thanks for this sensational post-wfb,the old skull n' bonesman and "former" cia agent at his "disinformation" best.under wfb's gentle prodding,ev hunt informs the audience that the real victim of watergate was hunt himself-the cia failed to take care of him after the break-in went south.furthermore,nixon's real crime was referring to decent.patriotic,god-fearing,hard working cia agents as "jackasses" when they were captured after the sort of errors which would have ruined a frat prank.the most chilling comment came towards the end when the relaxed,and expansive e.howard asserted that the watergate break-in was justified because according to g gordon liddy,the dem natl committee was receiving "illegal" communications from foreign governments-and his band of super patriots had to get to the bottom of it-they would have busted into the salvation army if the damned trail led there-hell,howard,what if g gordon ordered you guys to break into mother teresa's convent?
we still don't know how the goals of the committee to reelect president nixon came to conflate so perfectly with the cold war struggle with international communism.its for damned sure that we don't know where the hush money,such as it was,came from.however hunt sniffs that nixon and his youthful goldwaterite white house counsel john dean did not know how to "manage a crisis."which brings me to my final disjointed point-wfb's father was expelled from post revolutionary mexico for using his oil bidniz as a cover for interfering with the obregon government on behalf of the usa-highly illegal-hunt would have been appalled-shocked-as you can imagine buckley senior got his "stuff" confiscated-the younger buckley had his view of leftie governments informed by this unfortunate turn of events for a daddy with an ivy league law degree.while nixon had a crisis management problem,'ol obregon did not.thanks again for the golden oldie.