Nixon Too Boozed For War
Dough posted:
PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon was so drunk one night after the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 that his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, wouldn't allow him to take a call from the British prime minister. The story is told in 20,000 pages of telephone transcripts and nearly 1 million pages of national security records gone over for the last four years by historian Robert Dallek, whose new book, "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," is excerpted in Vanity Fair. On Oct. 11, 1973, at 7:55 p.m., Brent Scowcroft called from the National Security Council and told Kissinger that British P.M. Edward Heath wanted to talk to Nixon within the next 30 minutes. "Can we tell them no?" Kissinger responded. "When I talked to the president, he was loaded." Elsewhere in the book, Nixon says of the press he famously loathed for most of his career: "Goddamn newspaper ----. They're a bunch of sluts." ************************************************
Too bad for Tricky Dick that Churchill wasn't his opposite in the UK, 'cause Winnie was drunk everyday of his adult life. He had to sneak booze into the USA on his visit during Prohibition. Is is any wonder that Churchill was hit by a car in the middle of the night during one of his midnight forays in New York City.
I also read in yesterday's "West Australian" that Nixon is quoted in this book as saying Henry K was nuts, that he needed to see a psychiatrist. What a pair...admitting to each other privately (also from the book) that the Vietnam War couldn't be won and that was in 1969 when they were labeling Democrats, like McGovern as members of the party of defeat in Vietnam. Then, they won the '72 election by a landlslide and went on to plan their own September 11th for the "irresponsible" people of Chile.
Was "Dr. Strangelove" really that far off the wall?
Mike B)
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