Amazing reality check - Democracy Now vs- CNN regarding Pres. Ford.

[peacetalksforall]

I had just finished watching Democracy Now with a segment interview with Navasky, formerly of the Nation magazine who once published 350 words from a book Pres Ford was writing in which he describes how Gen Haig laid out the scenario where Nixon would agree to resign if he knew in advance that Ford would pardon him.

I then turned on a different TV and CNN was on and I heard a live interview with Haig in which he frames the Nixon pardon as pure Ford - a Ford decision, after the fact.

There is still time for you to experience your own contrasting versions of history.

You can catch a rerun of the Democracy Now interview in many ways during the day and supposedly, Haig will be on the Larry King tonight and I assume he will put on the same show twisting and turning the cover up, set-up (which was a law aberrarion), and which implicates Ford as a liar).

This entire episode with Navasky-Nation Magazine went to the Supreme Court - for technical reasons, however, the content of story the 350 words would have shown the set-up. But, now we're getting Haig's version of protecting himself and his cohorts.

[Don_1967]

1. 1984 ?

It never happen that way this is the way it happen you can't trust your own memories just repeat what they tell you until you believe.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Al was lying his ass off all morning.

They are still fighting the vietnam war. The last 30 years has been a determined effort by the right in this country to undo 'the damage done', to rewrite the history, and to reclaim a mythical american hegemony. Al Haig is a war criminal. Kissinger is a war criminal. Rumsfeld and Cheney are war criminals. A great injustice was done when NONE of the criminals in the Nixon regime were brought to justice. Those crimes were amplified under the Reagan administration, and we now are suffering through the combined efforts of both generations of criminals to bring their corrupt schemes to fruition.

Will we ever bring the criminals to justice?

[burythehatchet]

5. Haig has been lying for decades

its the hallmark of success in Republic circles.

[Neecy]

3. I heard Haig lying last night, too

One of Bob Woodward's books goes into great detail about the deal that was struck for the pardon with Haig acting as the go-between. Ford did indeed resist (at least outwardly) such a crass deal to assume the presidency but it was made pretty clear to him that unless there was a pardon, Nixon might try to hang on to the end of his term.

Last night on CNN Haig went to great lengths to say that 'he was in the room but didn't say a word' when the pardon was discussed with Ford and his aides - but note that he didn't say WHEN this meeting took place. Yes, it was doubtless after Nixon resigned, but the money part is BEFORE he resigned and a deal was made and on that Haig was silent.

[Hoosier Dem]

4. I wouldn't trust ANYTHING Al Haig said...

This man has always been an ego-maniac and rarely makes a public comment that isn't self-serving.

The only thing that most parties agree on was that Nixon wanted any way possible to hold on until his term expired. Finally, it was the Republicans who told him "You've got to go". i remember seeing an interview with Barry Goldwater years ago where Goldwater recounted his opinion of Nixon as "any man who would lie to his country, lie to his friends, and lie to his family is a disgrace to the presidency."

Al Haig will always be pissed that HE wasn't offered the presidency.

[monmouth]

6. I was under the impression that Haig suffered from alzheimers... Could be wrong

but if that's so how could he possibly be asked what happend back then??