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"Harry Hope" |
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25 Nov 2003 09:40:08 AM |
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Georgie morphs into Tricky Dicky |
The most striking similarity is in the area of secrecy and what Nixon
staffers called "managing the news."
Nixon created the White House Office of Communications, the office
that has become the center of Bush's vaunted "message discipline."
Then, as now, journalists complained about a lack of news conferences.
In turn, the administration complained of "instant analysis and
querulous criticism."
Those words, from Vice President Spiro Agnew, were close to Bartlett's
complaints about "analysis" and "commentary" in newspaper articles.
And while watchdog entities such as Congress's General Accounting
Office and the Sept. 11 panel have complained of the Bush
administration's withholding of information, a National Press Club
panel accused Nixon, before Watergate, of "an unprecedented,
government-wide effort to control, restrict and conceal information."
During the late days of the Watergate scandal, as "the White House
mood grew funereal," Greenberg writes, a George Mason University
student "circulated memos from the faux-grass-roots Americans for the
Presidency, urging phone calls to the Judiciary Committee;
congressmen, they warned, were getting "swept up by the lynch-mob
atmosphere created in this city by the Washington Post and other parts
of the Nixon-hating media."
The student was Karl Rove.
From The Washington Post, 11/25/03:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11581-2003Nov24.html
The Making of the President: The Nixon in Bush
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, November 25, 2003; Page A27
The president tells aides he wants to "go over the heads of the
reporters" in order to "circumvent" a "hostile press."
He later describes his effort to "tell my story directly to the people
rather than funnel it to them through a press account."
The year: 1969. The president: Richard M. Nixon.
Yet Nixon's words are eerily similar to those uttered last month by
President Bush.
"I'm mindful of the filter through which some news travels, and
somehow you just got to go over the heads of the filter and speak
directly to the people," he said in an interview with regional
broadcaster Hearst-Argyle in one such bid to circumvent what he
perceives as a hostile press.
To Nixon historian David Greenberg, it is one of many similarities in
style between the two men.
From the way they structure their administrations to their many
escapes to Camp David and the prominence of American flags on the
lapel pins of aides, the likenesses are powerful.
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"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just
so long as I'm the dictator."
George W. Bush -- at a televised Newsconference, 2/18/00
"I would have made a good Pope."
Right wing icon Tricky Dicky Nixon
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| User: "George Johnson" |
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| Title: Re: Georgie morphs into Tricky Dicky |
25 Nov 2003 11:31:35 AM |
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| The most striking similarity is in the area of secrecy and what Nixon
| staffers called "managing the news."
|
| Nixon created the White House Office of Communications, the office
| that has become the center of Bush's vaunted "message discipline."
|
| Then, as now, journalists complained about a lack of news conferences.
|
| In turn, the administration complained of "instant analysis and
| querulous criticism."
|
| Those words, from Vice President Spiro Agnew, were close to Bartlett's
| complaints about "analysis" and "commentary" in newspaper articles.
|
| And while watchdog entities such as Congress's General Accounting
| Office and the Sept. 11 panel have complained of the Bush
| administration's withholding of information, a National Press Club
| panel accused Nixon, before Watergate, of "an unprecedented,
| government-wide effort to control, restrict and conceal information."
|
| During the late days of the Watergate scandal, as "the White House
| mood grew funereal," Greenberg writes, a George Mason University
| student "circulated memos from the faux-grass-roots Americans for the
| Presidency, urging phone calls to the Judiciary Committee;
| congressmen, they warned, were getting "swept up by the lynch-mob
| atmosphere created in this city by the Washington Post and other parts
| of the Nixon-hating media."
|
| The student was Karl Rove.
|
|
|
| From The Washington Post, 11/25/03:
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11581-2003Nov24.html
|
| The Making of the President: The Nixon in Bush
|
| By Dana Milbank
|
| Tuesday, November 25, 2003; Page A27
|
|
| The president tells aides he wants to "go over the heads of the
| reporters" in order to "circumvent" a "hostile press."
|
| He later describes his effort to "tell my story directly to the people
| rather than funnel it to them through a press account."
|
| The year: 1969. The president: Richard M. Nixon.
|
| Yet Nixon's words are eerily similar to those uttered last month by
| President Bush.
|
| "I'm mindful of the filter through which some news travels, and
| somehow you just got to go over the heads of the filter and speak
| directly to the people," he said in an interview with regional
| broadcaster Hearst-Argyle in one such bid to circumvent what he
| perceives as a hostile press.
|
| To Nixon historian David Greenberg, it is one of many similarities in
| style between the two men.
|
| From the way they structure their administrations to their many
| escapes to Camp David and the prominence of American flags on the
| lapel pins of aides, the likenesses are powerful.
|
| ___________________________________________________________
|
| "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just
| so long as I'm the dictator."
|
| George W. Bush -- at a televised Newsconference, 2/18/00
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| "I would have made a good Pope."
|
| Right wing icon Tricky Dicky Nixon
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| Harry
Criminal Traitor SUPERFRAUD George NIXON / NERO / CALIGULA / IDI AMIN /
SADDAM / Worthless Bush
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