The burglary itself seemed intentionally amateurish even though it was carried out by absolute pros and from his first day in office

Like Nixon knew that many of his supporters are the people who had put him in the White House were unhappy with him particularly the right wing and

As I mentioned these this all concerns is attempts to thaw out the Cold War using Kissinger to bypass the military the defense establishment the state department and

and

Basically like he's attempts to secure agreements to the Soviet Union in China without the consent of the military and the oil men who thought he wasn't delivering enough for them on

As related to the depletion allowance or import quotas. So when Nixon says the Howard Hunt thing and talked about opening that scab he meant the Bay of pigs and the CIA

So one of the one of the like the smoking guns

That indicted Nixon in the public imagination and in Congress was like the the smoking gun tape on June 23rd and it was a conversation between how Alderman and Nixon

Where Alderman says the way to handle this now is for us to have CIA director deputy director Vernon Walters call the FBI interim director Pat Gray and just say stay the hell out of this

This is a business here that we don't want to go for them. It says and

An excerpt like that is damning but in almost every account of the smoking gun tape. They don't go they don't play what happened immediately after that tape and that was basically

Alderman and Nixon saying that they had

Stumbled inadvertently into an ongoing open CIA

Operation

So like what what seems like they're inditing themselves is actually

They are their flabbergasted that they are going to have to take the blame for something that is being done to them rather than on their orders by the CIA

And this is crucial because it's like it's like Nixon was like a critic of the CIA in the sense that you were I would be like he had his own reasons for this and he was

Inclusion with all the same people but the thing is he knew them he was their creature and

He had his own motivations is like his own power to consider and he was terrified of that Bay of pigs things and what it really

Represented and and another fictional account of Nixon's presidency is Oliver Stone's Nixon and in

Stone's portrayal of it similar to like the Robert Altman gang of 100 thing

Nixon talks again and again about the Bay of pigs thing and he refers to it as the beast

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