The Nixon Connection

[ewagner]

How come we aren't playing up the fact that this administration is using tow of Nixon's protege's as top decision makers?

Rummy and Cheney were both hotshots in Nixon's administration.

...the duplicity (okay..lying) the secrecy and the political dirty tricks (outing Valerie Plame for instance) should bring chills to the spine of any voter who was around when tricky dick was running the show.

Also...wasn't young Dubya taught his political tricks with Donald Segretti of Watergate fame? Didn't he work Florida for Nixon with Segretti in the late '60s? And wasn't he also a protege' of Lee Atwater of the infamous "Willie Horton Commercial"?

Therre are too many connections here for comfort.

The voters still hate Nixon...if they only knew that Tricky Dick is getting his revenge..........

[mopinko]

1. doing my part

[buycitgo]

2. hah!!!!

I have Nixon and Bush masks, made my Xmas card a year ago using them

Nixon was santa; dumbo was his elf

very crudely done......my first assay w/Word drawing tools, but it got lots of laughs

no way to link it at this point, though

had it on a site, but it's gone

[buycitgo]

3. oh yeah....did you see the locked thread on this very subject?

a caller on CSPAN posited this in a VERY articulate manner

I'll see if it's still around

[punpirate]

4. Some confusion in this....

Rumsfeld and Cheney were Nixon appointees (Rumsfeld as an undersecretary, and Cheney as his assistant), but at one point, Rumsfeld was seen as not hawkish enough for Nixon, and there was some talk of dumping him.

Both were actually more influential in the Ford adminstration, Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, and Cheney as Ford's chief of staff (after serving as the head of Ford's transition team).

It was actually Karl Rove who sat at Donald Segretti's knee, learning the dirty tricks trade.

Certainly, Bush might have learned something from Lee Atwater, but Bush was his father's loyalty enforcer and the campaign's liaison to the religious right in 1988. Doubtful that Dubya saw Lee Atwater as his superior.

As for Bush working for Nixon in 1968, he was given inactive status after basic training, in September, 1968, to work on Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney's campaign.

Cheers.

[never cry wolf]

5. Arghhhh, you're all over it punpirate!!

Beat me to it. I get the feeling that in the early 70's the boy king had as much interest in the family business as the twins do today.

[Karenina]

6. Au contraire, meiner Lieber

http://www.southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html

George W. Bush's Lost Year in 1972 Alabama
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By Glynn Wilson
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 2 (PS) — The result of an investigation into George W. Bush's lost year in 1972 reveals a cocky privileged son who used his family connections to avoid military service in Vietnam and spend seven months in Alabama partying. He clearly skipped out on National Guard duty and avoided a mandatory drug test, all while learning the politics of "dirty tricks," deception and coded racism in the land of George Wallace.

It was the year Wallace, the spunky Alabama governor and presidential candidate, was gunned down in a Maryland parking lot, the year of the Watergate break in and the beginning of the end for "Tricky Dick" Nixon. It was also the last year for segregationists to openly fight integration of the public schools, a time when racism went underground in American politics in the form of a "Dixie Strategy." And it was the beginning of a major political realignment that transformed the American South from a one-party Democratic stronghold into a solid block for the GOP.

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Dirty Tricks

It is also apparent that Bush learned one of his first lessons in the politics of "dirty tricks," deception and coded racism in 1972. It was the biggest year for "Tricky Dick" style dirty tricks in American politics. A group of Cubans working secretly for the Committee to Reelect the President, otherwise known as CREEP, broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington on June 17.

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One of Bush's duties as "campaign coordinator," according to his official title in the newspapers, was to stay in contact by phone with campaign managers in Alabama's 67 counties, and to handle the distribution of all campaign materials, Archibald says. That material included a pamphlet accusing Sparkman of being soft on the race issue. It also included a doctored tape from a radio debate distorting Sparkman's position on busing.