20-01-2011, 05:50 PM
Yes. And Madeleine told me that he (Nixon) had been driven out to the home of Clint Murchison the night before the assassination by a local Republican leader, who worked in the same building where Madeleine was a young advertising executive. Others who were present included J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, H.L. Hunt, George Brown (of Brown & Root), and John J. McCloy, whom Lyndon would later appoint as a member of The Warren Commission. LBJ showed up late in the evening and these heavy-hitters disappeared into a board room. After 15-20 minutes, the meeting broke up and Lyndon strode over to her. She expected him to whisper sweet-nothings in her ear, but instead he told her, in a hateful tone of voice, that after tomorrow he wasn't going to have to put up with embarrassment from those goddamn Kennedy boys any longer. Six weeks later, during a rendezvous at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, on New Years' Eve, when she confronted him with rumors, rampant in Dallas at the time, that he had been involved, since no one stood to gain more personally from the assassination, he blew up at her and told her that the oil boys and the CIA had decided that JFK had to be taken out. I mention this, not because the story may not be familiar, but because I heard it from Madeleine herself. The final segment of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", Part 9, "The Guilty Men", was devoted to this matter and included corroborating testimony from the chauffeur who drove Edgar to the meeting and others who were present at the time. It is therefore unsurprising in the extreme that this segment has been suppressed (along with "The Smoking Guns" and also "The Love Affair").
Albert Doyle Wrote:So one can imagine if Nixon had heard of a plot to kill Kennedy or knew of one afterwards that there would be no love lost nor would Nixon be compelled to rush forward and report it. And that's without considering even worse possibilities.