07-06-2014, 12:03 PM
Interesting, Scott; it sounds very plausible. Let me guess: if they had successfully killed Nixon, they would have set up some "pro-Castro" patsy to take the blame and make it look like Castro was responsible.
David, Nixon wasn't that right-wing at all. He was really irritating the right-wingers of his day (the Reagan-Bircher-Cold Warrior wing of the GOP) with his overtures to Red China and the USSR, cutting the military budget, withdrawing troops from Vietnam, nuclear arms treaty with Brezhnev, creating the EPA, OSHA, Clean Air Act, etc.
A shadowy coup from the Right to put Spiro Agnew in power is very believable. Agnew really was a right-winger, but of course he had to resign for other reasons.
David, Nixon wasn't that right-wing at all. He was really irritating the right-wingers of his day (the Reagan-Bircher-Cold Warrior wing of the GOP) with his overtures to Red China and the USSR, cutting the military budget, withdrawing troops from Vietnam, nuclear arms treaty with Brezhnev, creating the EPA, OSHA, Clean Air Act, etc.
A shadowy coup from the Right to put Spiro Agnew in power is very believable. Agnew really was a right-winger, but of course he had to resign for other reasons.