A Growing Body Of Evidence Suggests Watergate Was A Setup To Nail Nixon
(from 2012)
What disposed Nixon so positively toward the Bushes? A little-known fact, certainly missing from the many splendid biographies of the thirty-seventh president, is the likelyrole of Poppy Bush’s father, Prescott, in launching Nixon’s own political career.
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Principal among Nixon’s bigger backers was the arch-conservativeChandlerfamily, owners of theLos Angeles Times.Nixon himself acknowledged his debt to the Chandlers in correspondence. “I often said to friends that I would never have gone to Washington in the first place had it not been for the Times,” he wrote. Though best known as publishers, the Chandlers had built their fortune onrailroads,still the preferred vehicle for shipping oil, and held wide and diverse interests.
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Yet Voorhis appears to have recognized that forces even more powerful than the Chandler clan were opposing him. As he wrote in an unpublished manuscript, “The Nixon campaign was a creature ofbig Eastern financial interests…the Bank of America, the big private utilities, the major oil companies.” He was hardly a dispassionate observer, but on this point the record bears him out. Nixon partisans would claim that “not a penny” of oil money found its way into his campaign. Perhaps. But a representative ofStandard Oil,[ROCKERFELLER] Willard Larson, was present at that Los Angeles meeting in which Nixon was selected as the favored candidate to run against Voorhis.
https://www.businessinsider.com/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-1-of-3-2012-5