James Rosen

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Morning Wire · No One Thought He Could Do It — But Nixon Won The Culture War · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

soil and were being jeered and spat on as baby killers, President Nixon did not want to further contribute to the vilification of the armed forces.

The uniform of our fighting men and women was already under widespread cultural assault in the early 1970s, and Nixon, to his eternal credit,

Even when the Senate Republicans came to him, they found out about the Maura Radford scandal.

And they said, hey, we know the plumbers broke into Watergate and they broke into Ellsberg psychiatrist's office, but they also did this legitimate national security work.

Let us tell the story of the yeoman and the joint chief spying on you for a year.

This will place Watergate in an entirely different context.

To his eternal credit, Nixon said no.

because again, he did not want to damage the reputation of the armed forces.

And he even said to Alexander Haig, who was Kissinger's deputy, who was a military guy,

whose allegiances were greater to the Pentagon than to Nixon and Kissinger, and who most scholars, including this one, who interviewed Alexander Haig about all of this, have concluded that Haig facilitated the spying of the yeoman.

Nixon tells Haig on one of the tapes, I could have screwed Admiral Moore, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the entire Pentagon in that deal, and I could have been a big hero in doing it, and you know that.

And he said, and you know further why I didn't do it, because I thought more of the services.

so even though he had been victimized by the deep state of his time nixon as a matter of patriotism and as a matter of good government wanting to protect the armed forces from damaging revelations that would have placed the entire military command structure in a bad light he thought more of the services and put that ahead of his own political interests

we have to remember that president nixon or ex-president nixon did admit his guilt in watergate he admitted that he that his actions could be considered an obstruction of justice in trying to shield his aides from the grand jury that was investigating the origins of the watergate break-in and wiretapping operation at democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate office complex in 1972 he admitted his guilt in that the congress both houses were controlled by the democrats in fact nixon was the first president to take office in 120 years

To find both of the houses of Congress controlled by the opposition.

And, of course, the news media hated Richard Nixon.

It had hated Nixon since he had helped secure the conviction of Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, although it was for perjury.

back in the 40s.

So the major components of official Washington, if you will, were stacked against President Nixon.

And even had he disclosed in real time what had been done to him and Henry Kissinger by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, by the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Pentagon,

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