NAULTY: John Dean invitation a bad move [Nixon Derangement Syndrome alert]

The Washington Times ^ | June 15, 2009 | Susan Naulty

[Fiji Hill]

Officials at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., have invited John Dean to speak there on the 37th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, slapping the faces not only of those sympathetic to the former president but, more important, history itself.

[Fiji Hill]

Most of the volunteer docents who work at the Nixon Library are dismayed at the decision to invite Dean. The Nixon library seems to have been drifting leftward since it became a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) facility in 2007. The private Nixon Foundation, which had previously run the library appears to have gotten the short end of a Faustian bargain after it turned the library over NARA in order to get Nixon’s presidential papers, which by law remain government property.

By the way, Susan Naulty is a professional archivist who came to the Nixon Library from the famous Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif. She did a masterful job in organizing Nixon's vast collection of records. For years her 1966 Plymouth was a familiar sight in the Nixon Library's parking lot.

Dean’s presentation will be at 7:30 PM on June 17 and is free, if any Freepers want to attend. On Friday, Marty Anderson, author of the new book Reagan’s Secret War, will be speaking at 2:30 PM. I can’t make the Dean appearance, since I have to work that evening, but I’ll be at Anderson’s presentation.

[ghost of nixon]

I can’t wait until Paula Jones is invited to speak at the Clinton library.

[San Jacinto]

John Dean was the person behind the Watergate break in and it wasn't even for purely political reasons. Many in the media know this, but it doesn't serve the proper template to report it. It's disgusting that Dean became a media darling-- but not surprising.

If you want to know the truth about Watergate, read Silent Coup, St Martin's Press, 1992.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I am doing some work for the Nixon Library right now, revising the Watergate display. Now I know why they wanted the work done by June 16th!

[Harold Shea]

Would love to see the G-Man welcome him up to the podium

[La Lydia]

I read the news story and I read your post, and I still don’t know the name of the person or the committee that made the decision to invite John Dean. What was their reasoning? Who runs NARA?

[PerConPat]

LOL! You scooped me! I was about to post: In all fairness, I think the library should allow G. Gordon to mop...oops...I mean share the stage with Dean.

[ETL]

"Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
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"As a response to the leaks, the Nixon administration began a campaign against further leaks and against Ellsberg personally. Aides Egil Krogh and David Young under John Ehrlichman's supervision created the 'White House Plumbers,' which would later lead to the Watergate burglaries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fallout
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So what is Daniel Ellsberg up to these days? Well, for one thing, he is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" movement...

Click on the 'World Can't Wait' link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include" You may recognize a few other names as well, including the democrat chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. Conyers' name appears right after Ward Churchill's.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:

James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

[Bratch]

[Fiji Hill]

In his book The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy (Sentinel, 2008), Geoff Shepard makes a convincing case that Dean perpetrated the Watergate operation--and then when the operation went awry, he switched sides and worked with Nixon's enemies in order to save his skin.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Steve Earle,”

Just read an interview with him in Vintage Guitar Magazine. Total jackass!

[Fiji Hill]

Timothy Naftali is the new director of the Nixon Library under the NARA regime. His official biography is available here.

[ETL]

I am doing some work for the Nixon Library right now, revising the Watergate display. Now I know why they wanted the work done by June 16th!

Does the museum have anything on traitor/communist Daniel Ellsberg?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Not sure about that.

[ETL]

Museum = Nixon Library/Watergate exhibit

[Stepan12]

John Dean was the person behind the Watergate break in and it wasn't even for purely political reasons. Many in the media know this, but it doesn't serve the proper template to report it. It's disgusting that Dean became a media darling-- but not surprising. If you want to know the truth about Watergate, read Silent Coup, St Martin's Press, 1992.

I was going to mention this, but I didn't wake up in time to see the post.

[Fiji Hill]

The original display didn’t whitewash Watergate. In fact, the so-called “smoking gun” tape that forced Nixon’s resignation from the presidency was available for visitors to listen to.

All the other presidential libraries that I have visited stress the positive aspects of their subjects. For example, I didn’t see any reference to Bobby Baker when I visited the Kennedy library.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I don’t think so, but I’ll be there again tomorrow, so I can check.

[La Lydia]

Egad. Poster boy for liberal left-wing academia. No wonder. Probably think’s he’s HS, too. The Nixon family must be having some bitter moments about their decision.