Nixon too drunk to meet with British PM

[demnan]

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) -- Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of October 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state -- records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The National Archives released them Wednesday.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/26/kissinger.tapes.ap/index.html

[CO Liberal]

1. Nixon Too Dead To Reply To This Article

:-)

[Ironpost]

2. So basicly we've had two drunken' crooks in the whitehouse

How can this be.

[cestmoi]

3. Scary isn't it. What's Shrub's excuse for shrinking responsibilty?

Just plain ol' ignorance which I think is alot more scary.

[truthspeaker]

4. too drunk to meet with a BRITISH politician? That's pretty drunk!

[blm]

6. heheh....

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[On the Road]

5. This Just Goes to Show

that the snide comments about Bush being drunk are absolutely within the realm of possibility.