30-08-2009, 09:33 AM
Paul Rigby Wrote:Stripped of the task of protecting the president, the Secret Service would have lost budget, and, every bit as importantly, face and clout, not, you understand, with the mere politicians they guarded, or the public they purported to serve also, but with real power: and real power would have lost what was arguably its most important institutional cloak, under which cover Nixon was assisted to destruction, Reagan nearly eliminated, and the anti-Clinton campaign furthered.
On the eve of Dallas, the Secret Service, like the CIA, was fighting to preserve its real raison d’etre.
Not for the first time, Tricky goes to the heart of the matter:
http://www.jfklancerforum.com/dc/dcboard...ype=search
Post from the consistently excellent Gerald Ven on the JFK Lancer site:
Quote:One reason to extend Kennedy's protection was that the White House was could assign a Secret Service agent who would report on Kennedy's activities.
Nixon: . . . Then after the election, he doesn't get a Goddamn thing.
If he gets shot, it's too damn bad.
Do it under the basis, though, that we pick the Secret Service men.
Not that son of a bitch Rowley.
Understand what I'm talking about?
Do you have any body in the Secret Service that you can get to?
Do you have anybody that we can rely on?
Ehrlichman: Yeah. Yeah. We've got several.
Nixon: Plant one. Plant two guys on him. This could be very useful.
Source: http://www.nixontapes.org/emk.htm