[from the Nixon tapes]
Ehrlichman: We have one little operation that aborted out in Los Angeles...which, uh, I think it's better that you don't know about.
Nixon: Agreed.
Ehrlichman: But, uh...we've got some dirty tricks on the way that may pay off.
-----------------------------------------------------
See?! Nixon kept talking, with his aides around him, agreeing with him, going along... and he created the Watergate quagmire, with his own words, from his imagination. The Pentagon Papers incident was not about him.
It reminds me of a scene in the 1981 film Body Heat:
The secret lovers, Ned Racine and Matty Walker, are talking about how her husband Edmund got so rich...
Matty:
Ned, it scares me to talk about these things.
Ned:
Why?
Matty:
You know.
Ned:
No I don't.
Matty:
Well let's just not. Let's just not think about all he's got.
Ned:
Wait a minute, Matty. Tell me exactly what it is that frightens you.
Matty:
I'm afraid because - when I think about it, I wish he'd die. It's really what I want. It's horrible, and it's ugly, and it's what I most want.
Ned:
It's where we're at, isn't it? ... It's what we're both thinking, how good it would be for us if he was gone. It'd be real sweet for us....
Matty:
No, no, Ned, don't. Don't talk about it. Talk is dangerous. Sometimes it makes things happen. It makes them real. ...
No comments:
Post a Comment