New Nixon Tapes Show Watergate "Game Plan"

Presidential Library's Latest Release Depict White House In Crisis

(AP)  Fateful moments from the Watergate scandal that destroyed Richard Nixon's presidency are brought to light in a new collection of papers and tape recordings from that time.

Materials released by the Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday show aides trying to head off a U.S. constitutional crisis and save a presidency after Nixon fired the Watergate special prosecutor and forced out the two top Justice Department officials in October 1973.

That crisis is known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

A memo from that episode, by Nixon adviser Kenneth Cole, outlines a "game plan" for survival.

The idea: Convince lawmakers that prosecutor Archibald Cox wanted an "unending crisis of the body politic" and needed to be removed. That did not work.

Click here to access the tapes from the Nixon Presidential Library Web site.

[4merGOPr]

This proves once and for all that Richage M. Nixon was America's first President to commit treason against his country. May his name be mentioned alongside Histories most infamouse traitors.

[iam4honesty]

You mean alongside Bush, Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfield, and their ilk?

[ramos1129]

I was a young man during Nixon's two terms and even though I was a Democrat, I voted for him both times. Why? The times demanded a hard nosed and hard man as President.

Even though Nixon was a "crook" he did have many great accomplishments. If Watergate had not happened, he would be ranked in the top 10 Presidents.

All of the above notwithstanding, the great mystery of the day was, why did not Nixon burn all of the tapes and claim national security when the word got out of their existance? Had he done that, all of the GOP Senators/Representatives plus many Democrats would have gone along with that. For some unexplained reason(s), he kept them and they eventually became his downfall. BTW,many prominent folks in his "inner circle" did urge their destruction very early on. He should have listened to them.

[4merGOPr]

This reasoning is one of reason the US is a declining power. Cover-ups will be the destruction of this nation. May the Lord help up from these people.

[antoniof123]

To destroy them would have been worst then getting caught because in the end it would have come out and that is against the law as well.

I too liked Nixon but all the good he did was over shawdowed by the wrong. And you can not make up for it, plus Nixon was smart but he was so afraid that every one was plotting against him that was his downfall.

I mean look he won by a landslide and yet he still though everyone was out to get him. What a waste!

[ToolMangler1]

"All of the above notwithstanding, the great mystery of the day was, why did not Nixon burn all of the tapes and claim national security when the word got out of their existance? Had he done that, all of the GOP Senators/Representatives plus many Democrats would have gone along with that. For some unexplained reason(s), he kept them and they eventually became his downfall. BTW,many prominent folks in his "inner circle" did urge their destruction very early on. He should have listened to them."



Nixon was basically a good guy that had the wrong advisers. They convinced him that there was a conspiracy that "Had" to be revealed so we could get on with winning the war. When he started listening to that coming from "trusted" advisors, the die was cast and he slid down the slippery slope of "doing wrong for the 'right' reasons". I guess that he wanted the truth known so that historians might be less cruel to him than his opponents. Guess what, He has come up several rungs from where he was when he left the Presidency, We have the shrub and Cheney to thank for that...

[robg9000]

"WE'RE COMPLETELY DUNBED DOWN AND STUPID!!!!"

you prove your own point.

[whitemale08]

You would we think that after Nixon, we would still believe in conspiracy theories.

But we don't and neither does the mass-media, when that's how they caught Nixon, a couple of journalists had a 'conspiracy theory'.

It's one of the British's faovorite accomplishment; to marginialize conspiracy theories so they are free to conspire all they want .

It's disgusting, we have no alert-system within ourselves to wake us up to the NWO and 'globalization', British-style 'free trade', BIG BANK BAILOUTS, and worthless derivatives and credit-default swaps.

WE'RE COMPLETELY DUNBED DOWN AND STUPID!!!!