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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Nixon

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53:44

…The second tramp bears an astonishing resemblance to Howard Hunt. Howard Hunt is the one who wanted a million dollars from Nixon to keep his mouth shut, and that's one of the most fascinating passages in the Watergate tapes where Nixon says, we're…

53:51

…a million dollars from Nixon to keep his mouth shut, and that's one of the most fascinating passages in the Watergate tapes where Nixon says, we're going to have to pay Hunt. He wants a million dollars, but I can get a million dollars. We gotta keep…

54:21

…revealed by 1973. But apparently they hadn't. Apparently there was something about the Bay of Pigs that was still being hidden. And since Nixon paid off Hunt and Hunt never talked, it is still being hidden. God knows what it was. We do know that leading…

30:20

…LASER and you can trace just about anything and we were thinking who looks really demonic, who could be the devil and we went Nixon, Nixon. All right we'll just take Nixon and we'll put him on the overlay of somebody else the pope, that'll do it. So…

30:20

…and you can trace just about anything and we were thinking who looks really demonic, who could be the devil and we went Nixon, Nixon. All right we'll just take Nixon and we'll put him on the overlay of somebody else the pope, that'll do it. So we had…

30:22

…anything and we were thinking who looks really demonic, who could be the devil and we went Nixon, Nixon. All right we'll just take Nixon and we'll put him on the overlay of somebody else the pope, that'll do it. So we had Nixon over the pope and we…

30:27

Nixon. All right we'll just take Nixon and we'll put him on the overlay of somebody else the pope, that'll do it. So we had Nixon over the pope and we had this really gory figure appear out of there and flames coming up around him all the things. So…

1:52:32

…What happened was in 1957, yorba Linda, California, the town that has the honor of having raised and shaped the character of Richard Milhous Nixon. I don't know why they don't change the names. If I lived there I'd move away but if I had to stay there…

26:15

…Well the first thing is when Reagan was elected I said to a friend in California It's going to be a rerun of the Nixon years and this was based on the main financial supporters of Reagan were the same gang that were the main financial supporters of…

26:26

…this was based on the main financial supporters of Reagan were the same gang that were the main financial supporters of Nixon. Southern California has the most conservative conservatives in the United States. It has something to do with the McNamara Brothers…

26:55

…is much more entrenched and more conservative than anywhere else in the country. And I could see it was the same gang that put Nixon in that put up the money for Reagan so Reagan would be a rerun of Nixon. So nothing has happened has surprised me. I…

26:59

…see it was the same gang that put Nixon in that put up the money for Reagan so Reagan would be a rerun of Nixon. So nothing has happened has surprised me. I think the important thing to realize is that nobody can run for president without around 100…

25:30

…a matter of fact I think I got a copy of it in the next room but it named a lot of players like McNamara, Nixon, and of course the rockefellers. They're always in it well of course, especially nelson. As a matter of fact I've been accused of being…

Lecture 19871 mention
1:32:09

…trying to do something better. The classic model is the dog shtick. Roosevelt pulled that one. They're even picking on my poor dog fallot. Nixon made a big hit with it in 1952 when they caught him taking bribes. He talked about his dog for a half hour…

15:51

…Cataya who was a CIA Agent involved in the bay of pigs invasion. One of the most interesting parts of the watergate tapes is when Nixon is discussing: keep it on, no, these people want to make a tape and I've got to keep it on so they can make the…

16:07

…on, no, these people want to make a tape and I've got to keep it on so they can make the tape. In the watergate tapes Nixon is talking about how it haunts the man for a million dollars and even on that level a million dollar bribe is a lot of…

16:16

…talking about how it haunts the man for a million dollars and even on that level a million dollar bribe is a lot of money. And Nixon says: I can get a million dollars I know how to do that. And then he says we've got to pay hunt. He might let that…

16:30

…we've got to pay hunt. He might let that whole bay of pigs thing out of the bag. Now what bay of pigs thing was Nixon talking about? By 1973 I thought we knew everything, all the scandals possible about the bay of pigs. But apparently we did not. In…

16:45

…bay of pigs. But apparently we did not. In 1973 there was still something about the bay of pigs that we did not know and Nixon was willing to pay a million dollars to cover it up. And apparently we still don't know it because nothing new has come out…

25:02

…for Kennedy winning in 1960. 1960 was one of the closest races in American Political history and the reason Kennedy won instead of Nixon the reason we didn't have Nixon Eight years earlier, which might have been good for us if we got it over sooner we…

25:04

…was one of the closest races in American Political history and the reason Kennedy won instead of Nixon the reason we didn't have Nixon Eight years earlier, which might have been good for us if we got it over sooner we might have recovered sooner. The…

33:38

…from the watergate tapes about hunt and knowing the whole bay of pigs thing. Another poignant line in the watergate tapes is when Nixon talks about hoover, j Edgar Hoover. And he said hoover would have fought, he would have scared hell out of people. He…

33:52

…have fought, he would have scared hell out of people. He has a file on everybody. The nostalgia in that you have this feeling Nixon thinks: here I am, I'm president and I don't have a file on everybody yet but that son of a bitch hoover does. When…

1:38:22

…this stuff and I'm trying to figure out: is this satire or is this real? It's real satire, Richard. I did a little work for Nixon and in a conversation one day while I was working with him a young fellow who later became an ambassador to the UN as a…

1:38:44

…was there and he'd been working on Nixon's book. And then there was there also the fellow who'd written the first biography of Nixon. The biographer said: I think I'm going to write a novel about Nixon. The Nixon other person who was there said: how can…

1:38:49

…there also the fellow who'd written the first biography of Nixon. The biographer said: I think I'm going to write a novel about Nixon. The Nixon other person who was there said: how can that be? I've always understood that a novel had to have a central…

1:38:50

…the fellow who'd written the first biography of Nixon. The biographer said: I think I'm going to write a novel about Nixon. The Nixon other person who was there said: how can that be? I've always understood that a novel had to have a central character…

1:56:09

…occasionally have doubts about their own magnetism and charisma and their ability to sell bullshit to anybody. But politicians never doubt, like Nixon never doubted at the end of watergate when he was resigning. He had that look in his eye like if I say…

10:31

…voice not the Dr Kellogg Midwestern voice from the road to wellville or the English Butler voice or any of his thousand or his Nixon voice or any of his thousand, but only the one and only Hannibal Lecter voice. And as each spire is ignited or each…

8:04

…president. Goddess in her wisdom put lbj in there to make pacifism more popular. And by the same reasoning I figure Nixon was the anarchist president. After five years of Nixon, Everybody had a view of the federal government indistinguishable from what…

8:09

…to make pacifism more popular. And by the same reasoning I figure Nixon was the anarchist president. After five years of Nixon, Everybody had a view of the federal government indistinguishable from what you'll find in anarchist literature. When I was young…

9:07

…was the view of science we had in those days. Science was always doing abominable things. Scientists were terrible people and I think Nixon was sent to change that image. Now if Hollywood wants to scare you, any movie you go see these days you want to…

9:41

…going to be a conceivable type of horror fallout falling on everybody in the government saying oh it's a heavy rain. Nixon did that so I figure Reagan is the intelligent person's intelligent entity's president. After seven years of Reagan most people are…

10:19

…It's great to be in Arizona. I really love this fellow mecham he looks like white House Material to me. Remember Reagan and Nixon. The second time they ran each of them the second time they ran for office got the two biggest landslides in American…

8:38

…art Linkletter came out and called him, you know blamed him for his daughter's death six months after she took LSD, and you know then Nixon said he was the most dangerous man in America I mean they were just yeah, in the world oh, he expanded it oh I…

2:31

…I'm going to see if Gerald Floyd will give me a pardon for saying why all my other crimes get to be discovered like he gave Nixon Yeah yeah yeah. I was reading over the books over the past week or so to refresh myself on the material, and the one I…

Unknown Lecture3 mentions
9:23

…population was against the war. So I figure Johnson was the pacifist president he made pacifism more popular than ever and Nixon was the anarchist president. After five years of Nixon, people had a view of government indistinguishable from what you'll find…

9:29

…the pacifist president he made pacifism more popular than ever and Nixon was the anarchist president. After five years of Nixon, people had a view of government indistinguishable from what you'll find in hardcore anarchist literature or in Machiavelli. We…

10:08

…lionel Atwill or Bela Lugosi. They'd say it worked on the mice now we must try it on a higher species. But since Nixon, now it's just somebody who says I'm from the government and the whole audience goes: what's going to happen next? Then there was…

1:53:06

…legislatures by the carload, congressmen by the gross. And he gave a million dollars to Nixon's Brother because giving it to Nixon might have attracted too much attention. By giving it to Nixon's Brother Donald he thought the world might not notice. By…

24:42

…was a mason. You saw what happened to him yeah but I don't know what happened after Kennedy. Do you know about the pope? Nixon was a mason. Ford was a mason. Jimmy carter was a mason. Ronald Reagan was a mason. Apparently, George bush isn't but he's…

13:59

…to find a publisher. It was rewritten slightly in 74 to bring it up to date just before publication. That's how the references to Nixon got into it for instance. When it was written it was mostly during the reign of lbj. That was the time when I felt…