Tiny Tim
The CIA wanted to use the Hughes Tool Company as a front to build a high-tech “The Hughes Glomar Explorer”…
FBI kill a leader
Nixon orders a Mission to discredit the My Lai Massacre whistleblower witnesses. One of the most shameful chapters in American…
Everyone watches the moonlanding
Maheu and the clique of Mormon executives ran the Hughes-Nevada businesses – the Mormons handled Hughes business that was outside…
Independent oilman John M. King calls President Nixon’s staff to suggest that the Nixon White House funnel money from big…
On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up; the blast broke nearly…
Culture War Rages
Donald Nixon, the President’s irrepressible brother, showed up in the Dominican Republic in October, 1969, to talk business with President…
The Army drops all charges against six Green Berets who murdered a South Vietnamese interpreter, Thai Khac Chuyen, accused of…
The Chicago Seven were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with…
Culture War Rages
Culture War Rages
Joaquin Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic wanted a better deal on sugar and ore exported to the U.S. Hughes…
Another A-Bomb detonated in Nevada. Hughes let Nixon know he was leaving Nevada but wouldn’t go quietly. …
Charles Manson, the leader of a bizzare cult that wanted to start a race war which they believed would wipe…
Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand are set to star in Funny Girl with Omar Sharif. It doesn’t work out that…
Culture War Rages
Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) met Bebe Rebozo in Florida and deposited the second of the bribe, again $50,000 in…
At the height of the reports of the Chappaquiddick incident, two Las Vegas papers were about to report the Kennedy…
Culture War Rages
President Nixon learns of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)‘s involvement in the death by drowning of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne…
Culture War Rages
Culture War Rages
Culture War Rages
Culture War Rages
The Secret Service had already tapped Don’s telephone because of his connections with Hughes, and as early as July 1969,…
Danner, Hughes’ bagman (via Maheu) met Bebe Rebozo on the patio of the Western White House in San Clemente, California…
Culture War Rages
ITT logo. [Source: Private Line.com] International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) acquires three smaller corporations, prompting the US Justice Department to…
Jack Caulfield was involved in at least two attempts to carry out illegal electronic surveillance on people Richard Nixon considered…
Culture War Rages
One day Nixon raged to his press aides to sever all ties with the Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.…
Culture War Rages
Henry Kissinger. [Source: Library of Congress] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, determined to prove to President Nixon that news stories…
Jack Caulfield (see April 2, 1969) arranges for a wiretap on a private citizen, syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft. While the FBI…
Kissinger’s military aide Alexander Haig has the FBI tap three more men “just for a few days,” warning the FBI…
Nixon suggests Kissinger’s own staff may be the source of the leaks. He is most suspicious of Kissinger’s aide Morton…
The New York Times reveals the secret bombings of Cambodia, dubbed “Operation Menu” (see February 23-24, 1969 and March 15-17,…
Kissinger called J. Edgar Hoover and told him it was time to move forward on a project they had discussed:…
On the porch of the Key Biscayne Hotel, Kissinger learns of more leaks. “Outrageous! Outrageous!…We must crush these people! We…
Culture War Rages
A University of Chicago sociology professor named Richard Flacks, one of the early members of SDS, appeared on local TV,…
When Gallup did its monthly poll in May, it asked, “Which one of the men listed on this card would…
The Collision of the 1969 Derby, Richard Nixon and the University of Louisville Student Union Amid intensifying anti-Vietnam War sentiment…
Movie Night in Washington
Former New York Police Department detective Jack Caulfield begins his new job as a White House aide. Caulfield was added…
Nixon press aide, Herb Klein, gave a speech promoting the Anti-ballistic Missile program and more underground tests. Hughes was mad…
Dr. Luis Gonzalez Torrado (U.N. Ambassador of the Dominican Republic) and President Balaguer played for Meier and Don Nixon a…