The Rockefeller Files: Chapter Thirteen Was Nixon Watergated ? by Gary Allen from archive.org

Chapter Thirteen 

Was Nixon Watergated ? 

"After all, when you think of what I had, what 
else [other than the Presidency ] was there to 
aspire to? " 

-Nelson Rockefeller 

Nelson Rockefeller has admitted that his goal in life since he was a child has been to be 
President of the United States. "After all" he admitted, "when you think of what I had, 
what else was there to aspire to?" He has a point there. 

Newsweek of September 2, 1974 tells us: "Ever since his boyhood meeting with Teddy 
Roosevelt, it seems, 'Nelson Rockefeller had been propelling himself toward the Oval 
Office. Nothing less would suit his ambition. . . " 

But the road to the White House for Nelson has been, if you will pardon the expression, 
rocky. He has had to settle for an un-elected and politically engineered Vice Presidency, a 
position at which he had previously turned up his nose several times. 

Nelson's first attempt at the Presidency came in 1960, shortly after his election as 
governor of New York Richard Nixon had been Vice President for eight years, however, 
and had spent much of the time making speeches for the COP. In 1960, he collected his 
political, IOUs from the majority of party activists and Rockefeller had no chance of 
getting the nomination. Where Rocky found he could not win the actual nomination. He 
moved to dictate policy from behind the scenes. A meeting was thus arranged between 
Rockefeller and Nixon on the Saturday before the Republican Convention opened in 
Chicago. 

The Republican Platform Committee had been meeting for an entire week, laboriously 
pounding out a platform reflecting the views of party members from all fifty states 




The Watergate Caper, the coup d'etat that knocked President Nixon out of the White 
House, was carefully engineered by the two agents for the House of Rockefeller 



shown above. It is now known that Henry Kissinger (left) was responsible for creating 
the Plumbers squad in the first place, while the instant 



General," Alexander Haig (right), made sure that the most incriminating evidence on the 
tapes was given in advance to the men investigating his boss! 

Together, the two men forced a bitter and dejected Nixon to resign, thus paving the way 
(finally!) to get a Rockefeller into the White House without risking an election Rocky 
would surely lose. 

But, at the meeting between Nixon and Nelson at Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue apartment 
in New York City, Nixon accepted everything Rockefeller dictated. The Platform 
Committee's sweat-stained document was ashcanned and, presto Chicago, Rockefeller's 
Liberal platform was substituted. Goldwater dejectedly called Nixon's surrender to 
Rockefeller" the Munich of the Republican Party.- 

Republicans everywhere understood the significance of the new Rockefeller- Nixon 
alliance. Nixon had traded his independence for approval by the House of Rockefeller. 

The truth is that Nixon had the nomination in the bag; there was no need for him to crawl 
to Rockefeller to win it. Nixon knew this, but he also knew who held the ultimate power 
behind both political parties. 

Certainly there was never any love lost between Richard and Rocky. They have detested 
each other for years. Newsweek of September 2, 1974, tells us: "The Nixon Presidency 
was a painful period for the proud governor. Privately, friends say, Rockefeller despised 
the self-made man from Yorba Linda. . . . 

Rocky, the man born to economic royalty, must have deeply resented having to operate 
through this Sammy Click-type character who looked like a used car salesman, but had 
clawed his way to the White House. But the two men needed each other. Nelson's 
influence in the COP is immense at the top, but is almost non-existent among voters at 
the grass roots. 

After forcing Nixon's humiliating surrender, Rockefeller virtually sat out the 1960 
campaign and allowed New York to go for Kennedy. Nixon surprised most observers by 
quietly accepting the defeat that had been arranged for him, refusing even to protest the 
vote fraud in Texas and Illinois which deprived him of the election.* 

* This story is described at length in Richard Nixon: The Man Behind The Mask by this 
author. 

Richard Nixon returned to California to practice law but remained at the beck and call of 
his jealous and hostile boss in New York. One indication of their real relationship was the 
Joe Shell affair. Shell was a long-time California State Assemblyman who planned to 
oppose Democrat incumbent Pat Brown for the governorship in 1962. Early in the year, 
he received a call from Rockefeller, asking whom he would support at the 1964 
convention if he were elected. The conservative Assemblyman told Rockefeller that 
under no circumstances could he support the ultra-liberal New Yorker. One week later, 



Shell's office received a call from Rockefeller's New York office with the news that 
Richard Nixon would oppose Shell in the COP gubernatorial primary-even though Nixon 
had previously assured Shell that he had absolutely no interest in being Governor of 
California. 

The important point here is that Nixon was not interested in the job until he received 
orders from his boss in New York. Nixon had everything to lose and virtually nothing to 
gain by running against an incumbent Democrat governor in a state with an 
overwhelming Democrat registration plurality. 

Following an incredibly inept campaign, in which his chief target was Nelson's old 
bugaboo, the -radical right," not Bungling Brown's record, Nixon lost the race. His 
political career appeared to have come to an end. 

As he put it: -You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." 

Apparently, the Nixon candidacy was as much a test of obedience as it was a move to 
head off a potential Rockefeller opponent. In any case, having thrown himself onto a bed 
of nails at the behest of Rockefeller, Nixon was thrown a lifeline and brought to New 
York. He moved into an elegant $125,000 apartment in the same building as Nelson 
Rockefeller-the very one in which the infamous 1 1 Compact of Fifth Avenue- was 
signed. Nixon was made a partner in a law firm which did a lot of trust and bond business 
with the friendly folk at Chase Manhattan Bank. 

During the next five years Nixon practiced very little law, yet his net worth jumped from 
practically nothing to over half-a-million dollars. Most of his time was spent touring the 
nation and the world rebuilding his political reputation. When the Rockefellers needed 
him in 1968, he had been resurrected from the political trash heap and turned into a 
legitimate candidate. 

Meanwhile, Nelson had been giving the Presidency the old college try himself. He might 
have made it in 1964 had not his divorce and remarriage alienated a large segment of 
middle America. Rockefeller learned the hard way that a lot of women don't forgive a 
man who abandons a wife of long standing to marry a much younger and prettier one. 
When the new bride abandons her own children to marry the man in question, it 
compounds the outrage. 

In 1968, Nelson made a half-hearted attempt to wrest the nomination from Nixon. But the 
handwriting was on the wailing wall. "Theold avidity is gone," groaned Nelson. Once 
again, he had to settle for owning the team instead of starting as quarterback. 

Nixon's appointments to policy-making positions confirmed that the House of 
Rockefeller did indeed own the team: they went almost entirely to Rockefeller men. In 
his inner circle, however, Nixon tried to surround himself with men like H. R. Haldeman 
and John Ehrlichman, who were personally loyal to him, not to Rockefeller. The two 
most notable exceptions were Kissinger and General Alexander Haig. Both men were 



known Rockefeller agents, and it is these two men who may have masterminded Nixon's 
early retirement. 

If Nixon was an obedient Rockefeller man- if not necessarily a loyal one- why then did the 
Rockefeller controlled media orchestrate the campaign to dispose him? Several possible 
explanations have been advanced. One is that Nixon grew too accustomed to the 
prerogatives of power, and believed that he had become an equal partner in the deal. 
There are some hints that Nixon himself may have initiated some of the in- fighting 
between the two factions. The forced resignation of Spiro Agnew, brought about by a 
combination of pressure from the Executive Branch and prosecution by Executive 
departments, may have been part of this. 

Another suggestion is that Rockefeller gave the nudge that toppled Agnew from the 
White House, counting on Nixon to appoint him to the Vice Presidency. When Nixon 
refused, and appointed Ford instead, the media dropped on him like a piano from the top 
of a ten- story building. 

We may never know the full story of what started the internecine warfare. But we do 
know what was the decisive encounter in the battle: Watergate. And as we unravel the 
twisting threads of this strange saga, we find that each tug that ultimately toppled Nixon 
from the throne can be traced to Rockefeller. 

The burglary at the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel was not exactly 
carried out with the precision of a James Bond movie. It was more like the Three Stooges 
at their most slapstick. It was so clumsy, in fact, that the whole operation smells of a set- 
up. First: one of the burglars alerted a guard, by replacing the tape over the door locks 
after the guard had discovered and removed the first one. Even though their efforts had 
been discovered, the boss of the operation, Cordon Liddy, sent the burglars back to the 
Watergate. There they proceeded to flash lights, rip the place apart, and in general act as 
if they had all night to perform their mission. The man posted as lookout saw the police 
enter the building, but either failed to alert the men inside-or his warning was ignored. 

It was as though the burglars were meant to be caught. And when they were, one of them 
conveniently was carrying the White House telephone number of E. Howard Hunt in his 
pocket. 

Watergate began with the creation of the "Plumbers." The Plumbers were created by 
Kissinger to stop leaks on his staff. 'Both Nixon staffers John Dean and Charles Colson 
reported that Kissinger got Nixon so upset over leaks that the President decided, at 
Kissinger's suggestion to set up a Special White House Investigating Unit, which later 
became known as the Plumbers. According to Dean it was Rockefeller who had Kissinger 
sucker Nixon into forming the Plumbers. Little did Nixon know that he being mouse 
trapped. 

Nationally syndicated columnist Paul Scott reports: 



Records of the Senate Watergate Committee investigation indicates that Dean's testimony 
concerning Rockefeller was never followed up by the committee's staff. The reason: 
Committee members were against calling Rockefeller. 

Kissinger put a member of his staff, David Young, in charge of the unit. You have never 
heard of David Young? join the multitudes. He was a Wall Street lawyer who had worked 
for Rockefeller before being promoted to Kissinger's staff.. After Watergate, Young was 
spirited off to a cushy assignment in London as a very advanced student, and the 
mediacracy has dutifully ignored his key role in Watergate. 

The Watergate burglary, which was bungled more badly than a Keystone Cops chase, 
ended with a proven link to the White House. But no one ever claimed that Nixon gave 
the nod for the break- in; it was his role in the coverup that led to his downfall. 

Watergate did start in the White House, however. But not by Nixon or any of his men. It 
was launched by the premier Rockefeller man, Henry Kissinger. 

It was the activities of the Plumbers which brought the downfall of Richard Nixon. And 
Kissinger, Rockefeller and the CIA were obviously deeply involved. Former White 
House aide Charles Colson has said that Nixon suspected the CIA was in the plot "upto 
their eyeballs." Colson says Nixon wanted to fire the director of the CIA and personally 
investigate what was believed to be a CIA conspiracy against him. He was persuaded not 
to do so by General Alexander Haig, the Rockefeller man who replaced Bob Haldeman. 
Colson portrays Nixon as a virtual captive of Kissinger and Haig in the Oval Office 
during his last months in the Presidency. 

But Richard Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal had it not been for those 
damned tapes. At the beginning of the Watergate hearings, no one even knew they 
existed. The fact that all Nixon conversations had been recorded was revealed almost 
casually by Alexander Butterfield, White House liaison with the Secret Service. It is hard 
to believe that this bombshell, which which was to remove a President, could be dropped 
with such an air of innocence. Could it have been planned? 

We now know that Butterfield had been a CIA informant. He has been accused of 
working with (if not for) the CIA when he was in charge of all the tapings in the White 
House. Had Blabbermouth Butterfield, who was called to testify about other matters-not 
the tapes— stonewall edit, Nixon would not have been forced to resign. Even if asked a 
direct question about any recordings, Butterfield could have maintained that such matters 
related to national security and must remain confidential. 

Nixon has said that the taping system was installed in the Oval Room at the suggestion of 
LBJ to preserve his conversations for posterity. Soon the whole White House and even 
Camp David were bugged. The White House monitoring system kept better track of 
people than do most prisons. The President could not walk from one room to another 
without that fact being recorded and a buzzer ringing and a light flashing on a console 
operated by Butterfield. Voices automatically started the tape recorders spinning. Keep in 



mind that it was not Mr. Nixon who turned the recorders off and on. It is as though the 
President were under constant surveillance by others, who wanted to know about his 
every word and movement. 

Why didn't Nixon have the tape machines shut off the day after the! Watergate arrests? 
Or, failing that, why didn't he destroy the tapes after Butterfield revealed their existence? 
Several rationalizations have been put forth, none of which ring true. One is that Nixon 
was mesmerized by the arrogance of power and did not believe the Supreme Court could 
or would subpoena the tapes. Since there was no precedent, why take the risk? Nixon 
must have known his very survival as President of the United States was at stake. 

Another explanation is that Nixon is compulsively greedy for money and wanted to keep 
the tapes for use in writing his memoirs, or to donate to the national archives and take a 
multimillion dollar tax deduction. Much as Nixon may like money, he would hardly 
jeopardize the Presidency -and risk a jail term- to keep the tapes. 

And he is now in the process of writing his memoirs for a million dollar fee without, 
benefit of those tapes. 

Remember, releasing the tapes would not exonerate Nixon, they would prove him guilty 
of every cover-up charge made against him. Why would this cunning politician, this 
ruthless abuser of power, this man from whom no one would buy a used car, not simply 
destroy the tapes himself? 

Nixon could have gone on national television in the great tradition of the Checkers 
speech, and said something like this: 

My fellow Americans. As your President, it is my sacred duty to protect your rights and 
our national security. And, let me make this perfectly clear - 1 shall not shrink from that 
duty, no matter how unpleasant the consequences. 

The tapes contained privileged and highly secret information, the publication of which 
would embarrass many honorable public servants and jeopardize our delicate relations 
with foreign powers. It is therefore necessary to do what is best for the country and not 
what is best for myself. 

Public release of the tapes would exonerate me, but jeopardize the fate of the nation. I 
have met this obligation, knowing full well that I shall be terribly criticized by a cynical 
and hostile press, by destroying the tapes. I know that you, the American people -the 
finest people in the world-will back me up in this crisis. Thank you and good night. 

To be sure, if Nixon had - stonewalled - it this way, the screaming would have been loud 
and profane. Senator Kennedy, the hero of Chappaquiddick, would have made a speech 
about abusing power to cover up crimes. But, there would have been no proof. And there 
is no way in the world that the President of the United States could have been removed 
from office without such evidence. Controversy would rage and Nixon would finish his 



second term under a cloud of doubt. But, there is no doubt he would finish the term! 
Better ugly suspicions than the damning truth. Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski has 
admitted that" if Mr. Nixon had destroyed the tapes at the time their existence was 
disclosed in July, 1973,he would still be President.- 

Can anybody believe, as Dr. Susan Huck has asked, that Nixon sat there like a good 
scout, watching the lynch mob fasten a hangman's knot out of those wretched tapes, and 
refuse to destroy the noose? That isn't the Nixon depicted on the tapes-much less in 
public life. 

Why then did not Nixon, that ultimate political opportunist, burn the tapes? We believe 
the only logical answer is that either Nixon did not control the tapes, or he knew there 
was more than one set. In a word, he did not destroy them because he could not. 

Have you ever wondered how everybody seemed to know what was on the tapes, and 
where,before they were "turned over - to committee staffs, special prosecutors, or judge 
Sirica? The mediacracy didn't wonder. So far as we can discover, the only person who 
has asked this question is Dr. Susan Huck, in the February 1975 issue of American 
Opinion magazine. 

Consider the fantastic detail involved in the requests. On August 14th, for example, judge 
Sirica demanded the "entire segment of tape on the reel identified as White House 
telephone start 5/25/72 (2:00 P.M.) (skipping 8 lines) 6/23/72 (2:50 P.M.) (832) 
complete." I don't know what all the identifying numbers mean-but you have to agree that 
only somebody very familiar with the tapes would know. 

These boys knew precisely what to look for! Here is another sample request: 

January 8, 1973 from 4:05 to 5:34 P.M. (E.O.B.) 

a) at approximately 10 minutes and 15 seconds into the conversation, a segment 
lasting 6 minutes and 31 seconds: 

b) at approximately 67 minutes into the conversation, a segment lasting 1 1 
minutes; 

c) at approximately 82 minutes and 15 seconds into the conversation, a segment 
lasting 5 minutes and 31 seconds. 

As Dr. Huck observed: "It does sound as though some body-obviously not the President - 
has been curled up with those tapes for many a long hour, doesn't it? Somebody knows 
exactly where the juicy parts are, down to the second. - 

Remember, all White House conversations-in person and on the phone-had been"bugged- 
for at least a year. There were literally miles of tapes in storage somewhere. But it is 



obvious the investigators already had the evidence they sought when the various 
subpoenas were issued! 

Who then controlled the tapes, or had access to a duplicate set? There is (understandably) 
very little information available on this crucial question. It is worth noting, however, that 
while L13J's recording system had been installed by the Army Signal Corps, the Nixon 
monitors were established by the Secret Service. So it is of more than passing 
significance that Newsweek on September 23, 1974, reported: 

While former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman awaits trial for his part in 
Watergate, the Secret Service chief he ousted from the White House last year has landed 
a plum job. Robert H. Taylor, 49, who tangled with Haldeman over Nixon security 
procedures, is now head of the private security forces for all the far-flung Rockefeller 
family enterprises. 

Hmmm. Once Nixon is deposed, the head of the Secret Service-the man in charge of the 
agency which was in charge of the tapes-gets"a plum job- with the Rockefeller Empire. 
And what of the Rockefeller's number one man in the White House? 

We know that Henry Kissinger was deeply involved in wire tapping his own staff and 
several journalists. But the one member of the White House staff who apparently never 
had his remarks taped in the Oval Office was Herr Kissinger -who also, as it happens, 
was chief of all US intelligence gathering operations. And who also, we now know, was 
responsible for establishing the Plumbers in the first place! 

But through all of this, Kissinger's loyalty was not with his President, it was with the 
Rockefellers! Kissinger had been through three losing campaigns with Nelson 
Rockefeller and openly spoke of despising Nixon. Biographer David Hanna quotes 
Kissinger as stating, after Nixon's nomination in 1968: "That man is unfit to be President. 
I would never work for that man. He is a disaster. "Yet Kissinger was the first 
appointment made by Nixon. 

Nixon did not know Kissinger well; in fact, he had only met the man once before in his 
life-at a cocktail party. And Kissinger was on record as standing 180 degrees to the left of 
Nixon's campaign utterances. Clearly,' Kissinger was put in the Nixon Administration by 
Rockefeller (who sent his protege off to Washington with a tidy little gift of $50,000). In 
his Vice Presidential hearings, Nelson Rockefeller even acknowledged that Kissinger 
took the job because Rocky asked him to do so.* 

While it was Henry Kissinger who set Nixon's head on the chopping block, it was another 
Rockefeller agent, General Alexander Haig, who applied the axe. Haig was appointed -at 
Kissinger's suggestion-as an interim replacement for the hastily deposed Bob Haldeman. 

Like Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall, two generals whose careers had a bad 
case of the blahs until anointed by the House of Rockefeller, Haig's career took off like a 
Saturn rocket when he joined the Rockefeller team through the Council on Foreign 



Relations. In 1969, he was a colonel. Four years later he had miraculously become a four 
star general, having skipped the three star rank entirely. What happened to trigger this 
remarkable rise In 1969, Haig became an assistant to Kissinger; subsequently, he was 
catapulted over 240 general officers when Nixon raised him to four- star rank. Such a 
promotion should mark Haig as one of the great military leaders in our history. But, his 
promotions did not come as 

* So critical was the Kissinger appointment that Nixon waived the customary FBI 
security clearance for his nominee as Secretary of State. The reasons Kissinger could 
never pass accurate security procedures will be discussed in our follow-up book, The 
Kissinger File a result of military achievements -there were none. They were political. 
Haig was now a general in the Rockefeller Army, an army which tells other armies when 
to march. 

Syndicated columnist Jerald TerHorst, who did a short stint as Ford's press secretary', 
tells us: 

For most of the final Nixon year, as Haig himself would agree, he [Haig] was the acting 
president of the United States. With a troubled President drawing more and more within 
his shell, everyone in the government, with the possible exception of [Haig's sponsor] 
Kissinger, was working for Al Haig. 

William Safire, a Nixon speech writer, says in the November 11, 1973 New York Times 
magazine: "Haig is far more powerful than Haldeman ever was; but he exercises it more 
gently ... Haig learned this technique from the past master, Henry Kissinger. . . .- In his 
new book, Before The Fall, Safire calls Haig -Kissinger's alter ego. "Significantly, the 
Washington Post's Barry Sussman refers to Haig as " Butterfield's former colleague." 

You see, it was Alexander Haig who had control of the vault where the Watergate tapes 
were kept. Two months after Haig became the keeper of the keys, his former colleague 
Butterfield tipped off the Watergate Committee about their existence. Since it is perfectly 
clear that the subpoenas for the tapes were written by persons already possessing a 
detailed familiarity with their contents, it is painfully obvious that Haig had already 
provided them with copies of the pertinent excerpts. 

It was now time for the axe to fall. In the June 8, 1975 issue of Parade magazine, Lloyd 
Shearer tells us: "From May 1973 to August 1974, Haig was Nixon's chief of staff. It was 
he who adroitly engineered, orchestrated and choreographed Nixon's resignation from the 
Presidency. 

According to Shearer, Nixon was determined not to resign. "Yet Haig knew that he 
must. "The reason for Haig's insistence, according to Parade, was that if the President 
insisted on a trial and lost, he would lose his pension and other government benefits. You 
will pardon us for believing that Haig had much more compelling reasons for giving 
Nixon the final push. 



How did he do it? Haig -orchestrated the resignation march," says Shearer, by taking the 
evidence against Nixon to Republican Congressmen, Presidential speech writers and 
others close to Nixon. "Haig saw to it that Senator Barry Goldwater, the conservative 
bulwark of the Republican Party, was provided with the damning tape transcripts of June 
23,- Shearer reported. Get that? The President's chief assistant finds out the boss won't 
budge, so he takes copies of the most damning tapes to the few supporters Nixon had left! 
Why didn't Nixon fire Haig and burn the tapes? Again, the most obvious, most logical 
answer is that he did not because he could not. 

Shearer continues: 

And at the next and final Cabinet meeting, with at least half the members expecting him 
to resign, Nixon rambled on about inflation, declared his intention to stay on, ordered 
them to pass the word. 

Haig and Kissinger exchanged glances. ! When the Cabinet meeting was over, Kissinger 
stayed behind. Gently he suggested that the President resign. 

Later that same afternoon, "Haig played his final card. "Republican Senate leaders Hugh 
Scott and Barry Goldwater, joined by House Minority Leader John Rhodes, visited Nixon 
and told him his support in the Senate had evaporated. "That night," reports Shearer, 
"after again talking to Kissinger and Haig, Richard Nixon decided to resign." 

And that is how the Three Muskateers for the House of Rockefeller engineered the coup 
d'etat that removed Nixon from the White House, and put Nelson in. There must have 
been quite a celebration that night in Pocantico Hills. 

Please do not misunderstand us. We are not claiming that Richard Nixon was an innocent 
lamb done in by the big bad wolf. It was more like AI Capone rubbing out Bugs Moran 
and then sending flowers to the funeral. The point is that the entire scenerio-from the 
creation of the Plumbers, through the incredibly bungled Watergate break- in, to the 
revelation of the existence of the tapes, to the preservation of the tapes and their use to 
force Nixon to resign -was written and directed by Rockefeller front men. 

It is not without meaning that only those connected with the Rockefeller empire survived 
Watergate, while nearly everybody else was in disgrace-some pounding big rocks into 
little rocks. 

Alexander Haig, the - instant General - as Dr. Huck called him, was quick to get his 
reward. Haig is now Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the general in charge of the 
NATO military command. In order to replace Haldeman, Haig had to retire from the 
Army. Can you imagine chucking four stars for a ride on the Titanic? Not bloody likely. 
There can be little doubt that Haig had been promised instant reinstatement and a very 
posh life jacket when the good ship Nixonia \ slipped beneath the waves. He got both. 



Henry Kissinger is another big Watergate winner. Despite the fact that he not only 
bugged his own staff, but newspaper reporters as well, nary a word of criticism appeared 
in the press. Then came the disclosure that Kissinger was responsible for creating the 
Plumbers. Ho hum. During the Watergate scandals, Kissinger rose to the high office of 
Secretary of State while retaining his position as National Security Advisor. He had 
unprecedented power over foreign policy and intelligence. The source of his power was 
his sponsor, Nelson Rockefeller. 

Kissinger proved, once again, that no man can serve two masters, just as Haig had said 
that he "was never a Nixon man," Kissinger had boasted of Nixon, "I would never work 
for that man." He didn't. He worked for the Rockefellers. 

Another beneficiary of the Watergate fiasco was that -staunch mid- western conservative," 
Gerald Ford. As usual, the image created by the media moguls and the truth are light 
years apart. Despite what some wags have said, Ford showed, while serving on the 
Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy, that he had not 
played football without a helmet once too often: he proved he could keep his mouth shut 
about a major cover-up. At the time he was made Vice President, Ford had attended 
Bilderberger meetings and had been appointed by Rockefeller to the National 
Commission on Critical Choices.* 

* The Bilderbergers are sort of an international CFR. They meet once a year at some posh 
secluded hideaway to make a mockery of democracy. The meetings, composed of the 
world's elite men of politics, business, banking and labor, receive virtually no serious 
attention from the mediacracy. See Chapter 5 of None Dare Call It Conspiracy. 

The catalyst who arranged Ford's appointment was former Wisconsin Congressman Mel 
Laird. Laird had been Secretary of Defense under Nixon and later a Presidential advisor. 
A member of Rockefeller's CFR, Laird knows where the power lies. If you will pardon 
the pun, he keeps his standards well oiled. 

Acting as what Paul Scott calls "Mr. Inside - for Rockefeller, Laird succeeded in talking 
Nixon out of nominating former Treasury Secretary John Connally to succeed Agnew. 
He convinced the President that Connally could never be confirmed by Congress and 
suggested the compromise nomination of Gerald Ford as Vice President. 

But of course, the ultimate winner of the Watergate roulette was Nelson Rockefeller. He 
is now only the proverbial heartbeat away from his lifelong ambition - to be President of 
these United States. (And just recently, two women have pointed pistols at jovial Jerry 
and his limousine was in an automobile accident. Understandably, Jerry doesn't look 
quite so merry anymore.) 

When Bobo Sears Rockefeller was obtaining a divorce from the late Winthrop 
Rockefeller, s he exploded two bombshells at the trial. The first was that Winthrop had 
one of the largest and most valuable collections of pornography in the world. (The punch 
line is that the pictures were not of girls.) 



Revelation number two from the bizarre divorce proceedings was the disclosure that the 
Brothers Rockefeller would get together from time to time - to brainstorm on ways they 
could make Nelson the President, without the benefit of an election. (They realized he 
could never get into the Oval Office via the ballot box.) 

So Rockefeller became an appointed Vice President. And, he was named by a man who 
was not elected, who was appointed by a man who resigned because he was about to be 
impeached. We doubt if the Brothers Rockefeller could dream up anything quite this wild 
even after the fifth martini. Or could they? 

Ford went through the motions of asking Republican Congressional leaders for their 
recommendations for the Vice Presidency. The choice had all the suspense of an election 
in Russia. Anybody who was surprised at the selection of Rockefeller must have arrived 
in town on top of a wagon full of turnips., 

Are we suggesting there was a deal made for Nixon to appoint Ford, get pardoned by the 
new President, and then have Ford select Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President? That is 
exactly what we are saying. Anyone who doubts such a deal was made probably thinks 
professional wrestling matches are for real. It may just be coincidental, but on December 
7, 1973,the headline on the upper- right-hand part of page one of the New York Times 
was: 

FORD SWORN AS VICE PRESIDENT AFTER HOUSE APPROVES. 

The upper-left-hand headline of the very same issue read: 

GOVERNOR TO QUIT AND SEEK PRESIDENCY, HIS AIDES SAY. 

While the nation focused on the Watergate hearings circus, the real show was going on 
inside a different tent. Columnist Paul Scott wrote at the time: "The drama packed Senate 
Watergate hearings are only the colorful sideshow to one of the boldest and slickest 
transfers in US history. "And he continued with this revelation: 

With everyone's attention focused on the cast of "small time" actors parading before the 
TV cameras recording the special Senate inquiry, only a few privileged insiders are alert 
to the really big show taking place at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

As part of the plan to create a new world order [world government], the main show 
involves the carefully planned transfer of power from President Nixon to New York's 
Governor Rockefeller, now strategically positioning himself to become the President's 
heir apparent for 1976. 

Whether Rockefeller with his family's vast economic wealth, social and political power 
will be able to pull off this carefully managed " powergrab - is one of the most chilling 
and exciting political stories unfolding in our times.- 



Half of the Rockefeller coup d'etat has already been achieved. The question of the decade 
is: Where does Rocky go now? In 1968, after his third flop on the primary circuit, Rocky 
announced: " . . the old avidity is gone. Has the "old avidity " returned? Is a four-pound 
robin fat? 

Does King Kong like bananas? 

Obviously the Rockefellers did not go to all of the trouble in setting the Watergate wheels 
in motion without having something big in mind. Being a political prognosticator is an 
occupation only slightly less dangerous than riding tandem with Eve] Knievel. Gathering 
facts is one thing, projecting them with accuracy into the future is quite another. 
Circumstances change, and we don't think there is a single plan which has been carved in 
stone. The Rockefellers never put all of their financial or political eggs in one basket 
"Doubtless, the family is considering a whole fleet of alternatives. 

Rocky now says that he will not run with Ford in 76. He did not say he wouldn't run 
without him. Our Washington sources tell us that it was Nelson's idea to announce that he 
would not be on a Ford ticket, and that Jerry unmerrily begged him not to make the 
announcement. The reason Nelson is getting off the S.S Jerry Ford, is that it is a sinking 
ship. Rocky's private poll! reportedly show that Ford could well lose early 76 primaries 
and thereby throw the nomination wide open. 

At that point the Rockefeller bandwagon would begin rolling with the greatest media 
promotion campaign in history, the theme being that only Rocky can save us. Indeed, 
according to Washington's best informed columnist, Paul Scott, Rockefeller began setting 
up an independent campaign organization two weeks before announcing he would not run 
with Ford. But wait, the plot thickens. 

Many will refuse to believe the next prediction will happen, but we would bet our last 
farthing on it. If Nelson gets the top spot, the number two man on the ticket will be 
Ronald Reagan. It will be successfully sold to the Republican faithful across the nation 
as"the ticket to save the party." Would Reagan prostitute himself to accept the number 
two man on a Rocky ticket? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Reagan will do whatever 
his -Kitchen Cabinet- of -money men tell him to do. When he first got the Republican 
nomination for the Governorship of California in 1966, he quickly cut himself loose from 
tough conservatives and put Rockefeller men in as his key advisors. 

Whether Rocky is at the top or in the number two position on the ticket may depend on 
whether his private surveys indicate he could be elected President. Recent public polls 
show that he is not exactly as popular with the American people as ice cream at a picnic. 
Even though the Rockefeller family is reportedly ready to spend $100 million dollars to 
put Nelson in the White House, it still might not work. The American people seem 
intuitively suspicious of him. 

How widely this book is read could influence Rocky's decision. 



In addition to financing a lavish direct and indirect campaign for a Rockefeller-Reagan 
ticket, the House of Rockefeller can be counted upon to pump money in a thousand 
different and devious ways into splitting the Democrat vote. The odds-on favorite to get 
the Democrat nod is Hubert Humphrey. The US has moved so far toward fascism - 
socialism that Hubert Humphrey, a founder of the radical Americans for Democratic 
Action (ADA), is now considered to be a middle of -the road - candidate. Like Nixon in 
1968, Humphrey is a man whose time has come. Nobody is too wild about him, but he is 
acceptable to most. 

A far left ticket headed by Eugene McCarthy or Senator Frank Church of Idaho would 
siphon off enough traditional Democrats so that the Republicans could win with forty % 
of the vote. Divide and conquer is the name of the electoral game. 

Wallace can be counted upon to run as a patriotic third party candidate and take some 
workingman-type votes away from Humphrey. Wallace is not a Rockefeller man and the 
family would hope that he does not start such a wildfire rebellion against the 
Establishment that lie actually gets elected. 

Meanwhile Nelson can continue as the de facto President, letting Ford walk around with 
a target on his back. Since Ford has made Rocky head of the Domestic Council (which 
controls national policy), and since Kissinger runs foreign policy, the House of 
Rockefeller already controls the government in everything but name. Having Nelson as 
Veep is a gun perpetually cocked at Ford's temple. If Jerry for some reason does not want 
to go along, a Secret Service man may look the other way while an assassin does a 
number on the President. 

Let us assume that public revulsion at Rocky is so great that he is dumped from the 
Republican ticket. And let us assume also that Humphrey or another Democrat wins the 
Presidency. Does that mean that the royal Rockefellers would be stripped of their power? 
No, not unless the whole CFR socialist -fascist- world government strategy is repudiated. 
If Rocky is ousted, it will be a huge blow to his inflated ego and might set the Rockefeller 
Great Merger timetable back somewhat. The House of Rockefeller would simply be back 
to operating through the CFR. But their plan for world conquest will roll on unabated. 

You see, we have the Rockepubs and the Rockedems, but there is not a dime's worth of 
difference. Both parties belong to the House of Rockefeller. 

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