Another window opens on Nixon presidency (tapes,documents to be released)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Another window opens on Nixon presidency
3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Another window is opening on Richard Nixon's presidency with the release of hundreds of tape recordings and thousands of documents from that time.

The latest materials from the Nixon Presidential Library, to be released Tuesday, will offer a glimpse into fateful days of the Watergate scandal as well as the waning days of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Nixon's Cold War diplomacy, the U.S. cease-fire with Hanoi and the administration's reaction to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion are included in the release.

The tapes, to be put online, are from January and February 1973. That period covers the conviction of burglars whose break-in at Democratic headquarters precipitated the cover-up that eventually unraveled Nixon's presidency.

Altogether, about 154 hours of tape recordings from the Nixon White House are being revealed, as are 30,000 documents. More than 2,200 hours of taped conversations have come out since the first release in 1980.



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[leveymg]

1. Who makes the decision to release these things 36 year later?

And, are there still more stashed away in some vault? :wtf:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. I think they just wait until all who are possibly culpable are dead.

Unless they've already had their wrist slapped (see: Liddy, et al).

[leveymg]

5. How terribly considerate. "Membership has its privileges"

The Gold Card of military intelligence service. You've gotta know that the entire upper reaches of spookdom has these, but in Platinum:

[Vidar]

6. Probably nothing on Kissinger in those tapes. I agree with you.

[Soylent Brice]

2. can't wait to find out how much more he plotted against the American people

i know i'm excited.

[Capt. America]

4. I dont want to have to wait 40 years to find out what the criminal GWB actually did.

Prosecute now!

[Dr.Phool]

7. January 1973

I wonder if they mention the several thousand dead lab rats we threw at him during his inaugural parade.

Yippee!

[sabra]

8. Window opens on fateful days of Nixon presidency (aides hatched a "game plan" to try to save him)

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Watergate scandal grew into a full-bore crisis unraveling Richard Nixon's presidency, aides hatched a "game plan" to save him. The idea: Convince lawmakers that the Watergate prosecutor was a zealot holding a "pistol to the head" of the president.

It didn't work.

Memos and tape recordings released Tuesday by the Nixon Presidential Library shed light on fateful moments of Nixon's second term, among them a peace deal with North Vietnam, sea changes in domestic and foreign policy and management of the Cold War.

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A nine-page handwritten note by Nixon domestic policy adviser Kenneth Cole reflects on the unfolding "Saturday night massacre," when Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and lost the two top Justice Department officials in October 1973, bringing the nation to the brink of constitutional crisis.

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Under the headline Game Plan, Cole laid out a strategy for the beleaguered Republican president to reach out to conservative Southern Democrats as well as supportive GOP lawmakers to try to dampen sentiment for impeachment.

They would be told Cox had a "pistol to the head of P — he was extorted."

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