28-10-2008, 03:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-10-2008, 02:23 PM by Charles Drago.)
Myra,
I'd like to suggest delicately that the question is too broad and begs too many definitions. And its reasoning may be inverted.
Was the Watergate break-in executed, at least in part, to support (or expose -- no kidding) the JFK cover-up?
If we assume that Haldeman was telling the unvarnished truth, then it is more appropriate to conclude that the JFK assassination was invoked to support the Watergate cover-up.
The human connective tissue between these events are noted in the persons of Hunt, McCord, Barker, and Haig.
One of the two great scenes in Oliver Stone's Nixon dramatizes Tricky's reactions upon learning of Hunt's involvement. Anthony Hopkins plays it beautifully and delivers deep subtext.
My answer to this poll: yes and no.
CD
I'd like to suggest delicately that the question is too broad and begs too many definitions. And its reasoning may be inverted.
Was the Watergate break-in executed, at least in part, to support (or expose -- no kidding) the JFK cover-up?
If we assume that Haldeman was telling the unvarnished truth, then it is more appropriate to conclude that the JFK assassination was invoked to support the Watergate cover-up.
The human connective tissue between these events are noted in the persons of Hunt, McCord, Barker, and Haig.
One of the two great scenes in Oliver Stone's Nixon dramatizes Tricky's reactions upon learning of Hunt's involvement. Anthony Hopkins plays it beautifully and delivers deep subtext.
My answer to this poll: yes and no.
CD
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene