Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] no one knows for sure what motivated the historic break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the 1972 presidential campaign.2 Another unresolved puzzle is why President Nixon, who was apparently ignorant of plans for the burglary, did not simply fire those involved and cut his losses. What cost him the presidency was not […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post – but it never appeared in print. Richard Nixon’s flashing of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] and his close aide Clyde Tolson under surveillance to determine if they had a homosexual relationship, but came up emptyhanded. See Mark Feldstein, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), pp. 137-139. ‘lavender scare’ led to the firing of almost […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] sexual inclinations’.19 Such peculiar preoccupations are not expressed in A Century of War, but Engdahl does describe Kissinger as ‘all-powerful’ and having held ‘absolute power’ in the Nixon Administration; and that he had been an ‘appendage of the Rockefeller Group’ since the 1950s.20 More importantly, Kissinger is the central figure in his claims about […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] any information, I do not want any information that comes in from you on these delicate and sensitive subjects to go to anybody outside . . .” Nixon was finally ready to tip his hand. “The ‘Who shot John?’ angle,” he said quietly, 17 minutes into the conversation. Nixon did not dwell on the […]