Why ESW Runs a Nixon Respecter Account

Today marks the 50th anniversary of President Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, becoming the first POTUS to resign. This followed on Lyndon Baines Johnson the 36th President announcing in 1968 that he would not be running for re election, amid the quagmire of the Vietnam War abroad and riots at home. Joe Biden, or rather the clique that runs Joe Biden, would pull a similar move in the summer of 2024, de facto abdicating in favor of his Vice President Kamala Harris.

It may seem strange that a website dedicated to spreading the good news to Americans and other 'first world' ers about their options to protect their wealth and assets through offshoring would run a 'Nixon respecter account'. Didn't Nixon sign the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into law? How about that notorious moment when he interrupted the regularly scheduled programming of Bonanza on a Saturday night to inform the American people that their government was ending the postwar Bretton Woods economic order and removing the gold standard? Has the U.S. ever truly recovered from that abandonment of a benchmark for monetary value as old as civilization itself? And can it recover before national bankruptcy and quite plausibly, the breakup of the United States?

The answers are of course no, it hasn't and probably won't. And yes, Nixon's domestic law and order combined with continued welfare/regulatory state expansion policies were a mixed bag at best. The Nixon Administration could be considered the high water mark of progressive or 'Rockefeller' Republicanism: the last time people could say what was good for General Motors was generally good for America. He did indeed, as Don Draper said on Mad Men, come from nothing, from truly humble beginnings in the state of California, back when the late Great Golden State represented the best of American upward mobility. Even Nixon's corruption was at best of the petty sort from personal friendships with Italian mobsters, for which his old rival JFK was readily forgiven by court historians. Nixon was clearly a piker compared to what would follow with the globalist-backed dynasties of the Bushes, the Clintons and the Obamas--the latter now anticipating their 4th term via an election heavily 'fortified' in favor of Kamala Harris.

It should not be forgotten that peace, as now retired Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul has been fond of saying for decades, is popular. And notwithstanding all the neocon idiocy about hollow 'strength', a peace through strength backing sound diplomacy platform has in every election proven popular with Americans. The American People responded to Nixon's promise of 'peace with honor' in Southeast Asia by handing him the largest electoral college landslide mandate ever in 1972. Nixon's huge win was rivaled only by Reagan's crushing defeat of Walter Mondale a half generation later, in 1984--and Reagan was shot by a would-be assassin with family ties to his own Vice President, former CIA director George H.W. Bush.

In foreign policy, Nixon pursued a ruthless policy of realism seeking to extricate the US from the Southeast Asian quagmire his predecessors--even the sainted JFK--had played their role in creating, even boldly speaking face to face with antiwar protesters who viewed him as a devil. One wonders today, if somehow the deep state permits President Trump to win the 2024 election whether Nixon family acquaintance Donald Trump would similarly be able to extricate the US and its allies from a similarly doomed war in Ukraine.

While pursuing détente with the Leonid Brezhnev-led Soviet Union and taking the previously thought of as radical step of opening up Red China, Nixon also had an ambitious agenda that could've set the U.S. up in much stronger position in terms of energy and reduced oil imports, by proposing the construction of a thousand nuclear power plants. Even as the dollar continued to float on the backing of Saudi crude, the transition from a nominally gold-backed dollar to a fiat oil standard could have been eased for ordinary Americans. But the same deep state that had assassinated JFK did not want a winding down of the Cold War, nor did it want almost too cheap to meter energy. Even as Vietnam was wound down, other wars across the so-called Third World were heated up from Latin America to Iran, where the toppling of the Shah prompted Henry Kissinger to quip it was dangerous to be America's adversary, but often fatal to be the USA's best friend. No one did more to cultivate friends in Washington or promote regional peace with Israel than the late Shah--many of whose associates would settle in Southern California.

So the globalists via their deep state intelligence agency tentacles brought Nixon down, not via the crude and direct JFK/RFK method, but through more subtler and lionized forms of regicide: by seizing on a third-rate bungled burglary at the Democratic National Committee Watergate hotel, one that may very well have been intentionally botched to leave compromising traces back to the Oval Office. The same techniques were partially used against Trump two generations later, when the 'hacking' again of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 left behind traces no competent Russian intelligence-run hacking team in fact would leave for deep state corporate front Crowdstrike (years before they gifted the world a multi-billion dollar loss BSOD error) to 'find'. From veteran GOP political operative Roger Stone (who has a big Nixon tattoo on his back):

The media, often hailed as the “guardian of democracy,” played a crucial role in Nixon’s downfall. But their fervor to expose Nixon was driven by more than just “journalistic integrity”. The Washington Post, under powerful owners with deep political ties, became a tool for a coordinated smear campaign.

Bob Woodward, a journalist for the Post at the time, had high-level connections within the intelligence community which suggest a larger conspiracy where the media was manipulated to turn public opinion against Nixon. These connections, combined with selective leaks from insiders, ensured that the narrative focused on Nixon’s culpability while diverting attention from the deeper involvement of the CIA and FBI.

It’s time to rewrite the history of Watergate and recognize it for what it was: a meticulously planned and executed coup, masked by the facade of journalistic integrity and democratic accountability.

The real heroes of this story are not Woodward and Bernstein but those who dare to expose the truth behind the myth, challenging the entrenched powers that continue to shape our world from the shadows.

Nixon was a casualty of a system that tolerates no defiance, and his resignation serves as a reminder of the sinister forces at play behind the facade of democracy.

Our CEO and cofounder V the Guerrilla Economist mentioned Nixon in his seminal January 2015 published article, The Mischief Engine about Japan and the secret history of the Yen Carry Trade. We've republished it here at the ESW site, exclusively for paying subscribers.

What about the rise of Red China? Didn't Nixon contribute in his own way at the start to a massive transfer of manufacturing jobs and ultimately wealth, from the hollowed out Rust Belt of the USA to the teeming factory cities of the PRC? Doesn't Nixon bear at least historic responsibility for the PRC surpassing the USA as the world's leading economic powerhouse and soon, military superpower?

It must be said, that the vast bulk of the offshoring to China happened later, starting in the Ford Administration, continuing modestly through the Carter years and accelerating during Reagan's second term as the Bush 41 people took over, with Bill Clinton's administration perhaps being the key turning point from nationally oriented trade policies to utopian globalism in the 1990s, which sought to build up the Chinese economy while seeking to permanently co-opt the CCP leadership into the Empire that Never Ended. Nixon could not have foreseen how explosively China would grow once it was opened up to the world economy. Whether future generations will lazily blame Nixon rather than his successors for the Chinese surpassing the Americans as the leading economic and likely military superpower is an open question, but ultimately an unfair one.

According to Nixon's memoirs, an ailing Chairman Mao reportedly told his foreign minister Chou En Lai when Nixon came to China that he preferred dealing with Rightists like Nixon, who presented a tough anti-Communist veneer, because the Chinese could ultimately do pragmatic business with them, over the smarmy holier than thou liberal types who would try to screw the Chinese in subtle imperialist ways (like the opium trade, or in today's terms weed, Internet porn and energy drinks). The disdain many Chinese netizens have for baizou and for woke 'anti-racism' echoes that thinking from 50 years ago.

In his time, Nixon represented potential of the old America squandered by the machinations of globalism, including that of his own Rockefeller family agent National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Kissinger. Watergate was indeed, a giant 'do-gooder' veneered CIA/FBI scam perpetuated on the American people. And this is why we are Nixon respecters.

We invite ESW Patreon readers to watch the interview posted today between Tucker Carlson and Geoff Shepard in its entirety.