Nixon's Watergate investigation testimony made public

[Political Junky]

BBC News - Nixon's Watergate investigation testimony made public

The US National Archives has released the grand jury testimony of former President Richard Nixon, made after the Watergate scandal forced him to resign.

Jurors asked about almost 19 missing minutes of a key conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff.

The former president swore it was an accident that tapes had been erased, saying "I practically blew my stack."

The secret testimony was given in June 1975 and released by order of a US judge following a historian's request.

Stanley Kutler of the University of Wisconsin has written a number of books about Nixon.

Speaking to the jurors near his home in California, the former president offered no clues as to what might have been discussed during the 18 minute 30 second gap in recordings.


Nixon's testimony was given under oath and contributed to a number of ongoing investigations into the Watergate scandal.

The grand jury was collecting evidence to determine whether to issue criminal charges relating to the Watergate case.
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[francoHFW]

Whatever happened to the earlier mention today of Tricky's enemies' list memo to the IRS, for harassment of hundreds? Nothing like all his subverting of the constitution...

 

[Listening]

Whatever happened to the earlier mention today of Tricky's enemies' list memo to the IRS, for harassment of hundreds? Nothing like all his subverting of the constitution...

Did you miss your last electroshock therapy treatment ?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Nixon's testimony was given under oath and contributed to a number of ongoing investigations into the Watergate scandal.

Not that it mattered to Nixon.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

That was Buchanan's list. Nothing was done with it.

Now the Democrats do like to maintain and keep this list current. And the IRS folks who do the audits on Democrat enemies very busy

 

[waltky]

Mebbe dis the real reason he resigned...

‘Nixon had gay affair with mafia fixer’
Dec 30, 2011, WASHINGTON: Remembered as America's shiftiest and darkest president, Richard Nixon had a serious drink problem, he beat his wife and may have been gay, according to a new book by a former White House correspondent.

The book titled 'Nixon's Darkest Secrets' , a biography by veteran journalist Don Fulsom , suggests that Nixon was an alcoholic who beat his wife and had links to the Mafia, including with New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then America's most powerful mobster.

The book claims that homophobic Nixon, who lied to his country about his involvement in the Watergate scandal and went down in history as America's shiftiest and darkest president, may have been gay himself. "If true, it would provide a fascinating insight into the motivation and behaviour of a notoriously secretive politician," the Daily Mail said.

Nixon was the 37th president of the US, serving from 1969 to 1974, and had to resign due to the Watergate scandal. "Fulsom argues that Nixon may have had an affair with his best friend and confidant, a Mafia-connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles 'Bebe' Rebozo who was even more crooked than Nixon ," the paper said.

Bebe Rebozo was a short, swarthy, good-looking Cuban-American businessman with a history of failed relationships with women and close alliances with Miami's Mafia chiefs. Fulsom used recently revealed documents and eyewitness interviews - including with FBI agents - to shed new light on long-standing suspicions among White House insiders that Nixon may have been more than just good buddies with Rebozo. "He claims Nixon's relationship with Pat, his wife of 53 years, was little more than a sham. A heavy drinker whom his own staff dubbed 'Our Drunk' , Nixon used to call his First Lady a 'f*** ing bitch' and beat her before, during and after his presidency," the Daily Mail quoted Fulsom as saying.

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