Posted by
Michael on Saturday, July 07, 2007 5:03:43 PM
What that means? Who the hell knows,
but it is amusing:Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called “dumb as hell.”
The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate
unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the committee’s
Democratic counsel.
This assessment comes from audio tapes of White House conversations
recently reviewed by The Associated Press at the National Archives in
College Park, Md., and transcripts of those discussions that are
published in “Abuse of Power: The New Watergate Tapes,” by historian
Stanley Kutler.
“Oh sh*t, that kid,” Nixon said when told by his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, of Thompson’s appointment on Feb. 22, 1973…