Was Nixon Robbed?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 17th, 2011 5:40 am by HL
Was Nixon Robbed?
Mark Feldstein notes that 50 years ago this week Richard Nixon “stood uncomfortably on the Capitol’s inaugural platform and watched his rival John F. Kennedy being sworn in as president.”
Said Nixon: “We won but they stole it from us.”
“Indeed, the dirty tricks that helped defeat Nixon were more devious than merely the ballot-stuffing of political lore. In one of the least-known chapters of 20th-century political history, Kennedy operatives secretly paid off an informant and set in motion a Watergate-like burglary that sabotaged Nixon’s campaign on the eve of the election.”