Richard
Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
was the 37th President of the United States, serving from
1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign
the office. Nixon had previously served as a Republican
U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as
the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953
to 1961.
37th
President of the United States
Nixon
was born in Yorba Linda, California. He graduated from
Whittier College in 1934 and Duke University School of
Law in 1937, returning to California to practice law.
He and his wife, Pat Nixon, moved to Washington to work
for the federal government in 1942. He subsequently served
in the United States Navy during World War II. Nixon was
elected in California to the House of Representatives
in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the
Alger Hiss case established his reputation as a leading
anti-communist, and elevated him to national prominence.
He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican
Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election. Nixon
served for eight years as vice president. He waged an
unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing
to John F. Kennedy, and lost a race for Governor of California
in 1962. In 1968, he ran again for the presidency and
was elected.
Although
Nixon initially escalated America's involvement in the
Vietnam War, he subsequently ended U.S. involvement by
1973. Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China
in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between the two nations,
and he initiated détente and the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union the same year. Domestically,
his administration generally embraced policies that transferred
power from Washington to the states. Among other things,
he launched initiatives to fight cancer and illegal drugs,
imposed wage and price controls, enforced desegregation
of Southern schools, implemented environmental reforms,
and introduced legislation to reform healthcare and welfare.
Though he presided over the lunar landings beginning with
Apollo 11, he replaced manned space exploration with shuttle
missions. He was re-elected by a landslide in 1972.
Nixon's
second term saw a crisis in the Middle East, resulting
in an oil embargo and the restart of the Middle East peace
process, as well as a continuing series of revelations
about the Watergate scandal. The scandal escalated, costing
Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9,
1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment
and removal from office. After his resignation, he accepted
a pardon issued by his successor, Gerald Ford. In retirement,
Nixon's work as an elder statesman, authoring nine books
and undertaking many foreign trips, helped to rehabilitate
his public image. He suffered a debilitating stroke on
April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of
81.
Nixon
and UFOs
The
fine actor and comedian Jackie Gleason will forever be
associated with his role of bus driver Ralph Cramden on
the popular TV series, "The Honeymooners." But
there was another side to Jackie that few people know
about. Gleason was an extremely serious armchair UFO researcher,
and prided himself on his huge collection of UFO-related
books, which numbered into the thousands. As soon as a
new title came out, even in Europe or the UK, Jackie had
a copy. Little did he suspect that his interest in that
topic would one day gain him access to something that
most people would never even believe, and would leave
others who shared his interests either skeptical or forever
jealous.
It was a chance conversation one afternoon, back in 1974
in Florida, while Jackie was playing golf with one of
his regular partners, President Richard Nixon. Jackie
had mentioned his interest in UFOs and his large collection
of books, and the president admitted that he also shared
Jackie's interest and had a sizeable collection of UFO-oriented
materials of his own. At the time, the president said
little about what he actually knew, but things were to
change drastically later on that same night.
Golfing buddies, President Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason.
One
can only imagine Gleason's surprise when President Nixon
showed up at his house around midnight, completely alone
and driving his own private car. When Jackie asked him
why he was there, Nixon told him that he wanted to take
him somewhere and show him something. He got into the
president's car, and they ended up at the gates of Homestead
Air Force Base. They passed through security and drove
to the far end of the base, to a tightly-guarded building.
At this point, I will quote directly from Gleason himself,
from an interview he gave to UFO researcher and author
Larry Warren:
"We drove to the very far end of the base in a
segregated area, finally stopping near a well-guarded
building. The security police saw us coming and just sort
of moved back as we passed them and entered the structure.
There were a number of labs we passed through first before
we entered a section where Nixon pointed out what he said
was the wreckage from a flying saucer, enclosed in several
large cases. Next, we went into an inner chamber and there
were six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke
freezers. Inside them were the mangled remains of what
I took to be children. Then - upon closer examination
- I saw that some of the other figures looked quite old.
Most of them were terribly mangled as if they had been
in an accident."
Gleason was understandably excited by all of this, but
also quite traumatized, and said he couldn't eat or sleep
properly for weeks afterwards, and found himself drinking
heavily until he was able to regain his composure. His
wife at the time, Beverly, recalls him being out very
late that night and speaking excitedly about what he had
seen when he returned home. Later on, however, when she
and Gleason were splitting up and she told the story to
a writer at Esquire Magazine, which printed it in an article,
relations between her and the entertainer deteriorated
and Gleason became very upset and angry that the story
had been made public. For this reason many people, including
Beverly herself, have wondered at the truth of the story.
However, in his interview with Larry Warren, who was invited
to Jackie's house in person because Gleason wanted to
hear firsthand about Warren's experience at Bentwaters
Air Force Base in England, it was clear that Jackie was
being honest and sincere:
"You could tell that he was very sincere - he
took the whole affair very seriously, and I could tell
that he wanted to get the matter off his chest, and that
was why he was telling me all of this. Jackie felt just
like I do, that the government needs to 'come clean,'
and tell us all it knows about space visitors. It time
they stopped lying to the public and release all the evidence
they have. When they do, then we'll all be able to see
the same things the late Jackie Gleason did."
The United States government's knowledge about UFOs and
their occupants exists at the very highest levels of security,
above even atomic weapons and things of that nature. Information
is imparted on a strictly "need to know" basis,
and this has left even many presidents in the dark on
the subject. Obviously, Richard Nixon wasn't one of them.
One can only imagine what technology and evidence of life
outside of this Earth exists in the back corners and hidden
labs of the American military, but for anyone who doesn't
believe that this situation is real, this story about
Jackie Gleason is just the very tiny tip of the iceberg.
We may be waiting a very, very long time, indeed, until
Jackie's dream of government disclosure comes true.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
http://www.openminds.tv/gleason-ets/
http://rense.com/general70/gleason.htm
