Amb. Monica Crowley

Now, remember that Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president.

Eisenhower's farewell address famously warned about the rise of an unaccountable president.

deep state, what he called the military industrial complex, what we now know as the deep state.

Nixon internalized that lesson because he saw Eisenhower, a military man who helped to win World War II and free the West from Nazi oppression.

He saw what Eisenhower was going through and the rise of the security state that was unaccountable to anyone.

So after World War II, the creation of the CIA, the creation of the NSA, the creation of the DIA, the corruption of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon saw all of this.

So when he became president, and this is actually what gave the deep state the context to do what they did.

Nixon understood the threat within, but also understood he couldn't bring it to the American people in the late 60s, early 70s.

They would go, what are you even talking about?

It took the next 50 years for people to wake up.

Go ahead.

Yes.

So when Nixon becomes president, he understands what Eisenhower was warning about.

So he decides that he is going to consolidate all foreign policy and national security decision-making in the hands of two people.

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And his national security advisor at the time, Henry Kissinger, who we later learned was a deep state operative.

Okay.

So Nixon is getting input from one man who he really trusted, who perhaps he should not have.

All right.

That creates the environment where he is excluding the military, his own State Department, his own Secretary of State, the CIA, they're all going crazy, Glenn, because he is keeping all of the secrets to himself, the opening to China, detente with the Soviet Union, shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, all of these huge, peaceful foreign policy initiatives