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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (110943)	12/11/2000 4:35:10 PM
From: swisstrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Perhaps this will refresh your memory (from the Enyclopedia America)...while Nixon did not destroy the tapes, he sure as heck tried his level best to keep from prosecutors...as an aside, I completely forgot about that bit about him owing some $300K in back taxes to the IRS, which was just a further slam: "In 1971 the publication of the Pentagon Papers (see above) provoked ill-advised actions by the president. Daniel Ellsberg, who acknowledged giving copies of the "papers" to newspapers, was indicted for espionage. Nixon created an investigation unit--the "plumbers." Agents of the unit broke into the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist to get information that could be used to discredit Ellsberg before his trial. In 1973 Nixon and presidential aide John Ehrlichman met with Judge W. Matthew Byrne, Jr., who was then presiding at the Ellsberg trial. They knew, but did not tell Byrne, that a break-in had occurred at the psychiatrist's office and later denied any attempt to influence the trial. When the break-in was revealed to the court, Byrne dismissed the charges against Ellsberg. Gradually, White House efforts aimed at opponents of the war blended into the campaign for Nixon's reelection. The "plumbers" were involved in the wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the WATERGATE complex in Washington, D.C. Agents employed by officials of the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP) were arrested at the Watergate on June 17, 1972. This event, occurring four months before the election, prompted Nixon and his leading aides to cover up White House and CRP involvement in Watergate. On June 23, Nixon approved a plan to thwart an inquiry by the FBI. The cover-up included promises of clemency and the payment of hush money to the men arrested at the Watergate. But the cover-up collapsed. Persons found guilty of illegal acts--some unrelated to Watergate--included Nixon's chief of staff, his chief domestic adviser, two attorneys general, three White House counsels, his personal attorney, his campaign finance chairman, his deputy campaign manager, and his appointments secretary. Nixon's last 16 months in office were punctuated by legal defeats and personal humiliations. After it was learned that he had taped conversations that later proved incriminating to himself and others, Nixon fought without success in the courts to keep the tapes from the prosecutors. During hearings conducted by a Senate committee investigating Watergate, Nixon was linked to the cover-up by his former counsel John Dean. Senator Howard Baker (Repub., Tenn.) repeatedly asked the question that worried the nation for the next year: "What did the president know and when did he know it?" Nixon's reputation was damaged in other ways. The tapes revealed that he wanted to get revenge on a number of "enemies." A House committee reported tht $17 million in public funds had been spent on his private estates. The Internal Revenue Service assessed Nixon nearly $300,000 in back taxes."