[PDF file]: […] first president to draw his power base from those who had not only conquered the North American continent but built their palaces on the West coast. Richard Nixon had tried to do this but was essentially scuttled by the North-eastern elite. Nixon never had the control over the media which was the essence of […]
[PDF file]: […] votes were going to be needed again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s […]
[PDF file]: […] had “brought the CIA a good background as former UN ambassador and US representative to China.”’ 5 However, as his campaign developed, Carter pointedly claimed that the Nixon and Ford administrations had used important government positions as though they were a ‘dumping ground for unsuccessful candidates, faithful political partisans, out-of-favor White House aides and […]
[PDF file]: […] America on 8 November 1960. In terms of the total votes cast, his win was a narrow one and he obtained only 118,000 more votes than Richard Nixon. This was a margin of only 0.17%, with nearly 69 million votes cast.1 The Electoral College (EC) system that the United States uses, did not reflect […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
[…] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
[PDF file]: […] phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his memoirs, Richard Nixon recalled his reaction to learning of the burglary: ‘……..Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: INTERVIEW EUU Words Graeme Bowman Photographs Chris Blatt Behindology: the study of hard political realities obscured by layers of hype and spin. Britain’s leading professor on the subject, irascible Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO […]
[PDF file]: […] difficult to tell precisely where the Luce empire’s overseas intelligence network ended and the CIA’s began’.25 During Eisenhower’s second term, Time magazine’s cover had featured vice-president Richard Nixon no fewer than five times. There was no doubt about where this was heading, and in October 1960 the Luces’ endorsement of presidential candidate Nixon was […]
[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]
