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Scott Kaiser Wrote:Quote:"It was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated." 2 The new President soon created a "dirty tricks" department to harass political opponents that included CIA veterans E. Howard Hunt, Frank Fiorini Sturgis, Bernard Barker, James McCord, G. Gordon Liddy, and many anti-Castro Cubans from Miami. Their job was to create situations and fabricate documents to embarrass and humiliate those who opposed Nixon and his policies.
This is NOT what Watergate was about.
I agree. And this part:
After taking office Nixon discussed the Warren Report with aides H.R. Haldeman and
Charles Colson and said, "It was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated."
That's one of those factoids that gets repeated quite a bit. If you read the whole context of what Nixon was saying, he was complaining about how Earl Warren tried to blame the right-wingers for creating a climate of hate that led to JFK's assassination.
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Tracy Riddle Wrote:Scott Kaiser Wrote:Quote:"It was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated." 2 The new President soon created a "dirty tricks" department to harass political opponents that included CIA veterans E. Howard Hunt, Frank Fiorini Sturgis, Bernard Barker, James McCord, G. Gordon Liddy, and many anti-Castro Cubans from Miami. Their job was to create situations and fabricate documents to embarrass and humiliate those who opposed Nixon and his policies.
This is NOT what Watergate was about.
I agree. And this part:
After taking office Nixon discussed the Warren Report with aides H.R. Haldeman and
Charles Colson and said, "It was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated."
That's one of those factoids that gets repeated quite a bit. If you read the whole context of what Nixon was saying, he was complaining about how Earl Warren tried to blame the right-wingers for creating a climate of hate that led to JFK's assassination.
I can't confirm that, I was hesitant as to whether I should or shouldn't disagree with that statement, I don't know if Colson said that or not, but say he did, he's wrong, and this is NOT what Watergate was about.
