Nixon News & Notes
Was Nixon a victim of ‘deep state lawfare’?
More than half a century after the Watergate scandal brought down President Nixon, the Trump administration is reviewing whether he was a victim of the “deep state”.
Officials at the Department of Justice (DoJ) heard a two-hour presentation from Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide, on “Watergate as lawfare”, referring to the hostile use of legal process to target an opponent.
Shepard, 81, has long promoted his alternative theory of Nixon’s downfall as a plot by his enemies. This has gained traction in an administration which has played down Watergate and sought to overturn legal safeguards on presidential overreach put in place in its wake.
Nixon resigned in 1974 after the exposure of his cover-up of wide-ranging political sabotage and wire-tapping that first came to light after a break-in at the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington in 1972.
Riley Moore claims Richard Nixon was framed and couped out of office
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal.
“We now know more about the deep state and its power and ability to literally change things at the top,” the lawmaker said during his remarks at the Nixon Foundation’s annual Grand Strategy Summit in Washington.
“An interesting aspect of this as it relates to Richard Nixon — he knew all of this,” Moore continued. “He knew it, and he stayed quiet about it. Because he didn’t want to erode the confidence of the American people in our system of governance and our institutions.”
“The truth is now out there, so I think people feel a bit more liberated to talk about Richard Nixon and what an amazing president he was in this country,” he concluded.
The congressman’s remarks refer to a Wall Street Journal report that found the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a review into whether the special prosecutor’s office committed misconduct while investigating the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, citing people familiar with the matter.
Latvian President Rinkēvičs, Former Speaker McCarthy Discuss Next Chapter of U.S.–Latvia Partnership at Nixon Library
The national flag of the Republic of Latvia flew next to the Stars and Stripes at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday, September 24 as the Richard Nixon Foundation welcomed Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs for a dinner and program featuring a conversation between Rinkēvičs and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy before an audience of American and Latvian business and civic leaders.