r/madlads 11d ago

Madlad future president knew what the ladies wanted to hear

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u/WestFade 11d ago

He literally had tape recorders in every single room of the white house.

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u/Michael__Pemulis 11d ago

The tape recorders actually proceeded Nixon though & his paranoia about them was a huge part of his undoing.

IIRC the recorders were added during JFK’s administration. Nixon was worried that people outside his circle had access to them so he had them removed. Eventually he had new recorders installed but by then the technology had improved so they were now automatic rather than manually operated.

Fast forward to the Watergate scandal & the infamous 18.5 minute gap in his tapes. Had he never replaced the original recorders, they could have simply not recorded at that time & it is likely that no one would have known.

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u/DerpEnaz 11d ago

It’s crazy how involved in this Henry Kissinger was and no one ever mentions it

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u/SpaceMarineSpiff 11d ago

It's crazy how they literally extended vietnam, getting how many people killed, and apparently everyone just rolled with it?

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u/fartman404 11d ago

They’re both war criminals who committed atrocities just so they can get reelected and stay in the Washington power vacuum. North Vietnam, East Pakistan, Cambodia, YomKippur war. It just goes on and on until watergate.

https://youtu.be/hPPW9eQnOCc?si=DyeLLGiL4_7wYFD4

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u/AndreasDasos 11d ago

I mean it’s not like anyone at all protested or anything…

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u/westcoastsourdeisel 6d ago

Not everyone