Richard Nixon/Presidency

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Nixon posing with his cabinet in 1972.
Date	January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974
Description	The Richard Nixon administration
Participants	Spiro Agnew,Anne Armstrong,Roy Ash,Winton M. Blount,Peter J. Brennan,Claude Brinegar,Dean Burch,Arthur F. Burns,George H. W. Bush,Earl Butz,John Connally,Frederick B. Dent,Robert Finch,Gerald Ford,Clifford M. Hardin,Bryce Harlow,Wally Hickel,James Day Hodgson,David M. Kennedy,Henry Kissinger,Richard Kleindienst,Melvin Laird,James T. Lynn,Robert P. Mayo,John N. Mitchell,Rogers Morton,Daniel Patrick Moynihan,Peter G. Peterson,Elliot Richardson,William P. Rogers,George W. Romney,Donald Rumsfeld,Kenneth Rush,William B. Saxbe,John A. Scali,James R. Schlesinger,George Shultz,William E. Simon,Maurice Stans,John Volpe,Caspar Weinberger,Charles Yost

For his background and earlier and later deep state connections, see Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon 'was president of the United States from January 20, 1969, until he resigned on August 9, 1974, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.

Kitchen cabinet

In 1970, the New York Times described how "Arrayed around the President is a small, exclusive fraternity of friends outside the government who are privy to Mr. Nixon's personal life and who exercise an indirect, though vital influence on his official life.... Prominent in that elite coterie are Elmer H. Bobst, honorary chairman of the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.; Donald M. Kendall, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc.; Hobart D. Lewis, editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest; W. Clement Stone, Chicago insurance magnate; Robert H. Abplanalp, inventor of the aerosol valve; evangelist Billy Graham; Jack Drown, Los Angeles newspaper and magazine distributor; and C.G. (Bebe) Rebozo, Florida realtor and banker."

Vietnam War

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In 1969, Nixon told his speechwriters Ray Price, Pat Buchanan and Richard Whalen that "I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no way to win the war. But we can’t say that, of course. In fact we have to seem to say the opposite, just to keep some degree of bargaining leverage."

Giant Lance

On October 27, 1969, in what Jeremi Suri termed "a strategy of premeditated madness" Nixon ordered operation Giant Lance, in which eighteen B-52 bombers armed with nuclear weapons to launch from bases in California and the state of Washington, to cross Alaska, were they were refueled in mid-air by KC-135 air tankers, while flying an oval pattern around the polar ice cap toward the Soviet Union and back for eighteen hours. This failed to get the Soviet Union to back down about Vietnam.

Tapes

Nixon had some Whitehouse conversations recorded, later used by the US deep state to remove him from power in the Watergate coup. They provide insight into his thinking as US President.

Deaths in Vietnam

Nixon: The only place where you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about civilians and I don't give a damn. I don't care.
Kissinger: I'm concerned about the civilians because I don't want the world to be mobilised against you as a butcher.

Nuclear weapon use

On April 25, 1972, Nixon was recorded on tape suggesting using nuclear weapons in the war in Vietnam. "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb," he told Henry Kissinger. "That, I think, would just be too much," National Security Advisor Kissinger replied. Nixon responded, "The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you?" Later Nixon remarked, "I just want you to think big."

Facing questions by reporters about possible impeachment, Richard Nixon remarked in 1974: "I can go into my office and pick up the telephone, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people will be dead".

1973 Chile coup

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The September 11, 1973 Chilean coup d'état overthrew of the democratically elected Salvador Allende.

"War on Drugs"

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The "War on Drugs" is a social control policy conceived in the USA in the late 1960s and launched in 1971 by the government of Richard Nixon.

"War on Cancer"

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In 1971 president Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer and announced his goal to cure cancer by 1976.

Watergate

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Mark Gorton explains that what is referred to by the commercially-controlled media as the "Watergate Scandal" was in fact a coup by the cabal to remove Nixon from power. He went along with this and was duly pardoned by his successor, Ford to prevent any legal light from revealing what really happened.