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Nov 4, 2024 Master Plan podcast
There’s a lost tale behind Watergate: corporate bagmen, suitcases of illegal cash, and Nixon circumventing the very campaign finance rules he’d just signed into law. Amid the blowback, Nixon leaves a ticking time bomb in the heart of Washington.
ep 2* Secret Plan for a 60-Day Lawless Window:Read the memo in which Watergate’s burglary mastermind G. Gordon Liddy lays out how anonymous corporate donors can funnel money to Nixon’s campaign before new campaign finance laws go into effect.
- A Nixon Aide Rehearses His Lies and Smears:Listen to Oval Office recordings, courtesy of the Nixon Library, in which Watergate conspirator workshops lines of attack that he’ll use in a television interview hours later to attack campaign finance reformers.
- Watchdogs Storm CREEP:*
Republican John Gardner and his watchdog group storm the office of Nixon’s Committee To Reelect The President to demand the release of its secret list of donors.
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DAVID:The news story picks up later that day at the Common Cause office, where we see rooms of young volunteers. They’re sporting some quintessential 70s outfits along with handlebar mustaches, big collars, and big hair. Most of them look fresh-faced— barely out of college — as they begin to sort through the preliminary donor information they’d managed to extract from CREEP. They didn’t get the holy grail — the anonymous donor list from the secret window — but they’d gotten something.
ARCHIVAL NEWS CLIP:A quick total for Chairman Gardner, just under $5 million. Heading the list, Chicago insurance man Clemens Stone — $1,000,000 — reinforcing rumors he’s about to be appointed ambassador to Great Britain.
Next, $800,000 from Richard Scaife of the wealthy Mellon family.
Arthur Watson, former ambassador to France, gave $300,000. John Mulcahy of New York hosted the president on his trip to Ireland, $255,000.
penzoil howard hughes
window of lawlessness feature not a bug CREEP; common cause IRS investigation; shredded, but not biggest donors, in rosemary desk [baby] before deadline 19m$ undisclosed 55m total; = 407million today
goodyear 3m am airlines pled guilty money launder; 19 corps 21 ppl? $ for watergate burglary?
nixon quit but left time bomb lewis powell
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and aircraft pilot.[2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.
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Connections to Richard Nixon and Watergate
Shortly before the 1960 Presidential election, Richard Nixon was alarmed when it was revealed that his brother, Donald, had received a $205,000 loan from Hughes. It has long been speculated[132] that Nixon's drive to learn what the Democrats were planning in 1972 was based in part on his belief that the Democrats knew about a later bribe that his friend Bebe Rebozo had received from Hughes after Nixon took office.[133]
In late 1971, Donald Nixon was collecting intelligence for his brother in preparation for the upcoming presidential election. One of his sources was John H. Meier, a former business adviser of Hughes who had also worked with Democratic National Committee Chairman Larry O'Brien.[134]
Meier, in collaboration with former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and others, wanted to feed misinformation to the Nixon campaign. Meier told Donald that he was sure the Democrats would win the election because Larry O'Brien had a great deal of information on Richard Nixon's illicit dealings with Howard Hughes that had never been released;[135][136] O'Brien did not actually have any such information, but Meier wanted Nixon to think that he did. Donald told his brother that O'Brien was in possession of damaging information that could destroy his campaign.[137] Terry Lenzner, who was the chief investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, speculates that it was Nixon's desire to know what O'Brien knew about Nixon's dealings with Hughes that may have partially motivated the Watergate break-in.[138]