the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the waterg
Agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the watergate scandal as the president s personal lawyer. Kalmbach showed no emotion. He said id like you to know how deeply embarrassed i am and how sorry i am to be here thjudge announced the sentence. Not six n 18 months with a fine of 10,000. He left the court and went straight to a waiting car without comment. He is the 14th person to be sentenced for a crime related to watergate. As president Richard Nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach and his firm did a lot of runofthemill personal legal tasks for e president. They, for example, signed the checks for president to make his mortay they made sure he kept up on his property taxes they arranged the purchase of the mansin san clemente, california, that the Nixon Administration liked to call the western white house. Before maralago there was san clemente. But as nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach also ended up up to heck in a lot of different kinds of shady and ultimately illegal nixon s
It is all downhill from here. Were all going to be fine. President Richard Nixon had a personal attorney whose name was herbe herbercolmbach. Went to prison in the watergate scandal. 44 years ago week, s personal lawyer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he only ended up doing about a third of that prison he only ended up having toerve about six months in prison because he plead guilty, and he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the watergate scandal as the president s personal lawyer. Colmbach showed no emotion. He said id like you to know how deeply embarrassed i am and how sorry i am to be here the judge announced the sentence. Not six months and not more than ths with a fine of 10,0 10,000. He left the court and went straight to a waiting car without comment. He is the 14th person to be sentenced for a crime related to watergate. A president richa nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach and his firm did a l runofthemill personal legal tasks for the president. They, for e
One of the nasty truths about our two nastiest presidents is that getting close to them would likely end you up in jail. Both presidents were Republicans. Both were preternaturally corrupt. And both demanded the kind of loyalty from their subordinates that required you, when asked, to commit crimes .