RIP Alexander Butterfield

[HanSenSE]

Man who revealed Nixon was secretly recording Oval Office and Cabinet meetings, greasing the skids for Nixon's resignation.

 

[maumann2]

99? Missed it by THAT much. -- Maxwell Smart

 

[Liut]

Did his duty. He did not lie.
RIP, Mr. Butterfield.
Are Dwight Chapin and Don Segretti the only big-namers still with us?

 

[Liut]

Oops, forgot John Wesley Dean III.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I went to college with his daughter, who was a 6+. John Caulfield Jr. was also in school the same time I was, he was a great intramural-level hooper (I think John Caulfield Sr. played in the Philadelphia A's system).

UR seemed to attract children whose parents had Watergate connections.

 

[DanOregon]

Redlands? Rochester?
Nixon really was a fascinating politician. He really kind of set the tone for modern Republican culture. Always hammering at "elites," "the media" throw in the "commies," seemed to be more pissed that he wasn't in the "kool kids club" like the Kennedys - even though he and Kennedy were friends in Congress, Nixon became obsessed with the Kennedys.
And despite it all, he actually made some profound changes with founding the EPA, opening up China etc.
I never did understand his appeal to voters though. He seemed so awkward and ill at ease.

 

[Slacker]

Hippie backlash. And the standard white conservative racism.

 

[DanOregon]

Probably the original "pwn the libs" candidate. Forgot to mention the constant use of dogwhistles, back when it wasn't couth to be as overtly racist as Trump and you had to couch it in a way that didn't upset the editorial pages of the NYT.

 

[dixiehack]

Probably the original "pwn the libs" candidate. Forgot to mention the constant use of dogwhistles, back when it wasn't couth to be as overtly racist as Trump and you had to couch it in a way that didn't upset the editorial pages of the NYT.

That’s what Agnew was for.

 

[Liut]

I went to college with his daughter, who was a 6+. John Caulfield Jr. was also in school the same time I was, he was a great intramural-level hooper (I think John Caulfield Sr. played in the Philadelphia A's system).

UR seemed to attract children whose parents had Watergate connections.

Interesting. Wasn't Caulfield Sr. the one who quickly bailed when exposed to Chuck Colson's crazy schemes?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Interesting. Wasn't Caulfield Sr. the one who quickly bailed when exposed to Chuck Colson's crazy schemes?

I believe so.

One of my fraternity brothers was the son of White House curator Clement Conger, a favorite of Pat Nixon and the guy who is credited with changing the vibe of the White House to a Western (California-style, not shoot-em-up) Americana style, discarding the Jackie Kennedy neo-European ambiance.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Butterfield died less than five months after Gene Boyce, one of the lawyers in the room when Butterfield revealed the existence of the tapes, passed.