NIXON TAPES: Nixon Drunk over Watergate (Haldeman)

[TheKdizzle1971]

presidential drunk dial

[DonQwantsyou]

keep the faith baby!

[Alprazolam]

he also kept a bottle of quaaludes by his hi-fi right next to his armchair. Pat Nixon has made comments in the past about his increasing use of alcohol and anxiolytics

[raelraven2]

Damn, talk about paranoid! The other thing that strikes me is this is a classical example of Groupthink. Haldeman is clearly a yes man telling the president exactly what he wants to hear. Sad and frightening.

[BartA22]

Can you believe that this man actually controlled thousands of nuclear weapons??...it is a damned miracle that he didn't blow up the world.

[tomitstube]

nixon is such a nothing president to me. these tapes only prove it.

[scooterdogism]

somethings---Should not be known!!

[Eastbay007]

Hmmm......ol' Cap Weinberger from Iran-Contra.....bless his soul....

[pipeup1]

OOOh God sooooooooooo awkward!!!!!!! Just keep agreeing until he hangs up....

[lolispop12]

It is illegal to have these recordings without authorization of the CIA or the FBI. If found you will be interrogated and afterwards prosecuted for theft of secured national property.

[inkyguy]

@lolispop12: It is illegal to have these recordings ..."

These are available to the public at the Nixon Library in San Clemente, Ca. These were never even in the possession of either the FBI or CIA. They were White House property, and Nixon argued, his personal property. The Supreme Court unanimously overrode his objections, and they were released to Congress, which had subpenaed them for its investigation.

[IntelArt]

@DKWegley The VOTER is ALWAYS the ignorant one... GREAT POST of North American history. p.s. We hope Barack Hussein Obamareleases MLK FBI tapes

[SUNMAYDEN518]

even the president drinks bad liquor

[gritzah]

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. - Harry S. Truman

[RainbowManification]

@will99313 Even though he cheated during his campaign, and didn't even have the balls to admit it. He didn't even need to cheat though which is what gets me, he was projected to win by a huge land slide anyway.

[Voldemort1212]

Ohhh, i youtubed nixon from framing hanley...and this came up...bye then!

[squidbilly94]

Nixon is an intelligent man with great views, but if the Watergate Scandal never happened, he would have been a great leader.

[doothless]

Isn't this the guy who told us he wasn't a crook? What a hoot. Oh, yeah, he was very religous. I can tell by his cursing. The way I see it he is just another typical Republican hypocrite.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

he doesnt sound really drunk

[willyjhopuky]

we reap what we sow and wow have we sowed some fine leaders! no wonder we are sunk.

[SenorZorrozzz]

I like him better drunk!

[jerrybriardy]

Nixon was so intelligent, it has never made sense to me that he taped all this stuff. Of course intelligence does not equate to ethics.

[BbearWARRIOR]

Did Nixon ever get drunk with George W Bush? Nixon somehow avoided prison with all of his shenanigans, but many of his aides did go to prison. In the November 72 election they somehow painted Nixon as a war guy and McGovern as not. But in reality Nixon was a supply clerk and McGovern flew 35 missions over enemy territory. Oh well, Nixon and W continue to provide some good humor..LOL

[hfhghjhbjhjhhh]

nixon was such a terrible president,jfk was the best too bad he got assasinated then later on we got this idiot running our country

[SUNMAYDEN518]

thats BS hypercommunist

[fl0ww0lf]

what an emotional and awkward time for Nixon talking with Haldeman. perhaps he didn't pardon Haldeman because he would possibly have been incarcerated too. obstruction of justice is shady but there are worse crimes people in power can impose on citizens

[SUNMAYDEN518]

drunk as a skunk

[Acerbitas]

"God bless you Bob...God bless you...I love you, you know...you're like my brother..."

I bawwed for drunk!Nixon.

[nonplayerzealot4]

Good comeback, 102LBC.

[realguy197]

i love you Richard M Nixion

[scorpio888]

nakabar,

How easily threatened you LoneNutters' egos seem to be.

;)

,

[nakabar]

watch out, everyone!

scorpio888, the king of youtube and god of knowledge is on the case! watch out, he's old so he has superiority!

[scorpio888]

102LBC,

You're right about one thing: being 22 doesn't always mean someone's judgment is bad---not always.

As far as "two bit conspiracy theories", I, for one, have never been accused of being a conspiracy theorist. And I certainly don't get my data off of the Internet or "Youtube clips".

But feel free to continue to label your own uninformed rants from an idealogue to be "research". It's sweet, really.

Hopefully in a few years, you'll realize how silly you were.

[nakabar]

But where you've fucked up, is in not realizing that a conspiracy could be classified as any crime - that is not what a conspiracy is. The CONSPIRACY, is the subsequent cover-up and denial of said acts. Whatever they may have been. Now take your pseudo intellect and go sit in a cafe by yourself with your laptop, if you aren't already. Wow man, do you realize how stupid you've made yourself appear? Discrediting "conspiracy theories" and then spouting the same ones under a different definition...

[eviltreemonster]

Fucking hell........

[scorpio888]

102LBC,

LBJ's girlfriend, Madeleine Brown, and E Howard Hunt, to name two sources... the attempts to dismiss them and invalidate their testimonies notwithstanding.

Besides, you're 22 years old!

Go back to spartacus/mcadams with your "the conspiracy's been completely debunked" rhetoric. They're lonely over there.

[nakabar]

@scorpio888

Who / what do you think you are? Spouting off shit about how age = intelligence... I'll bet you Hawking and Einstein were both more intelligent than you, and with better judgement, at about age 19. When I started typing this, I hadn't read any other of your stupid posts other than "Besides, you're 22 years old". but now that i've also read your declaration that "bla bla bla we just call it murder" ... What do you think a conspiracy is? You're right, it would just be murder...

[scorpio888]

102LBC,

You're young and being very foolish. No one said anything about "an Oliver Stone" movie. But people like you who dismiss all "conspiracy theories" are utterly ridiculous.

Legitimate conspiracies are revealed and validated ALL THE TIME. Much of what government and Big Business DO is, by definition, a conspiracy.

LBJ and Nixon were personal and professional friends with the men who were responsible for JFK's death. You can call that "a conspiracy", but we just call it murder. .

[scorpio888]

102LBC,

You don't know a lot, do you? Stop getting your history from establishment media.

The kickbacks came from the oil companies and their military hardware divisions, the owners of whom were personal friends with LBJ and Nixon.

[scorpio888]

@102LBC

LBJ and Nixon both got kickbacks to stay in Vietnam.

Why would they get out? Integrity?

[Flyingpig437]

it depends how you interpret honuourably. I think Nixon meant it by not leaving the enemy feeling they'd won and after all the bombing they wouldn't have done. Tough but at least no one would have said they'd rather be in N.Vietnam than U.S.A

[BANKAIMIKE]

this is some fucked up shit rite here, i am a freakin 15 year old punk doing a project about watergate

[MIKESOWELL]

Prohibition was signed in 1919, BEFORE Harding became President

[lmfecher]

The fact remains that Nixon not only broke the law, he was a treasonist, elitist bastard as well.  He didn't spend one day in jail for his crimes and he was pardoned by Ford. Yet people still believe they live in a democracy. Sad, very sad.

[rowdy916]

Oh btw, US Grant was drunk virtually everyday he was president as was taft... oh wait.. hes the one that couldnt even fit in his bathtub he was so fat... the point is...

[rowdy916]

Folks.. enough with all the name calling etc etc this is an interesting piece of history. all these tapes are just as LBJs tapes are. A glimpes into what these men endured and had to live with on a daily basis. Some dealt with it better than others.. there was intrigue, scandal, backstabbing... but the important part is, the american experience continues... even after Nixon, Bush jr, Carter... we keep moving forward. Or at least I hope we do.

[rowdy916]

no ones going to read this... but I believe this was recorded shortly after Al Haig via Kissinger told Nixon that if he did not resign, there was going to be a military coup against him.. Kissenger and Haig had the Joint Chiefs lined up... thats why all the references to Weinberger.. Cap was totally opposed but the JCs had it in the bag.. what a remarkable moment in history

[rmm413c]

Actually, Rowdy, this conversation was recorded quite early in the whole Watergate saga (April 1973--he did not resign until Aug. 1974, well over a year later). Nobody significant was even calling for Nixon's resignation at this point--but Nixon was an astute politician and even at this point could see how much trouble he was in. At any rate, I really don't think there is credible evidence that there was going to be any sort of coup against Nixon.

[moproducer]

@rmm413c Nixon was really in a pickle by this time, even though resignation was a year away. The DoD was questioning his every move, and even James Schlesinger was not aware of combat operations being authorized by Nixon. In just a few months, Schlesinger would order the Joint Chiefs to delay execution of any orders from the White House until they were cleared by him. Probably the closest to a military coup the US has been in modern times.

[irish89055]

@rowdy916  people read what you wrote, they just dont believe it....

[marcostar57]

"God Bless ya ....goddammit " He shur wus drunk..."burp..belch"

[Poontangible]

What a drunken, ass-kissing contest. Sheesh.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Nixon: "Your a strong man goddammit, and I love ya!!!!!"

LMAO!!! LMAO!!

Sooo Drunk!

[deltapunk21]

He doesn't sound drunk, he sounds tired and too damn close to the phone.

[johndcorr]

Yes, the Nix obviously drunk. It's extraordinary to hear Haldeman, who was supposed to be such a tough son of a bitch, being so deferential and sycophantic to Nixon, even though Nixon had just sacrificed him to protect himself. By cutting Haldeman, Ehrlichman & Dean loose, Nixon thought he was cutting the last connections between himself and the Watergate break-in, but in reality, he was just peeling off the last layer of protection: from then on, he had to face the scandal alone.

[lazarus0202]

Haldeman was an asslicker. He and Kissinger.

[esb84]

Thats absolutely right, that was Tricky Dick's problem he never had any real friends, and nobody ever truly trusted him.

[rmm413c]

Esb, it's true that he didn't have as many friends as most politicians and it often took him a while to feel truly comfortable around a person, but it is not true that he didn't have any real friends. He was very close to his best friends, Bebe Rebozo & Bob Abplanalp, Elmer Bobst was almost like a father to him, his secretary Rose Mary Woods was a close personal friend too, and he was also friends with Don Kendall, Hobe Lewis, Tom Dewey, Bob Hope, Victor Lasky, Freeman Gosden, Billy Graham, etc.

[esb84]

Im sure he had personal friends, I meant political ones.

[rmm413c]

OK, but that still depends on what time you're talking about. Near the end of his presidency many political friends jumped ship, like Goldwater, but when this conversation occurred it was early in the Watergate investigations and he had many political friends still in Congress (whom he'd known for decades) and in his administration (Gerald Ford, Bob Finch, & Bill Rogers, for example). Some "friends" deserted because they didn't want to go down too, but not all did (some truly believed in him).

[MsSunlover]

i think he was ready to go over the edge here

[ChristianHargrove]

what about the pills he was taking? any comments on that? Seconal, Dilantin. he consumed possibly thousands of them. thousands of pills while in the WH!

see Anthony Summers The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon'

[rmm413c]

Christian, Anthony Summer's book is just not reliable as a historical source. Without a doubt he did a great deal of research, but a lot of his citations are questionable and he seems to include everything anybody tells him, regardless of the veracity of it. Although more rigorous than typical of the type, Summers is still a gossip journalist. Nixon may or may not have taken Dilantin, but no historian would take Summers' claims entirely at face value.

[reececup33]

Obama coudn't dare do this shit.

[SpliffyFloyd]

Do what shit? Disgrace the nation and get loaded a lot?

[copper2150]

Imagine what would have happened if Nixon was president in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chances are none of us would be here today....JFK save the world from total distruction.

[vistacruiser67]

Nixon is one of the best presidents we ever had. This could have happened to anybody. We are all liars and this could have happened to any of us. He had an uncanny sense of self loathing.  The press is very selective in who they go after.

[davecotuit]

best presidents we ever had!!!!!!?????compared to whom, adolf hitler?? he was an evil son of a bitch!!!

[nixonsinatra]

I agree 100% with your statements. Thank you!

[attemptingtobehumble]

@vistacruiser67 Yeah right!!! That son of a bitch took us off the gold standard.

[JonShank1]

@vistacruiser67 - He was a criminal and a liar and went against the Constitution of the U.S.A. Also, he made friends with the Communist Chinese who are now taking all our jobs... He wasn't as bad as GWB but he was bad all right.

[crystalclearvideopro]

LOL... Nixon was a pisser! From what I read of history and see about him he was very paranoid. Seems these tapes backfired on him. What an idiot he was!

[esb84]

It's scary that a man this unstable was president.

[Swazi4]

You've never rambled when you were drunk?

[Swazi4]

All I can say is one name: Ulysses S. Grant.

That man was the biggest drunk of them all.

[themeaningoflife38]

Gerald Ford helps falsify the Warren Report,Nixon's Vice President resigns,Nixon makes Ford VP then Nixon resigns.Ford becomes President without being elected.Ford makes Bush Sr head of the CIA.Bush refuses to cooperate with the HSCA.This was all done to continue the coverup of JFK's murder.

[bondurango]

Addendum to 2012dumdum. The only stars he knows are the ones he sees after convincing himself that I've done a tap dance on his drunken, melon-headed replies.

[2012dan]

Thank you for copying my technique of using a foot note: ( and changing it to addndum, still the same thing) They say the greatest form of flattery is Impersonation, So I Thank You!!! if you need anymore help feel free to contact me.. I don't hold grudges

[bondurango]

Copy you? ROFLMAO! That proves you don't know shit from shinola.

[2012dan]

Foot note.. to bonderango Jangles. though due to recent health problems Ted doesn't drink anymore...However, In his Prime he would drink both of us under the table

[bondurango]

bonderango Jangles, eh? Now who's doing the copying? Your about as original as that bullet in your melon head.

[Atomsmasher777]

Nixon was a sociopath. That's why he failed.

He was a great campaigner but holding office means you have to deal with a lot of people.

He had enemies lists.

He hired the plumbers to "plug the leaks" and they broke into the Watergate hotel.

He was paranoid, so he taped every conversation.

Sociopath.

[bondurango]

Tricky Dick was one of those hateful, whiny-assed drunks that liked to cry in his beer and get all sentimental and sappy. He was the kind of guy who'd tell his brother he loved him and then throw him overboard if he thought it would save his own sinking ship.

[2012dan]

Did you know him?? well Henry Kisinger did, and he said Nixon was not a drinker..in fact he would get drunk off one drink...Ohhh and Henry was jewish. but yes Nixon certainly had character flaws.. Sappy drunk was not one of them... you must be thinking od Ted Kennedy

[bondurango]

Yeah, right. As if you knew him. Of course, 2012d knows no one gets sappy & sentimental on just one drink & since he doesn't know Teddy, either, he must be speaking from personal experience. So, tell us, danny boy, how many Shirley Temples do you need before you cry your self to sleep or do you just start tap dancing on the bar & singing Mr. Bo Jangles? Two? ROFLMAO!

[2012dan]

I never claimed to know Henry Kisenger personally, However I can read, and quote his words, and I hate to break your heart, but as a life long resident of Massachusettes, and personal friend of Ted's Cousin..I have met Ted several times in my life(and its no secret he never met a scotch he didn't like) and as to me getting drunk on shirly temples and dancing on the bar singing Mr. Bo Jangles.. well who doesn't!!! Lol

[bondurango]

The only heart you ever broke was your mother's. NAME this cousin for us, Shirley, or go back to 2012dancing with the stars of your dreams.

[2012dan]

bon bon jangles, First of all I dont divulge personall information on the internet. nor do I take orders from youtube users. you can think whatever you like, your entitled to be wrong and uninformed. Perhaps if you put as much effort int research and information as you did sarcasm and sophmoric one liners, you may be able to come up with an educated response.( sorry quoting Henry Kissenger ruffled your feathers so much) I'm not even Defending Nixon, just correcting your comment with facts. Cio

[bondurango]

You don't divulge personal information, eh? Then if you're not 43 years old, why do you lie about your age? Either way, it proves your a liar. One thing you don't hide is your ignorance (maybe your actually 7 years old because that would explain your inability to spell). So, don't expect me to take the "educated" opinions of a 7 year old, seriously, or respect a liar. Now, be a good a little boy & go play with your melons. Just leave the adult thinking to the adults & quit being a pest.

[2012dan]

Let me clearify my statement about divulging personal info: I do not divulge pesonal info about others without permission. are you so arrogant that you ca't handle a person disagreeing with you? All I did was refute your Incorrect statement by Quoting Kissenger your personal attackts have no bearing on the facts. just emotional banter

[bondurango]

YOU made it personal! So quit with your cry baby whining, already. As for refuting me, what's your source to back up your claim? Kissinger's recently released tapes at the National Archives has him telling Brent Scowcroft that Nixon was "loaded" when he talked him. Kissinger feared Nixon was so unstable he might launch a nuclear strike. Now, if you want to refute my contentions, then prove it, otherwise your statement about Kissinger is false & arrogant & if you can't put up, then shut up.

[LeCreuset05]

Even when drunk, Nixon is more articulate than Bush any day of the week.

[oneandatwo]

NIXON: The most heinous man to ever hold office in the United States.

Nixon was the instigator of the murders of John Kennedy, through Hoffa and CIA director Dulles, and Robert Kennedy, with a simple mobster hitman posing as Kennedy's bodyguard.

[RexNunc]

you got 3 thumbs down.

You must be doing something right! keep up the good work!

Nixon ain't got nothin' on E. Howard Hunt?

A strange liason perhaps?

[Back2Truth]

NIXON < BUSH ! i hope u understand what i mean..

[GCL777]

Nixon was just a man---good or bad....we ALL mess up here or there---but all and all the good out weighs the bad from what is shown of this man.

[jsoynbnj]

Oh please! Would you say that about Stalin too?

Richard Nixon murdered hundreds of thousands---perhaps millions---simply because he wanted a war when he ran for reelection in 1972. He privately admitted that voters tend to rally around a president "when the nation is at war.

Incredible enough, but Nixon confirmed this 20 years later when he told the first George Bush that he should have kept the Gulf War going through the '92 elections simply to improve the odds of his reelection.

[JakeMabe1]

The biggest joke about this statement is that Kennedy/Johnson started the damn war and Nixon ended it. To say that he murdered "hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions" is pure hyperbole.

[ross1962]

You are correct sir. Not sure if they're teaching history in school, or if kids are just sleeping through it. We did not have combat trops in Vietnam until the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

[hypercommunist]

More Americans, and more Vietnamese, died under Nixon's slow winding down of the war than did under Kennedy & Johnson's escalation.

[rmm413c]

You're quite wrong, hypercommunist. Around 36 million US soldiers died in Vietnam under Johnson. Around 22 million died under Nixon--and almost half of those were in his first year in office before he drastically reduced the number of troops that LBJ had put in Nam.

[hypercommunist]

Not sure where I heard the mistaken factoid, but I stand corrected. (of course, "million" should be "thousand" here)

[scorpio888]

@rmm413c

"36 million"?

You're silly.

[fl0ww0lf]

@rmm413c , did you mean "thousand" instead of "million"?

[douglain]

@rmm413c Your numbers are absolutely crazed. About 3 million Vietnamese died total, somewere around 50 thousand US soldiers died total. 36 to 22 million. Sheesh.

[rmm413c]

@douglain Of course, I meant thousands, not millions. With this in mind, my numbers are quite accurate. Hypercommunist already corrected my mistake 5 months ago. My point was merely that many more Americans died in Vietnam under Johnson's administration than Nixon's.

[RoNinHYPErSOul]

you tube is awesome you can find all this amazing stuff

[mattschlo]

you took the words right out of my mouth...er, fingers

[Derby14]

I agree with the clip description that he does appear to be drunk. Must have been some heavy stuff as he references that he finished his televised speech to the nation only 50 minutes before this call. Many people would probably be offended to hear the President act like this but I believe it does show a genuine and (somewhat gruff) human side to Nixon that is often overlooked. Thanks for posting this video.

[uttergizza]

Well said

[DonParsley]

Shows Nixon as a genuine human being. Most politicians would have never even made a call like this, or felt any sympathy at all for Haldeman or Ehrlichman.

[jsoynbnj]

Yeah, a genuine anti-Semitic human being.

[peaveylove]

so that's why presidents say "god bless america."

[bigleroygym]

HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! what a loser! haha!

[johnhs3SoCal]

Scotch, with a tad of gin thrown in.

[WINDHAMMAN]

what was nixons favorite alcoholic drink? anyone?

what was lbj's favorite alcoholic drink? It was reported that alcohol played a part in his ill health in later years. fmr texas john connally said in a tv interview lbj drank himself to death"

btw I really admired president johnson.

[Alfrunk]

You admired Johnson? Christ almighty you are a disgusting human being.

[WINDHAMMAN]

thanks sunshine - taking the best part of you dripped out of yo mamss fat ass -now be a good panty waist and go back to licking yo papas ba*ls.

[Alfrunk]

Racist swine like you are sickening. Illiterate moron. Good luck in life!

[WINDHAMMAN]

thanks sunshine -saw you pic and profile on the state pedophile watch list. hopefully someday the state will outlaw inbreeding. seasons greetings

[Alfrunk]

Nixon was right about you people!

[WINDHAMMAN]

thanks sunshine-at least by you typing at your keyboard it keeps you from stalking the schoolyards and playgrounds. Still wearing the wrinkled white trench coat and sock garters? the prison boys are waiting for some fresh meat.

[Alfrunk]

I hope whatever institution you're writing from gets you help. Keep it up though, you're amusing!

[WINDHAMMAN]

thanks sunshine-you took the word right out of my mouth-never cared much for anti-American draft dodgers like yourself-It's that patriotic American blood cursing through my veins-say isn't it time for you to burn another American flag or praise allah. peace

[rowdy916]

hmmm i think they both drank bourbon... but I also know that LBJ had a Fresca dispensor installed in the Oval Office. i too admired lbj.. I think his heart just gave out... lack of blood to the brain probably caused some of his erratic behavior..ie growing the pony tail but only he and God know what demons he was fighting.

[dcba321huh]

hundred bucks says you dont even really know about what went down with watergate

and trust me, i do

so lets leave it at that

[wildone81]

I highly doubt the statement above. You don't even have a command of the English language or grammar.

[Alfrunk]

I do. Forrest Gump was responsible for Nixon's downfall, along with a lot of other things.

[jfkonparade]

Keep the faith! Keep the faith!

[dcba321huh]

bob haldeman = innocent incredible man

[cf101b]

not according to a court of law i'm afraid