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Keywords For Richard Nixon: Bigotry, Stupidity
BACKGROUND:
As
a member of the Orwellian House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
Nixon became a leading anti-Communist crusader. It was on HUAC that he
first attracted national attention when he led the suit that resulted in
the conviction of Alger Hiss, a former State Department official charged
with Communist connections; Hiss was finally convicted for perjury.
During his last election
campaign, what first appeared as a minor burglary was to become the beginning
of the end of Nixon's political career. A break-in at Democratic national
headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate apartment complex was linked
to Republicans. During the trial of six men charged in the crime, the existence
of the cover-up began to emerge, taking government officials down like
dominos in its path. Nixon elicited the resignation of two top aides in
April 1973 in an effort to stem the tide. But in October, as the Watergate
investigation continued, he lost his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, who
resigned before pleading (no contest) in federal charges of income tax
evasion, related to accusations of accepting bribes. Nixon's efforts to
avoid the taint of those scandals were fruitless when subpoenaed tapes
he was ordered to give up by the U.S. Supreme Court showed he obstructed
justice in stopping an FBI probe of the Watergate burglary. On August 9,
1974, in national disgrace, he became the first President of the United
States to resign. He boarded a plane with his wife and returned to his
California home, ending his public career. A month later, in a controversial
move, President Gerald Ford issued an unconditional pardon for any offenses
Nixon might have committed while president.
NICKNAMES:
Tricky Dick
AMMO
(Bigotry, Stupidity)
FACT:
After the latest set of Nixon tapes was released. About Drug Policy, Nixon
had this to say: "every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing
marijuana is Jewish. … What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because
most of them are psychiatrists." (?) He also explains that pot is worse
than alcohol because people drink "to have fun," but people smoke marijuana
"to get high. He explains that Archie Bunker's son-in-law Meathead "goes
both ways," and that another TV character is "obviously queer. He wears
an ascot, and so forth."
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