#bob haldeman

[ris-d-deridex]

happy valentine's day from the nixon administration

watergate text post memes 10/?

[deadpresidents]

But by far the most interesting person was undoubtedly [Henry] Kissinger. He is showing signs of strain from the Watergate scandal. He drank very little but talked somewhat indiscreetly in front of our French guests who are bound to repeat much of what he said... ...Henry talked at the table in front of everyone about Watergate. He said the people now being exposed (like Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, etc.) were small-town, middle-class politicians who were used to fixing municipal elections and thought they could do the same thing in the White House. He failed to mention that Nixon had, after all, brought them in and let them run wild. He also said it was all right to lie for "a great cause" but not for a small one.

Longtime New York Times foreign correspondent C.L. Sulzberger, on a dinner party he hosted in Paris during the Watergate scandal where Nixon Administration's National Security Advisor, top diplomat, and soon-to-be Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was a guest, June 7, 1973.

As recounted in Sulzberger's 1974 book, Postscript With a Chinese Accent: Memoirs and Diaries, 1972-1973, the fourth volume of Sulzberger's fascinating collection of journal entries, autobiographical vignettes, and reporting notes from his remarkable career and close personal and professional interactions with virtually every significant international figure of the 20th Century following World War II.

[spiroagnewfan80]

Nixon Time

Random excursion to the Rec Base? How Mysterious.

This should only make you More worried.

Agnew might be slightly inebriated.

Keep your Henry Clays locked up tightly lest they Appear in undesirable circumstances.

Nixon do Not ask why I keep Henry Clay in the Rec Base.

(Well at least Agnew has his Priorities straight)

Wait, there’s MORE people here… and what does that Banner say?

Who would’ve thunk? It’s January 9th, after all!

Go Junie, throw that confetti !!

[bitchard-nixon]

bob haldeman mirror selfie

[moss-ball69]

Ms paint shit I did my mind is a maze it's an enigma no one will ever understand (except for my buddy Alex hi Alex)

The breadwinners never forget 9/11 thing I made with a panel from my comic pls read my comic Nixon is in it for like 5 seconds:

[loveboatinsanity]

[richardnixonlibrary]

#OTD 3/1/1974 A federal grand jury indicted members of the Nixon administration who became known as the "Watergate Seven": former Attorney General John Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, former Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, former Special Counsel Charles W. Colson, former Assistant Attorney General Robert C. Mardian, former counsel to the Committee for the Reelection of the President Kenneth Wells Parkinson, and former Haldeman Staff Assistant Gordon Strachan. President Nixon was also named as an unindicted conspirator. Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson would all spend time in prison. Charges against Strachan were dropped before trial, Mardian was convicted but his conviction was overturned on appeal, and Parkinson was acquitted. Somewhat confusingly, "Watergate Seven" is also used to refer to the Watergate burglars and their handlers. At the time of the 3/1/1974 indictments, and in addition to the Watergate burglars group of seven who had already been convicted, an additional 17 Nixon White House aides or associates had previously pleaded guilty and 8 more were awaiting trial. (Image: Watergate Complex, NAID 6397452)

[deadpresidents]

Volcanoes

It was the crowning moment in Richard Milhous Nixon’s long career of political ups-and-downs. For the fifth time, Nixon had been a candidate on the national ticket (twice as Vice President, three times as President). In 1952 and 1956, the focus was on the top of the ticket, Nixon’s running mate, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, Nixon narrowly lost to – and some would say was the victim of electoral theft from – John F. Kennedy. In 1968, Nixon finally won election to the Presidency, but he did so with some bitterness:  the country was in shambles and the two people he wanted to oppose more than anyone else in the election – Lyndon B. Johnson and Bobby Kennedy – had respectively quit and been murdered during the turbulent campaign. Not only that, but in victory, Nixon had garnered only 43.4% of the vote – a full 6 percentage points less than he had earned in his 1960 loss to JFK.

On November 7, 1972, however, Nixon’s “Silent Majority” spoke loud and clear – and truly gave him both a majority victory and a strong mandate for his second term in the White House. Nixon trounced his opponent, Democratic Senator George S. McGovern, on election night. His popular vote victory was 61%-38% and Nixon’s margin in the Electoral College was even larger, 520-17. Nixon won every single state in the country except for Massachusetts. Nixon even won McGovern’s home state of South Dakota.

As the election returns rolled in and Nixon’s family, supporters, and staff celebrated, the man who had received the votes of 47,169,841 of his fellow Americans that day to be their President noted that he felt “a curious feeling, perhaps a foreboding, that muted my enjoyment of this triumphal moment." In his Memoirs (BOOK | KINDLE), Richard Nixon elaborated further, "I am at a loss to explain the melancholy that settled over me on that victorious night…To some extent the marring effects of Watergate may have played a part, to some extent our failure to win Congress, and to a greater extent the fact that we had not yet been able to end the war in Vietnam. Or perhaps it was because this would be my last campaign. Whatever the reasons, I allowed myself only a few minutes to reflect on the past. I was confident that a new era was about to begin, and I was eager to begin it.”

The new era began the next morning. At 12:00 PM on November 8, 1972, President Nixon gathered his Cabinet in the White House. Nixon seemed tired and was suffering from a painful toothache. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger noted that the President seemed “grim and remote”. Nixon’s loyal Chief of Staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman was at his side as the President nonchalantly thanked his Cabinet and then described his recent readings about 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and how Disraeli described a need to refresh the British government and rid it of the “exhausted volcanoes” in William Gladstone’s Cabinet. Nixon’s Cabinet was perplexed and curious as to where the President was headed. He had just won a historic landslide victory in the Presidential election, but he spoke as if he had lost everything. 

After a few more minutes of talking about his plans for a second term that wasn’t “lethargic” such as those of some of his predecessors, Nixon simply stood up and walked out of the Cabinet Room, headed across the South Lawn, boarded Marine One and flew to his Camp David retreat. When the President stands, everyone stands but as soon as he left the room, the Cabinet sat down and looked at Bob Haldeman, who took over the meeting. Haldeman handed pieces of paper out to the Cabinet and said, “You’re all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes”. Then he immediately demanded everyone’s resignation. Nixon had won one of the biggest victories in American electoral history, and 24 hours later, he was basically firing everyone who had helped him to do so – earlier in the day, he had done the same thing that he did to the Cabinet to his White House staff.

Henry Kissinger summed it up by saying that, “It was as if victory was not an occasion for reconciliation but an opportunity to settle the scores of a lifetime." For Richard Nixon, victory was never enough. He needed destruction. Nixon got rid of his exhausted volcanoes, but he was sitting on top of another volcano named Watergate. His abbreviated second term, which had been won the night before, would end less than two years later in his own personal and professional destruction.