Episode 118: RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE 1973 Enemies at the Gate (Part 18) OCTOBER 1973 (Part A) ALL AT ONCE : The Man Who Saved Israel

Did you know that one man in World  History bares the distinction of not only saving one nation but actually saving two!! 

That man, was Richard Nixon.

 Like his 19th century predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon would save our Union from self destruction. Then Richard Nixon would step up, in October of 1973, with the coalition of Arab Nations poised to wipe out the nation of Israel in retaliation for their humiliating defeat  in 1967 . The  Arab States, led by Egypt and Syria, had Israel with its back to the wall and forced them to call out for help, it was then that Richard Nixon   saved them  as well. 

The coalition of Arab Nations  attempted to invade Israel on two sides with the goal of gaining control of the East Bank of the Suez Canal. They stunned the Israeli forces and started backing them off the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The Israeli's were clearly being outgunned. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was desperate and her cries were falling on deaf ears within the American Government. 

President Nixon was under siege here at home as the Democrats marched on with the aid of their media elite allies and the rabid staff of the Special Prosecutor's office,  trying to over step constitutional authority and the division of government by extending  the Legislative and Judicial Branches' power and interfere with the running of the Executive Branch of Government by the overwhelmingly  elected President . 

 President Nixon was doing all he could do just to keep his administration from coming off track. 

It was at exactly this moment that Golda Meir took matters into her own hands and called Richard Nixon, in the middle of the night, for help . It could only be described in the history of the nation of Israel, as a Yom Kippur miracle.

Richard Nixon let his recalcitrant government and Defense Department know, in no uncertain terms, that the time of letting Israel bleed was over. His exact order was "You will send them everything we have, everything that will fly" 

and It would do far more than change everything for Israel it would save the nation of Israel from certain destruction ..

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Chapters

• 0:00 segment from the Frost - Nixon interviews
• 1:15 intro music
• 1:40 Yom Kippur War Documentary segment
• 2:07 Frost - Nixon Interview segment
• 5:21 Golan Heights Yom Kippur War 1973 Documentary segment
• 24:06 Frost - Nixon interview segment
• 25:18 Host Randal Wallace discusses how this is all happening simultaneously with other dramatically huge events in Washington D.C. over the tapes
• 25:49 Alexander Butterfield testifying about the existence of the taping system and narration from Daniel Schorr from the BBC Documentary
• 26:10 Host Randal Wallace Narrates
• 27:30 BBC Documentary segment on the announcement to establish a Watergate Special Prosecutor's office, the war , the announcement about the tapes, the fight over the tapes and the situation concerning the Vice President which is all happening at one time
• 37:07 Host Randal Wallace talks about how it is all happening at once.
• 37:47 Yom Kippur War Documentary segment
• 44:40 Richard Nixon & Yom Kippur War Documentary segment
• 49:00 Bruce Herschensohn on Richard Nixon and the Middle East
• 49:31 Closing theme