Posted on 01/17/2011 9:25:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Fifty years ago next week, Richard Nixon stood uncomfortably on the Capitol's inaugural platform and watched his rival John F. Kennedy being sworn in as president. "We won" the election, Nixon fumed, "but they stole it from us."
Indeed, the dirty tricks that helped defeat Nixon were more devious than merely the ballot-stuffing of political lore. In one of the least-known chapters of 20th-century political history, Kennedy operatives secretly paid off an informant and set in motion a Watergate-like burglary that sabotaged Nixon's campaign on the eve of the election.
It began in the fall of 1960, when the Kennedy campaign spread word that Vice President Nixon had secretly pocketed money from billionaire Howard Hughes, whose far-flung business empire was heavily dependent on government contracts and connections. Reporters for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Time magazine corroborated the allegations, but their editors feared publishing such explosive information in the last days of the tightly fought campaign.
So the Kennedys turned to two crusading liberal columnists, Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, who had been attacking Nixon for the past decade. It was "a journalistic atrocity" to conspire with "the Kennedy hawkshaws to help us get the goods on their opponent," Anderson admitted, but scoring a scoop to destroy Nixon was simply too tempting to pass up.
Anderson dropped by the Washington office of Kennedy lawyer James McInerney. With "a pride that only the diligent investigator can know," Anderson recalled, the Kennedy operative pulled out "a neatly arranged packet which I devoured unceremoniously."
The confidential documents revealed how Hughes had funneled to the Nixon family $205,000 (worth about $1.6 million today) using various intermediaries, including one of Nixon's brothers, to disguise the transaction.
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Words' meanings, like the Constitution, are living things, and are intended to evolve as such.
Therefore, in the era of B. Hussein Obamaumau, the word has evolved into a two word description of the WH & environs.
Seems true enough up until we get to Nixon’s reason for failing to contest the ‘60 election. Even if Nixon were afraid of the Hughes disclosure, he had enough on JFK to flatten out the playing field.
According to Victor Lasky, JFK’s dirtiest trick—executed by brother Bobby—was the production and dissemination of vilely anti-Catholic literature in late October.
No, in fact, Kennedy didn’t win the 1960 election — Nixon did. But for MASSIVE voter fraud in (you guessed it!) Chicago/Cook County, IL, Nixon would have carried that state and very probably the election. Fraud was also evident in other States — but Nixon, for the sake of the nation (unlike Algore), refused to pursue legal remedies to the Supreme Court for concern of the deep division it could bring to the Republic....
Noah’s Arc found... Big Foot... Legend of Boggy Creek (I think that beast calls Arkansas home)... the History Channel has standards... they need to show these things over and over... we have a need/right to know :-)
You’d have to have a seance for that.
Yes Joe, they will re-emerge. But, thankfully, as they continue to breed, the family fortune dwindles and their inherent avarice and lust for political power gewts watered down. Soon enough, the entire clan will be rendered a footnote of aforementioned booger eating and mouthbreathing morons who vote.
Just think of it!
In a single lifetime, we will have gone from Camelot to Camel lot.
Perhaps like this?
"I like to grind my cam a lot."
Probably because Kennedy’s people had dirt on Hoover.
The shame and humiliation of being exposed for this gave Nixon the hard-on for Humphrey that caused Watergate.
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