The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,27 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon reportedly said: I actually knew Ruby. Murray Chotiner introduced him back in ‘47. He went by Rubenstein then. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Caddy reported that after the publication of Merritt’s memoir – to which Caddy contributed a foreword and afterword – Merritt claimed that he had met with President Nixon in the White House. This is the key section: ‘Nixon then produced a letter-size briefcase and withdrew a handwritten letter of three pages. He told Merritt […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Caddy reported that after the publication of Merritt’s memoir – to which Caddy contributed a foreword and afterword – Merritt claimed that he had met with President Nixon in the White House. This is the key section: ‘Nixon then produced a letter-size briefcase and withdrew a handwritten letter of three pages. He told Merritt […]

The Cuntocracy

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[PDF file]: […] a cuntocracy to formulate our opinion that we indeed suffer under a cuntocracy they are dishonour bound to create. An audio archive such as this interchange between Nixon and Kissinger might suffice to convince us: Nixon: I still think we ought to take the dikes out now. Will that drown people? Kissinger: That will […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] these associations got in the way of Garfield’s friendships with political figures like New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, federal appeals court judge Irving Kaufman, or Nixon White House aide Patrick Buchanan.59 In February 1970, the Washington Post reported that Garfinkle had been invited by President Nixon to attend ‘an evening of entertainment […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] the band’s drummer, was suing the FBI for access to the unredacted file.2 The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] the band’s drummer, was suing the FBI for access to the unredacted file.2 The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by William Blum, Chris Floyd or Robert Parry (though they have written something similar), or any of the other commentators on the American left, but by sometime Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan, whom I suppose we might describe as bearing the torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 David […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

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[PDF file]: […] first president to draw his power base from those who had not only conquered the North American continent but built their palaces on the West coast. Richard Nixon had tried to do this but was essentially scuttled by the North-eastern elite. Nixon never had the control over the media which was the essence of […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] votes were going to be needed again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s […]

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