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A must read, Nam, the Deep State and Nixon, along with Watergate, comes to the fore, courtesy the NYTimes' extremely detailed piece titled The Secret History of the Deep State indirectly proving the deep state reality has existed since the beginning of time.

The issues that animated the “deep state” against Nixon and Kissinger were rooted in the Cold War. But the frictions inherent in the making of national security policy, most acute in times of war, are perennial. Moorer-Radford exposed a hidden feature of the American political system that endures: When excluded from their spheres of interest, entrenched bureaucratic forces will, almost as a biological reflex, respond aggressively.

Charles Radford on Capitol Hill in 1974Credit...Associated Press

The mole, the Deep State, the N.S.C. National Security Council.

Into this cauldron of Cold War paranoia stepped the easygoing Chuck Radford, who the F.B.I. later determined had been brought to Washington by Admiral Moorer. Dutifully, Radford followed the admirals’ instructions to gather intelligence on the N.S.C. Any documents he touched, he copied; he dived into wastebaskets and burn bags; what he couldn’t copy, he memorized. Radford also recruited to assist him a Navy personnelman second-class from Texas who managed the N.S.C. mailroom at night.

The signal revelation of the unsealed testimony is that Nixon and the mole came face to face. “I had met him just casually on a plane,” the ex-president said of Radford, “a brilliant young man.”

“He took shorthand and typed at incredible speed. I think he spoke several languages,” Nixon recalled, noting that Radford “had been with Kissinger on his secret trips,” serving as “the note-taker, and knew what Kissinger had said and what the other side had said. He knew, for example, that the French government were responsible for making those trips possible, which would have been terribly embarrassing to the French government if it had come out. He also knew what Kissinger said when he met with Chou En-lai on his visits to China, and he also knew, of course, every discussion that had taken place in the N.S.C.” Nixon pondered: “Why did he do this thing? Why would he deliver these top secret documents to Jack Anderson?”

Read the entire piece. History in the making and, as twisted as Nixon was, smart, ruthless and perceptive
were part of his persona without question.

President Nixon announcing his resignation in August 1974
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