The Secret Speech That Launched Nixon’s Presidential Run

Posted in history, secret societies on January 30th, 2010

Among documents recently released by the Nixon Presidential Library was the text of a talk given by Richard Nixon to attendees at the secret summer camp-out of the Bohemian Club. The tradition of a summer encampment was established six years after the Bohemian Club was formed in 1872.  The outing held at the, privately owned, Bohemian Grove is shrouded in secrecy.  Each year some of the worlds elite men get together to party and, as some will tell you, plan their takeover of the earth.

Richard Nixon, and newly elected Governor Ronald Reagan, at The Bohemian Grove (1967)

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Was Nixon Stalking Frank Sinatra?

Posted in stranger than fiction on January 30th, 2010

When planning for the reelection bid of President Richard Nixon, his aides plotted the “seduction” of Frank Sinatra, who was viewed as a source of “massive financial resources,” and a man who “controls a great number of celebrities, entertainers and other public figures.”

According to memos released by the National Archives,  the plan to woo Sinatra was detailed in a confidential “eyes only” October 1971 memo from Charles Colson to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff.

The several month long campaign worked like a charm. Not only did the Tricky Dick and Ol’ Blue Eyes enjoy a fateful first date, their on-again, off-again romance lasted for years.

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