White House Staff Report Obama Keeps Seeing Ghost Of Nixon

He even issued an order yesterday that the thirty-seventh president is not to be mentioned in his presence.

Washington, December 30 – Aides to the president expressed concern for his mental health this week, saying that Barack Obama keeps asking others in the White House if they can also see the ghost of disgraced former President Richard Nixon moving about the place.

On five separate occasions, say presidential mansion workers and staff members, the president has gone pale, swallowed, and looked in agitated fashion around the room. In hushed tones, Obama would then ask the nearest staffer, “Did you see that? Did you see that? I could swear it looked like Nixon. But he’s dead. It can’t be . It can’t be.” First Lady Michelle Obama has also noted that in recent months, the president has repeated, “It can’t be” and “Bibi” in his sleep many times.

Nixon, a Republican, was forced to resign the presidency in 1974 after years of attempting to cover up his administration’s illegal activities against political opponents. The Watergate Scandal, as it came to be known, began with the arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, in 1972. Tenacious investigative journalism and a well-placed anonymous source in the FBI eventually led Congress toward impeaching Nixon over his obstruction of justice, and he resigned before an all-but-certain conviction vote by the Senate could take place. The burglary, approved by Nixon’s reelection committee, was the second break-in at the complex, aimed at tapping the phones of senior Democratic operatives. Obama, it is reported, has been jumping at the sound of Nixon’s name, and issued an order yesterday that the thirty-seventh president is not to be mentioned in his presence.

“I made a joke about Ni- I mean about the guy before Ford, the NSA, and listening in on other branches of government, and the president started shaking,” recalled a maintenance worker. “Something is not right with him. I hope his doctors are keeping an eye.”

White House visitors report that Secret Service agents have been confiscating smartphones and other recording devices, and only returning them months later after repeated requests. John Dean of Beverley Hills, California, complained that when he finally retrieved his iPhone, more than eighteen minutes of recorded material had been deleted. Dean claims to have caught images of Nixon floating through the mansion’s hallways, but that the Secret Service had erased them. The White House attempted to explain the deletion of the material as an accident, but only those files on the iPhone were deleted.