Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

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On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign from office. From 1971 to 1973, he had secretly recorded his private conversations, purportedly for the purpose of historical record, but in the wake of the Watergate scandal the revelation of the tapes led to his downfall.Fearing that the blunt and candid remarks on the tapes would sully the presidency forever, Nixon sought to prevent their public release for the rest of his life after leavi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words:

Richard Nixon
David Brinkley
Pat Buchanan
Stephen Bull
Alexander Butterfield
John Chancellor

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On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign from office. From 1971 to 1973, he had secretly recorded his private conversations, purportedly for the purpose of historical record, but in the wake of the Watergate scandal the revelation of the tapes led to his downfall.Fearing that the blunt and candid remarks on the tapes would sully the presidency forever, Nixon sought to prevent their public release for the rest of his life after leaving office. However, after his death in 1994, the government began releasing the 3,700 hours of recordings. The final tapes were made public on Aug. 20, 2013.In 1982, John Ehrlichman, Nixons former chief domestic advisor, voiced concern about the Nixon tapes, noting, The problem is that historians are going to grab an hour of tapeand if you listen to a snippet of tape, youre going to form an impression of this man thats going to be wrong. Sometime, hopefully, there will be a committee of historians who will listen to all the tapes and go into all the archives and then come out and say Richard Nixon was the strangest collection, the strangest paradoxical combination of any man I ever heard of. And theyll be right.Only Chief of Staff H.R. Bob Haldeman, Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfield and Special Assistant Stephen Bull knew of the recordings. Those who did not know included John Ehrlichman, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Deputy National Security Advisor Andrew Haig, Attorney General John Mitchell and Secretary of State William Rogers, among others. It was voice activated everything was taped which was probably stupid, Nixon conceded in 1983.The declassified tapes revealed the Presidents opinions on a vast number of topics, including the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and other matters of state. Nixon derided anti-war protesters in private conversations with Henry Kissinger, saying, It really burns me up. We have no pride do we anymore, Henry? He had equally harsh words for young Vietnam vet John Kerry, calling him quite a phony. Years later, Nixon insisted that despite the anti-war sentiment in Congress and the media, That was not the voice of America. The voice of America was the silent majority.Nixons angry reaction to the New York Times publication of thousands of secret Pentagon documents detailing Americas involvement in Vietnam revealed his growing hatred of the press. This is treasonable action on the part of the bastards that put it out, he exclaimed to Henry Kissinger. Daniel Ellsberg of the Rand Corporation, who released the papers to the Times, became a target of his anti-Semitic outbursts. The Jews are, are born spies, he said, and asked Chief of Staff Haldeman to look at any sensitive areas around where Jews are involved.With two vacancies open on the Supreme Court and pressure mounting to nominate a woman, Nixon told the press his list of candidates included Mildred Lillie and Sylvia Bacon. But behind closed doors, he told John Mitchell, I would like to sorta get them off the woman kick if we can. Years later, Nixon called the appointment of the Supreme Court justices the most important achievement domestically of his presidency. Internationally, Nixon described his historic trip to China in 1972 as a watershed moment, and cited his trip to Moscow to negotiate an arms control agreement, as another major foreign policy achievement.The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy, Nixon can be heard telling Henry Kissinger. You must keep up the attack on the media. Youve got to keep destroying their credibility, he told Special Counsel Charles Colson. Whether calling them sons of bitches or bastards, Nixons distaste of reporters was only thinly veiled in interviews, and entirely open behind closed doors.After the Watergate break-in, Nixon discussed with Bob Haldeman bailing out the five men arrested saying, Well, they took a hell of a risk. And they have to be paid. Later, he told speechwriter Pat Buchanan, The Watergate thing well, thats going to pass. Thatll be over. Theyll indict a few people, and then the goddam things over.Despite Nixons reelection landslide victory and the achievement of what he called, peace with honor in Vietnam, Watergate did not pass. At the Senate Watergate hearing on July 16, 1973, former Deputy Assistant Alexander Butterfield revealed the secret electronic listening devices in the office of the president. Facing certain impeachment, Nixon subsequently resigned.

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User Review - 8/10 by Aaron MAlmost unbelievable some of the things that came out of Nixon's mouth knowing full well he was on audio tape....
User Review - 8/10 by Antonius BA fascinating window into a president in office when the country was bitterly divided, with largely coastal/urban intellectual liberals pitted against the salt of the earth, conservative 'silent majority'. The president was corrupt, attacked the free press, committed crimes, and believed he was above the rule of law. He was paranoid, vindictive, and petty. He was a racist and misogynist. If all of that sounds depressingly similar to the current administration, you may be further depressed to reflect that in Nixon's case, he was also intelligent, and had a functioning administration around him, unlike Trump. But unfortunately for him, he quite foolishly decided to have a voice activated recording system set up in the Oval Office, and kept this information from everyone except a few. In an eerie similarity, and a wise bit of self-insight on his part, Nixon laments the following to Alexander Haig: "Now, who the hell has got the character in this country? Who's got it? Listen, I'll tell you it makes me ashamed of the people I come from. I'm from that group. Lawyers, business people, so-called superior educations. There is a snobbish elite. You know - you know why they hate my guts? Mainly it is this: I'm not one of them. And they know it." It's just interesting to hear that in light of today, as well as his hatred for The New York Times and The Washington Post, that led to him trying to "screw them", by boxing them out of events at every opportunity. The tapes were released in their entirety in 2013, and I had read about most of what is presented in this 71 minute documentary, but there is such evil here, that it still had the power to shock me. In putting the quotes beside what he was saying publically at the time, we certainly see his hypocrisy. It's hard to know where to begin in all of these conversations, which are candid to the point of making one cringe. I include an extensive set of quotes at the end of this review for you to peruse, if interested. In some of the more truly frightening moments, Nixon abused his power to go after his critics, using both the FBI and the IRS. He shows a depraved indifference to the suffering of Vietnamese civilians, and also to American soldiers still fighting and dying over there while he and Kissinger strategized on how best to extend the war beyond the 1972 election, not because they thought they could win, but because they knew the South would collapse immediately after the Americans withdrew, and it would look bad. Having campaigned in 1968 to end this disastrous war, he was wrong about his condition to do so "with honor", and even more so because of this election positioning, which was hardly the act of honorable man. Perhaps the following bit of the documentary captures best what kind of a man he was. When Senator Ted Kennedy was getting death threats and requested Secret Service protection, Nixon openly ponders not protecting him after the election, so that then "if he gets shot it's just too damn bad," but then hatches the idea to plant a couple of spies on Kennedy via the agents, hoping "we just might get lucky and catch this son of a bitch and ruin him for '76." Think about that. "If he gets shot it's just too damn bad." The documentary does a good job at putting all this in context, and for trying to include aspects of his family life, though they feel a bit forced. More importantly, it shows the positives of his visit to Beijing, which ended 25 years without communication with China, and it allows him to defend himself, via an interview conducted in 1983. There he's allowed to make his points, including that had China been swayed into a Communist alliance with the Soviet Union, the geopolitical balance of power may have dangerously tilted. Whether you agree with that or not, it tries to be balanced, though I have to say, there is only so much lipstick you can put on this pig. It should also be pointed out that seeing this interview today, after the tapes were released, we find that he was still lying about what he did and said as president. I felt the film could have been longer, to flesh out his presidency, the turmoil of the times, and still more that was on the tapes. One thing we don't find in the documentary, for example, is his suggestion to Kissinger that the nuclear option be seriously looked into, which even Kissinger balked at "That, I think, would just be too much," he replied, while thinking god knows what. We don't see other aspects of attacks on his enemies, such as trying to get John Lennon deported, or a wide variety of schemes against the Democratic Party. We don't hear about his illegal bombing of Cambodia, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. We don't hear him muse about how much nicer it would be to be a dictator: "In the short run, it would be so much easier, wouldn't it, to run this war in a dictatorial way, kill all the reporters and carry on the war." The documentary's main focus is 1971-73, but it does we briefly see his upbringing, and a flashback to his infamous glowering during the 1960 debates for the presidential election. It could have been broadened to touch on his 1968 campaign's essentially treasonous interference with peace talks; he didn't just manipulate the peace talks for political purposes in 1972, but he also did so in 1968 before he was even president, and both times, all while people were dying. We also don't see events earlier in his political life, notably, his role in the McCarthy era as a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. With all of this said, we do see enough to be horrified by him, and of course it's hard not to think of the country's current president. History will judge, and in this case, it has. This is a good introduction to just how awful Nixon was as president, and as a human being. Some excerpts: On the intelligentsia, and free press, to Henry Kissinger: "Never forget, the establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it." And this one, on his administration retaliating against a reporter, Dan Schorr. Nixon: "You take a fellow like this Dan Schorr, he's - I notice - he is always screaming at something, isn't he?" Haldeman: "He incidentally is on - you don't, shouldn't get involved in this, but he's on our tax list." Nixon: "Good. Good." Haldeman: "They're going after a couple of media people. And they just want to harass them. Just give them a little trouble." Nixon: "Exactly. Pound these people." Haldeman: "Just give them something to worry about." Nixon: "It's 'routine.'" On Jews, after Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the government had been lying to its citizens about the War, and that all military experts believed the war was not winnable, yet it was continued anyway: Nixon: "I want a look at any sensitive areas around where Jews are involved, Bob. See, the Jews are all through the government. And we have got to get in those areas. We've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish to control the Jewish, do you understand?" Haldeman: "I sure do." Nixon: "The government is full of Jews. Second, most Jews are disloyal. Generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on you." On the law, to Haldeman; so much for his duty to uphold it. Ponder that line, "I don't give a shit about the law": "We're going up against an enemy, a conspiracy. They're using any means. We are going to use any means. Is that clear? I don't give a shit about the law. I really need a son of a bitch who will work his butt off and do it dishonorably." And this, discussing a file on former president Johnson's handling of the war that they believed could be politically useful, and was held in a safe at the Brookings Institution: Nixon: "I want the Brookings Institute safe cleaned out. Get it done. I want it done. I want it implemented on a thievery basis. Goddammit, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it." On LGBTQ, and world history, to Haldeman. So much to unpack here. "Homosexuality, dope, immorality in general. These are the enemies of strong societies. Goddammit, we have to stand up to these people. I do not mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, the point I want to make is that goddammit, I do not think you glorify the homosexuality. Any more than you glorify whores. Now we all know we have weaknesses and so forth and so on. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo; we all know that, so was Socrates. You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. You know what happened to the Popes? The popes were laying the nuns. That's been going on for years, centuries. But when the Popes - when the Catholic Church went to hell, it was homosexual. And finally had to be cleaned out. On Mexican and African-Americans: Ehrlichman: "The Mexican-American is not as good as the Mexican." Nixon: "Ohh." Ehrlichman: "If you go down into real Mexico and they're clean and they're honest, they're moral. They've got a heritage." Nixon: "Moral. They've got the heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, they do a lot of other things but they do have, they do have some concept - concept of family life at least. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like. We're gonna put more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at twenty four hundred dollars a family. But I don't believe in this to begin with, if you know what I mean. It's work. Work. Throw 'em off the rolls. That's the whole key. I have the greatest affection for them. But I know they ain't gonna make it for 500 years. They aren't."

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