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----This book is so sinuous and eclectic that it is unusually difficult to capture its brilliance in any one snippet. Let me just for now say that THERE IS MORE HERE ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE JFK ASSASSINATION AND WATTERGATE THAN ANY OTHER BOOK. MOST GOOD WATERGATE BOOKS-- READ ALMOST ANY BESIDES STANLY KUTLERS mention the connection here and there. This book by following the sneaky H.W. as we HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE -- the sub rosa H.W. of the sixties and seventies BETWEEN the positions we do know about--uses the thread to tie JFK and Watergate AS NEVER EVER BEFORE. I know that impossible to put down is a cliche but at this point I am reduced to this. It is the hardest to put down book I have ever experienced. Touches on things you know but ALWAYS in a new angle.
This book will be hammered. Please start reading it in a bookstore and when you finish it at home tell YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS. THIS BOOK IS NOT ALLOWED ACCESS LIKE DISSIDENT BOOKS AT AN EARLIER STAGE OF US CAPITALISM-- FOR EXAMPLE SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS WHICH WAS ALLOWED TO BECOME A BEST SELLER IN 1960. IF WE DO NOT DO THE EXTRA WORK THE TRUTH WILL NEVER OUT. ------------
Haig's rapid career rise, from the lowest third of his class at West Point to positions in a succession of Democratic and Republican administrations starting with JFK's, benefited in part from sponsorship by Joseph Califano Jr., a powerful Washington attorney who served in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and was considered a close ally of LBJ's Washington Post chair and publisher Katherine Graham initially brought Califano and his law partner Edward Bennett Williams together and the two attorneys spoke of lunching frequently on Saturdays with managing editor Ben Bradlee or "Other pals form the Post" Complicating matters and illuminating these tangled alliances, Califano served as counsel for both the Post and the democartaic National Committee-- the very entity purportedly victimized by the president's men. As secretary of the Army under LBJ, Califano had been responsible for looking after Veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion,along with two of his aides: Haig and Alexander Butterfield ------------ (FROM Family of Secrets) Would either Haig or Califano have been aware of Morales' siphoning of the Bay of Pigs Veterans? Would either have known of Morales directly?
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