Posted August 3, 2015 8:18 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Being Nixon: A Man Divided : http://tiny.cc/at9d1x
Pat Buchanan

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- In his new biography “Being Nixon: A Man Divided ( tiny.cc/at9d1x ) ,” Evan Thomas concedes a point. Richard Nixon, he writes, “was not paranoid; the press and the ‘Georgetown set’ really were out to get him.”

Carl Bernstein’s review found Thomas’ book deficient in its failure to chronicle the “endemic criminality” of the Nixon presidency.

Yet, recent revelations suggest that “endemic criminality” is a phrase that might well be applied to the newsroom of The Washington Post when Bob Woodward and Bernstein worked there.

Consider. In “All the President’s Men ( tiny.cc/qu9d1x ) ,” Woodward and Bernstein admit that, in collusion with Post editors and with the approval of Post lawyers, they approached half a dozen Watergate grand jurors.

Admitting this was a “seedy venture,” they assured us no grand juror had violated his or her oath, and they got nothing.

Yet, from recent books by Jeff Himmelman about Ben Bradlee, Max Holland about Mark Felt, a.k.a. “Deep Throat,” and Geoff Shepard’s “The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down ( tiny.cc/mx9d1x ) ,” out today, the truth is …read more

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