Watergate: The Hidden History [View all]
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
-- Neil Young
My wife and I spent four days in Boston last week. The highpoint for her was the wedding we attended, closely followed by the hours we spent on the beach. I primarily enjoyed the book stores. And one book in particular stands out.
If other friends on DU have reviewed “Watergate: The Hidden History (Nixon, the Mafia, and the CIA)” by Lamar Waldren, please excuse this OP. But I was unaware that the book was even published this year.
Two of the author’s previous books (with Thom Hartmann) are, in my opinion, essential reading: “Ultimate Sacrifice” (2005), and “Legacy of Secrecy” (2009). This new book is closely related to both of those.
Richard Nixon was a crook. Everyone I knew realized that when he was President. And everyone but Patrick Buchanan knew it by the time he resigned. But the full extent of his criminality -- he was a “mobster” in every sense of the word -- is extremely well-documented in this important book.
It’s important because the disease of Nixon infected so much of what went wrong in America in the 1960s; because it documents how the social and political atmosphere that allowed Nixon to come to power started well before he became vice president; and because it documents how that “cancer on the presidency” mutated and spread throughout our former constitutional democracy. It reads like a forensic autopsy of America.
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