The Big Picture - Part 30
Let’s look at Nixon’s run for president in 1968 – and Kissinger’s role behind the curtain.
Introduction
I've never researched as much as I've done with these articles about Nixon and Kissinger. 7 weeks, thousands of pages.
When I started, I thought I would write one article about the Nixon presidency, Kissinger’s Watergating of Nixon, and Kissinger’s role in Gladio operations in Europe.
Well, that was rather optimistic. As it turned out, covering that will end up with at least three articles.
If you have read my series you will know, that I have a lot of confidence in John Coleman’s research – although I disagree with a lot of his opinions. But he is a former MI6 agent and he has spent decades since he resigned, researching what I call Cabal Rat Nests – like Committee of 300, The Round Table, etc.
A couple of weeks ago, Roger Stone posted an article about the Nixon administration - and Tucker Carlson probably used the same sources when he made a segment about the CIA being behind the Watergating of Nixon. (From 7m0s)
It’s fair to point a finger at the CIA. But from my perspective, it’s necessary to see who pulled the strings behind the CIA.
As most of you probably know, I’m Danish. So I knew next to nothing about these men when I started my research.
In June of 2020, I watched the ‘Plandemic’ documentary and saw a segment about the Kissinger Report, NSSM 200 (National Security Study Memorandum) - from December 10, 1974, which showed that the purpose of the foreign policy was to reduce the African population, to get access to their mineral resources. Kissinger wanted to shrink the population – or at least make sure that the population did not develop and did not use the resources for themselves.
The report is written four months after Nixon resigned.
That first impression of Kissinger was disgusting.
And after weeks of research that impression has only gotten worse.
I’ve come across Kissinger many times during three years of research. Mostly memes that show a horrific man. It has become clear, that he has been a powerful figure behind the scene for many decades. He became the power in the Nixon presidency and I’ll get back to him in future articles.
I’ve found a lot of contradicting information in books and articles about Nixon – and the more I’ve read, the more psychology has come to the front of my mind.
I think that one cannot look isolated at Nixon - the picture becomes clearer when looking at the Nixon/Kissinger relationship. For me at least. So, this time I’ll start by describing what I see about their personality structure and their relationship.
Nixon’s integrity was not well established so he relied on his identity.
Identity is strengthened or weakened according to praise or criticism – if you don’t stand firm in your integrity.
Kissinger took advantage of this weakness. He praised Nixon lavishly – and Nixon got more and more dependent on this praise.
Nixon’s focus was on ‘doing’, on appearing to be ‘tough’.
He expected the staff to be obedient – like he apparently was raised – as I saw in a copy of a letter to his father, which was signed ‘your good dog, Richard’.
Praise and dependency - that’s how their relationship worked the first year.
As I will show, in this and the next article, Kissinger manipulated dozens of people in the administration in order to oust Nixon and take over the White House - after Ford was installed as VP.
Kissinger has all the traits of a psychopath. Charmer and tyrant. To take full advantage of Nixon, he had to cut off his close allies. He succeeded, as we shall see in the next Part, and this made Nixon more and more isolated – and thereby more and more dependent on Kissinger. As we shall see in this part, Kissinger started establishing dependency during the months leading up to the election.
After reading John Coleman’s ‘Committee of 300’, Roger Stone’s ‘Tricky Dick’ - and lots of articles - links below - the information didn’t add up. Then I read Seymour Hersh’s book, ‘The Price of Power’ and the psychological interactions between these two became very clear.
But: Hersh doesn’t take ‘the Cabal pulling the strings’ into account – and I’ve had to do a lot of cross-referencing with John Coleman’s ‘300’ to make a guess on what happened in the Nixon administration.
There are more than 30 people involved in the toxic infights in the White House – so I’ve made a list of these men (all men …) which can be found here – link.
As I’ve been focused on the infighting and the manipulation I won’t go into the wars as such - Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, India/Pakistan, Yom Kippur, and Cuba.
I recommend Hersh’s book if anyone should be interested in what actually happened – and wants to see many more details of the power plays around these wars. It has been very frustrating to read about it, I must admit.
I’ve been infuriated and sad learning about the millions that died because of this administration.
In this part, I’ll mostly focus on examples of Kissinger’s manipulation and double-play to establish a background for the Watergating of Nixon – which I’ll describe in the next part.
I’m astonished by the mix of arrogance and relational incompetence Nixon possessed – frustrated that he was such a mixture of a wimp and a bully in relationships. I don’t see him as All Bad though. He had a lot of good intentions.
I’m shocked, that Kissinger got away with all that he did. And although I don’t like it, I can’t help but be amazed by how big a net he was able to spin.
Let’s dig in.
Richard Nixon
Before we look at Nixon as President, let’s look back at Nixon as VP under President Eisenhower (1953-1961)
During the campaign, Nixon was accused by the New York Post of having a secret “slush fund” - provided by contributions from a group of southern California businessmen.
Quote Britannica
Eisenhower was willing to give Nixon a chance to clear himself but emphasized that Nixon needed to emerge from the crisis “as clean as a hound’s tooth.”
Nixon then delivered a Nationally televised address in which he acknowledged the existence of the fund – but denied it had been used improperly. He emphasized facts such as his wife didn’t own a fur coat - unlike many wives of Democratic politicians. He admitted, that he had accepted a gift, a cocker spaniel named Checkers – and said that his daughter loved that dog, so he wouldn’t return it.
The address is known as the ‘Checkers Speech”
The address apparently changed the public opinion of Nixon. Eisenhower and Nixon were elected in 1952 – and reelected in 1956.
Eisenhower and Nixon disagreed about whether or not the US should send ground forces in support of the French that was driven out of South Vietnam. Nixon publicly declared support for the French – which he later was forced to amend.
But it’s not like Eisenhower acted to end the Vietnam war.
Quote from my article 26
Some US officials pushed for US airstrikes. Eisenhower refused to involve the US in another major conflict so soon after the Korean War – but he sent nearly $2 billion in aid from 1955 to 1960 and he increased the number of military advisors to around 1.000.
As I further wrote in Part 26, unsealed documents revealed that undercover US Air Force pilots flew in support of the French in November 1953 - i.e under Eisenhower!
Stating one thing in public and doing another thing – and furthermore hiding this action in Classified Documents – doesn’t paint Eisenhower as a man “clean as a hound’s tooth” to use his own analogy.
Quote USNews article
In the summer of 1960, someone asked Eisenhower, "Can you think of a major contribution that Nixon has made to your administration?" and Eisenhower said, "Well if you give me a week I might think of one.
Do you recall ‘Operation 40’ from Part 9?
I wrote about the disgruntled group of Cubans that were trained in Florida. CIA Director Allen Dulles and Averell Harriman – the Cabal Rat we have met in several previous parts - gave George Bush a “chance” to prove himself – recruiting and training Cubans in several terrorist groups that could kill Castro.
Guess who approved that operation?
Quote Hersh
No one knew everything about Nixon. His own campaign manager and advisor, Attorney General John Mitchell did not know that Nixon, as vice president, had approved a CIA alliance with organized crime to assassinate Fidel Castro until 1971, three years after Nixon was elected president. This alliance, known as Operation 40, would morph into the Kennedy assassination. Nixon was familiar with many of the CIA operatives involved.
As I wrote in Part 10, I agree that both CIA operatives and the Mafia were involved in the assassination – but IMO the Cabal pulled the strings.
Nixon’s run for president in 1960
Nixon ran for President in 1960 as I wrote about in Part 9.
He lost to JFK by fewer than 120,000 votes. Some Republicans, including Eisenhower, urged Nixon to contest the result. He chose not to.
Analysis: If you stand firm in your integrity, ‘choice’ is a response after careful reflection. The response derives from an ‘Inner locus of control’.
If you don’t stand in your integrity, you depend on your identity – in which case ‘choice’ isn’t a response, but a reaction. ‘Outer locus of control’ it’s called.
These reactions are:
1. Fear of consequence,
2. Obedience, or
3. Defiance.
In this case, I think Nixon was ‘afraid of consequence’: What if he contested the result and still didn’t win?
But he was very good at giving sympathetic explanations – as we saw in the Checkers Speech - and as he did here:
Quote Britannica article
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
In 1966 Nixon’s daughter Julie started dating Eisenhower’s son David. They got married in 1968 and that changed the relationship between Eisenhower and Nixon. They became family - and Eisenhower endorsed Nixon for President in 1968.
Before we look into Nixon’s run for president in 1968, we have to look at Kissinger.
The only way, all I read made sense was by looking at Kissinger through a lens of conspiracy.
John Coleman’s focus is always on conspiracy. He has done a lot of research on the Cabal’s Rat Nests. So let’s take a look at Kissinger – seen through that lens.
Henry Kissinger
National Security Advisor January 1969 – November 1975.
Secretary of State September 1973 – January 1977
Take a look at the picture above – which in my perception shows the relationship between those two. No doubt in my mind who is dominant and who is the underdog.
Quote Coleman
After a stint in the United States Army, beginning with the job of driving General Fritz Kraemer [father of Neo Conservatives] around war-torn Germany, thanks to the Oppenheimer family [from the level below the 13] Kissinger was picked to attend Wilton Park for further training. At the time [after WWII] he held the rank of private first class. In 1952 Kissinger was sent to the Tavistock Institute where R. V. Dicks took him in hand and turned him inside out. Thereafter there was no holding Kissinger back. He was later drafted to serve under George Franklin and Hamilton Fish of the Council on Foreign Relations New York office.
Coleman further informs that Kissinger not only received tutelage from John Wheeler Bennett, top intelligence director of the Round Table and chief of MI6 field operations in the US, but he also became Elliot's "favorite son" as he explained in his book, "The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics." Kissinger was co-opted into the Round Table.
According to Coleman Kissinger absorbed Elliot's teachings and was no longer recognizable as the man General Kraemer once described as "my little Jew-boy driver.”
Up until now, Kissinger is the one, after Rockefeller, that I’ve found on most of the Cabal Rat Nests’ member lists:
Member of CFR (Council of Foreign Relations)
Member of Committee of 300
Member of the Round Table (which is funded by the British Rothschilds)
Member of RIIA (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
Member of the Bilderberg Group
Member of Tavistock Institute
Member of the Trilateral Commission
Member of The Club of Rome
The following quote has information, that made all else I read form a picture.
Quote Coleman
Flowing from the 1957 Bilderberger meeting, Kissinger was instructed to open a Round Table office in Manhattan, the nucleus of which consisted of Haig, Ellsberg, Halperin, Schlessinger, McNamara, and the McBundy brothers. Kissinger was directed to fill all executive positions in the Nixon administration with Round Tablers.
I had my doubts about this information from Coleman while reading the Hersh book. Because Hersh mentions several of the above names - like Ellsberg, Haig, McNamara, and Halperin – in a way that sounds like they didn’t know each other or - as we shall see in the next part - as if they were adversaries.
But as I read more and more it became obvious to me, that those ‘first meetings’ and ‘hostilities’ were all part of the play to cloak their conspiracy.
Other facts about Kissinger of interest:
Shifted from Democrat to Republican sometime before 1964
Foreign policy consultant to the Republican Platform Committee in 1964
Consultant on Vietnam for the Johnson administration
Policy advisor for Senator Nelson Rockefeller
Consultant to the Security Advisor in JFKs Administration
Allen Dulles, CIA, spoke highly of Kissinger after they met in the early 50s
Nixon running for President – and Kissinger pulling strings
The Vietnam war started under Truman, as we saw in part 24
It continued under Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. And in the years of Johnson’s presidency, the population demonstrated regularly against the Vietnam war, as we saw in part 28
Nixon ran against Humphrey – Johnson’s VP.
Nixon campaigned on a vague platform of ending the war in Vietnam. He said that he had a ‘secret plan’ to achieve peace. He also promised to establish law and order in cities, crack down on drugs, and end the draft.
As far as I can see, the ‘secret plan’ was empty boasting.
Nixon received secret information and advice from Kissinger who was part of Johnson’s negotiation team and who participated in meetings with the North Vietnam representatives in Paris.
So let’s look at how Kissinger’s sneaky behavior became part of getting Nixon elected.
An important member of Nixon’s presidential campaign was Richard Allen, a 32-year-old foreign policy researcher. Allen was one of the few to offer his support after Nixon’s defeat in the California gubernatorial election – after which Nixon had accused the media of favoring his opponent Brown. He famously stated at a press conference “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”
But six years later he ran for president – and by June 1968 Nixon recruited Allen for his campaign staff.
Allen was aware that he did not have enough experience to serve as Security Advisor and his favorite for the job was Kissinger, who worked as an advisor to Nelson Rockefeller who was defeated by Nixon at the nomination for president.
As you all probably know – whether you have read my series or not – Rockefeller is one of the biggest Cabal Rats. They are one of 13 Illuminati bloodlines – and you can see more ordinary information about Nelson Rockefeller in this Britannica article.
Quote Hersh:
A few weeks after the convention Allen again sought out Kissinger […] and asked him to serve as a member of candidate Nixon’s foreign affairs advisory group. Kissinger hesitated a few days and then told Allen that it would be better for the Nixon campaign if he did not formally join it.
Here Kissinger makes his stand clear: He will work behind the curtains.
Shortly thereafter, Kissinger called Allen and told him that he had a way to deliver information – if the Nixon administration should be interested?
Allen was excited. He knew Kissinger was a consultant on Vietnam and that, even while he was on Rockefeller’s staff, he had worked out of offices in the State Department.
In other words: Kissinger was very well placed to obtain information and Allen was excited that he would pass it on to the Nixon team.
As Allen said with a laugh, in an interview with Hersh: “I became a handmaiden of Henry Kissinger’s drive for power.”
Quote Roger Stone:
Interestingly, Dr. Henry Kissinger, […] was Rockefeller’s highly paid national security advisor in ‘68 and was secretly sending memos to Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey suggesting how to deflate Nixon on foreign policy issues.
Ah-ha, so he would not only deliver information to Nixon – but he sent ‘memos’ to his competitor as well – thereby making himself valuable to whichever candidate that won.
The ‘information’ he delivered to Nixon was about the negotiations in Paris for peace in Vietnam – which was an important issue concerning the presidential election. The population was tired of the Vietnam War – as we saw in Part 28.
Quote Hersh:
As a secret operative Kissinger was a prize catch, because Nixon knew the Johnson Administration was involved in a desperate attempt to get some kind of substantive peace talks underway in Paris, and thus improve Humphrey’s chances in the election.
As said, Nixon ran on ‘a secret plan’ to end the war in Vietnam. But as we shall see, words and actions did not align – and Nixon did not withdraw troops until his next election in 1972. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Roger Stone:
Kissinger was working as a “consultant” for the State Department under Lyndon Johnson and was involved in the plans for the surprise bombing halt that Johnson would call in the days before the 1968 election. Kissinger would tip Nixon, thus guaranteeing himself a place in Nixon’s foreign policy machinery as the new president chose his team.
This is a short, accurate version. Let’s look at a few more details.
Kissinger not only offered information to Nixon AND Humphrey – but to North Vietnam as well.
Quote Hersh
Paul C. Warnke, then a senior Pentagon official, recalls that Kissinger visited McNamara [Defense Secretary 1961-1968] early that summer and offered to relay messages to Hanoi through two French intellectuals, one of them a close friend of Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam’s chief of state. McNamara was intrigued by the new channel of communication and asked Warnke to frame a fresh offer for Kissinger.
According to Coleman, McNamara was a member of Kissinger’s Manhattan Round Table and very well placed as Secretary of Defense in the Johnson Administration. ‘Well placed’ - seen from the Cabal’s point of view.
According to Hersh, Kissinger’s offer must have been received as a prize catch by Nixon. The peace talks in Paris would improve Humphrey’s chances in the election – and Kissinger’s offer made Nixon stand on more equal footing.
Quote Hersh
What Allen and the Nixon entourage could not know was the extent of Kissinger’s maneuvering. In funneling information from Paris to the Nixon campaign, he would not only be taking advantage of professional friendships but also betraying people with whom he had worked on the still-secret Vietnam negotiating efforts. At the same time, he would continue telling colleagues at Harvard and friends in Cambridge, Martha’s Vineyard, and New York about his contempt for Nixon and his anger at Rockefeller’s defeat in Miami Beach.
Kissinger continued to spread defamatory comments about Nixon throughout the fall, repeatedly expressing “concern for the fate of the nation if Nixon were to be elected.”
He rode two horses and offered the Humphrey camp to accumulate information to discredit Nixon.
Quote Hersh
Brzezinski [a big Rat and the author of ‘The Technocratic Era’] had called to see whether Kissinger would be willing to comment on some of the Humphrey foreign policy papers. Kissinger seemed eager to help. “Look,” he said, “I’ve hated Nixon for years.” He surprised Brzezinski [Hersh guesses] by announcing that he had already been in direct contact with Humphrey, and then offered to do more than review policy papers—he would make available Rockefeller’s private files on Nixon. The papers were known as the Nixon “shit files,” Kissinger explained and were among his personal documents at Harvard.
So here we see Kissinger offering to share Nelson Rockefeller's 'Shit Files' on Nixon – to give Humphrey an advantage.
Riding two horses indeed – and no shame at all.
As I wrote about in part 4 and part 13 : A well-developed and regulated shame and guilt system is the foundation on which morals, ethics, norms, and rules are built.
The lack of such a foundation is a characteristic of psychopaths.
When Brzezinski later called Kissinger’s office to get those ‘Shit Files’ his secretary informed: “Dr. Kissinger is working for Nixon now”
Kissinger conspire behind Nixon’s back
Let’s look at some quotes, showing some of the conspirators in place.
Quote Hersh
He [Kissinger] had made his first trip to South Vietnam as a State Department consultant in 1965, discussing the war with, among others, Daniel Ellsberg, who was then a pacification official in the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Kissinger made two more trips in 1966, again meeting Ellsberg and also renewing a friendship with Daniel I. Davidson, a junior State Department official who would later become an aide to Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, the chief American negotiator at the Paris peace talks in 1968.
If Ellsberg was Manhattan Round Table – as Coleman claims - Ellsberg is strategically well positioned.
When I saw Averell Harriman as ‘chief negotiator at Paris peace talks’ my first thought was: No wonder it didn’t bring peace.
Let me remind you, his father was Robber Baron in WWI (Part 5)
Averell cooperated with Prescott Bush to fund the Nazis in WWII (Part 7)
The Averell brothers were Skull and Bones (also Part 7)
He was probably one of the conspirators behind the JFK assassination (Part 10)
And most important IMO: As I wrote in Part 24 I suspect that Averell Harriman muddled the communication between President Truman and General MacArthur in the Korean War.
The Committee of 300 didn’t want peace.
Here comes the next Round-Tabler:
Quote Hersh
Warnke turned to one of his brightest aides, Morton H. Halperin, who had been a Kissinger associate at Harvard. “Warnke pulled me in and said that Kissinger had just come back [from Paris] and told McNamara of a new chance for a settlement and nobody in the White House was taking it seriously,”
and:
According to Halperin, “Kissinger was a catalyst in McNamara’s thinking.”
”Thus Kissinger became a trusted addition to the small group of the Johnson Administration.”
Here we see Halperin praising Kissinger – helping to establish the perception of Kissinger as a Key figure and getting him into the Johnson Administration.
Quote Hersh
He [Kissinger] began to spend more and more time in a State Department office, where he consulted regularly with Harriman, then a special assistant for the Vietnam negotiations.
Kissinger consulted with Harriman - who we know is Cabal. It would be interesting to know what they ‘consulted’ – or conspired – about.
Quote Hersh
Kissinger had been in Paris for five days, having told Daniel Davidson, now Harriman’s aide in Paris, that he was arriving on personal business September 17. Davidson had looked forward to the visit. Not only was Kissinger a trusted adviser known for his discretion, he was also caustic, bright, and witty—“fun to be with.” Harriman, now spending more time in Paris, enjoyed his visits, too.
Hersh has this information from an interview with Davidson – who paints Kissinger as ‘known for his discretion’. How farcical.
I can’t find anything condemning about Davidson so maybe he was just a useful idiot, praising Kissinger – like so many others did.
His comment, that ‘Harriman enjoyed Kissinger’s visits too’ shows he knows nothing. Davidson does not see Kissinger’s manipulations. He trusts that Kissinger is on their side. He quotes Kissinger as saying “Six days a week I’m for Hubert [Humphrey], but on the seventh day, I think they’re both awful.”
I doubt that Hersh is taking ‘The Cabal Rat Nests’ into account.
Quote Hersh
There could be little doubt about the magnitude of Kissinger’s personal risk in providing help for the Nixon camp. Harriman, former Governor of New York and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent members;
He paints a picture of Harriman as a prominent man – where I see him as a Cabal Rat that funded Hitler among other disgusting actions, as described in previous parts.
Quote Hersh
One close Harriman aide, asked later what his boss would have thought of Kissinger’s go-between role, cited Harriman’s deep loyalty to the Democrats and added: “He would have regarded the use of anything he told Kissinger to assist Richard Nixon as a personal betrayal.”
This Harrison aide doesn’t pay attention to what kind of man Harriman is.
He sees him as a ‘loyal’ man and has no idea that Kissinger and Harriman are both members of the Committee of 300.
The Last Weeks up to the Election
On a flight to Tampa in mid-September, Nixon had an off-the-record talk with reporter Kraft. When talking about who would be good for which job in the WH, Nixon praised Kissinger – and to Kraft’s surprise revealed that he wanted him as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs.
A few days later Kraft bumped into Kissinger …
Quote Hersh
“I mentioned it to Henry, who immediately acted the way he did in those days, and to a certain extent still does when some good fortune comes his way—he became a totally scared rabbit, and he said, ‘Please don’t mention this to anybody else.’
Scared rabbit? I don’t think so. My guess would be that Kissinger was still riding two horses behind the scene - and wouldn’t want a reporter to reveal he had a connection to Nixon.
So my guess is not ‘scared rabbit’ but ‘a hyena on the lookout’.
Kraft tells Hersh, that Kissinger called him four times the same day – begging him not to tell anyone!
A few weeks later, Allen too talked to Kissinger about a job in the Nixon administration. He advised Kissinger to make it clear that he was available. “You’re the guy for the job,”
According to Allen ‘Kissinger played coy’ – and I wonder if Allen could see the difference between ‘coy’ and ‘sly’?
Kissinger replied: “I would not seek the job, but if asked, I’d consider it.”
Allen shared the information Kissinger delivered with Nixon’s campaign manager, John Mitchell – who later became Nixon’s AG and closest confidant. Mitchell shared the information with Haldeman – who later became Nixon’s Chief of Staff.
As Allen tells Hersh, he laid stress on protecting Kissinger. “It was a matter of high stakes. It was important that Kissinger’s role be protected in the national interest.”
Quote Hersh
A Haldeman memo, referring to Kissinger as “our source,” included the following advice: “Our source does not believe that it is practical to oppose a bombing halt but does feel thought should be given to the fact that it may happen—that we may want to anticipate it—and that we certainly will want to be ready at the time it does happen.” And again, “Our source is extremely concerned about the moves Johnson may take and expects that he will take some action before the election.”
As it turned out, Kissinger’s predictions were right - a ceasefire was negotiated on October 9 with Hanoi.
Quote Hersh
On October 12, Kissinger telephoned Allen again and reported, according to the Nixon memoirs, that “there was a strong possibility that the administration would move before October 23.” Kissinger “rather cryptically . . . reported that there was ‘more to this than meets the eye.’ ”
One of North Vietnam’s demands in the peace negotiation in Paris was a ceasefire. Harriman was negotiator and flew back to Washington to get a reply to the demand. A few days later he flew from Washington to Paris. A breakthrough had finally been made.
Quote Hersh
Kissinger telephoned Allen and excitedly announced, “I’ve got important information.” He went on to say that in Paris Harriman and Vance had “broken open the champagne” because a bombing halt had been negotiated and would soon be announced. Kissinger’s latest information was “absolutely hot stuff,” Allen says. “My heart went into my mouth.”
When this was made public, Humphrey’s polls raised. He was now only two points behind Nixon – and Kissinger apparently considered changing horses in the middle of the race.
Quote Hersh
In late October, while he was still in telephone contact with the Nixon advisers, Kissinger wrote a letter to Humphrey, criticizing Nixon and offering his services to a Humphrey administration.
Hersh interviewed Van Dyke, one of Humphrey’s closest aides. Van Dyke told, that he knew about the letter. He also knew about Kissinger’s aborted promise to give Humphrey the ‘Nixon Shit Files.’
Quote Hersh
“Later we get this letter—when the gap begins to close in the last month—from Kissinger indicating his distaste for Nixon and his willingness to serve,” Van Dyke recalls. “It was so grotesque.”
and:
“I was not angry at him. I remember Henry being a both-sides-of-the-street kind of guy.”
Kissinger had contacted the Humphrey campaign in order to achieve his goal of getting into the White House - no matter which ‘horse’ won the race.
But that door was closed and he had to bet everything on Nixon.
The information from Kissinger about the ceasefire was probably the reason why Nixon contacted the South Vietnamese President, Thieu, several times and “urged him not to accept.” He suggested that Thieu “would get a better deal if Nixon won the election.”
Quote Hersh
Two days after the White House announced that South Vietnam would participate in the Paris peace talks, and three days before the American election, Thieu sabotaged the agreement.
This resulted in near-panic in the Democratic ranks, Humphrey dumped fourteen points in the polls.
Nixon won the presidential election on November 5.
Quote Hersh
Allen later said, “My attitude was that it was inevitable that Kissinger would have to be part of our administration. . . . Kissinger had proven his mettle by tipping us. It took some balls to give us those tips.” Allen was well aware that it was “a pretty dangerous thing for him to be screwing around with the national security.” John Mitchell was impressed, too: “Henry’s information was basic. We were getting all of our information from him.”
So Nixon's administration was impressed by what Kissinger did. This quote indicates, that he did it for them – not for himself and his backers.
I wonder how they would feel, if it was their administration he was disloyal too? How would they react, if he leaked information about what was going on in their administration?
Disloyalty is a sign of shamelessness – and thereby no morals.
They were excited to get a man with no morals into a position of power.
Nixon wrote his memoirs in Maj 1978 – Kissinger’s memoirs were published in January 1979
Quote Hersh
Johnson’s bombing halt, Nixon wrote, “came as no real surprise to me. I had known for several weeks that plans were being made for such an action . . . I had learned of the plan through a highly unusual channel. It began on September 12, when Haldeman brought me a report from John Mitchell that Rockefeller’s foreign policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, was available to assist us with advice.” Nixon goes on: “I knew that Rockefeller had been offering Kissinger’s assistance and urging that I make use of it ever since the convention. I told Haldeman that Mitchell should continue as liaison with Kissinger and that we should honor his desire to keep his role completely confidential.”
Kissinger, in his memoirs eight months later, denies any such contact.
Quote
“During the national campaign in 1968,” he wrote, “several Nixon emissaries—some self-appointed—telephoned me for counsel. I took the position that I would answer specific questions on foreign policy, but that I would not offer general advice or volunteer suggestions.” He specifically denied any direct contact during the campaign.
Nixon’s memoirs was probably very annoying for Kissinger. He denied any direct contact during the campaign - and therefore didn’t respond to the following quotes.
Quote Hersh
“Kissinger called again. He said that he had just returned from Paris, where he had picked up word that something big was afoot regarding Vietnam. He advised that if I had to say anything about Vietnam during the following week, I should avoid any new ideas or proposals.”
After all that happened in the next years, Nixon still describe Kissinger this flattering - although it might be on purpose that he shows how illoyal he was to the Johnson negotiations:
Quote Hersh
Nixon, discussing how he came to pick Kissinger, made it plain in his memoirs that he viewed the secret reporting as vital: “During the last days of the campaign, when Kissinger was providing us with information about the bombing halt, I became more aware of both his knowledge and his influence.” Nixon was impressed not only by Kissinger’s extensive knowledge and contacts but also by his willingness to make use of those assets. “I had a strong intuition about Henry Kissinger,” he wrote.
this is how Kissinger describes how he got the job:
Quote Hersh
Kissinger, not surprisingly, had a different recollection. In his memoirs, he described himself as unsure about what job was really being offered when he first talked with Nixon. And then, Kissinger wrote, upon being specifically told before the second meeting that he was being offered the NSC position he coveted, he asked the President-elect to give him a week to decide. Two days later he said yes.
The stage is set: The sneaky fox is INVITED into the henhouse
To be continued ….
Link to Part 31 here
Links:
The Kissinger Report
https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf
Committee of 300
https://archive.org/details/conspirators-hierarchy-the-story-of-the-committee-of-300-dr.-john-coleman/page/n158/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Haig
Tricky Dick by Roger Stone
https://archive.org/details/trickydickrisefa0000ston/page/63/mode/2up
Seymour Hersh’s book: Price of Power – Kissinger in Nixon’s White House
https://archive.org/details/priceofpowerkiss0000hers/page/21/mode/1up?view=theater
Britanica article about Nixon as VP
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Nixon
Britanica article about the Eisenhower/Nixon relationship
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/02/15/eisenhower-and-nixon-secrets-of-an-unlikely-pair
Britanica article about the 1960 election
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Nixon/Election-of-1960
Article about Nelson Rockefeller
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nelson-Rockefeller
Nixon and the Chiefs
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/04/nixon-and-the-chiefs/302473/
Article about Halperin
https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/halperin.html
Halperin on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Halperin
I never liked Kissinger. Thanks for reminding me why Jytte!
Amazing Substack as always Jytte. You bring me right back to that time in history. You deserve a trophy!!