Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this period, a tacit assumption between us, my informants and me since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan, But Magruder gave some interesting clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success of the September 15 Moratorium, the October 15 Moratorium in particular. Magruder's first job was to work on this, working for Haldeman with the aid of a memo from Dwight Chapin, which he gives in his book. The memo begins, "If the president decides to announce...
...Barker to the Cubans, Hunt to Barker, and Liddy to Hunt. This is also in Magruder's book although this order is not in Magruder's book: they just said beat me up. Colson called him up. Take advantage of the fact, he said, that there is an antiwar rally at the same time that J. Edgar Hoover is lying in state. This will confuse the public mind that Ellsberg is demonstrating against Hoover. Which is what they told the Cubans--Hunt told the Cubans that they were to protect J. Edgar Hoover's catavault from desecration...
Ellsberg also said the antiwar moratoriums of 1969 apparently "derailed" Nixon administration plans to mine Haiphong harbor that fall, two and a half years before the eventual mining occurred. And as in any spy story, Ellsberg cited some sources--a Washington Monthly article, Morton Halperin and John Paul Vann--while leaving others, such as National Security Council members, unnamed...
...press conference, Javits read a letter from a former P.O.W. stating that a tape made of Clark's remarks in Hanoi had been a "harmful blow to our morale." Clark, wrote the P.O.W., had encouraged prisoners in their "cooperation with the enemy in generating antiwar statements." Clark's position was especially "devastating" to those who had been put in solitary confinement and were trying to maintain their allegiance to their country. In reply, Clark accused Javits of an "orgy of McCarthyism...
...that point, the authors believe, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell were determined to humiliate, rather than pacify, the left. They reinforced Nixon's own suspicions and joined him in trying to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, a symbol of antiwar, anti-Middle America dissent, for leaking the Pentagon papers. The plumbers were installed. Spiro Agnew was unleashed. Enemy lists flourished. Watergate followed...