You're familiar with Dick Cheney? Young buck groomed in the Nixon White House?
You missed the fact that General Haig still is raking it in from his Cosco buddies even after the misstep that was his failure to clear his deep throat and think for a minute before blurting out "I'm in charge here"?
You're somehow unaware that the likes of Liddy and Colson, even, have ended up national figures -- heroes of a sort, even -- as they rehabilitated themselves and serve to corral conservative and Christian opinion?
Even Rumsfeld was there as Defense-Secretary Designate.
Who are YOU kidding? Not yourself, I hope.
I've no doubt that were I to cruise any number of "conspiracy theorist" sites, I could pull up in a moment lists of National Security Council, Tri-Lateral and CFR sorts who've been permanent fixtures of one sort or another since the Nixon administration and without the usual "partisan furloughs". I'm not going there because (as usual) I like to stick to the facts Joe Schmo could proffer off the top of his head.
Being somewhat a Joe Schmo myself.
Rumsfeld testified to the House Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population on November 13, 1969.