Richard Nixon Tapes, Papers Exposed | 06/23/2009 8:55 am
Richard Nixon Tapes Made Public

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At long last, recordings from former President Richard Nixon’s time in office have been made public.
The Nixon Presidential Library has opened approximately 154 hours of White House conversations recorded in January and February of 1973. The tapes cover the Vietnam War, President Nixon’s second Inauguration, the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, energy policy, the reorganization of the executive branch, the creation of a "New Majority" for the Republican Party and the first Watergate trial, according to a statement released by the Nixon Library.
The Nixon Library has also scanned and posted formerly classified documents. The newly released pages include foreign and domestic-policy information from the Nixon administration.
The newly released recorded conversations will be available on the Web at nixonlibrary.gov. They can also be found at both the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA, and at the National Archives College Park, MD, facility.
Nixon was the first — and has been the only — president to resign from office. His resignation, on August 9, 1974, came as the Watergate scandal ensued. Tell us: What do you wish to discover with these documents and recordings?























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I was saddened by President Nixon’s resignation. I thought he was a strong leader for America.
I am posting a letter written to President Nixon…it expresses how I feel:
A Letter to President Richard Nixon Dear President Richard Nixon, Mr. President, your day has arrived. I have always said event’s make a President, on the other hand, you need that perfect person to handle the event’s.Take Abraham Lincoln for instance, he was the right man for the right time. President Lincoln actually became a dictator. Now Mr. President, you can ask me how to explain that. Our constitution stated that each state has the right to secede from the United States. Many people do not realize that was the main reason the Civil War was started. Lincoln played the role of dictator by not allowing the Southern States to secede from the nation when they had the constitutional right to do so. Can you imagine where our country would be today, broken up in different small nations, if we did not have someone of Lincoln’s resolve. Yes Mr. President, there was another era in our history, the year was 1968. You became our President. I campaigned for you door to door. I still have the letter you sent me as a thank you for my efforts. You also came along at the right time. Mr. President, many people have forgotten what was going on in our country in the year 1968. First of all there was the Vietnam war going on, a very unpopular war. You had to put up with riots in the streets, you had the Hippie generation, that did not respect anything that had to do with the flag; you had a Democratic controlled congress that did not want to put money out for a strong national defense; you had the Black Panther Revolutionary Group that was in defiance of our system of government. Mr. President you ended the Vietnam War with respect, it was the Democratic Congress after you resigned from office that cut off all funding for the war that allowed the Vietcong to go back in and take over. You opened the doors to China because you said you cannot ignore one billion people. You started the Environmental Agency, even though you mentioned in one of your books years later that "yes I created the Environmental Agency but not for the reason to destroy a whole industry just to save the owl". After the oil crisis of the early 1970’s you were telling the congress that you wanted the United States to become self reliant with our own resources in ten years, and I knew that if you stayed in the Presidency it would have happened. I know your judgment on the Watergate issue was wrong. I also know what led you to go down that path. Ever since your first election to Congress in the early 1940’s the liberal news media was not one of your favorite fans, because you did beat one of theirs. Then the sin of all sins is where you pointed the finger at Alger Hiss as being a communist spy in the Roosevelt and Truman Administration. In 1993 historian Maria Schmidt claimed she had found documents in secret files of the Hungarian Interior Ministry that mentioned Alger Hiss as a spy. The bulk of evidence points to Hiss’s guilt, beyond a reasonable doubt. Liberal’s for years were trying to disprove this guilt. So Mr. President when you found out about this Watergate breakin instead of coming out and stating what was found you covered it up thinking what the liberal press would have done to you and they would have. In 1974 there were 45 lawyer’s appointed to the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington DC, advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal, one of the 45 lawyer’s none other then Hillary Rodham. Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Door and senior member Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.The committee’s work culminated in the resignation of yourself in August 1974. Mr. President, one cannot fault one of 45 lawyer’s in a impeachment assignment, but what one can fault Mr. President. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has done bad criminal deeds through the years that makes yours look like just a misdeed. The new timid special prosecutor allowed her to get off because the country was already going through hell with the impeachment of her husband President Clinton. Mr. President this is what she has gotten away with.Yes Deber….when it is all said and done, Nixon will be seen as the Patriot and strong leader that he was…human faults and all.
Watergate…big freakin deal…try the dead bodies along the power trail of the Clintons. ACORN makes Watergate look like childs play.
ACORN and the voter fraud, the billions of dollars, the citizens used for Obama’s political and illegal activities…it will come out. Some one will live long enough to connect the dots and bring Obama’s personal money machine to justice.
I am glad that the Nixon tapes are public now.
I took my children out to Yorba Linda, CA to see his library. I remember we were out there right after Pat Nixon died.
Kelly, I have to totally agree with you that ACORN and the voter fraud does make Watergate look like miniscule in comparison. I believe the political crooks have just gotten smarter.
Information that has been surpressed with our current administration will eventually come out. It always does.
Deber, the one thing that really stand out to me…is how Obama has used and discarded the poor that believed in ACORN. Dirty politics is nothing new…but how Obama encouraged those people to believe that they were making a difference, and then for him to steal the money, steal the votes and throw them under the bus…it’s more than criminal.
It’s heartbreaking. He has taken the "disinfranchised" and abused them for his own gain. He has exploited many Afrcian Americans and many of them are speaking out. They are wanting for someone to listen. They had all the best intentions and were used.
Obama has no respect for his race or country…but that is assuming that he considers himself black…and an America. Not an assumption that can now be taken for granted. After all…his past tells us otherwise.
Watergate was business as usual in Washington. Nothing more.
Well DeBurca…what Barry Sotero is doing to this country is directly tied to his mental illness of narcissism. Why don’t you do something great here and use your passion and intellect to chech into ACORN and thier fraud?
You may win some type of journalism award…or end up "sleeping with the fishes" so to speak…as "the powers that be", wish no investigation into ACORN.
Barry is a fraud and a cheat…just Thurs. night the Dems put 300 extra pages onto the 1,200 for cap and trade. They put them up at 3:00 AM. Yep…3:00AM that gave only 3 hours for debate for over 1,200 pages…
A Cheater, liar a fraud…Barry Sotero.
I can’t believe my eyes! you actually said: "So Mr. President when you found out about this Watergate breakin instead of coming out and stating what was found you covered it up…" You have been living in a fog sir. The overwhelming evidence points to the fact that the monster ORDERED the whole fiasco. Also it is very intersting that you claim that Nixon left Vietnam with respect!!!! Well, after commiting a genocide that left 7 mil vietnamese and cambodians, and 56,000 americans dead, he still lost the war. I can hardly call that respect. Roman’s ysed to insist on their emperors to be from the blood of the gods, in other words, from the same dynasty. Well, this dynasty produced monsters such as Caligula and Nero. The same way in our country, the dynasty founded by Eisenhower spooks (Allen Dulles, R. Nixon, Prescott Bush, George Bush, J. Edgar Hoover) has been envolved with Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and Iran-Contra affair to name a few and has produced crooks like Nixon, wimps like J. Ford, senile like Reagan and retards like J. W. Bush. If you think difficult time require dictators, well, we are going thru the worst recession thanks to the retard right now. So, let’s bring the tricky Dick back and bypass the congress and turn the whole world into a 1984 novel.