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It just so happened that when the watergate scandal was in full bloom the Yom Kippur War started in the middle east. So what Nixon could have done is this: told the american media to lay off or he would restrict supplies going to Israel which would have put in Israel in a very dangerous predicament. Israel may have gone under without our help. Nixon could have ordered the navy to interdict all supplies going to Israel. You shound't be wondering what the connection to Israel and the american media is because jews control the american media(please don't accuse me of anti semitism over a truthful statement). Also the main characters behind the watergate uncovering were jews. So Nixon had a trump card and why didn't he play it. Of course Nixon was a coward as many of us know now.
All he really had to do was expose Dean and the burglary.He was never impeached for anything other than coverig it up.
It would not have been possible to throw Dean to the wolves without Dean then testifying against Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchel, Magruder, LaRue and Colson. Exposed would be the earlier illegal Plumbers operation against Daniel Ellsberg. On the tapes, when the Ellsberg's psychiatrist's break in is mentioned by Haldeman, Nixon responds "That was Colson's operation, wasn't it?" demonstrating knowledge of a crime by one of his White House staffers.
Nixon might have escaped by destroying the tapes, but then he would have been risking impeachment for destroying evidence being sought in a criminal investigation.
There was never any one thing Nixon could have done which would have made all his problems go away.
It just so happened that when the watergate scandal was in full bloom the Yom Kippur War started in the middle east. So what Nixon could have done is this: told the american media to lay off or he would restrict supplies going to Israel which would have put in Israel in a very dangerous predicament. Israel may have gone under without our help. Nixon could have ordered the navy to interdict all supplies going to Israel. You shound't be wondering what the connection to Israel and the american media is because jews control the american media(please don't accuse me of anti semitism over a truthful statement). Also the main characters behind the watergate uncovering were jews. So Nixon had a trump card and why didn't he play it. Of course Nixon was a coward as many of us know now.
Well, the Yom kippur War was in October of 1973, and by then Watergate was into the later stages of the saturday night massacre and battle for the tapes. By then it was much too late for Nixon to turn things around, even if he had influence over the media at that point. He had plenty of time to act before Butterfield revealed at the senate hearings that there was a taping system. Had he destroyed the tapes before special prosecutor Archie Cox issued a sopena for them, that would have saved his presidentcy. He would have looked quilty, but at that point, it was Dean's word against Nixon's, with no concrete proof that could have forced Nixon from office.
The only other way Nixon could have preserved his presidentcy after the break in, was to yield to any and all demands by Howard Hunt and ALL of the break in team that was going to prison, especially James Mccord, the guy who told the judge about the others such as Dean, that were not identified. I think a couple payments of 75 K were paid to the burglers to be split up among 5 or 6 guys, I'm sure that wasn't enough to keep them quiet, and I think Mccord also wanted Nixon to leave Helms and the CIA off the hook for the blame, and Nixon refused his request and fired Helms. The break in team were mostly ex-CIA guys and did not like Nixon laying it off on the CIA.
With your statement of Nixon being a coward, I strongly disagree. He had a lot of fight in him, no matter what battle he was engaged in.
Another problem for Nixon is that he wasn't a very popular or charismatic president. Reagan or Clinton could have found a way out, Nixon was destined to go down!
as I recall he did have fight in him and in foreign policy at least took amazing steps and did long term good things
only Nixon could have gone to China as they say
Yes, but the reason that only Nixon could go to China was that if any of the more liberal presidents had attempted such a thing, Nixon would have been on the sidelines going into his full attack dog mode and telling everyone in the nation that this act represented a treasonous sellout of everything sacred to Americans. Nixon could go because he didn't have the problem of the opposition using the trip to tar him as a commie lover.
This dynamic works both ways, as readily as we say "Only Nixon could go to China" we could also be saying "Only Clinton could have reformed welfare." Had a GOP administration tried to do it, then it would have been the left tarring them as heartless, aristocratic greedheads.
The answer is simple: He should have a confessed his culpability to the American people. That would have been the end of it as we are a forgiving people.
Edit: Well...let me re-phrase that. We WERE a forgiving people. I'm not so sure today.
The answer is simple: He should have a confessed his culpability to the American people. That would have been the end of it as we are a forgiving people.
Edit: Well...let me re-phrase that. We WERE a forgiving people. I'm not so sure today.
I agree a sincere appology and a full house cleaning (helped by the fact he was surrounded by people willing to fall on their swords for Dick Nixon) might have converted the Watergate Investigation into a partisan witch hunt and given Nixon a conviction proof majority of 35 loyalist senators in the US Senate. Nixon would have had his political valedictory called the US Bicenntenial (What a marvelous speech he would have given on Liberty Island with the Tall Ships in the background with the Twin Towers just finished) and on New Years Day 1977 Dick Nixon would have given his Get out of Jail cards to the loyal staffers who helped bury the scandal by doing the honorable thing --falling on their swords.
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