–Beware the pee-soaked redwood trees

The motto of the Bohemians, “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here,” strongly discourages the discussion of business details or work worries at their club’s private campsite in Sonoma County.

Vanity Fair described the clandestine club as a place where privileged gentlemen drink all day and urinate non-stop among the majestic California redwoods.

Spy Magazine described Bohemian Grove as “the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like.”

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Richard Nixon at Bohemian Grove: “It’s much more pleasant to get stoned in Bohemia than in Caracas”

August 15, 2024

When not delivering standup comedy to a lakeside audience at Monte Rio’s exclusive Bohemian Grove summer camp, the disgraced-then-pardoned 37th US President deeply disparaged the super-secret gentlemen’s club of which he was a longtime member.

Watergate Tapes exposed Nixon’s unfiltered opinion of Bohemian Grove

Recorded conversations ultimately tanked the Nixon presidency. Non-missing minutes of the so-called Watergate Tapes also revealed the Orange County native’s seething contempt for San Franciscans in general and attendees of Bohemian Grove in particular. According to SFist, “the thin-skinned, duplicitous president” said:

“Homosexuality, dope, immorality generally –these are the enemies of strong societies. The upper class of San Francisco is that way. It’s not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time –it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I don’t even want to shake hands with anybody from San Francisco. Decorators. They’ve got to do something … but goddamn it we don’t have to glorify it.” –‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon

Nixon’s headline joke makes more sense if you get the historical references

As ex-VP Richard Milhous Nixon cracked wise to an assembled audience at Bohemian Grove in July 1967, many if not most of those assembled were familiar with the incident nine years prior when the vehicle Dwight Eisenhower’s veep traveled in took a pummeling by protestors in the capital of Venezuela. Despite use in a joke, the events that unfolded in Latin America in 1958 were anything but funny.

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In January, a military coup d’état removed dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. By the time Eisenhower sent Nixon on a post-coup goodwill tour of Latin America in April and May, students in Uruguay and Peru were visibly outraged at US coldwar policies. On May 13th, a fed up general populace in Caracas sent Dick Nixon’s vehicle speeding away with smashed windows. Tensions were especially high where locals resented US aid that favored firearms to ‘repel Communism’ over basic economic assistance, explains History.

Pre-presidential Nixon’s play on the word ‘stoned’ may have been a wry nod to the before-breakfast gin fizzes purportedly served at the Grove. If so, it likely got a lot of laughs from extra-happy campers as well.

Nixon’s association with the secretive summer camp in Sonoma County dates almost as far back as his political career, and that’s saying a lot. In 1950, the then-rookie politician was invited into the club by Herbert Hoover who himself joined the BC in 1913. ‘Cave Man Camp’ also happened to be where Nixon met future running mate, Dwight D. Eisenhower for the first time, reported Business Insider India.

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Nevermind the weaving spiders; beware the pee-soaked redwood trees

The Bohemian Club motto “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here” strongly discourages the discussion of business details or work worries at the oh-so-private campsite. Vanity Fair says the clandestine club is where privileged gentlemen drink all day and urinate non-stop among the majestic California redwoods. Spy Magazine described Bohemian Grove as “the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like.”