September 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Why are the media & Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon? In Part Four, we explore President Richard Nixon’s first term, and how the leak of a top secret document would eventually give rise to what many refer to today as the Deep State.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Overseas, a conflict in Vietnam was spiraling out of control.
This American Marxist revolution was slowly infecting the nation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred
and sixty thousand men.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
He's the first president in history who has been unable
to unite his own party behind a war.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Comedians who refer to Richard Nixon as a loser I
can win.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Democrats saw an opportunity to challenge President Johnson for the nomination.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thank all of you. Makes it possible to see
Senator Kennedy has been shot. I can't see.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Our projection is that Nixon will win.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Great objective of this administration at the outset to bring
the American people together.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood and the media so obsessed with Nixon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm Patrick Carelchi and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries.
And we've promised only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part four of our series
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of episodes entitled The Fighter. You've probably heard Part three,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning, we're looking for the answer to the
question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with
Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So to pick up where we left off in nineteen
sixty eight, Richard Milhouse Nixon had overcome seemingly insurmountable odds
to win the presidency, and in the process he jolted
the GOP back to life. He ran on a simple platform,
bringing normalcy back to America by prioritizing lawn order at
home and ending the Vietnam War abroad. The message won
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him the White House, but by a narrow margin. With
the third party candidate also running on a law and
order platform, Nixon won the popular vote by less than
one percent. It was a fact he no doubt understood
when he entered his inauguration ceremony, I, Richard.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Bill House Nixon, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully
execute the office as President of the United States, and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So help me God, Nixon could see that he was
about to preside over a deeply divided nation, divided over
the Vietnam War, divided over lawn order at home, divided
over the big spending programs of his predecessor. So in
his inaugural address, he pleaded with the country to come together.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
When we listen to the better angels of our nature,
we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things,
such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
The simple things are the ones most need to today.
If we are to amount what divides us and cumment
what unites us to lower our.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Voices would be a simple thing.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever
of words, from inflated rhetoric of promises more that it
can deliver, From angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds,
from ambastic rhetoric to postures instead of persuading. We cannot
learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another,
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until we speak quietly enough so that our words can
be heard as well as our voices.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In the ceremonies that followed his inauguration speech, Vietnam War
protesters wasted no time in attacking the new president. Ironically,
they took the opportunity to protest the man that pledged
to end the war.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
I meant to throw a firecracker out into the rank
of the marching soldiers as the soldiers passed the demonstrator d'
hot game in.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
These anti American forces raging throughout America were attempting to
remake the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, and the newly
formed far left narrative machine were going to help in
that effort. Nixon had his work cut out for him
as he entered the White House. Assassinations had become commonplace,
and that was only the beginning of the list of
troubling trends he faced. Roughly thirty six thousand American troops
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were dead from the Vietnam War. Over five hundred thousand
soldiers were committed to the conflict. College campus violence had
become the norm, Big government spending had corrupt inflation up.
It was going to take a team effort to calm
the storm, But Nixon wasn't going to receive any easy
help from Congress. Both the House and the Senate were
controlled by the Democrats. The anti war radicals, Congress, and
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the media were all against him. So to get anything done,
Nixon had to compromise again, and Coulter, author of the
Unsafe sub Stack.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
The way I've described him, just you know, this ferocious
anti communist. You would think it would be the most
right wing of the Republican Party that would support him
the most. But he had actually been, in some ways
a little bit of a rhyeow And the reason for that,
I think is understandable. He would make a lot of
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compromises with the Democrats because, as with Reagan at that time,
there was one issue that was more important than any
other issue, and that was the communist threat.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
In this time of great turmoil, the Nixon administration could
not afford to be a conservative one. To tackle his
top priorities, he had to compromise in a way that
looked like rhino virtue signaling in the rearview mirror. He
created the Environmental Protection Agency. He put teeth into affirmative
action with the Philadelphia Plan, a program that required federal
contractors to meet certain minority hiring goals, and construction jobs.
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He poured money into historically black colleges. None of these
were particularly conservative, but he didn't have control of Congress
and needed help from across the Aisle to bring normalcy
back to America. It was this spirit of compromise that
allowed him to pull off the kind of efforts that
he felt protected Americans from the communist threat, like an
anti ballistic missile defense system.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
The new program that I have recommended this morning to
the leaders, and that I announced today is one that
perhaps best can be described as a safeguard program.
Speaker 11 (07:57):
It is a.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Safeguard against any attack by the Chinese Communists that we
can foresee over the next ten years. It is a
safeguard of our deterrent system, which is increasingly vulnerable due
to the advances that have been made by the Soviet Union.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was a nail bier, but President Nixon would end
up getting the program through Congress. He'd quickly compound that
victory with a massive publicity win.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's T minus one hour, twenty nine minutes and fifty
three seconds and counting. Follow eleven astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and
Collins are the left off from Pad thirty nine A
out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about.
Next up for them the Moon.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
On July sixteenth, nineteen sixty nine, nearly a billion people's
eyes were glued to the TV.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Set and then on a Sunday afternoon the landing on
the Moon, and a to twenty am Monday, July twenty first,
the date which we'll live in history as long as
man is on this planet and on the other planet.
Thirty eight year old civilian Neil Olden Armstrong is to
become the first human being to touch the Moon.
Speaker 12 (09:10):
T minus fifteen seconds. Guidance is internal twelve eleven ten nine.
Ignition sequence starts six five three three two one zero,
all engine running, lift down.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
We had to lift e thirty two minutes.
Speaker 13 (09:32):
Cash the eye lift that the A eleven.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
Oh boy, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Boy, it looks good. And we're here building shaking. We're
getting that buffeting. We've become used to what a moment
plan on the way of the Moon.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then four days later with in the.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Tan quality Babe here the angle heirlanded Roger tranquility. We
caught the on the ground. You got a bunch of
guys about the turn blue. We're breathing again, Tankalon day
and Neil, we can see.
Speaker 14 (10:04):
You coming down the ladder. Now at the foot of
the ladder, although the surface appears to be very very
fine grained, ad you get close to it. It's almost
like a powder That step brought the lamb. Now at
one small step for man one by amplete tranquility base.
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It is Houston. Do we get both of you on
the camera from any place?
Speaker 11 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I think something rather important is coming up here.
Speaker 14 (10:33):
Neil and Buzz. The President of the United States is
in his office now and would like to say I
do worry see you're over. That would be Hunter. Go ahead,
mister President. This is Houston.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
A well, Neil and Buzz.
Speaker 15 (10:48):
I'm talking to you about telephone from the over.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Room at the Lighthouse, and this certainly has to be
the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House.
I just can't tell you how proud we all are
of what you have done. For every American this has
to be the proudest day of our lives. And for
people all over the world, I am sure that they
too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat
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this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens
have become a part of man's world, and as you
talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires
us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility
to Earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history
of man. All the people on this earth are truly one,
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one in their pride in what you have done, and
one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.
Speaker 14 (11:44):
Thank you about a president.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Just as President Nixon was presiding over this monumental event,
news began to trickle out about his likely opponent in
the nineteen seventy two elections.
Speaker 16 (12:00):
Senator Ted Kennedy may have seen history chances for becoming
president deflated because of a bizarre and almost unbelievable car
accident in which he was involved.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
At midnight last Friday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy drove a
car off a narrow bridge and into a pond on
Marthur's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
A young woman in the car with him was drowned.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Kennedy survived, but failed to report the accident until ten
hours later. Today, police moved to prosecute the senator on
a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after
causing bodily.
Speaker 17 (12:31):
Harmed Kennedy, the only one of the four brothers left alive,
went into court today and pleaded guilty to leaving the
scenes of an accident where a young woman drowned. He
got a sentence of two months in jail, the sentence suspended,
and a year's probassion. The judge gave him the minimum
jail sentence and suspended that because he said Kennedy already
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had been and would be punished more than anything the
court could do to him.
Speaker 18 (12:57):
I have made my plea and I've requested the networks
for fine this evenings that'll make a report to the.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
People of Massachusetts.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
Jenator will make a statement on television tonight at seven
thirty Eastern time. It will be a statement only, not
a news conference. No reporters will be allowed in by
his decision, and so no questions will be asked.
Speaker 18 (13:22):
Little over one mile away, the car that I was
driving on an unlit road with an off a narrow
bridge which had no guard rails and was built on
the left angle to the road. The car overturned in
a deep pond and immediately.
Speaker 14 (13:35):
Filled with water.
Speaker 18 (13:36):
I remember thinking, as the cold water rushed in around
my head that I was for certain drowning. Then water
entered my lungs and I actually felt the sensation of drowning,
but somehow I struggled for the surface alive. I made
immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Joe by diving
into the strong and murky current that succeeded only in
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increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. My conduct
and conversations during the next several hours, for the extent
that I can remember them, make no sense to me
at all. The opportunity to work with you when serve
Massachusetts has made my life worthwhile, and so I asked
you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think.
Speaker 14 (14:20):
This through with me.
Speaker 18 (14:21):
In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion.
Speaker 16 (14:29):
The answer they gave was clear, stay in office, and
he did.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The Massachusetts Senator refused to take questions instead of demanding answers.
The media were much more concerned about a different topic.
Speaker 19 (14:41):
Before the Young Blond was killed, many politicians, including Republicans,
looked on Senator Kennedy as a shoe in for the
Democratic presidential nomination against President Nixon's bid for reelection in
nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 20 (14:53):
Senator Kennedy's suspended sentence was granted on the basis of
his character and his worldwide reputation. But it's this worldwide
reputation that is now the larger question, what can or
will he do to preserve his potential as a candidate
for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Over the years and decades that followed, the treatment of
Ted Kennedy would become an astonishing example of liberal bias
in the media, especially when they decided to turn the
screws on President Nixon. But one thing could be sure
at the time, the Democrats' leading contender to take down
Nixon in nineteen seventy two was now fatally compromised. The
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left needed something to muddy up the man from your Belinda,
and they'd find it in a problem created by another Kennedy.
Speaker 21 (15:37):
The mass march on Washington to protest the Vietnam War
was peaceful. About three thousand mobilization marshals. They're keeping the
demonstrators within the bounds of the march permitted by officials.
The cry of peace now goes up in several places
along the root of march almost continuously. Hands are held
high with the anti war peace sign. Flags, American un piece,
a pale blue with a dove in the center, and
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Viet Kong are waved all along the route of march.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In the fall of nineteen sixty nine, tisters continued their
campaign to turn the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, they
began to turn up the temperature a few notches.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
Crowd estimated at two hundred and fifty to five hundred
thousand persons, took part in the demonstration in the nation's
capitol a month earlier. Across the country, thousands more showed
their opposition to the war with parades and peace rallies.
Speaker 22 (16:23):
Well aping nail all.
Speaker 23 (16:30):
Help.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
For his part, President Nixon was doing what he could
to end the war. Dating back to his entry into
the White House, he began peace talks. They floundered.
Speaker 24 (16:45):
The effect of all the public, private, and secret negotiations
which have been undertaken since the bombing hal a year
ago and since his administration came into office in January twentieth,
can be some done In one sentence, No progress whatever
has been made except agreement on the shape of the
marketing table.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
By June nineteen sixty nine, Nixon began making progress. He
met with South Vietnamese President IW on Midway Island and
then made an announcement as.
Speaker 25 (17:13):
A Jew informed me that the progress of South.
Speaker 26 (17:17):
Vietnamese forces had been so successful that he could now
recommend that the.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
United States began to replace.
Speaker 26 (17:25):
US combat forces with Vietnamese forces.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
This same assessment was made by General Abrams when he
reported to me last night and this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
As a result, President Nixon began reducing American troops in Vietnam.
His program of handing the war over entirely to the
South Vietnamese came to be known as Vietnamization.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
In June, President Nixon began withdrawing some of the five
hundred and forty thousand American troops.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Three such reductions.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Were announced in nineteen sixty nine, a pullback totally in
one hundred and ten thousand men.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
In September nineteen sixty nine, he canceled the end of
year draft calls. But Nick didn't believe he could just
pull out all American troops at once. In his view,
it would have left South Vietnam to quickly fall to
the communist North, and more importantly, an unstable South Vietnam
would have led to American troop deaths as they exited
the country. So by the fall of nineteen sixty nine,
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the Marxist College agitators used Nixon's decisions to continue their
campaign of turning the Vietnam War into Nixon's war through
campus and Washington, DC protests, they demanded an immediate withdrawal
from the conflict. Nixon was asked if the demonstrators would
alter his Vietnam policy.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I have often said that there's really very little that
we in Washington can do with regard to running the
university and college campuses of this country. We have another
problems running the nation, the national problems. Now, I understand
that there has been and continues to be opposition to
the war in Vietnam, on the campuses and also in
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the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned,
we expected, however, under no circumstances will I be affected
whatever by it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's about when Hollywood began to heavily enter the fray.
The Tinsiltown crowd was largely quiet when both JFK and
LBJ escalated America's involvement in Asia, but now with a
Republican in office, the shackles were removed. They were free
to blame Nixon for the entire affair. Comedian Dick Gregory
captured the mood of activist Hollywood at the time.
Speaker 27 (19:32):
Last month, President of the United States said, nothing you
young kids would do would have any effect on him. Well,
I suggested the President of the United States, if you
want to know how much effect you youngsters can have
on the president, he should make one long distance phone
call to the LBJ rant and half that by how
much effect you can ask.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
As nineteen seventy arrived, Nixon continued his Vietnamization.
Speaker 16 (20:03):
The Vietnamese have taken over virtually the entire fighting war.
American combat troops still remaining have been pulled away from
hot border areas into the interior and coastal regions, and
as a result, US casualties in nineteen seventy were less
than half of the nineteen sixty nine total. President Nixon
vowed to bring home more American.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Troops this year.
Speaker 16 (20:23):
So far, that's what's happening.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I am to night announcing plans further withdrawal of an
additional one hundred and fifty thousand American troops to be
completed during the spring of next year. This will bring
a total reduction of two hundred and sixty five five
hundred men in our armed forces in Vietnam, below the
level that existed when we took office fifteen months ago.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
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Speaker 2 (22:50):
Welcome back to red Pilled America. So Nixon was fulfilling
his campaign pledge by massively reducing American troops in Vietnam,
but just days after he announced an additional one hundred
and fifty thousand true production, something happened that gave his
enemies an opening to attack. As Americans continued exiting the country.
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In early nineteen seventy one, the Vietcong increased forces along
South Vietnam's western border of Cambodia. They used the area
as a base for attacks on both South Vietnamese and
American troops. So to protect his military, President Nixon announced
in action. On April thirtieth, nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Good Evening, my fellow Americans. Ten days ago, in my
report to the Nation on Vietnam, I announced the decision
to withdraw an additional one hundred and fifty thousand Americans
from Vietnam over the next year. I said then that
I was making that decision despite our concern over increased
enemy activity in Laos, in Cambodia, and in South Vietnam.
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And at that time I warned that if I concluded
that increased enemy activity in any of these areas endangered
the lives of Americans remaining in Vietnam, I would not
hesitate to take strong and effective measures to deal with
that situation. Despite that morning, North Vietnam has increased its
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military aggression in all these areas, and particularly in Cambodia.
After full consultation with the National Security Council, Ambassador Bunker,
General Abrams, and my other advisors, I have concluded that
the actions of the enemy in the last ten days
clearly endanger the lives of Americans who are in Vietnam
now and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who
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will be there after withdrawal of another one hundred and
fifty thousand to protect our men who are in Vietnam,
and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and
Vietnamization programs, I have concluded that the time has come
for action.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Tonight, Baracan and.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
South Vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire
Communist military operation in South Vietnam. This key control center
has been occupied by the North Vietnamese and viet Cong
for five years in blatant violation of Cambodia's neutrality. This
is not an invasion of Cambodia. The areas in which
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these attacks will be launched are completely occupied and controlled
by North Vietnamese forces. Our purpose is not to occupy
the areas. Once enemy forces are driven out of these
sanctuaries and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Marxist radicals took advantage of the announcement.
Speaker 16 (25:48):
The place Kent State University in Ohio. If you were
there on May fourth, you would have seen a campus
filled with Ohio National Guard units called into quell student rioting,
which began as a protest against the use of US
forces in Cambodia. The guardsmen had been ordered onto the
campus after the university's ROTC building had been burned to
the ground in the second night of disruption by anti
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war students.
Speaker 28 (26:10):
The National Guard was called in over the weekend by
Ohio Governor James Rhose. Today, when fifteen hundred students started
an anti war rally on the university commons, the guardsmen
surrounded them. Then, when some students started throwing rocks, the
guard moved in with tear gas. The students were forced
up a hill by the tear gas. Some of them
started throwing gas canisters back at the guardsmen.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Others threw rocks.
Speaker 22 (26:34):
Suddenly they turned around, got on their knees as if
they were ordered to.
Speaker 13 (26:38):
They did it all together aim And.
Speaker 22 (26:41):
Personally, I was standing there saying they're not going to shoot.
Say they can't do that. You know, if they're going
to shoot it's going to be blank.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
No one knows who shot first, but ultimately several guardsmen
opened fire.
Speaker 22 (27:05):
The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a
bullet passes your head, it makes a crack. I hit
the ground behind the curb. Looking over, I saw a
student hit. He stumbled and felled to He was running
towards a car. Another student tried to pull him behind
the car. Bullets were coming through the windows.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Of the car.
Speaker 22 (27:21):
It was maybe twenty five thirty thirty five seconds of
sporadic firing.
Speaker 24 (27:26):
Firing stopped.
Speaker 22 (27:27):
I lay there maybe ten or fifteen seconds.
Speaker 29 (27:29):
I got up.
Speaker 22 (27:30):
I saw four or five students lying around.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
In the lot.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
When the dust settled, four students laid dead. A law
enforcement officer commented on the tragedy.
Speaker 15 (27:39):
I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason. I
believe that we used every conceivable effort to get the
people to dis bursten the move long before the information
moved up the hill. And we regret as much as
anyone that people were killed and wounded. We even regret
the fact that it was let's say to be here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The media dubbed it the Kent State massacre. Counter protesters
hit the streets.
Speaker 16 (28:05):
Many who called themselves the Silent Majority rallied around President
Nixon to show their support for him and at the
same time to visually display their disgust with anti war demonstrators.
In New York City, construction workers, some still wearing the
bright yellow hard hats of their trade, confronted a line
of anti war demonstrators. While the students shouted peace now,
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the hard Hats rallied with signs and slogans that said,
all the way USA and America love it or leave it.
Speaker 22 (28:32):
We want to shake the stones that maybe today we
can open a door for discussion and saken the stones.
Speaker 15 (28:37):
Who have problems.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Where are wanting to work with you?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Where the fellows shall build this country, Where the fellows will.
Speaker 26 (28:44):
Build a hospital when they need don has six, We
build a budget and tolls for them to get around in.
Speaker 15 (28:49):
We build the sholes that they want to.
Speaker 27 (28:51):
Find out, and we all shall know all the obervations.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
President Nixon weighed in on the Kent State tragedy.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I do know that when you do have a situation
of a crowd throwing rocks, nctional guard is called in
that there is always the chance that it will escalate
into the kind of a tragedy that happened at Ken's State,
And if there's one thing I am personally committed to.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
It's this.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I saw the pictures of those four youngsters in the
Evening Star the day after that tragedy, and I vowed
then that we were going to find methods that would
be more effective to deal with these problems of violence,
Methods that would deal with those who would use force
and violence and endanger others, but at the same time
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would not take the.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Lives of innocent people.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Student violence had long turned public opinion towards the law
and order message of Richard Nixon, but the radicals had
to trick up their sleep. They were about to employ
a new form of attack on the Nixon White House,
a novel strategy that would revolutionize media attacks and at
the same time make governing the country nearly impossible for
a Republican president to a rational observer, President Nixon was
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fulfilling his campaign promises, I want.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
To end this war.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
The American people want to end this war.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
He was removing American troops and strategically handing off the
conflict to the South Vietnamese. The American people were largely
supportive of his Vietnamization program, but then a nuclear bomb
hit the.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
News this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light
for all the world deceived and brought cries of outrage
from Washington. The New York Times began publishing parts of
a voluminous report that the Pentagon had drawn up on
the causes and conduct of American involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On Sunday, June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, just a few
weeks after the Kent State shooting, the New York Times
published the first of what they announced would be a
series of articles on top secret documents documents it would
come to be known as the Pentagon Papers. The first
article ran a quote from a nineteen sixty five a
highly classified military document divulging that seventy percent of US
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involvement in Vietnam was to quote avoid a humiliating US defeat,
Only twenty percent of the reason American troops were there
was to keep South Vietnam out of Communist China's hands,
and the remaining ten percent was to permit the South
Vietnamese to enjoy a better freer way of life. In
other words, according to the Pentagon Papers, the LBJ administration
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was far more concerned with saving face than promoting freedom.
The article argued that the Pentagon Papers demonstrated that both
JFK and LBJ systematically lied not only to the public,
but also to Congress. It was a bombshell.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
The nineteen sixty seven Secretary of Defense McNamara assigned his
officials to write a top secret history of how we
got into Vietnam. Composed over two years, it was seven
thousand pages in length, full of sacred documents. Well one
copy has been leaked to The New York Times, which
yesterday began publishing a digest of it.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The Pentagon Paper story would become a turning point in
American politics, but it took some time for the Nixon
white House to realize it. We know this because recordings
of their conversations would later become public.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hollywood and the media have long built the narrative that
President Nixon installed a recording system in the White House
because he was diabolical. As the story goes, he trusted
no one and saw enemies everywhere. The truth is that
recording systems were nothing new in the White House. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt was angry that The New York Times
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allegedly misquoted him in an article. So to be able
to set the record straight, FDR installed the first secret
taping system in the White House in nineteen forty. His
successors followed. Suit JFKA reportedly installed a recording system after
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his adviser's publicly contradicted private conversations they had with him
about the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba.
Speaker 15 (33:06):
Did they apply to that day with any of the
play on flu in combat over the Bay of Pigs?
Speaker 11 (33:10):
They were not, in other words, sent on those things.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly told Nixon he installed a system
to both record calls.
Speaker 30 (33:17):
And meetings the HW budget they wanted four.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
And a pay.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
LBJ viewed taping as a defensive measure against being misrepresented
during the transition stage. LBJ reportedly encouraged incoming Nixon to
do the same. Nixon hated the idea, and on his
arrival to the White House, he ordered lbj's equipment to
be removed immediately, But as time passed, he began to
understand why his predecessors opted to record. Nixon tried many
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different methods to document important meetings, ranging from shorthand note
takers to memos written immediately after meetings, but nothing seemed
to work to get an accurate record, and there were
other challenges. Advisors would often publicly misquote conversations they had
with Nixon in meetings, conversations that had potentially major national
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and international implications. Additionally, it was often extraordinarily risky to
trust a single interpreter's translation of a meeting with an
important foreign diplomat. Recordings could also help with a future memoir.
Nixon slowly warmed to the idea, so in early nineteen
seventy one, he installed a recording system that would both
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record telephone calls and meetings in key spaces within the
White House. Hollywood and the media have cemented the narrative
that Nixon's recording system was diabolical, but it was not unique.
He was following the example of former presidents. And it's
because of these recordings that we know that Nixon was
slow to understand the magnitude of the Pentagon papers. The
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Speaker 1 (36:32):
Welcome back to red Pilled America. On the day of
The New York Times published the Pentagon Paper story, Nixon
had a call with his deputy National Security Advisor, Alexander Haig.
Speaker 31 (36:44):
Okay, nothing else about Christian the world a very significant
This goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly
classified documents of the war.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
All that I see that I didn't read the story.
But do you mean that that was leaked out of
the Pentagon, Sarah?
Speaker 30 (37:04):
The whole study that was done for mcnamaran.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
McNamara was lbj's Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 30 (37:10):
For mcnamaran then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford
and the peace snakes over there. This is a devastating
security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything I've all seen.
Speaker 11 (37:23):
Well, what's being done about it?
Speaker 31 (37:25):
Then?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
I mean, I didn't do it? Could we know this
was coming out? No? We did not, sir.
Speaker 30 (37:29):
Well, I'm sure it came from Defense, and I'm sure
it was stolen at the time of the turnover of
the administration. It's two years old, I'm sure it is,
and they've been holding it for a juicy time, and
I think they've thrown it out to effect Hatfield mc govern.
That's my own estimate.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
General Haig thought it was being released in an attempt
to gain enough votes to pass the McGovern Hatfield Bill,
known as the End the War Amendment. The amendment set
a Vietnam withdrawal deadline of June nineteen seventy two. As
we mentioned earlier, Nixon thought this would jeopardize more American lives,
so he opposed's the amendment. General Haig went on to
say that the New York Times article placed the genesis
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of the war on JFK and was a brutal attack
on President Johnson. But Haig thought the report would give
fuel to the anti war movement at a time that
could hurt Nixon's Vietnam exit plan. So that same day,
Nixon took a call with his national security advisor, Henry
Kissinger and opened with General Haig's concerns.
Speaker 11 (38:28):
Haig was very disturbed by that New York Times thank Fortunately,
according to Haig, its own relates to the two previous
administrations of that correct.
Speaker 32 (38:35):
That is, it's so it's massive mismanagement of how we
got there, and it spins it all on Kennedy and
John sure Agnamara. So from that point of view it
helped us. They had sort of tried to make it
Nixteme's war. And what this proves is that if it's
anybody wore, it's Kennedy's and sohn so that these Democrats
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now pleading about what we're doing wrong this graphically who
is responsible for the basic math.
Speaker 11 (39:03):
The thing though, that Henry to me is if unconsfortable,
this is reasonable action on the part of the batter
to put it out.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
The following day, the issue began to heat up. President
Nixon took a call with his domestic affairs advisor, John Erlikman,
and Erlikman got right into it.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
Miss President.
Speaker 26 (39:19):
The Attorney General's called a couple of times about these
New York Times stories, and he's advised by his people
that unless he puts the Times on notice, he's probably
going to waive any right of prosecution against the newspaper.
And he is calling now to see if you would
approve his putting them on notice before their first edition.
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For tomorrow comes out. You mean to prosecute the Times. Hell,
I wouldn't prosecute the Times. My view is to prosecute
the goddamn pricks it David to me out if.
Speaker 11 (39:51):
You can find out who that is? I know, I mean,
could the Times be prosecuted? Apparently? So wait a minute,
Wait a minute.
Speaker 26 (39:59):
They on the other hand, they're going to run another
story tomorrow, right and waited after that one. Well, his
point is that he feels he has to give them
some sort of advanced notice and then if they go
ahead in disregard, why then there's no danger of waiver.
But if he doesn't give them notice, then it's almost
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like entrapment. We sit here and let them go ahead
on a course of conduct and don't raise any objection.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Nixon was hesitant to take action against the New York Times,
dating back to the nineteen forty eight alger his case.
The media had been targeting Nixon at every turn. Authorizing
his Attorney General John Mitchell to send a legal notice
to the New York Times could only exacerbate an already
contentious media relationship. Nixon continued, well, could he wait one
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more day?
Speaker 11 (40:46):
They have one more day after that? I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 26 (40:51):
He apparently feels under some pressure to either decide to
do it or.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Not do it. Does he have a judgment in himself
as to whether he wants to or not? Yeah, I
think he wants to.
Speaker 26 (41:03):
You might want to give him a call and talk
with him about it directly, as I'm not very well
posted on this whole time.
Speaker 11 (41:10):
How do you feel about it?
Speaker 26 (41:11):
Well, I'd kind of like to have a cause of
action against him in the sock in case we needed it.
I'd hate to wave something as good as that, but
I don't know what the ramifications.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
Would be in terms of the Hill. Oh hell, I
didn't an affect the vote in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Just Erlickman was concerned a confrontation with The New York
Times could hurt a Congressional vote on the McGovern Hatfield
Amendment that would force a disastrous troop withdrawal. So Erlikman
asked President Nixon if he'd take a call with Attorney
General Mitchell to hash it out.
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Would you want to take a call from him. Oh, yeah,
I'll cry, I'll call him. Good, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Nixon spoke with Attorney General John Mitchell the same day
about sending a legal notice to the New York Times.
Speaker 11 (41:56):
What your advice on that time? Sing John, you would
like to do it?
Speaker 29 (42:02):
I wouldam as president. Otherwise we will work a little
foolish and not following through on our legal obligations.
Speaker 11 (42:10):
And has this ever been done before.
Speaker 29 (42:14):
Publication like this?
Speaker 11 (42:15):
Or no? No, no, as the government ever done this
to a paper.
Speaker 29 (42:19):
Before, advising of lair. Yes, we've done this before.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
Have we? All right? Yes, sir? How do you go
about it? You do it sort of low key?
Speaker 29 (42:28):
Low key. You call them and then send a telegram
a confirment.
Speaker 26 (42:32):
Say that we're just we're examining the situation and we
just simply are putting you on notice.
Speaker 29 (42:36):
Well, we're putting them on notice that they're violating a
statute because we have a communication from mel Laird as
to the nature of the documents.
Speaker 11 (42:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Mel Laird was the United States Secretary of Defense at
the time.
Speaker 32 (42:48):
Right, they fall with a statute.
Speaker 29 (42:50):
Now, right, I know you've I haven't been noticed that,
But this thing was.
Speaker 11 (42:54):
Mel was worthing.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Henry, Henry's on the other I just he just walked in,
Henry Kissinger.
Speaker 11 (42:58):
Now put him on the other line, and go.
Speaker 29 (43:00):
Ahead mel had a pretty go up there before the
committee to day on it, and it's all over town
and all over everything. And I think we look a
little silly if we just didn't take this low key
action of Mailingham about.
Speaker 11 (43:13):
The public mail take a fairly hardline on it.
Speaker 29 (43:17):
Yes, he gave a legal opinion and it was a
violation of the law, which well puts us up.
Speaker 11 (43:24):
You know, we have to get well.
Speaker 26 (43:25):
Look, look as far as the Times is concerned, held
there our enemies.
Speaker 11 (43:28):
I think we just want to do it in anyway.
Henry told them what you just heard from Rosto. But
Rostock called on behalf of Johnson.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
That's former President Johnson, and.
Speaker 25 (43:38):
He said that it is Johnson's strong view that this
is an intact on the whole integrity of government, that
if whole file cappenants can be stolen and then made
available to the press, you can't have ood of the
government anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Nixon gave the go ahead. Attorney General John Mitchell put
The New York Times on legal notice to halt from
publishing the stolen top secret documents, and when he did,
it would start an epic chain of events that would
set the entire Democrat media complex against President Nixon and
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would ultimately give rise to what many refer to today as
the deep State.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Coming up on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
My name has now come out as the possible source
of the Times Pentagon documents.
Speaker 9 (44:31):
If the FBI had wanted to arrest him outside the
courthouse this morning, they probably couldn't have done it.
Speaker 23 (44:36):
I did this it rarely at my own peopardy that
I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of
these decisions.
Speaker 11 (44:46):
Just because some guys are going to be a martyr.
We can't be in a position of allowing the follow
to get away with this kind of.
Speaker 26 (44:52):
Wholesale faver he or otherwise, it's going to happen all
over the government.
Speaker 11 (44:55):
We got to get this, son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Overseas, a conflict in Vietnam was spiraling out of control.
This American Marxist revolution was slowly infecting the nation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred
and sixty thousand men.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
He's the first president in history who has been unable
to unite his own party behind a war.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Comedians who refer to Richard Nixon as a loser I
can win.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Democrats saw an opportunity to challenge President Johnson for the nomination.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thank all of you. Makes it possible to see
Senator Kennedy has been shot. I can't see.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Our projection is that Nixon will win.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Great objective of this administration at the outset to bring
the American people together.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood and the media so obsessed with Nixon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm Patrick Carelchi and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about tell stories.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The media marks stories about everyday Americans if the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries.
And we've promised only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part four of our series
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of episodes entitled The Fighter. You've probably heard Part three,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning, we're looking for the answer to the
question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with
Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So to pick up where we left off in nineteen
sixty eight, Richard Milhouse Nixon had overcome seemingly insurmountable odds
to win the presidency, and in the process he jolted
the GOP back to life. He ran on a simple platform,
bringing normalcy back to America by prioritizing lawn order at
home and ending the Vietnam War abroad. The message won
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him the White House, but by a narrow margin. With
the third party candidate also running on a law and
order platform, Nixon won the popular vote by less than
one percent. It was a fact he no doubt understood
when he entered his inauguration ceremony, I, Richard.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Bill House Nixon, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully
execute the office as President of the United States, and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So help me God, Nixon could see that he was
about to preside over a deeply divided nation, divided over
the Vietnam War, divided over lawn order at home, divided
over the big spending programs of his predecessor. So in
his inaugural address, he pleaded with the country to come together.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
When we listen to the better angels of our nature,
we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things,
such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
The simple things are the ones most need to today.
If we are to amount what divides us and cumment
what unites us to lower our.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Voices would be a simple thing.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever
of words, from inflated rhetoric of promises more that it
can deliver, From angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds,
from ambastic rhetoric to postures instead of persuading. We cannot
learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another,
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until we speak quietly enough so that our words can
be heard as well as our voices.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In the ceremonies that followed his inauguration speech, Vietnam War
protesters wasted no time in attacking the new president. Ironically,
they took the opportunity to protest the man that pledged
to end the war.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
I meant to throw a firecracker out into the rank
of the marching soldiers as the soldiers passed the demonstrator d'
hot game in.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
These anti American forces raging throughout America were attempting to
remake the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, and the newly
formed far left narrative machine were going to help in
that effort. Nixon had his work cut out for him
as he entered the White House. Assassinations had become commonplace,
and that was only the beginning of the list of
troubling trends he faced. Roughly thirty six thousand American troops
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were dead from the Vietnam War. Over five hundred thousand
soldiers were committed to the conflict. College campus violence had
become the norm, Big government spending had corrupt inflation up.
It was going to take a team effort to calm
the storm, But Nixon wasn't going to receive any easy
help from Congress. Both the House and the Senate were
controlled by the Democrats. The anti war radicals, Congress, and
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the media were all against him. So to get anything done,
Nixon had to compromise again, and Coulter, author of the
Unsafe sub Stack.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
The way I've described him, just you know, this ferocious
anti communist. You would think it would be the most
right wing of the Republican Party that would support him
the most. But he had actually been, in some ways
a little bit of a rhyeow And the reason for that,
I think is understandable. He would make a lot of
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compromises with the Democrats because, as with Reagan at that time,
there was one issue that was more important than any
other issue, and that was the communist threat.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
In this time of great turmoil, the Nixon administration could
not afford to be a conservative one. To tackle his
top priorities, he had to compromise in a way that
looked like rhino virtue signaling in the rearview mirror. He
created the Environmental Protection Agency. He put teeth into affirmative
action with the Philadelphia Plan, a program that required federal
contractors to meet certain minority hiring goals, and construction jobs.
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He poured money into historically black colleges. None of these
were particularly conservative, but he didn't have control of Congress
and needed help from across the Aisle to bring normalcy
back to America. It was this spirit of compromise that
allowed him to pull off the kind of efforts that
he felt protected Americans from the communist threat, like an
anti ballistic missile defense system.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
The new program that I have recommended this morning to
the leaders, and that I announced today is one that
perhaps best can be described as a safeguard program.
Speaker 11 (07:57):
It is a.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Safeguard against any attack by the Chinese Communists that we
can foresee over the next ten years. It is a
safeguard of our deterrent system, which is increasingly vulnerable due
to the advances that have been made by the Soviet Union.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was a nail bier, but President Nixon would end
up getting the program through Congress. He'd quickly compound that
victory with a massive publicity win.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's T minus one hour, twenty nine minutes and fifty
three seconds and counting. Follow eleven astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and
Collins are the left off from Pad thirty nine A
out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about.
Next up for them the Moon.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
On July sixteenth, nineteen sixty nine, nearly a billion people's
eyes were glued to the TV.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Set and then on a Sunday afternoon the landing on
the Moon, and a to twenty am Monday, July twenty first,
the date which we'll live in history as long as
man is on this planet and on the other planet.
Thirty eight year old civilian Neil Olden Armstrong is to
become the first human being to touch the Moon.
Speaker 12 (09:10):
T minus fifteen seconds. Guidance is internal twelve eleven ten nine.
Ignition sequence starts six five three three two one zero,
all engine running, lift down.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
We had to lift e thirty two minutes.
Speaker 13 (09:32):
Cash the eye lift that the A eleven.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
Oh boy, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Boy, it looks good. And we're here building shaking. We're
getting that buffeting. We've become used to what a moment
plan on the way of the Moon.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then four days later with in the.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Tan quality Babe here the angle heirlanded Roger tranquility. We
caught the on the ground. You got a bunch of
guys about the turn blue. We're breathing again, Tankalon day
and Neil, we can see.
Speaker 14 (10:04):
You coming down the ladder. Now at the foot of
the ladder, although the surface appears to be very very
fine grained, ad you get close to it. It's almost
like a powder That step brought the lamb. Now at
one small step for man one by amplete tranquility base.
(10:28):
It is Houston. Do we get both of you on
the camera from any place?
Speaker 11 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I think something rather important is coming up here.
Speaker 14 (10:33):
Neil and Buzz. The President of the United States is
in his office now and would like to say I
do worry see you're over. That would be Hunter. Go ahead,
mister President. This is Houston.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
A well, Neil and Buzz.
Speaker 15 (10:48):
I'm talking to you about telephone from the over.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Room at the Lighthouse, and this certainly has to be
the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House.
I just can't tell you how proud we all are
of what you have done. For every American this has
to be the proudest day of our lives. And for
people all over the world, I am sure that they
too join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat
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this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens
have become a part of man's world, and as you
talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires
us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility
to Earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history
of man. All the people on this earth are truly one,
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one in their pride in what you have done, and
one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.
Speaker 14 (11:44):
Thank you about a president.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Just as President Nixon was presiding over this monumental event,
news began to trickle out about his likely opponent in
the nineteen seventy two elections.
Speaker 16 (12:00):
Senator Ted Kennedy may have seen history chances for becoming
president deflated because of a bizarre and almost unbelievable car
accident in which he was involved.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
At midnight last Friday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy drove a
car off a narrow bridge and into a pond on
Marthur's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
A young woman in the car with him was drowned.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Kennedy survived, but failed to report the accident until ten
hours later. Today, police moved to prosecute the senator on
a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after
causing bodily.
Speaker 17 (12:31):
Harmed Kennedy, the only one of the four brothers left alive,
went into court today and pleaded guilty to leaving the
scenes of an accident where a young woman drowned. He
got a sentence of two months in jail, the sentence suspended,
and a year's probassion. The judge gave him the minimum
jail sentence and suspended that because he said Kennedy already
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had been and would be punished more than anything the
court could do to him.
Speaker 18 (12:57):
I have made my plea and I've requested the networks
for fine this evenings that'll make a report to the.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
People of Massachusetts.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
Jenator will make a statement on television tonight at seven
thirty Eastern time. It will be a statement only, not
a news conference. No reporters will be allowed in by
his decision, and so no questions will be asked.
Speaker 18 (13:22):
Little over one mile away, the car that I was
driving on an unlit road with an off a narrow
bridge which had no guard rails and was built on
the left angle to the road. The car overturned in
a deep pond and immediately.
Speaker 14 (13:35):
Filled with water.
Speaker 18 (13:36):
I remember thinking, as the cold water rushed in around
my head that I was for certain drowning. Then water
entered my lungs and I actually felt the sensation of drowning,
but somehow I struggled for the surface alive. I made
immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Joe by diving
into the strong and murky current that succeeded only in
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increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. My conduct
and conversations during the next several hours, for the extent
that I can remember them, make no sense to me
at all. The opportunity to work with you when serve
Massachusetts has made my life worthwhile, and so I asked
you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think.
Speaker 14 (14:20):
This through with me.
Speaker 18 (14:21):
In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion.
Speaker 16 (14:29):
The answer they gave was clear, stay in office, and
he did.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The Massachusetts Senator refused to take questions instead of demanding answers.
The media were much more concerned about a different topic.
Speaker 19 (14:41):
Before the Young Blond was killed, many politicians, including Republicans,
looked on Senator Kennedy as a shoe in for the
Democratic presidential nomination against President Nixon's bid for reelection in
nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 20 (14:53):
Senator Kennedy's suspended sentence was granted on the basis of
his character and his worldwide reputation. But it's this worldwide
reputation that is now the larger question, what can or
will he do to preserve his potential as a candidate
for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Over the years and decades that followed, the treatment of
Ted Kennedy would become an astonishing example of liberal bias
in the media, especially when they decided to turn the
screws on President Nixon. But one thing could be sure
at the time, the Democrats' leading contender to take down
Nixon in nineteen seventy two was now fatally compromised. The
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left needed something to muddy up the man from your Belinda,
and they'd find it in a problem created by another Kennedy.
Speaker 21 (15:37):
The mass march on Washington to protest the Vietnam War
was peaceful. About three thousand mobilization marshals. They're keeping the
demonstrators within the bounds of the march permitted by officials.
The cry of peace now goes up in several places
along the root of march almost continuously. Hands are held
high with the anti war peace sign. Flags, American un piece,
a pale blue with a dove in the center, and
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Viet Kong are waved all along the route of march.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In the fall of nineteen sixty nine, tisters continued their
campaign to turn the Vietnam War into Nixon's war, they
began to turn up the temperature a few notches.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
Crowd estimated at two hundred and fifty to five hundred
thousand persons, took part in the demonstration in the nation's
capitol a month earlier. Across the country, thousands more showed
their opposition to the war with parades and peace rallies.
Speaker 22 (16:23):
Well aping nail all.
Speaker 23 (16:30):
Help.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
For his part, President Nixon was doing what he could
to end the war. Dating back to his entry into
the White House, he began peace talks. They floundered.
Speaker 24 (16:45):
The effect of all the public, private, and secret negotiations
which have been undertaken since the bombing hal a year
ago and since his administration came into office in January twentieth,
can be some done In one sentence, No progress whatever
has been made except agreement on the shape of the
marketing table.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
By June nineteen sixty nine, Nixon began making progress. He
met with South Vietnamese President IW on Midway Island and
then made an announcement as.
Speaker 25 (17:13):
A Jew informed me that the progress of South.
Speaker 26 (17:17):
Vietnamese forces had been so successful that he could now
recommend that the.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
United States began to replace.
Speaker 26 (17:25):
US combat forces with Vietnamese forces.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
This same assessment was made by General Abrams when he
reported to me last night and this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
As a result, President Nixon began reducing American troops in Vietnam.
His program of handing the war over entirely to the
South Vietnamese came to be known as Vietnamization.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
In June, President Nixon began withdrawing some of the five
hundred and forty thousand American troops.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Three such reductions.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Were announced in nineteen sixty nine, a pullback totally in
one hundred and ten thousand men.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
In September nineteen sixty nine, he canceled the end of
year draft calls. But Nick didn't believe he could just
pull out all American troops at once. In his view,
it would have left South Vietnam to quickly fall to
the communist North, and more importantly, an unstable South Vietnam
would have led to American troop deaths as they exited
the country. So by the fall of nineteen sixty nine,
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the Marxist College agitators used Nixon's decisions to continue their
campaign of turning the Vietnam War into Nixon's war through
campus and Washington, DC protests, they demanded an immediate withdrawal
from the conflict. Nixon was asked if the demonstrators would
alter his Vietnam policy.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I have often said that there's really very little that
we in Washington can do with regard to running the
university and college campuses of this country. We have another
problems running the nation, the national problems. Now, I understand
that there has been and continues to be opposition to
the war in Vietnam, on the campuses and also in
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the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned,
we expected, however, under no circumstances will I be affected
whatever by it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's about when Hollywood began to heavily enter the fray.
The Tinsiltown crowd was largely quiet when both JFK and
LBJ escalated America's involvement in Asia, but now with a
Republican in office, the shackles were removed. They were free
to blame Nixon for the entire affair. Comedian Dick Gregory
captured the mood of activist Hollywood at the time.
Speaker 27 (19:32):
Last month, President of the United States said, nothing you
young kids would do would have any effect on him. Well,
I suggested the President of the United States, if you
want to know how much effect you youngsters can have
on the president, he should make one long distance phone
call to the LBJ rant and half that by how
much effect you can ask.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
As nineteen seventy arrived, Nixon continued his Vietnamization.
Speaker 16 (20:03):
The Vietnamese have taken over virtually the entire fighting war.
American combat troops still remaining have been pulled away from
hot border areas into the interior and coastal regions, and
as a result, US casualties in nineteen seventy were less
than half of the nineteen sixty nine total. President Nixon
vowed to bring home more American.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Troops this year.
Speaker 16 (20:23):
So far, that's what's happening.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I am to night announcing plans further withdrawal of an
additional one hundred and fifty thousand American troops to be
completed during the spring of next year. This will bring
a total reduction of two hundred and sixty five five
hundred men in our armed forces in Vietnam, below the
level that existed when we took office fifteen months ago.
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Speaker 2 (22:50):
Welcome back to red Pilled America. So Nixon was fulfilling
his campaign pledge by massively reducing American troops in Vietnam,
but just days after he announced an additional one hundred
and fifty thousand true production, something happened that gave his
enemies an opening to attack. As Americans continued exiting the country.
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In early nineteen seventy one, the Vietcong increased forces along
South Vietnam's western border of Cambodia. They used the area
as a base for attacks on both South Vietnamese and
American troops. So to protect his military, President Nixon announced
in action. On April thirtieth, nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Good Evening, my fellow Americans. Ten days ago, in my
report to the Nation on Vietnam, I announced the decision
to withdraw an additional one hundred and fifty thousand Americans
from Vietnam over the next year. I said then that
I was making that decision despite our concern over increased
enemy activity in Laos, in Cambodia, and in South Vietnam.
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And at that time I warned that if I concluded
that increased enemy activity in any of these areas endangered
the lives of Americans remaining in Vietnam, I would not
hesitate to take strong and effective measures to deal with
that situation. Despite that morning, North Vietnam has increased its
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military aggression in all these areas, and particularly in Cambodia.
After full consultation with the National Security Council, Ambassador Bunker,
General Abrams, and my other advisors, I have concluded that
the actions of the enemy in the last ten days
clearly endanger the lives of Americans who are in Vietnam
now and would constitute an unacceptable risk to those who
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will be there after withdrawal of another one hundred and
fifty thousand to protect our men who are in Vietnam,
and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and
Vietnamization programs, I have concluded that the time has come
for action.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Tonight, Baracan and.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
South Vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire
Communist military operation in South Vietnam. This key control center
has been occupied by the North Vietnamese and viet Cong
for five years in blatant violation of Cambodia's neutrality. This
is not an invasion of Cambodia. The areas in which
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these attacks will be launched are completely occupied and controlled
by North Vietnamese forces. Our purpose is not to occupy
the areas. Once enemy forces are driven out of these
sanctuaries and once their military supplies are destroyed, we will withdraw.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Marxist radicals took advantage of the announcement.
Speaker 16 (25:48):
The place Kent State University in Ohio. If you were
there on May fourth, you would have seen a campus
filled with Ohio National Guard units called into quell student rioting,
which began as a protest against the use of US
forces in Cambodia. The guardsmen had been ordered onto the
campus after the university's ROTC building had been burned to
the ground in the second night of disruption by anti
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war students.
Speaker 28 (26:10):
The National Guard was called in over the weekend by
Ohio Governor James Rhose. Today, when fifteen hundred students started
an anti war rally on the university commons, the guardsmen
surrounded them. Then, when some students started throwing rocks, the
guard moved in with tear gas. The students were forced
up a hill by the tear gas. Some of them
started throwing gas canisters back at the guardsmen.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Others threw rocks.
Speaker 22 (26:34):
Suddenly they turned around, got on their knees as if
they were ordered to.
Speaker 13 (26:38):
They did it all together aim And.
Speaker 22 (26:41):
Personally, I was standing there saying they're not going to shoot.
Say they can't do that. You know, if they're going
to shoot it's going to be blank.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
No one knows who shot first, but ultimately several guardsmen
opened fire.
Speaker 22 (27:05):
The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a
bullet passes your head, it makes a crack. I hit
the ground behind the curb. Looking over, I saw a
student hit. He stumbled and felled to He was running
towards a car. Another student tried to pull him behind
the car. Bullets were coming through the windows.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Of the car.
Speaker 22 (27:21):
It was maybe twenty five thirty thirty five seconds of
sporadic firing.
Speaker 24 (27:26):
Firing stopped.
Speaker 22 (27:27):
I lay there maybe ten or fifteen seconds.
Speaker 29 (27:29):
I got up.
Speaker 22 (27:30):
I saw four or five students lying around.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
In the lot.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
When the dust settled, four students laid dead. A law
enforcement officer commented on the tragedy.
Speaker 15 (27:39):
I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason. I
believe that we used every conceivable effort to get the
people to dis bursten the move long before the information
moved up the hill. And we regret as much as
anyone that people were killed and wounded. We even regret
the fact that it was let's say to be here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The media dubbed it the Kent State massacre. Counter protesters
hit the streets.
Speaker 16 (28:05):
Many who called themselves the Silent Majority rallied around President
Nixon to show their support for him and at the
same time to visually display their disgust with anti war demonstrators.
In New York City, construction workers, some still wearing the
bright yellow hard hats of their trade, confronted a line
of anti war demonstrators. While the students shouted peace now,
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the hard Hats rallied with signs and slogans that said,
all the way USA and America love it or leave it.
Speaker 22 (28:32):
We want to shake the stones that maybe today we
can open a door for discussion and saken the stones.
Speaker 15 (28:37):
Who have problems.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Where are wanting to work with you?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Where the fellows shall build this country, Where the fellows will.
Speaker 26 (28:44):
Build a hospital when they need don has six, We
build a budget and tolls for them to get around in.
Speaker 15 (28:49):
We build the sholes that they want to.
Speaker 27 (28:51):
Find out, and we all shall know all the obervations.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
President Nixon weighed in on the Kent State tragedy.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
I do know that when you do have a situation
of a crowd throwing rocks, nctional guard is called in
that there is always the chance that it will escalate
into the kind of a tragedy that happened at Ken's State,
And if there's one thing I am personally committed to.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
It's this.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
I saw the pictures of those four youngsters in the
Evening Star the day after that tragedy, and I vowed
then that we were going to find methods that would
be more effective to deal with these problems of violence,
Methods that would deal with those who would use force
and violence and endanger others, but at the same time
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would not take the.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Lives of innocent people.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Student violence had long turned public opinion towards the law
and order message of Richard Nixon, but the radicals had
to trick up their sleep. They were about to employ
a new form of attack on the Nixon White House,
a novel strategy that would revolutionize media attacks and at
the same time make governing the country nearly impossible for
a Republican president to a rational observer, President Nixon was
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fulfilling his campaign promises, I want.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
To end this war.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
The American people want to end this war.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
He was removing American troops and strategically handing off the
conflict to the South Vietnamese. The American people were largely
supportive of his Vietnamization program, but then a nuclear bomb
hit the.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
News this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light
for all the world deceived and brought cries of outrage
from Washington. The New York Times began publishing parts of
a voluminous report that the Pentagon had drawn up on
the causes and conduct of American involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
On Sunday, June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one, just a few
weeks after the Kent State shooting, the New York Times
published the first of what they announced would be a
series of articles on top secret documents documents it would
come to be known as the Pentagon Papers. The first
article ran a quote from a nineteen sixty five a
highly classified military document divulging that seventy percent of US
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involvement in Vietnam was to quote avoid a humiliating US defeat,
Only twenty percent of the reason American troops were there
was to keep South Vietnam out of Communist China's hands,
and the remaining ten percent was to permit the South
Vietnamese to enjoy a better freer way of life. In
other words, according to the Pentagon Papers, the LBJ administration
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was far more concerned with saving face than promoting freedom.
The article argued that the Pentagon Papers demonstrated that both
JFK and LBJ systematically lied not only to the public,
but also to Congress. It was a bombshell.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
The nineteen sixty seven Secretary of Defense McNamara assigned his
officials to write a top secret history of how we
got into Vietnam. Composed over two years, it was seven
thousand pages in length, full of sacred documents. Well one
copy has been leaked to The New York Times, which
yesterday began publishing a digest of it.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The Pentagon Paper story would become a turning point in
American politics, but it took some time for the Nixon
white House to realize it. We know this because recordings
of their conversations would later become public.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Hollywood and the media have long built the narrative that
President Nixon installed a recording system in the White House
because he was diabolical. As the story goes, he trusted
no one and saw enemies everywhere. The truth is that
recording systems were nothing new in the White House. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt was angry that The New York Times
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allegedly misquoted him in an article. So to be able
to set the record straight, FDR installed the first secret
taping system in the White House in nineteen forty. His
successors followed. Suit JFKA reportedly installed a recording system after
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his adviser's publicly contradicted private conversations they had with him
about the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba.
Speaker 15 (33:06):
Did they apply to that day with any of the
play on flu in combat over the Bay of Pigs?
Speaker 11 (33:10):
They were not, in other words, sent on those things.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly told Nixon he installed a system
to both record calls.
Speaker 30 (33:17):
And meetings the HW budget they wanted four.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
And a pay.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
LBJ viewed taping as a defensive measure against being misrepresented
during the transition stage. LBJ reportedly encouraged incoming Nixon to
do the same. Nixon hated the idea, and on his
arrival to the White House, he ordered lbj's equipment to
be removed immediately, But as time passed, he began to
understand why his predecessors opted to record. Nixon tried many
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different methods to document important meetings, ranging from shorthand note
takers to memos written immediately after meetings, but nothing seemed
to work to get an accurate record, and there were
other challenges. Advisors would often publicly misquote conversations they had
with Nixon in meetings, conversations that had potentially major national
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and international implications. Additionally, it was often extraordinarily risky to
trust a single interpreter's translation of a meeting with an
important foreign diplomat. Recordings could also help with a future memoir.
Nixon slowly warmed to the idea, so in early nineteen
seventy one, he installed a recording system that would both
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record telephone calls and meetings in key spaces within the
White House. Hollywood and the media have cemented the narrative
that Nixon's recording system was diabolical, but it was not unique.
He was following the example of former presidents. And it's
because of these recordings that we know that Nixon was
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Speaker 1 (36:32):
Welcome back to red Pilled America. On the day of
The New York Times published the Pentagon Paper story, Nixon
had a call with his deputy National Security Advisor, Alexander Haig.
Speaker 31 (36:44):
Okay, nothing else about Christian the world a very significant
This goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly
classified documents of the war.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
All that I see that I didn't read the story.
But do you mean that that was leaked out of
the Pentagon, Sarah?
Speaker 30 (37:04):
The whole study that was done for mcnamaran.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
McNamara was lbj's Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 30 (37:10):
For mcnamaran then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford
and the peace snakes over there. This is a devastating
security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything I've all seen.
Speaker 11 (37:23):
Well, what's being done about it?
Speaker 31 (37:25):
Then?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
I mean, I didn't do it? Could we know this
was coming out? No? We did not, sir.
Speaker 30 (37:29):
Well, I'm sure it came from Defense, and I'm sure
it was stolen at the time of the turnover of
the administration. It's two years old, I'm sure it is,
and they've been holding it for a juicy time, and
I think they've thrown it out to effect Hatfield mc govern.
That's my own estimate.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
General Haig thought it was being released in an attempt
to gain enough votes to pass the McGovern Hatfield Bill,
known as the End the War Amendment. The amendment set
a Vietnam withdrawal deadline of June nineteen seventy two. As
we mentioned earlier, Nixon thought this would jeopardize more American lives,
so he opposed's the amendment. General Haig went on to
say that the New York Times article placed the genesis
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of the war on JFK and was a brutal attack
on President Johnson. But Haig thought the report would give
fuel to the anti war movement at a time that
could hurt Nixon's Vietnam exit plan. So that same day,
Nixon took a call with his national security advisor, Henry
Kissinger and opened with General Haig's concerns.
Speaker 11 (38:28):
Haig was very disturbed by that New York Times thank Fortunately,
according to Haig, its own relates to the two previous
administrations of that correct.
Speaker 32 (38:35):
That is, it's so it's massive mismanagement of how we
got there, and it spins it all on Kennedy and
John sure Agnamara. So from that point of view it
helped us. They had sort of tried to make it
Nixteme's war. And what this proves is that if it's
anybody wore, it's Kennedy's and sohn so that these Democrats
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now pleading about what we're doing wrong this graphically who
is responsible for the basic math.
Speaker 11 (39:03):
The thing though, that Henry to me is if unconsfortable,
this is reasonable action on the part of the batter
to put it out.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
The following day, the issue began to heat up. President
Nixon took a call with his domestic affairs advisor, John Erlikman,
and Erlikman got right into it.
Speaker 11 (39:19):
Miss President.
Speaker 26 (39:19):
The Attorney General's called a couple of times about these
New York Times stories, and he's advised by his people
that unless he puts the Times on notice, he's probably
going to waive any right of prosecution against the newspaper.
And he is calling now to see if you would
approve his putting them on notice before their first edition.
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For tomorrow comes out. You mean to prosecute the Times. Hell,
I wouldn't prosecute the Times. My view is to prosecute
the goddamn pricks it David to me out if.
Speaker 11 (39:51):
You can find out who that is? I know, I mean,
could the Times be prosecuted? Apparently? So wait a minute,
Wait a minute.
Speaker 26 (39:59):
They on the other hand, they're going to run another
story tomorrow, right and waited after that one. Well, his
point is that he feels he has to give them
some sort of advanced notice and then if they go
ahead in disregard, why then there's no danger of waiver.
But if he doesn't give them notice, then it's almost
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like entrapment. We sit here and let them go ahead
on a course of conduct and don't raise any objection.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Nixon was hesitant to take action against the New York Times,
dating back to the nineteen forty eight alger his case.
The media had been targeting Nixon at every turn. Authorizing
his Attorney General John Mitchell to send a legal notice
to the New York Times could only exacerbate an already
contentious media relationship. Nixon continued, well, could he wait one
(40:45):
more day?
Speaker 11 (40:46):
They have one more day after that? I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 26 (40:51):
He apparently feels under some pressure to either decide to
do it or.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Not do it. Does he have a judgment in himself
as to whether he wants to or not? Yeah, I
think he wants to.
Speaker 26 (41:03):
You might want to give him a call and talk
with him about it directly, as I'm not very well
posted on this whole time.
Speaker 11 (41:10):
How do you feel about it?
Speaker 26 (41:11):
Well, I'd kind of like to have a cause of
action against him in the sock in case we needed it.
I'd hate to wave something as good as that, but
I don't know what the ramifications.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
Would be in terms of the Hill. Oh hell, I
didn't an affect the vote in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Just Erlickman was concerned a confrontation with The New York
Times could hurt a Congressional vote on the McGovern Hatfield
Amendment that would force a disastrous troop withdrawal. So Erlikman
asked President Nixon if he'd take a call with Attorney
General Mitchell to hash it out.
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Would you want to take a call from him. Oh, yeah,
I'll cry, I'll call him. Good, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Nixon spoke with Attorney General John Mitchell the same day
about sending a legal notice to the New York Times.
Speaker 11 (41:56):
What your advice on that time? Sing John, you would
like to do it?
Speaker 29 (42:02):
I wouldam as president. Otherwise we will work a little
foolish and not following through on our legal obligations.
Speaker 11 (42:10):
And has this ever been done before.
Speaker 29 (42:14):
Publication like this?
Speaker 11 (42:15):
Or no? No, no, as the government ever done this
to a paper.
Speaker 29 (42:19):
Before, advising of lair. Yes, we've done this before.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
Have we? All right? Yes, sir? How do you go
about it? You do it sort of low key?
Speaker 29 (42:28):
Low key. You call them and then send a telegram
a confirment.
Speaker 26 (42:32):
Say that we're just we're examining the situation and we
just simply are putting you on notice.
Speaker 29 (42:36):
Well, we're putting them on notice that they're violating a
statute because we have a communication from mel Laird as
to the nature of the documents.
Speaker 11 (42:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Mel Laird was the United States Secretary of Defense at
the time.
Speaker 32 (42:48):
Right, they fall with a statute.
Speaker 29 (42:50):
Now, right, I know you've I haven't been noticed that,
But this thing was.
Speaker 11 (42:54):
Mel was worthing.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Henry, Henry's on the other I just he just walked in,
Henry Kissinger.
Speaker 11 (42:58):
Now put him on the other line, and go.
Speaker 29 (43:00):
Ahead mel had a pretty go up there before the
committee to day on it, and it's all over town
and all over everything. And I think we look a
little silly if we just didn't take this low key
action of Mailingham about.
Speaker 11 (43:13):
The public mail take a fairly hardline on it.
Speaker 29 (43:17):
Yes, he gave a legal opinion and it was a
violation of the law, which well puts us up.
Speaker 11 (43:24):
You know, we have to get well.
Speaker 26 (43:25):
Look, look as far as the Times is concerned, held
there our enemies.
Speaker 11 (43:28):
I think we just want to do it in anyway.
Henry told them what you just heard from Rosto. But
Rostock called on behalf of Johnson.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
That's former President Johnson, and.
Speaker 25 (43:38):
He said that it is Johnson's strong view that this
is an intact on the whole integrity of government, that
if whole file cappenants can be stolen and then made
available to the press, you can't have ood of the
government anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Nixon gave the go ahead. Attorney General John Mitchell put
The New York Times on legal notice to halt from
publishing the stolen top secret documents, and when he did,
it would start an epic chain of events that would
set the entire Democrat media complex against President Nixon and
(44:19):
would ultimately give rise to what many refer to today as
the deep State.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Coming up on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
My name has now come out as the possible source
of the Times Pentagon documents.
Speaker 9 (44:31):
If the FBI had wanted to arrest him outside the
courthouse this morning, they probably couldn't have done it.
Speaker 23 (44:36):
I did this it rarely at my own peopardy that
I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of
these decisions.
Speaker 11 (44:46):
Just because some guys are going to be a martyr.
We can't be in a position of allowing the follow
to get away with this kind of.
Speaker 26 (44:52):
Wholesale faver he or otherwise, it's going to happen all
over the government.
Speaker 11 (44:55):
We got to get this, son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
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