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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGet ready to be flooded about all this Kissinger
and it's already started.
The Atlantic just sent this out via Twitter moments ago. An old article from 1982.
Here it comes!
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/05/kissinger-and-nixon-in-the-white-house/308778/
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Get ready to be flooded about all this Kissinger (Original Post)
pinebox
Feb 2016
OP
Woot! Go Bernie!! Thanks for bringing up Hillary's fondness for Henry K.. Brilliant. nt
99th_Monkey
Feb 2016
#1
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Woot! Go Bernie!! Thanks for bringing up Hillary's fondness for Henry K.. Brilliant. nt
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)2. Good. It's about time we had a national conversation about that monster
Long overdue. Thanks Bernie.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)3. Seymour M. Hersh
Wow.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)4. Wow. I lived through all of this and yet it seems new again
The envelope was from J. Edgar Hoover--for Kissinger's, "Eyes Only." "It was this long, detailed account of Martin Luther King's sex life," Morris says. "There were transcripts"--obviously from wiretaps--"and indications that photographs were available." Some of the women with Dr. King had apparently been FBI informants. Morris was appalled.
A few hours later--sometime after lunch--Morris was joined by Larry Eagleburger, and Morris quickly showed him the FBI documents. "I was speaking as an old friend and as a Foreign Service colleague and I said, 'This is absolutely scurrilous stuff.'"
"Larry just glanced at the first page or two, with the ho-hum attitude of an aide reading a telephone directory, and said, 'Oh, yeah, we get these all the time.'" Eagleburger then went to a nearby file cabinet, opened it, and pulled out Hoover files on members of the NSC staff, including Morton H. Halperin, who had worked in the Pentagon in the Johnson Administration. Files were being kept on Martin Luther King (who had been slain the previous year), Eagleburger told his distressed colleague, "to blunt the black anti-war movement." Morris was not reassured, but kept his peace.
A few hours later--sometime after lunch--Morris was joined by Larry Eagleburger, and Morris quickly showed him the FBI documents. "I was speaking as an old friend and as a Foreign Service colleague and I said, 'This is absolutely scurrilous stuff.'"
"Larry just glanced at the first page or two, with the ho-hum attitude of an aide reading a telephone directory, and said, 'Oh, yeah, we get these all the time.'" Eagleburger then went to a nearby file cabinet, opened it, and pulled out Hoover files on members of the NSC staff, including Morton H. Halperin, who had worked in the Pentagon in the Johnson Administration. Files were being kept on Martin Luther King (who had been slain the previous year), Eagleburger told his distressed colleague, "to blunt the black anti-war movement." Morris was not reassured, but kept his peace.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)5. Ok. n/t
bvf
(6,604 posts)6. Robert Grossman nailed it without saying a word.
August, 1972
cui bono
(19,926 posts)7. Kissinger had a YUUUUGE google search spike after the debates!
Here, courtesy of Joe Shlabotnik in this post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1209964
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Fairgo
(1,571 posts)8. Kissinger should never be allowed on the stage
without a very harsh light revealing his evil soul.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)9. That article should start with Nixon and Special K
committing treason to lengthen the war in Vietnam...
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)10. Flooded with Kissinger
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)11. Ack!