President Richard Nixon finally became President in 1969, during a time
when the Vietnam War was raging and many were demanding its end and the
return of US soldiers home.
Nixon realized that many of the returning US soldiers were heroin addicts and/or dealers,
and posed a danger to the homeland of spreading heroin usage first to the inner cities,
then to the rest of the country.
Nixon had a background of supporting Civil Rights in the 1950's to provide basic
protections for black americans.
Nixon was VP during the Eisenhower Republican presidency (1953-1961),
and as such, presided over the US Senate.
Presiding over the US Senate 1953-1961, Nixon, a Republican,
was instrumental in utilizing rarely used Senate rules
to steer Eisenhower Civil Rights legislation, which was being blocked by Democrat Senators,
which included Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy (JFK), James Eastland,
Strom Thurmond, Richard Russell Jr. etc
[rename the Russell Office Building, but Not after warmonger John McCain] ,
to the Senate Floor for immediate floor debate, bypassing the Judiciary Committee.
This was necessary because Lyndon Johnson, as Senate Leader, had positioned James Eastland,
a known racial segregationist, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, knowing
that Eastland could be relied upon to block any Civil Rights legislation filed and prevent
its report out to the Senate Floor.
Nixon's actions forced an immediate Senate Floor debate during which the bill could pass.
This forced the Democrat racial segregationists in the Senate to Filibuster the bill on the floor
and Strom Thurmond, from South Carolina, made a name for himself by committing
a filibuster speech of record length (1957).
Republican Senators tried to break the filibuster by Senate Cloture votes,
but then Senator, John F. Kennedy, who was from the northern anti-slavery State of Massachusetts,
failed to distinguish himself as a supporter of the bill, and JFK in fact voted with the
Senate racial segregationist contingent on a motion to block the bypass of Eastland's Judiciary Committee,
which nevertheless failed.
The later Civil Rights Act of 1964 (after many non-violent black civil rights movement deaths and injuries)
was passed with mostly Republican votes, a week after the Mississippi Burning 3 civil rights workers
(Goodman, Schwoerner and Chaney) went missing -- President Lyndon Johnson could not block
this law any longer, once the country was consumed by these murders,
especially when 2 of the 3 were white.
Yet, Democrats Johnson (and JFK) are given huge accolades by the crooks in the Press for great
leadership on Civil Rights.
This background was what was known about Nixon, Johnson and JFK by the US Press,
including the Washington Post, when Nixon became President in 1969.
And the Press hated Nixon.
And the Press hated Earl Warren, another Civil Rights hero, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
(former California Governor, appointed by Eisenhower (1953), most likely
recommended by Nixon, who was until 1953 US Senator from California)
and author of the critical Brown v Board of Education (1954) ruling which helped launch
the US civil rights movement (Rosa Parks -- 1955).
And eventually, coordinating with criminals in the FBI
('Deep Throat' was revealed recently to be Mark Felt, then FBI Associate Director,
who held a job similar to today's Andrew McCabe)
who leaked politically harmful information regularly to the Washington Post,
the Washington Post was successful in driving Nixon from the Presidency.
As Nixon grappled with the looming US drug catastrophe, he failed to realize that the
police/fbi/dea(bndd) and The Press were allied with the Drug Kingpins and that without dealing
with the police corruption problem, no success would result from his actions.
Eradicating drugs completely from the streets would be the worst possible
development for law enforcement employees -- crime of all types
would decline dramatically, which would damage their job security,
along with opportunities to obtain regular 'skim' bribes from the Drug Kingpins.
They perpetuate their corrupt fake drug war by filling our prisons with
low-level drug addicts and small time dealers, For Show, rather than arrest
the US-based Drug Kingpins and end the drug traffic into the USA.
The right-wing libertarian crooks in The Press have only one stipulation about the continued
availability of drugs on the streets -- those streets must be centered in black neighbourhoods.
They will then attack any attempt to eradicate the drugs from black neighbourhoods
as "racist".
Right-wing libertarian crooks in The Press attacked all efforts by Nixon to eradicate drugs as "racist",
rather than attack the corrupt performance of the New York City 34,000 police officers
and the FBI/DEA for failing to eradicate Drug Kingpins who import the drugs
into those communities.
And while doing so, The Press claims to have the black man's back,
when the Press is really stabbing the black man in the back.
A major yardstick of the reappraisal of the FBI which is occurring in the US currently should be:
Can you still buy heroin on the streets of NYC ?
If you can, then the FBI is still corrupt.
The law enforcement/Press alliance did not want to give Nixon a chance to figure this out:
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2016/06/26404/
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Wanting to help build up the struggling Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Nixon met with the agency’s chief, John Ingersoll. While Ingersoll touted the Bureau’s string of operational successes (seizures of heroin were up, arrests were up, more investigations were under way), Nixon wondered aloud whether these accomplishments actually helped solve the underlying problem of narcotics demand.
Indeed, Nixon perceived an attack on the supply of narcotics rather ineffective if the demand side received little to no attention. He firmly believed that no matter how hard the country pushed against the supply of narcotics, demand for these substances would remain and find its way into American lives.
Meanwhile, as attention from the White House on the domestic drug problem accelerated, an epidemic of heroin use among soldiers in Vietnam added to the problem’s complexity.
With President Nixon’s Vietnamization program in full gear, more and more American GIs were slated to return home. Their return to the states risked an influx of new heroin addicts to an already overburdened drug enforcement system.
Of the few specialists exploring drug treatment nationwide, Dr. Jerome Jaffe was leading a highly successful Illinois Drug Abuse Prevention program centered around flexible treatment options for drug addicts. His work caught the attention of government officials and later of President Nixon himself, who had been looking for an outsider to lead a new drug strategy.
Summoned to Washington D.C. to offer his views on the GI drug problem, Jaffe recommended assembly-line-like urine testing, where soldiers would be tested as they prepared to board planes to return home. If a GI tested positive for opiates, they would not be subject to court-martial or imprisonment, but to a mandatory stay in Vietnam for a period of two weeks or so for detox. This alone was intended to serve as a powerful deterrent for those yet addicted to stop heroin use on their own, while effectively detoxing those already addicted. Jaffe’s imaginative approach did, however, depend on essentially decriminalizing drug use, something many in the government bureaucracy were loath to support. But the promise of his proposal and the urgency of the matter merited serious consideration.
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