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In chessy news… well… not so much chess, but, yes, chess….
Some of you readers will remember like yesterday the events that culminated in the resignation of Pres. Nixon, 50 years ago on 8 August. You probably remember the speech the night before and the famous walk to the helicopter.
A friend clued me in on a riveting interview done by Tucker Carlson with Geoff Shepherd, who was a staffer in the Nixon administration. Shepherd produced three books about the deep state coup that brought Nixon to resign 50 years ago this week, one “concentrating on the Kennedy people and how they orchestrated this, one is concentrating on the Leon Jaworski’s internal files that describe all these secret meetings, and one centers on the road map and the fact that the Congress was lied to.” The interview is two hours and it is utterly fascinating. Set aside what you thought you new about Watergate.
Shepherd lays out the story of the dem machine coup that brought down Nixon, but along the way he also makes an analogy:
Let me let me read you the definition of Greek tragedy Poetics Aristotle’s book. He defines the ideal tragic hero as a man who’s highly renowned and prosperous but not one who is preeminently virtuous and just whose misfortune is brought upon him not by vice or depravity but by some error of judgment or frailty … and that’s Nixon. And then there’s the interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy which envisions a setting in which a moral order reacts violently and convulsively against certain infractions from this reaction comes the calamity which befalls the hero, frequently way out of proportion to the infraction itself. And within this calamity there is a dominating impression of waste. Now you could say that that’s Watergate too.
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That interview sounds like it would be interesting to read.
Political opportunism, etc… is practically a given, especially discussing that era, but it would take some exceptional writing to advance any notion of a “deep state coup” and dispel Nixon’s foremost and majority responsibility for his own plight.
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Ambition, bad judgment, paranoia, isolation, and sometimes Kissinger (but that’s redundant) were a bad mix.
Charivari: Stop. Just stop. Listen to it and get back.
Is that an icon on his bookshelf? I like the cut of his jib!
Nixon was one of my favorite Presidents. Even though my state Massachusetts was the only state that he didn’t take in his second term. That says alot. Thank you Ted Kennedy.
For years I listen to G. Gordan Liddy. RIP, He was the only one who refused to sing or as they say compose against Richard Milhouse Nixon. Liddy, a devout Catholic, Youngest ever FBI Bureau Chief and the only one who went to Federal prison over Watergate. The FBI hated Nixon, the Demonrats hated that he won 50 states his first election and 49 the second. Nixon didn’t play ball with the uniparty.
When Nixon lost to JFK, his people had clear evidence that Chicago and Mayor Daley had stuffed the ballot box. (see Joe Kennedy /Mayor Daley/ mob connections) They wanted Nixon to contest the election, he said NO, it wouldn’t be good for the country, there will be other elections. He was an honorable man.
I have that Tucker interview on my playlist.
Meanwhile, I am shocked — SHOCKED! — at the suggestion that things are often not what they’re made out to be. Certainly the last 4 or 5 years have not borne that out.
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OK, I have now listened to all but about the last half hour of that Watergate interview, and I can’t recommend it enough. This is MUST-listening. The times continue to be apocalyptic, in the sense of lifting the veil.