Roger Stone gets this right. Courage becomes meaningful when the windows break, and nobody can promise you’ll survive. Nixon faced that test in Caracas. His restraint deserves as much respect as his nerve: a frightened leader could have turned a vicious attack into a diplomatic catastrophe. Watergate belongs in his record. So does this. I’m tired of history flattened into a prosecutor’s closing argument, with every achievement excluded because it complicates the verdict. Nixon deserves a full accounting. The men surrounding his limousine came armed with rocks and rage. He had to answer with judgment. That’s leadership worth remembering today.
Watergate was a CIA job. His VP was removed and he was coerced into choosing Ford as replacement. Then he was pushed out by the Watergate plot, to be succeeded by the only President never elected, who had been part of the bogus Warren Commission whose report lied the CIA’s previous work, the assassinations of JFK and RFK.
Roger Stone's last paragraph is a beautiful summary of Nixon's courage as well as Nixon providing a visceral example of what it meant and still means to be an American.
I hope the CIA made a little trip to Venezuela afterwards and made an example of the commie organizers to send a message. I could only imagine the retaliation if Nixon or his wife were injured severely or worse.
Roger Stone gets this right. Courage becomes meaningful when the windows break, and nobody can promise you’ll survive. Nixon faced that test in Caracas. His restraint deserves as much respect as his nerve: a frightened leader could have turned a vicious attack into a diplomatic catastrophe. Watergate belongs in his record. So does this. I’m tired of history flattened into a prosecutor’s closing argument, with every achievement excluded because it complicates the verdict. Nixon deserves a full accounting. The men surrounding his limousine came armed with rocks and rage. He had to answer with judgment. That’s leadership worth remembering today.
Watergate was a CIA job. His VP was removed and he was coerced into choosing Ford as replacement. Then he was pushed out by the Watergate plot, to be succeeded by the only President never elected, who had been part of the bogus Warren Commission whose report lied the CIA’s previous work, the assassinations of JFK and RFK.
Roger Stone's last paragraph is a beautiful summary of Nixon's courage as well as Nixon providing a visceral example of what it meant and still means to be an American.
Nixon’s sangfroid denied the communist organizers what they desired most: a martyr.
I hope the CIA made a little trip to Venezuela afterwards and made an example of the commie organizers to send a message. I could only imagine the retaliation if Nixon or his wife were injured severely or worse.
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