Final_Judgment

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chapter unfolds, we shall see precisely how the same forces that
undermined JFK ultimately eviscerated Nixon.
There is, in fact, evidence that high-level plans to move against Nixon
were already underway—even before his big re-election victory in 1972.
In a March 24, 1974 interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS,
international financier Robert Vesco (by then living in exile in Costa Rica,
fleeing prosecution in the United States) had some interesting allegations
that have hardly ever been noted. The pertinent portion of the transcript of
the interview speaks for itself:
CRONKITE: Mr. Vesco, you said . . . that six months before the
Watergate break-in, the Democrats had come to you with a plan for
impeachment of the president. Can you tell us what that plan was?
VESCO: Well, let me just correct you for a moment. I don't think I
said that the Democrats came to me. I said a group did. I don't believe I
identified who. The plan was essentially as I have stated previously,
where they were going to attempt to get initial indictments of some high
officials, using this as a launching board to get public opinion and—in
their favor and using the press media to a great degree. The objective
was to reverse the outcome of the public [1972 presidential] election. 945
Vesco said that the "group" that he met with included three people
whose names were well known and who had served in high posts in past
administrations which he did not name. According to Vesco, the plotters
had approached him because they believed that he knew about (or otherwise
had access to) information regarding a secret cash contribution to the
Republican Party that could be used to create a scandal that could be used
to bring down the Nixon administration.
`THE SAME FORCES' OPPOSED JFK AND NIXON
What is even more intriguing, particularly in light of what we will be
examining later, is that Vesco also said (following Nixon's resignation in
1974) that "the forces that threatened me are the same politically that
eliminated President Kennedy and then President Nixon and want to
eliminate all of Nixon's associates." 946
Although JFK assassination researcher, Carl Oglesby, writing in The
Yankee and Cowboy War, comments that Vesco "garbled it ideologically"
947 by suggesting that the same forces that eliminated JFK were also behind
Nixon's removal from office, it seems, instead, that Vesco was quite correct
indeed. Because Oglesby never takes into consideration the fact that both
the "liberal Democrat" (Kennedy) and the "conservative Republican"
(Nixon) had come into conflict with Israel and its American lobby and
because he is blinded by the "liberal-conservative" dichotomy, Oglesby
thus fails to understand the big picture. Clearly, as Vesco said, the forces
that threatened him were "the same politically" that assassinated John F.
Kennedy and then moved against Richard Nixon.