30-04-2014, 01:40 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:Drew Phipps Wrote:It is my undertanding that Nixon believed that the party leader (name?) of the Democrats possessed some blackmail material that had been passed to them by someone connected to the JFK investigation. Daniel Ellsberg was somehow involved, or his release of the Pentagon Papers had Nixon spooked. (Sorry for the pun) I don't remember all the specific names and whatnot, but it should be easy enough to google.
Drew: Watergate was a CIA takedown of Nixon. (That is the very short answer). As to why there has been a lot of speculation. It definitely had to do with the JFK assassination. He kept referring to "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" (When I have more time I will get the longer quote). Years later his top aid ( Bob Haldeman ) wrote in The Ends of Power- (not positive of the title, I think this is it. ) that he used this phrase to refer to the JFK assassination. I suspect he was trying to blackmail the CIA and FBI.
Dawn
Drew (etc). I bumped a thread in Historical Events on Watergate.
Dawn