Kissinger Tape: Nixon Too Drunk

http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=47407

Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of Oct. 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state -- records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The National Archives released them Wednesday.

They show the powerful adviser trying to manage world crises even as Nixon's presidency teetered from the Watergate scandal that would consume his administration in August 1974.

In October 1973, U.S.-Soviet tensions were peaking over the Arab-Israeli war, and British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office called the White House just before 8 p.m. to ask to speak with Nixon.

"Can we tell them no?" Kissinger asked his assistant, Brent Scowcroft, who had told him of the urgent request. "When I talked to the president, he was loaded."

Guess in 30 years we'll know the truth about the times * was too drunk to handle crisis.

Kissenger doesn't care about America....he let nixon remain in power while totally incompetent...and told NO ONE...

and the alzheimers and all those around bush who are very aware that something is terribly wrong.

I'd bet my last lint ball he is drinking.... shit! I would be!

...Republicans...who want to examine my pee to see if I am worthy to work for them.

Spiro Agnew had just resigned, there was NO Vice President.

It woulda been House Speaker Tip O'Neill in charge.

I really don't think Nixon's gang woulda liked that.

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) laughs while participating in a conversation on healthcare and community health centers while visiting Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio May 25, 2004.

Birds of a feather, flock together! Oh don't you know it! :beer: :beer: :beer:

What has got to be going thru that circle jerk's head?

Nixon's drinking was a big part of the book "The Final Days" and Nixon's condition at the time of the '73 war also has been discussed, but I'm glad that these tapes can give more authority to the stories.

how long before we find out what his mental state really was during this God-awful, bleak and dangerous period in history?

At any rate, that's how I see the world ending....on the "coattails" of a bunch of besotted "leaders," likely all men.

is a poorly kept secret. The late Murray Kempton reported that Nixon put away between a pint and a quart a day. Explains the poor decisions, paranoia, constant sweating. He was also fond of pills.
The picture of the alcoholic Nixon, with the opiate addict Elvis Presley, as they promote the "War on Drugs" is a classic.

but hadn't been aware that this was one of Nixon's problems as well.

I hadn't heard that one.

Do people here really think Bush still drinks? I don't buy that one. I think he is a dry drunk -- drunk on power. A megalomaniacal little man puffed up with a grandiose sense of himself as the god's regent on earth. His 'born again evangelism' and inferiority complex are what keep him on the dark side of sanity. I'd trust him more if he was talking to Jim Beam instead of the strange voices that tell him to go to war.

handlers would not let Bush drink even if he wanted to.

Come on...surely you don't believe that the FratBoy Fuhrer gave up alcohol, do you?

'dry-drunk' who didn't work a spiritual/healing program than someone who is drinking. It makes him even more dangerous than if he was drinking. He's a un-self-reflective zealot whose impulse to drink is under incredible repression. A most unstable man. I agree that he desperately wants a drink.

,...if he were talking after some "Jim Beam" rather than the delusional state his parents helped to create for him.

I'm not even sure that he is a "megalomaniac" so much as he is in a very PROTECTED delusional state of being. He is completely out of touch,...totally in a protected realm,...

I view him as nothing but a brainwashed puppet, a mask or spokes-model, being used by very wicked people. OF course, I could be totally wrong,...but,...that is just how I see the man.

like this....


May 15, 2004...springtime sweats with gin blossoms in full bloom...

or indulge in binges. I think he is more likely to binge and then exercise like heck to sweat it out. Also crawford keeps him away from prying eyes.

this was the same month as the famous "Saturday Night Massacre" when the trickster fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Dick was on a bender for the length of the Arab Israeli war...when on October 25th 1973 Kissinger-Schlesinger etc decided to take the armed forces to defcon three Nixon wasn't even in the room.
WHY?
Because the f*ckin' guy was drunk off his ass...the Russians are threatening to send spetznatz troops to Egypt and Tricky Dick is plastered!
Commie basher my fat Irish!
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He approved the action verbally in a phone conversation with Kissinger after the meeting.
The "command and control" history of the Nixon admin is quite frightening...and is full of incidents like this.

www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

Found booze and pills to run away from his problems

From an old post
It's time for another Bush/Nazis thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=199853
(snip)
81. And check this out, ever wonder about Senator Joseph McCarthy

This is just so much S.O.P, let your fall take the hit, while you get the red herring out and bait everything to get the dogs barking up the wrong trees.

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON
(snip)
According to the "old spies," Allen Dulles made a deal with the young navy officer who was reviewing the Konti files - Richard Nixon. Nixon would help Dulles bury the Konti files. In return, Allen Dulles "arranged to finance first congressional campaign against Jerry Voorhis." (1)

Dulles's support for Nixon paid off in 1947 when, as the freshman congressman from California, he "saved John Foster Dulles considerable embarrassment by privately pointing out that confidential government files showed that one of Foster's foundation employees, Alger Hiss, was allegedly a Communist. The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of Fascist 'freedom fighter' operations in Germany, apparently in anticipation that the young congressman would be useful after Dewey became president." (2)

After Truman's victory, write the authors, "Nixon became Allen Dulles's mouthpiece in Congress. Both he and Senator Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information to support the charge that the Truman administration was filled with 'pinkos.' When McCarthy went too far in his Communist investigations, it was Nixon who worked with his next-door neighbor, CIA director Bedell Smith, to steer the investigations away from the intelligence community.

"The CIA was grateful for Nixon's assistance, but did not know the reason for it. Dulles had been recruiting Nazis under the cover of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination, whose chief, Frank Wisner, had systematically recruited the Eastern European emigre networks that had worked first for the SS, then the British, and finally Dulles.
(snip)

Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal, fascist or just misunderstood
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=345935

Kissinger & BCCI spells BUSH & 9-11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=377323

Worse than Watergate. Page 26 I believe (I looked it up on Amazon's search feature).

"Has he truly replaced abusive substances with healthy running, making endorphins his new drug of choice? And what about the rumors that Prozac is for Bush what Dilantin was for Nixon? Or the rumors he has been nipping a bit? Does alcohol remove inhibitions and show the real, albeit darker, inner self (who had no problem calling a Wall Street Journal columnist, accompanied by his wife and young child, a 'fucking son of a bitch')?"

Damn, I'd love to know who in DC knows this rumor. Who are the administration insiders or pundits who whispered in Dean's ear?

more accident prone.

it was obvious to everyone that election night in 72 he was totally blitzed, just wrote off as being celebratory. :beer:

I still would take a drunken Nixon over a "sober" chimp anytime.

John A. MacDonald, our "father of confederation" (somewhat similar to George Washington in Canadian history) was a well known sot. In fact, one of the (unofficial) campaign slogans in a certain 19th century election was "Better John A. drunk than George Brown sober". George Brown was his usual opponent of course.

Another story had him throwing up at a debate while on a bender and declaring "that is what I think of my opponent's ideas".

He was known for always having a glass of Scotch on hand during parliamentary debates.

on the man next to him at dinner in Japan.

Maybe he's the one who steered _Bush toward drinking too much.

He killed 600,000 Cambodians with that ridiculous bombing mission there, lord knows how many Vietnamese, and thousands in Latin America, particularly Chile, through the coups and dictatorships down there.

what he's capable of if he thought he didn't have to worry about being re-selected.

this.

Sonuvagun - at this point, a drunk Nixon DOES look more appealing than bushie boy. Although I can't help but suspect he still IS drinking.

The only people I ever heard slur speech like that were the following:

People just coming out of a dorm party and meeting the campus police and trying like hell to enunciate every word clearly as though they weren't about 7 sheets to the wind.

Or, people who are sick, still half asleep, or ailing in some way,

Or - people like my mother, who'll still take a phone call from a relative (like me) late at night after she's removed her dentures.

Perhaps Tricky Dickie Boy followed suit?

:shrug:

Wonder why!


1916!

Just to show the kiddies what an EVIL sumbitch Nixxon was--and to repeat the assertion that bu$h is TEN TIMES worse!

:evilgrin:
dbt

and other people with Top Secret clearances? As i've been pushing for a law for 3 years.
Nixon also popped a pill which caused schizophrenia.

Reagan had alzheimers.

Bush is psychotic.

Why do Americans who want a simple job have to take these tests but leaders with the ability to launch nuclear weapons don't? I think the UN should impose regulations on all countries leaders with nuclear weapons to take these tests. The same as all countries with nuclear electrical reactors must have international inspections.

So the man likes women. That is fine with me.
Better that he f's Monica than f's the country like Bush!
Clinton's mind ,IMO, was always sharp as a tack. Maybe we should thank Monica for helping to make our country a better place.

Who should we puke on for Bush, his Mama, His Poppy, Pickles or Condi or..?

Bush on the other hand is dull drunk or sober..well, I'm not sure about that because he may have never drawn a sober breath since childhood.