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It is now well-known that the CIA concocted the term "conspiracy theory" to defame those who questioned the official government versions of assassinations and other real conspiracies. |
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WMR "Saturday Night Massacre" figure urges remembrance of Watergate as a large conspiracy |
October 18-20, 2013 -- "Saturday Night Massacre" figure urges remembrance of Watergate as a large conspiracy
In observance of the 40th anniversary of the "Saturday Night Massacre" of October 20, 1973, that saw President Richard Nixon fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after his order was refused by Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, the National Press Club held a panel discussion on October 17. Although the panel included the always self-congratulatory and anecdote-filled Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, the panel discussion carried an important message from Ruckelshaus, who was present on the dais. Ruckelshaus said that when institutions of government are called into question, it gives rise to conspiracy theories. Ruckelshaus stated that Watergate was one such conspiracy. Ruckelshaus, along with Richardson, resigned on the evening of October 20 rather than carry out Nixon's order to sack Cox. The responsibility for firing Cox fell to Solicitor General Robert Bork who had no other choice, according to Ruckelshaus, because Bork was the last official at the Department of Justice who could legally carry out Nixon's order. Ruckelshaus said he and Richardson both supported Bork's decision since the very future of the Department of Justice was at stake had Bork also refused to fire the Special Prosecutor. Ruckelshaus's statement about conspiracies helps to put legitimacy back into a word -- conspiracy -- that has been turned into a pejorative by those who wish to tarnish those who question the government's side in every matter in which the government is involved in criminal wrongdoing. On October 20, 1973, Cox held a rare Saturday press conference at the National Press Club to refuse Nixon's order that Cox make "no further attempts by judicial process to obtain tapes, notes, or memoranda of Presidential conversations." Today, Cox would have been forced to find another venue for his press conference because the National Press Club, which has become a virtual catering business, is only opened on Saturdays for such cash-paying events as bar mitzvahs and weddings. The Press Club participants in the panel seemed to forget that detail in heralding the club's use as a venue for one of the most important events of Watergate. Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a member of Cox's prosecution team, also made some comments at the panel about how the successful conclusion of the Watergate affair upheld the "rule of law" in America. Ruckelshaus's nuanced admonition to the members of the press that conspiracies are real and that Watergate was a major conspiracy will have little meaning to the stenographers who masquerade as journalists. It should be noted that October 1973 was likely one of the busiest months for journalists in Washington in recent history. There was some discussion of an offer to Cox by Nixon to have Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Stennis of Mississippi listen to Nixon's tapes and provide Cox with a transcript minus any discussions of sensitive national security matters. Nixon's contention was not without merit since the Arabs and Israelis were battling each other in what is known as the "Yom Kippur War," a war in which Israel was in danger of losing had Nixon not authorized covert shipments of arms via the Azores because Spain, France, and other countries had denied their airspace to such American arms shipments. In January 1973, Stennis had been shot by one of three young black assailants on the front yard of his Washington home. Even though they attackers stole Stennis's wallet, pocket watch, and 25 cents -- all the cash he had in his pocket -- the attacker with the gun told Stennis "I'm going to kill you anyway." Stennis, 72, was shot twice and the surgeon who tended to him at Walter Reed Army Hospital gave Stennis little chance of surviving. However, Stennis pulled through and lived into his 90s. However, at the trial of the shooter, Stennis was urged not to press charges against his would-be assassin. The prosecution agreed to accept a deal whereby the shooter pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and, thus, prevented a full-blown trial. Someone clearly did not want an attempted murder trial to result in further investigations and cross-examination of witnesses. Later, E. Howard Hunt, one of the White House "Plumbers" arrested in the break-in of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, denied that he had anything to do with the attempted assassination of Stennis; the attempted assassination of Democratic presidential contender and Alabama Governor George Wallace a year before in Laurel, Maryland; or the disappearance of the plane carrying Warren Commission doubter, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, over Alaska. Boggs was officially declared dead in January 1973, the same month Stennis was shot. Ruckelshaus urges reporters to remember that Watergate was a conspiracy and not a theory. Nixon's tapes reveal the connections between Watergate and the assassination in Dallas ten years before of President John F. Kennedy. In one tape, Nixon suggests paying the Watergate break-in defendants the $1 million in legal fees they demanded in return for their continued silence. Nixon said he knew where to get that kind of money in cash. Two years earlier, in 1971, another Warren Commission member, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, died from reported complications of emphysema at Walter Reed hospital. Russell told President Lyndon Johnson in a 1964 phone call, " . . . that dang Warren Commission business has whupped me down ... I was just worn down fighting over that damn report . . . They was trying to prove that the same bullet that hit Kennedy first, was the one that hit Connally and went through him and went through his hand and his bone and into his leg and everything else." Johnson, for the record, agreed there was more than one shooter, although he was pushing the meme that Cuba's Fidel Castro sent a team to Dallas to kill Kennedy in response to the CIA's many attempts to assassinate Castro. Johnson was found in his bed at his Texas ranch dead of a heart attack on Monday, January 22, 1973, the same month Stennis was shot and Cooper left the Senate. Moments earlier, Johnson called his Secret Service agents to report massive chest pains. The agents found LBJ dead with his phone still clutched in his hand. The previous Friday, Johnson took possession of classified briefing papers personally delivered by White House staffers working for national security adviser Henry Kissinger. When Johnson replied what difference it made what bullet hit Connally, Russell replied, "Well, it don't make much difference! But they said that... the Commission believe that the same bullet that hit Kennedy hit Connally. Well, I don't believe it!" By the time the Nixon tapes were revealed, including those containing the reference to Nixon paying off Hunt and fellow Watergate burglar, Frank Sturgis, because of what they knew about the "Cuba thing," regarded by many as code for what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Russell was dead and Stennis was said to be practically deaf, a probable result of his shooting. But deafness did not only plague Stennis. Another doubter who served on the Warren Commission, Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, stunned Kentuckians when he announced he would not run for re-election in 1972, thus, leaving the Senate in January 1973, the same month Stennis was shot. Cooper's hearing loss was said to be the primary reason, however, that did not stop Nixon from appointing Cooper to be U.S. ambassador to East Germany in 1974. By the time of the Saturday Night Massacre, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was gone -- he died in May the previous year amid questions about the lack of proper procedures in the handling of his body prior to burial -- and Vice President Spiro Agnew had resigned on October 1o after he pleaded nolo contendre to charges that he accepted cash bribes while serving as Governor of Maryland and as Vice President. Agnew was replaced by Warren Commission report supporter Gerald Ford, the House Minority Leader, who had conspired with Nixon to undermine Boggs by spreading rumors about him being a drunk and on drugs. At Ford's funeral in Washington in 2006, former President George H W Bush's eulogy decried those "conspiracy theorists" who questioned the Warren Report. Bush. who was present at the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, detractors aside, said, "the conspiracy theorists can say what they will, but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Jerry Ford put his name on it and Jerry Ford’s word was always good." Ford became President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation in August 1974. In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller almost became president after two female would-be assassins failed to shoot Ford, one at close range and the other from across the street. In the space of three years, two of the three dissenting members of the Warren Commission were dead and the third suddenly left political office. The man who was looked upon as the Senate's best arbitrator, Stennis, was nearly felled by two bullets. Hoover was gone in a suspicious death, Attorneys General were fired, with one, John Mitchell, threatening Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham that she would "get her tit caught in a big fat wringer" if the Post published an article about a secret Nixon campaign slush fund that covertly gathered intelligence on the Democrats. Not just 1973 but the preceding and succeeding two years were the stuff of conspiracies. Ruckelshaus reminded the press of the grand conspiracy of Watergate. Regardless of the staining of the word "conspiracy" by the oligarchs and elites, conspiracies have existed, do exist, and will exist and it is the job of the press to report on them fully and without regard to inane ad hominem attacks from the self-appointed cognoscenti.
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