Deepthroating
This post has been sitting around for a couple days because I saved it as a draft and didn't post it. Hope you enjoy. For those who care, I've posted the entire PDF of my book The Pure Investor here. Read away.
Now that the big mystery of the 70's is over, I'm a little let down. Don't argue that Hoffa is a mystery. A ex-con union boss with mob ties disappears? No big mystery there.
I'm of the 80's generation so the biggest mystery we had to undure was Who Shot JR? and Where's the Beef? Oh, and how in the hell did Madonna get away with calling herself a "singer" much less an artist?
I have to admit that I admire Woodward and Bernstein. They kept the secret for 30 years. Considering my whining yesterday about money, I don't know if I could have done that. There had to be a point in the last 3 decades where Carl or Bob needed some jack to pay the kid's college bill or to buy that mid-life crisis enduced red convertible or to pay the townhouse rent for the bimbo they kept downtown. Bravo.
It also seems like Deepthroat was kind of an ass. He got passed over for a job so he leaked to the newspaper. A real man would have resigned in protest, gone to a sympathetic Congressman - proper channels - and told all. The way Deepthroat did it, he got to stab Tricky Dick in the back in an underground garage and still keep his pension. That didn't take guts.
Also, Nixon doesn't seem so smart in this. I can't stand Nixon's politics but at least he was tough. Anyone who will bomb on Christmas to get people back to the negotiating table deserves some respect. The pollyanna's don't want to admit it, but Kennedy had more cunning and guile than Nixon ever did. Kennedy knew how to handle people working for him, he just kept screwing things up internationally. And of course he forgot to duck. Nixon should have known that if you pass up the #2 guy at FBI to put your own stooge in that the #2 guy will come after you somehow. Kennedy would have passed the #2 guy up, but then either brought him in closer and sent him someplace far away. Any middle manager knows that when you get that promotion you don't take on the old guys secretary. She'll be out for you. Nixon left him in place. Dumbass.
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Now that the big mystery of the 70's is over, I'm a little let down. Don't argue that Hoffa is a mystery. A ex-con union boss with mob ties disappears? No big mystery there.
I'm of the 80's generation so the biggest mystery we had to undure was Who Shot JR? and Where's the Beef? Oh, and how in the hell did Madonna get away with calling herself a "singer" much less an artist?
I have to admit that I admire Woodward and Bernstein. They kept the secret for 30 years. Considering my whining yesterday about money, I don't know if I could have done that. There had to be a point in the last 3 decades where Carl or Bob needed some jack to pay the kid's college bill or to buy that mid-life crisis enduced red convertible or to pay the townhouse rent for the bimbo they kept downtown. Bravo.
It also seems like Deepthroat was kind of an ass. He got passed over for a job so he leaked to the newspaper. A real man would have resigned in protest, gone to a sympathetic Congressman - proper channels - and told all. The way Deepthroat did it, he got to stab Tricky Dick in the back in an underground garage and still keep his pension. That didn't take guts.
Also, Nixon doesn't seem so smart in this. I can't stand Nixon's politics but at least he was tough. Anyone who will bomb on Christmas to get people back to the negotiating table deserves some respect. The pollyanna's don't want to admit it, but Kennedy had more cunning and guile than Nixon ever did. Kennedy knew how to handle people working for him, he just kept screwing things up internationally. And of course he forgot to duck. Nixon should have known that if you pass up the #2 guy at FBI to put your own stooge in that the #2 guy will come after you somehow. Kennedy would have passed the #2 guy up, but then either brought him in closer and sent him someplace far away. Any middle manager knows that when you get that promotion you don't take on the old guys secretary. She'll be out for you. Nixon left him in place. Dumbass.
Stay You.
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posted by Howard McEwen, CFA at Thursday, June 02, 2005
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