Sy Hersh: I Knew Richard Nixon Beat His Wife in 1974, But Did Not Report the Story

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democracynow.org - Soon after President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Seymour Hersh got a call from a source at a California hospital. He learned that Nixon had beaten his wife so severely in 1974 that she sought treatment at an emergency room. Hersh did not report the story. Years later, he received criticism for this choice. We speak with Sy Hersh in New York City. He says of his decision not to report on Nixon beating his wife, “I was obtuse to the notion that it was a crime. … I didn’t get it.
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@williamanthony9090 2 жыл бұрын

He beat his wife with a bunch of secret service agents standing around? I suppose it's possible, but I find it hard to believe.

@edrepard Жыл бұрын

no. those guys love it

@johnjepsen500 Жыл бұрын

Hirsch is unbelievable. He's just another money grabbing zionist media gossip monger, like Amy Bigpharma Gofundme Goodman.

@piabader4106 Жыл бұрын

Like an US attack on Nord Stream

@aliceinwonder8978 Жыл бұрын

Why? Because the govt is known for nonviolence? Biden and Trump also assaulted women at work. Men like that have no respect for women

@williamanthony9090 Жыл бұрын

@@aliceinwonder8978 - Did Biden and Trump assault women while they were president? If not, then it has nothing to do with this story. Would the secret service stand by and watch a president beat his wife? I say no. If nothing else, they could use the excuse that they were protecting the president from injuring himself.

@veganhitwoman149 5 жыл бұрын

Even if you didn't know it was a crime, you had to have known it was wrong to beat people.

@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын

What?!? This is the first time I ever heard about Pat Nixon needing medical attention after a beating!

@ashleyworden1887 2 жыл бұрын

Where is the concrete evidence that Richard beat his wife? No police or hospital reports? No photographs? I'm not saying it didn't happen, I just need proof that it did happen.

@mindyyoung5528 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!

@VideoAmericanStyle 2 жыл бұрын

Where there’s smoke, there’s been fire. You don’t need a police report for everything. We’ve seen countless times how easy it is for those in positions of power to totally obscure their behavior and crimes. It’s no surprise Pat had a drinking problem (as did Dick himself).

@schroederscurrentevents3844 2 жыл бұрын

@@VideoAmericanStyle actually you do. Saying “because a journalist said it” means nothing in todays world. You need evidence.

@jmartin960 11 ай бұрын

That messes up their lie and we can't have that.

@ashleyworden1887 11 ай бұрын

@@jmartin960 You gotta do better than that. Saying proof exists doesn't make it actually exist.

@danrode104 2 жыл бұрын

Is it a crime not to report the crime of assault?

@eakherenow 5 жыл бұрын

I stopped reading Hersh's book when he made a footnote about investigating the JFK assassination that indicated it was not possible.This is obtuse,too.

@steven.events 4 жыл бұрын

Not possible to investigate, or not possible that he was assassinated?

@lliamjurdom9505 2 жыл бұрын

@@steven.events Not possible to read his book ... confusing? yeah ... Kingsley has had too many martini's ...

@MrGrass97 Жыл бұрын

It is impossible when there’s not a single shred of evidence over the last 50 years to indicate a conspiracy.

@chieromancer 5 жыл бұрын

No wonder she drank.

@deborahhoffman7394 5 жыл бұрын

tru leigh Pat never looked happy. The pictures of those days often revealed a very sad woman.

@johnrock488 2 жыл бұрын

Show the evidence!

@dysonsquared 5 жыл бұрын

Who thinks his source might likely have been her Secret Service detail? Seems simpler than a doctor.

@oldfan1963 5 жыл бұрын

Damn. I wanted to hear the whole hour of this iv but it's all cut up into segments? So far, I've only gotten about 20 minutes of it...

@mrashad219 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow this must be back when democracy now was antiwar

@helenpatterson3858 5 жыл бұрын

She wasn't the only one. Mitchell beat his wife too. Any top Republican wife walked on thin ice toward the end of Watergate.

@lliamjurdom9505 2 жыл бұрын

All the wives got beaten because Watergate was all their fault ... all these poor men did was eat an apple ... but she said ...

@stevezuniga2955 3 жыл бұрын

When the president does it, its not illegal

@pavlovsworld9122 5 жыл бұрын

Amy! How couls u possibly ask another reporter who the source was! C'mon.. That was weak. U guys were trying to lead your guest so blatantly as well. Why?

@tylerlastname5099 Жыл бұрын

No you didn’t. I’m sorry but I don’t believe that. The press hounded Nixon every day. If you had any negative story about Nixon, you reported it.

@ac9559 Жыл бұрын

All reporters must be believed even when they're clearly lying.

@KP-ec7mr Жыл бұрын

I can't stand alphabet boy accounts spreading disinformation 🙄

@sazimi101 10 ай бұрын

? Can you elaborate?

@ac9559 10 ай бұрын

Yes I can. But I'm not going to. The comment should be self-explanatory.

@chriswp5087 8 ай бұрын

@@ac9559it wasn't

@kevinbreslin5718 5 жыл бұрын

Guy needs to apologize. There was no general law protecting medical privacy. Nixon would not have been in a position to sue a paper or hospital for beating his wife given Watergate. If a doctor revealed it other sources could be found.

@Ditka-89 Жыл бұрын

He may have been in a position to make this man’s life HELL though. Shoot G Gordon Liddy contemplated murdering journalists prior to Watergate

@yc8210 Жыл бұрын

Should report it to police. Going to ER means she was injured pretty bad. Doctors would have to tell the truth when the cop come and knock on the door.

@chieromancer 5 жыл бұрын

Both parties are dead, so I'm dubious there would be any HIPPA violation.

@brianjohnson1172 2 жыл бұрын

HIPAA didnt exist at the time so no violation of anything \

@garryharriman7349 Жыл бұрын

I do not think Richard Nixon beat his wife. They were devoted to each other.

@RaysDad 5 жыл бұрын

Amy always seems to enjoy talking with Sy Hersh, but this time she got mad. I suppose she wanted Sy to come to Pat Nixon's rescue somehow. It must have been awful being married to Dick Nixon.

@stephenwilder3525 9 ай бұрын

I think it’s very disrespectful to report hearsay.

@jstasiak2262 Жыл бұрын

I have no idea whether or not Nixon actually beat his wife. However, I can plainly see that his two children (Julie and Trisha) remained devoted and protective of him for the rest of his life. To this day, no one in his family or his personal staff ever spoke ill of him. If Nixon was a wife beater, I would expect that someone in his inner circle would have distanced themselves from him. I have not seen any evidence of this. Conversely, Ronald Reagan’s children distanced themselves from their father. On the other hand, there were rabid Nixon haters in the press and the Washington Establishment, akin to the Trump haters of today, who, if Nixon did a good deed would spin it as an evil deed. Without further information, I am inclined to go with what Nixon’s children have to say.

@moviedude22 5 жыл бұрын

Amy asking him to devulge a source

@danielleonyett 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was kind of crazy.... Like, wtf?

@judyevancic4926 9 ай бұрын

He is babbling about this incident.. Pat Nixon is of the era that woman stuck it out. She was a fine lady and so were others who became First Ladies. But woman today if strong enough leave their husbands if they are abusive towards their wives and or their children…

@laurayoung7862 5 жыл бұрын

U should hv published story. It was the right thing to do...u knew it was a crime

@stevenwilliambaylessparks3730 5 жыл бұрын

For sure, Pat taunted Nixon by laughing and saying, 'You're fired!'....Hersh rambles and says, 'trouble for the woman'....learn English...'for the wonen', you mean.....Hersh can't get out of this one....Does he 'get' holding children in baby prisons?

@stevendaniel8126 Жыл бұрын

ALL lies.........

@ariesrobdiamond1794 2 жыл бұрын

Philippine ex-president Ferdinand Marcos with controversial wife Imelda Marcos with Nixon in the picture.

@DTIVO16 5 жыл бұрын

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="181">3:1</a>-7

@JackOllie4 5 жыл бұрын

Dabaq Yashar ... "captive silly women laden with sins"? How about loose cannon idiotic men with puke orange fake tan and hate oozing out of every pore? Go back into your dark room and stay there.

@normandodson7651 Жыл бұрын

Hersh had no personal knowledge of a crime. Whatever a source told him is hearsay. He said, she said.

@MRVISTA-wz7vj Жыл бұрын

notice how often ppl can't answer a question wo telling this convoluted story. lol 😂😂😂😂😂

@goedelite 5 жыл бұрын

Mr Hersh takes too long to get to the point. In fact, I don't think there is a point to the story. Is anyone in doubt that we are governed by thugs? Noam Chomsky makes a very good case that all of our post WWII presidents have been war criminals. Is any crime worse than a war of aggression? Isn't that worse than beating a wife? Because our presidents are well attired and usually pleasant in public are they less criminal, less thuggish? Were Bill Clinton and Barack Obama not well attired, mannered thugs. Were Ronald Reagan and the Bushes not thugs. Of course, they all were and are, including Donald Trump. Ask a Yemeni parent watching his child die!

@ShankarSivarajan Жыл бұрын

Extorting people might be worse, or at least as bad, but every state does that.

@dianebonner8827 3 ай бұрын

It was covered up did that in those days still happens today

@beverlydwyer5162 Жыл бұрын

No we don’t know what your saying!!!!!!

@stumorrow8835 3 ай бұрын

Liar liar pants on fire 🔥

@f8ofk8 5 жыл бұрын

Omg. Pat was so fragile. Nixon was a monster.

@creamcheese1048 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Nixon was a monster among other things. Mrs. Nixon should have slapped that asshole silly.

@jgrysiak6566 3 жыл бұрын

That's why she smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day!

@myristicina. 2 жыл бұрын

But how do u know it’s true it’s very sus

@williamanthony9090 2 жыл бұрын

The idea that Nixon beat Pat while his secret service detail just sat around and watched is kind of unbelievable.

@Michael1966W 9 ай бұрын

@@williamanthony9090it is. Like I said there are a lot of things you can say about Nixon. This isn’t one of them

@mikewest6569 2 жыл бұрын

Pat smoked too much, eventually did her in.

@johnw8984 Жыл бұрын

Why the hell did she ask him who his Source was? Doesn't she know that doctor-patient is confidential good Lord Amy democracynow sucks now

@moviedude22 5 жыл бұрын

awkward laugh

@JJ73100 Жыл бұрын

DID FRANK SINATRA WAS LOVER FOR MRS REGAN? FRANKY USED TO VISIT FOR AWEAK,

@johnnowlan9963 8 ай бұрын

Was Nixon also a part-time homosexual 🤔

@terrisuder7455 5 жыл бұрын

TRUMP beats Melania too.

@philburtoft535 5 жыл бұрын

Terri Suder Is that you Hillary

@terrisuder7455 5 жыл бұрын

PHIL BURTOFT I'd rather be Hillary anyday than a TRUMPTURD!!!! He's got to be the dumbest dictator on earth!!

@maybebabyny 5 жыл бұрын

No way. I bet she beats his ass.

@Poochie1 5 жыл бұрын

Please, this is not the Fox News Channel

@walkworthy 5 жыл бұрын

I bet she likes it too.

@davec484 8 ай бұрын

A lot of the "woman".

@greggasiorowski4025 5 жыл бұрын

The number of zealous do nothing soap box posters here is depressing, times sup indeed. 😑

@billtsirtsis7060 2 жыл бұрын

Sy, lies!

@michaellowery4717 2 жыл бұрын

He’s a known fruitcake

@corby_7967 3 ай бұрын

Absolute BS. Hersh is an activist journalist, makes stuff up, and gets even worse as time goes on as he becomes more irrelevant

@bullwinkle2380 2 жыл бұрын

Was Watergate that bad to the point where Nixon actually beat Pat??????????

@maryhersick896 Жыл бұрын

@nmfd72 2 жыл бұрын

Does this really matter now, whether it is true or not, they are both dead now, let them Rest In Peace.

@pinehawk9600 Жыл бұрын

Another spy

@tipsy9947 2 жыл бұрын

He knew Mrs. Nixon was being beaten, and not only would he not report it (and worse, h would not try to get her help), but then he joked about it years later in public. He knew as we all did that beating your wife was wrong back in 1974, and he also knew it was wrong when he joked about it.

@piabader4106 Жыл бұрын

This adds something bad to his Nord stream Story

@BB-kt5eb 9 ай бұрын

Because it never happened

@djmutt2000 Ай бұрын

What a load of bullshit.

@vdcjr Жыл бұрын

Hersh the sniveling clown.

@williampaulbeaugruendler7901 Жыл бұрын

Sy hit the bottle way before "Dick-hit-Pat".

@khabbad Жыл бұрын

Bull sh&&

@JohnSmith-vu6zd 2 жыл бұрын

This grub could never understand the pressures of the most powerful office in the world, or the pressures of conducting The Cold War. Thank God for President Richard Nixon.

@VideoAmericanStyle 2 жыл бұрын

Hersh has done an incredible, thankless service in his life to expose the horrors of the abuse of power. Nixon was a manipulative and insecure snake, despised by even his own party.

@JohnSmith-vu6zd 2 жыл бұрын

@@VideoAmericanStyle Name one thing he ever did that was for personal gain, and couldn’t be argued that it wasn’t for the intended benefit of America.

@VideoAmericanStyle 2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-vu6zd Where do we start? How about interfering with the 1968 peace talks in Vietnam to help his election chances, which led to 7 more years of that war. Or how about bringing the conniving war criminal Henry Kissinger into his cabinet, along with a bunch of other spineless yes-men? Or, I dunno, all of the watergate coverup? Or let's get personal: how about occasionally beating his wife, Pat? And then of course milking his reputation by writing a bunch of forgettable books after leaving office. You get the idea. He wasn't the worst president we've ever had, but that bar is admittedly pretty low. But he was a sad, pathetic, closed-minded and violent drunk - and his poor choices forever tarnished whatever remaining sense of 'respect' the American presidency had left. That's the one rare thing Democrats and Republicans agreed on back then, and should today.

@JohnSmith-vu6zd 2 жыл бұрын

@@VideoAmericanStyle I cannot condone the beating of his wife or his self medicating/drinking when he should’ve been totally focused on the job. I’m not convinced him “scuttling” peace talks was anything other than political manoeuvring so as to not be upstaged on the eve of the election. Johnson had years to end the war and Nixon was elected to do it, which he did, albeit not quickly as he should’ve. As for Watergate, this was totally justified as it turns out Nixon was ahead of everyone else in understanding that the Democratic Party was a hotbed of commies.

@jesselivermore2291 2 жыл бұрын

bullshit.

@thosethatcan 5 жыл бұрын

"Abc antifa" youtube that

@walkworthy 5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes wives need to get smacked up. Any man with a wife knows it's true. Women know it's true too.

@JackOllie4 5 жыл бұрын

Fake News disgusting pig

@styleyK 5 жыл бұрын

Fake News Wow...... you really are a disgusting prick. But you already knew that would trigger people, and that's why you said it. Whether you said it because you are serious or because you are trying to be funny, either way you are sick in the head for thinking that way. Go see a doctor

@walkworthy 5 жыл бұрын

styleyk - judging by that angry response if you have a wife you definitely beat her or if you haven't yet you probably will now lol you need to chill. It's the internet bro calm down

@JackOllie4 5 жыл бұрын

Fake News stop your idiotic doublespeak you fake trumptard. Nobody's fooled by your profound stupidity.

@mallory5872 5 жыл бұрын

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