Comments on: The “New” Richard Nixon Tapes: A Bad Reputation Deserved http://themoderatevoice.com/24754/the-new-richard-nixon-tapes-a-bad-reputation-deserved/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Tue, 21 May 2013 11:07:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jamesmcrawford http://themoderatevoice.com/24754/the-new-richard-nixon-tapes-a-bad-reputation-deserved/comment-page-1/#comment-166148 jamesmcrawford Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:32:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/republicans/24754/the-new-richard-nixon-tapes-a-bad-reputation-deserved/#comment-166148 With the release of the latest round of Richard Nixon's White house tapes, no doubt any longer exists that he operated in almost all political situations in the most cynical, underhanded and often illegal manner necessary for accomplishing his goals, which were not just to defeat, but to destroy his political enemies. Throughout Nixon's career, in fact, he used the same standard: His own victory, and his victim's destruction, by any means necessary or possible.

Thus the anticommunist Congressman Jerry Voorhis became “soft on communism,” Helen Gahagan Douglas became “The Pink Lady,” and Alger Hiss went to jail because of Nixon, as we now know, “pleading” the Grand Jury, of the FBI deliberately and unlawfully withholding exculpatory evidence, of Whittaker Chambers switching dates in sworn testimony, of HUAC technicians remanufacturing a typewriter to produce to a jury's satisfaction documents that appeared to duplicate exactly the typing on Hiss' Woodstock machine.

Alger Hiss' perjury conviction had Richard Nixon's political dirty tricks fingerprints all over it, including a judge's refusal on appeal to hear new evidence in the case, evidence about the remanufactured typewriter, about Chambers lying, about withheld evidence. It is time for Alger Hiss to be posthumously exonerated.

See also: http://homepages.NYU.edu/~th15/sitemap.html

jim crawford
Westwood NJ

]]> By: The Heretik : Not News of the Day http://themoderatevoice.com/24754/the-new-richard-nixon-tapes-a-bad-reputation-deserved/comment-page-1/#comment-166120 The Heretik : Not News of the Day Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/republicans/24754/the-new-richard-nixon-tapes-a-bad-reputation-deserved/#comment-166120 [...] Bush is not Nixon, but he could be.  The differences?  Nixon said f*cking a lot. People say f*cking Bush a lot.  That will be all.  Until there is more. Or less.  Thank you. [...]

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