President Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover discuss the Anti-War Movement

President Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover discuss the Anti-War Movement

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[Boelcke1919]

Hoskins is a great actor. He even looks a little like Hoover looked. Great job of casting, Oliver Stone. I love this Nixon movie.

[EliCross]

"Mr. President, I always get my man."

[pwrofrob]

At 0:05, is that Obama? lol

[Solarfactor]

These performances are stunning. I have never seen this movie before. Looks look one I really need to watch.

[555paint]

@555paint I agree--I said the limo violated protocol by not hitting the gas when first shot fired and instead came to a virtual stop while driver looked back to see what was up. Yes but that isn't the same as saying the limo driver was "in on it" to give some sniper a better shot. He just fucked up. The limo initially slowed I believe to make a difficult turn,

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129 well if you mean to the mafia it wasnt a very efffective example--with in a decade you got the RICO laws which have been highly effective tools against the mafia....especially in unions were Bob Kennedy was most concerned. So the feds weren't intimidated for long if that was the goal. Besides mafia as I understand it, pretty much had a policy set by Lansky that you don't take out a federal or higher up official. Segal found that out when he tried to take out Dewey

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129 One also has to recall that JFK thought carrying Texas in 64 would be really hard for him and he wanted to make a show of being highly visible --that was his political decision not the details decision to set him up...you know they can't ultimately order their commander in chief to do anything...but I agree even with the limits presented by JFK they did a terrible job.

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129 if you are saying the secret service wasnt doing their job I agree--who could disagree? It is all the more disgusting when you consider they knew they were in what JFK called "nut country"....but that wasnt different from any other time. The detail was always slack and frankly their boss-the president--let them get away with it all the time. (Bill Clinton by contrast told them in his 1st term if they didnt shape up he was gonna transfer presidential security to the FBI).

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129 As I understand it KGB concluded LHO was a nut case not a spy or CIA operative or their second conclusion was or he was so good an agent that he acted like a jerk to throw KGB off their standard profile but they thought that unlikely. Just look at his behavior and conduct in USSR--no agent does what he did--going way way way out of his way to antagonize and alienate everyone he met--just one point.

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129 framed? why? motive? Vietnam? Mafia? why? That LHO was a no body trying to become a somebody is a more credible explain than Vietnam and Mafia.

[555paint]

@lethalweapon129well that is a bit softer than your first absolute comment that he was a patsy as he said; weak case? a conviction against LHO on the Tippet murder was 100 percent and on JFK probably the same. I dont deny there are a lot of weird elements; I dont deny the investigation wasn't perfect; the murder of LHO makes it even weirder and that he was a former defector to USSR--really strange. But none of those neutralize LHO as long gun man or none of those weirdness factors implicate more