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History See other History Articles Title: Is the "MISSING 18 MIN" of Nixon Watergate Tape in 1972 the conversation with Rev. Billy Graham? Watergate '18-Minute Gap' May be Recovered Dateline: 06/17/02 Thirty years after the Watergate scandal brought down a presidency, America may soon know what was said during the famous "18 1/2-Minute Gap" in the Nixon-Watergate audio tapes if the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) succeeds in its restoration efforts. On August 8, 2001, NARA published this "Request for Information" in the Commerce Business Daily requesting proposals from contractors to participate in a project attempting to recover erased audio material from the 18.5 minute segment of the original "Nixon White House tape" number 342. On tape 342, President Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman are meeting in the old Executive Office Building on June 20, 1972, just three days after the Watergate break-in. As the two men talk, their conversation is suddenly replaced by 18.5 minutes of silence broken only by electronic-sounding clicks and hisses. When the apparent erasure was disclosed in late 1973, Nixon's already damaged credibility reached perhaps its lowest point during the entire Watergate scandal. Facing impeachment in the House and probable conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency in August of 1974. Nixon's secretary, the late Rose Mary Woods, ended up taking the blame for the erasures. Woods testified that while she was transcribing the tape, a ringing phone startled her, causing her to press a wrong button without removing her foot from the recording device's foot pedal, accidentally recording over the missing section of tape. President Nixon himself had order the Secret Service to install the extensive voice and telephone recording system throughout the White House office complex in February 1971. Existence of the recording system was first made public during the Senate Watergate hearings in July 1973. While the recorders were turned off shortly thereafter, the system was not dismantled until 1974, after President Nixon left office. The NARA project to recover any speech that may or may not be present on the "18 1/2-Minute Gap" of Watergate tape 342 is expected to take at least 18 months. Over the next 12 months, NARA will conduct an extensive series of tests to evaluate the ability of potential contractors to recover sounds in the erased area without damaging the historic tape. According to NARA, the tests will consist of a sequence of three test tapes recorded with signals and conversation known only to the National Archives evaluation team. Each succeeding test tape will more closely simulate the original recording. After recording the test signals the tapes will be erased. Participants will have to recover all that is recorded on the test tapes without any evidence of damage to the test tape or the signal recorded on it. Identical test tapes will be provided to each candidate. The overall goal of this effort is recovery of intelligible speech on tape 342 that is similar to speech recorded before and after the "gap", not just speech like patterns or an indication that there was recorded material in the gap. According to a NARA press release, the goal of the project is not to determine how the tape was erased or who erased it. "Those factors are not in question," states NARA, "The goal is recovery of intelligible speech."
Poster Comment: Nixon, Billy Graham make derogatory comments about Jews on tapes BY JAMES WARREN Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - (KRT) - Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control the American media, calling it a "stranglehold" during a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National Archives. The Rev. Bill Graham "You believe that?" says Nixon after the "stranglehold" comment. "Yes, sir," says Graham. "Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it." "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," replies Graham. Later, Graham mentions that he has friends in the media who are Jewish, saying they "swarm around me and are friendly to me." But, he confides to Nixon, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country." The newly released tapes cover the first six months of 1972, with the Vietnam War and the upcoming presidential campaign the backdrops for many conversations. The tapes touch subjects as varied as using a nuclear bomb on North Vietnam (a notion quickly derided by adviser Henry Kissinger) and settling a West Coast dock strike. They also include all of the famous "smoking gun" conversation about the Watergate break-in, known for its damaging disclosures about a cover-up and its 18 1/2-minute gap. The Nixon-Graham remarks came during a 90-minute session after a prayer breakfast the men attended on Feb. 1, 1972. "I find this rather stunning," said William Martin, a professor of religion and sociology at Rice University in Houston and author of "A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story." "This is out of character with anything else I have heard Billy Graham say or be quoted as saying," Martin said. "It is disappointing." "What Graham said that day is inexcusable. Did it ever occur to him that he should have countered the president?" said Martin Marty, a religious historian at the University of Chicago who noted the distinction some conservative evangelicals and pentecostals have made between supporting Israel but not American Jews. "One really did not associate him with this," said Michael Kotzin, a vice president at the Jewish United Fund in Chicago. "Rather than try to direct Nixon in a different direction, he reinforces him and eggs him on when it came to these stereotypes, and that's troubling." Graham, 83, is not in good health and indicated, through spokesman Larry Ross, that he could not respond since he did not recall the conversation. Thursday's release of 426 more hours brings to about 2,600, out of a total of 3,700, the hours of recordings either publicly disclosed or returned to the Nixon family because they were deemed strictly personal. Many recordings, including the Graham tape, are edited to exclude content believed to disclose national security information, constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy or reveal trade secrets, among other matters. Previous tapes have underscored the complexity of Nixon, including his insecurity and occasional nastiness. Apologists tend to cite his fits of bigotry as ancillary to his policy achievements, with the Nixon estate claiming that his harshness was often a display of faux machismo in the presence of H.R. Haldeman or his other top aide, John Erhlichman. While other prominent figures, such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then a Nixon aide, can also be heard on tapes during mean-spirited discourses by Nixon, many assumed a more passive role. Graham is unusual for being a distinguished outsider actively taking part. Graham and Nixon had become close friends during the Eisenhower administration, when Nixon was vice president. They were of the same generation and both reflected a strong opposition to communism and a shared evangelical bent. The friendship remained strong until Nixon was brought down by the Watergate scandal and resigned the presidency in August 1974. Haldeman's own diaries briefly noted the unseemly conversation. He wrote that there was discussion "of the terrible problem arising from the total Jewish domination of the media, and agreement that this was something that would have to be dealt with." He continues, "Graham has the strong feeling that the Bible says there are satanic Jews and there's where our problem arises." No such comments about the Bible are found on the tape released Thursday but, since it contains several long deletions, it's believed such remarks were excised. The lengthy chat opens with Graham praising Nixon's prayer breakfast remarks. "There were a lot of people in tears when you finished this morning and it's very moving. That's the best I've heard you at one of those breakfast things." After offering Nixon tips on preparing himself for big speeches, as well as strategy for his re-election campaign, Graham notes that he's just been invited to lunch with editors of Time magazine. "I was quite amazed since this is the first time I've heard from Time since (Time founder) Henry Luce died." "You meet with all their editors, you better take your Jewish beanie," says Haldeman. Graham laughs. "Is that right? I don't know any of them now." Nixon then broaches a subject about which "we can't talk about it publicly," namely Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media. He cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative who is executive producer of the NBC hit, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," as telling him that "11 of the 12 writers are Jewish." "That right?" says Graham, prompting Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, are "totally dominated by the Jews." He calls network TV anchors, Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite "front men who may not be of that persuasion," but that their writers are "95 percent Jewish." He demurs that this does not mean "that all the Jews are bad" but that most are left-wing radicals who want "peace at any price except where support for Israel is concerned. The best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews." "That's right," agrees Graham, who later concurs with a Nixon assertion that a "powerful bloc" of Jews confronts Nixon in the media. "And they're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," Graham adds. Nixon contends that "every Democratic candidate will owe his election to Jewish people," but he won't. Haldeman turns the subject to the White House press corps and the Gridiron Club, a bastion of the media establishment, both of which they say were mostly WASP once, but no more. "It was the Merriman Smiths, the Dick Wilsons, the Kilpatricks, all that kind of people. But you look at what covers the president today and it's really kind of scary," Haldeman says. Haldeman and Nixon both cite by name reporters from the Los Angeles Times (David Kraslow), New York Times (Max Frankel), Washington Post (Stanley Karnow) and NBC (Herb Kaplow) but stumble on getting to CBS. "From CBS, Rather, Dan Rather, is Rather? . . ." says Haldeman. A deletion then follows with the next voice heard being that of Graham, who alludes to A.M. Rosenthal, managing editor of the New York Times. "But I have to lean a little bit, you know. I go and see friend of Mr. Rosenthal at The New York Times, and people of that sort. And all, I don't mean all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know I am friendly to Israel and so forth. They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country. And I have no power and no way to handle them." Nixon says, "You must not let them know." The conversation turns to religious magazines, postal rates and Nixon's uncharitable thoughts on certain Cabinet members. Graham then leaves and, a few minutes later, Nixon tells Haldeman, "You know it was good we got this point about the Jews across." "It's a shocking point," says Haldeman, a frequent cheerleader during Nixon's negative diatribes. "Well," says Nixon, "it's also, the Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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FYI Nixon was brought up a quaker by his mother Hannah Nixon..
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Santa Claus brought me a Quaker once. ;-)
4um Traitor I get some Quakers every time I order Chile.
4um Traitor Haldeman's own diaries briefly noted the unseemly conversation. He wrote that there was discussion "of the terrible problem arising from the total Jewish domination of the media, and agreement that this was something that would have to be dealt with." Graham and Nixon were smart enough to know where the problems facing Amerika were coming from. Too bad they didn't get the chance to confront the problem head on and fix it. Had they done so then, we wouldn't have the bigger problem we have now nor have had to live through the last eight years which have led to what we are experiencing in Amerika and around the globe today. Nixon was right. He just didn't have enough time and smarts to correct the problem.
that 18.5 minute gap was explained in a video posted here awhile back Titled: Alice's Restaurant - A Thanksgiving tradition http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=91423 ~
Solly wanna Quaker??
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. listen to the google Here
Quakers are exempt from military service therefore everyone should convert.
Nixon was a hypocritical scumbag. He complained in private about Jews, but in public, he rescued Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Staying in power always came ahead of principle for Tricky Dick. Just like Tricky Dick made some remarks against de-segregation and Johnson's Great Society during his campaigns, but then signed every single bill creating yet another alphabet soup agency that ever hit his desk.
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