Richard Nixon
1913–1994
The dirty-tricks presidency — and the school Roger Stone graduated from.
Richard Nixon institutionalized the ratfuck: the enemies list, the plumbers, the domestic-spying apparatus, and the 1972 re-election operation that produced Watergate and, eventually, a resignation. He is also the founding node of a lineage this site keeps tracing — Roger Stone got his start in Nixon's dirty-tricks shop and wears Nixon's face tattooed on his back.
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He resigned the presidency in 1974 facing impeachment over Watergate.
FACTThe break-in, the cover-up, and the taping system ended in the first presidential resignation in U.S. history.
Roger Stone's career began in Nixon's 1972 dirty-tricks operation.
FACTFrom the Committee to Re-Elect the President, Stone carried the method forward to Roy Cohn, Trump, and January 6 — the direct line of transmission.
The CIA's illegal domestic-surveillance program MHCHAOS operated into his administration.
FACTMHCHAOS spied on the antiwar movement and domestic dissidents — the covert state turned inward, running through the Nixon years.
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