Analysis of Nixon's Presidency and Watergate

So if you wanna understand, if you really wanna understand how the

American

government actually works at the highest levels, and if you wanna know why they

don't teach history anymore,

one thing you should know is that the most popular president in

American history

was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon.

Yet somehow, without a single vote being cast by a

single American voter,

Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and replaced by the only unelected

president in American history. So we went from the most popular

president to a president nobody voted for.

"Wait a minute," you may ask. "Why didn't I know that?

Wasn't Richard Nixon a criminal? Wasn't he despised by all decent

people?"

No, he wasn't.

In fact, if any president could claim to be the

people's choice, it was Richard

Nixon. Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by the largest

margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since.

Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent.

Less than two years later, he was gone.

He was forced to resign, and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal

agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House. How did that happen?

Well, it's a long story, but here are the highlights,

and they tell you a lot.

Richard Nixon believed that elements in the federal bureaucracy

were working to

undermine the American system of government and had been doing

that for a long

time. He often said that. He was absolutely right.

On June 23rd, 1972, Nixon met with the then CIA Director

Richard Helms at the White House.

During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded,

Nixon suggested he

knew, quote, "Who shot John," meaning President John F.

Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly

involved in Kennedy's assassination, which we now know it was.

Helms' telling response? Total silence.

But for Nixon, it didn't matter because it

was already over.

Four days before, on June 19th, the Washington Post had published the

first of

many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building.

Unbeknownst to Nixon and unreported by the Washington Post,

four of the five burglars worked for the CIA.

The first of many dishonest Watergate stories was written by a 29-year-old Metro

reporter called Bob Woodward.

Who exactly was Bob Woodward?

Well, he wasn't a journalist. Bob Woodward had no background whatsoever

in

the news business. Instead, Bob Woodward came directly from the

classified areas of the federal government.

Shortly before Watergate, Woodward was a naval officer at the Pentagon.

He had a top-secret clearance. He worked regularly with the intel

agencies.

At times, Woodward was even detailed to the Nixon White

House, where he interacted

with Richard Nixon's top aides. Soon after leaving the Navy, for

reasons that have never been clear, Woodward was hired by the most powerful

news outlet in Washington and assigned the biggest story in the

country.

And just to make it crystal clear what was actually happening, Woodward's main

source for his Watergate series was the deputy director of the

FBI, Mark Felt. And Mark Felt ran, and we're not making this up,

the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which was designed to secretly

discredit political actors the federal agencies wanted to destroy,

people like Richard Nixon.

And at the same time, those same agencies

were also working to take down Nixon's

elected vice president, Spiro Agnew.

In the fall of 1973, Agnew was indicted for tax evasion and forced to

resign. His replacement was a colorless congressman from Grand

Rapids

called Gerald Ford.

What was Ford's qualification for the job?

Well, he had served on the Warren Commission,

which absolved the CIA of

responsibility for President Kennedy's murder.

Nixon was strong-armed into accepting Gerald Ford by Democrats in Congress.

Quote, "We gave Nixon no choice but Ford," Speaker of the House

Carl Albert later boasted. Eight months later,

Gerald Ford of the Warren

Commission was the President of the United States.

See how that works?

So those are the facts, not speculation. All of that actually happened.

None of it's secret. Most of it actually is on Wikipedia.

But no mainstream news organization has ever told that story.

It's so obvious, yet it's intentionally ignored.

And as a result, permanent Washington remains in charge of

our

political system. Unelected lifers in the federal agencies

make

the biggest decisions in American government and crush anyone who

tries to rein them in. And in the process, our democracy becomes a

joke.

Now, you may have noticed that the very first person in the Trump

administration the agencies went after was General Michael Flynn.

Why Flynn?

Because Mike Flynn was a career Army intel officer who ran

the

Defense Intelligence Agency. In other words, Mike Flynn knew exactly

how the system worked, and as a result, he was capable of fighting back.

Four days after Donald Trump's inauguration, the FBI lured Mike

Flynn into a meeting without his lawyer, concocted a series of fake

crimes, and forced him to resign.

So that's how things actually work in Washington.

Let's stop lying about it. Joe Biden, meanwhile, whooped like a hyena when the

Justice Department destroyed Mike Flynn.

So there is, we have to say, a certain perverse justice in watching

something very

similar happen to Joe Biden himself six years later.

Joe Biden does not deserve our sympathy.

He's being shafted, but don't weep for him.

And yet the rest of us do deserve a better system, an

actual democracy. When people nobody voted for run

everything, you are not living in-