lot of burglary doesn’t make sense.” One theory goes back to Dean. For years, he denied his association with the expensive call girl, Ms. Heidi Rikan, whose ring was allegedly delivered to the National Democratic Committee for Prostitutes. John Dean’s wife’s book Mo: A woman’s view of Watergate (1975) included a photo of Dean and his wife with Rican, which was later removed from the paperback version of the memoir.
As the author, Phil Stanford documents this in his book White House bell girl (2013), Dean’s name and private phone numbers appear in Rican’s little black book. Stanford provides a compelling case that Dean organized a Watergate intrusion to secure records of these connections. In fact, Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez was arrested with a key from a desk drawer that contained a portfolio of photos of available call girls.
As for the identity of the “deep throat”, which was probably the source of many reasons The Washington Post’s reporting? In fact, “deep throat” was never mentioned in any of Woodward and Bernstein’s reports on Watergate. The title appears as a noise only with the publication of their book All the men of the president (1974).
Woodward and Bernstein later claimed that former FBI deputy director Mark Felt was deep in his throat. Although this is again widely accepted as a fact, it is questionable whether it is true. In 2019, USA Today reporter Ray Locker published his book Heig’s coup. Locker is convincing that Alexander Heig, a former deputy to Kissinger and later chief of staff at Nixon White House, is likely to be a source for Woodward and Bernstein.
The basis for Locker’s assertion is the undeniable fact that Heig learned in advance that Alexander Whitefield, an assistant to the White House, was aware of the White House’s taping system and testified before the Senate Watergate Committee. However, Heig never informed Nixon who, if he had learned of this impending disclosure, could have legitimately defended the executive’s right to block the testimony. Heig also failed to reveal an 18-and-a-half-minute break for Nixon in at least one crucial White House record. Detection and apparent erasure of the gluing system would be the nails of Nixon’s imitation coffin.
President Nixon had no prior knowledge of the intrusion. So Dean protected himself when he arranged for hiding. Heig, the head of his own White House headquarters, never briefed the president on the events of the Watergate saga, a turning point in which Nixon was able to prevent both his impeachment and his final resignation. In other words, everything you thought you knew about Watergate is wrong.