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Revision as of 14:26, 9 January 2014
Date | June 17, 1972 - August 9, 1974 |
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Interest of | Donald Freed, Ashton Gray, Our Hidden History |
Subpage | •Watergate coup/Set-up |
Description | This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the powerful perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work. |
Webster Tarpley has some interesting ideas on this.