Interview · moment 21 of 23
Nixon's Enemies: Oil Depletion, Sugar Money, and Assassination Fears
from Dead President with Russ Baker · #125
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4 minGuest
Baker explains how Nixon angered oil wildcatters and the sugar industry, discusses Nixon's fear of assassination, an obscure alleged plane bombing attempt, and other underreported attacks on presidents including Obama.
- 1:13:47Nixon refused to honor the oil depletion allowance, angering wealthy oil tycoons like H.L. Hunt and the wildcatters.
- 1:14:06He also refused to do the bidding of the sugar industry, which infiltrates everything Americans eat without their knowledge.
- 1:14:41Sugar interests were the dangerous ones who took money from Nixon and felt they owned him, wanting Castro out because of Cuba.
- 1:14:55Assassination attempts were made on multiple presidents and officials—Gerald Ford, and there was reportedly a plane that tried to bomb Nixon that wasn't widely reported.
- 1:15:14Most people don't remember the attempts against Obama, including someone who shot a high-powered rifle into the White House who was mysteriously released.
- 1:15:33Tim questions what the actual job of the Secret Service is, claiming he and twelve Cub Scouts could have secured it better than they do.
- 1:16:02The media never discusses the complete absence of security around Kennedy on November 22, 1963—the Secret Service simply melted away.
- 1:16:17Video evidence shows a Secret Service agent being ordered away from Kennedy's car, confused, saying 'What the hell?' before being told to get away now.
- 1:16:40One documentary suggested the fatal shot that killed Kennedy came from the Secret Service car behind them, not Oswald—an accidental trigger pull.
- 1:17:01The specific facts around Kennedy's assassination indicate a cover-up engineered at the highest possible levels.
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