Nixon ordered Watergate break-in, aide says now [Magruder]

Scripps Howard News Service ^ | July 26, 2003 | BILL STRAUB

[HAL9000]

Although he was a key participant, eventually serving seven months in prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice, Magruder said he still isn't sure why Nixon was obsessed with tapping O'Brien's phone.

Because O'Brien was taking briefcases full of illegal cash contributions for the DNC.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I don't buy it. This is too much of a bombshell to hold back this long, after so many books and so much commentary have flowed by, and especially after major players are dead and buried. Plus, Nixon isn't around to dispute it, which really sucks.

[FreeLibertarian]

Somewhere, a few days ago, I heard that we now have the technology to recover the erased data from the Nixon/White House Tapes. This will be interesting!

[shhrubbery!]

This is ancient history. It was only about sex. Let's move on.

Oops, forgot, those phrases only apply to Dem presidents.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

He is revealing the information now only because he was approached by the makers of a new documentary on the scandal, "Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History," scheduled to air on many PBS stations Wednesday, July 30 at 8 p.m.

PBS dredging this up 30 years later, our taxdollars paying for what will doubtless be total smear job. The guy's been dead for 10 years, and still the left needs their pound of flesh.

It's too bad our local talk radio station dropped G. Gordon Liddy's show awhile back, because I'd love to hear his take on this.

[hattend]

PBS has to make sure that Nixon is historically perceived as a bigger crook than the Clintons.

[kayak]

It would be difficult to corroborate Magruder's story.

It's funny that the media will run stories about GOP politicians without any additional sources but hold back on revealing things about 'rats unless the story checks out from all angles. The reason that most of the media gave for not paying attention to Juanita Broaddrick's charges is that it happened so long ago and they couldn't find corroborating evidence and testimonials.

Media bias? No, of course not. :^)

[Young Werther]

In 1998, as scandals swirled around the Xlintoons, the networks decided to throw a Watergate 25th anniversary bash. To my way of thinking it was just another example of "defending" the serial rapist!"

Fair's Fair. We need to have a 5th anniverary bash for Monica Gate!

Ever notice how little creativity exists in the media today. Everything's a *****gate! I'm surprised that the Microsoft litigation was named "GATESGATE!"

[IncPen]

John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel who is credited with blowing the lid off the Watergate scandal, said via e-mail that he was unaware of the Nixon-Mitchell conversation until Magruder advised him about it a few weeks ago.

I guess it beats the other story going around, that Dean's wife was a hooker and...

[dk/coro]

MacGruder is a third rate bum -- but for him to blow this kind of smoke at this late date --fits his profile to a "T".

Consider the source; the motive; and the completely shredded credibility of this pathetic hanger-on of yesteryear.

Forget it - and the retreaded "man-of-the-cloth", who should look elsewhere for latter-year tittilation.

Shame !!

[Arpege92]

I also heard that we now have the technology to finally find out what was on those erased Nixon/White House tapes. I must admit, I would love to know.:-}

[El Gato]

former CIA agent G. Gordon Liddy

What can you expect, or believe, from a writer that can't get the basic facts correct. Liddy was never a CIA agent. He was an Army Officer, FBI agent, a federal prosecuter and a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, all before he got involved in the Watergate mess. Afterwards, before he became a talk show host, he was an actor

[Old Professer]

And just when G. Liddy got his blood pressure under control we get this.

[Old Professer]

And just when G. Liddy got his blood pressure under control we get this.

[Old Professer]

He barely tolerates cats, I hear.

[Old Professer]

Sorry for the double post.

[Lancey Howard]

"He asked me to call Haldeman and I handed him the phone. He spoke with Bob first and then he talked to John. "And then the president got on the line," Magruder said. "I could hear him. His voice was very distinctive."

Magruder heard the distinctive voice of Nixon.... which, in this case, was basically a buzzing sound eminating from the earpiece of a 1970ish telephone which was being held to the ear of another person.

Okay. Let's include this completely unverifiable morsel in our "documentary". Yeah.

[CyberAnt]

"I don't buy it"

Neither do I. This is just toooooo convenient for the dems. Somebody got lots of money to make these stupid statements about Nixon ordering the break-in.

If this were true - why didn't the House Managers find out this information during their impeachment investigation? All Nixon's people were under oath - there is no reason this information wouldn't have come out.

This is only being done because of the exposure of what the dems did to McCarthy. This is just to take McCarthy off the front pages and out of conversations. The dems hated Nixon because he was part of the HUAC which outed Alger Hiss.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I though the current court cases dealing with the break-in were about Dean getting back the picture of his wife that the DNC had?