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| On this day in history, August 8, 1974, President Nixon announces his resignation |
| 2023-08-09 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Richard Nixon was an isolated, much maligned political figure, hated by the left and deeply flawed by understandable paranoia. Never mentioned is his enormous political popularity, landslide victories, and successful ending of the Viet Nam War. The Watergate cover-up, which he did own, was to protect one of his few, dear personal friends and political allies, Attorney General John Mitchel. He was not the author of the break-ins, but he was determined to protect Mitchell at all costs, and White House John Dean owns much of the advice that led to the disaster as a way to hide his own deep culpability. The irony of Nixon's disgrace is that much of the criminality was unknown to him, it was John Dean who was behind the Watergate Break-in to protect his ex-hooker wife. They were trying to find the phone book of high-end democrat donors and their preferences in the little anteroom off the DNC Directors's secretary office.Read St. Martin’s Press, in 1991, of the book Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. , and the long but fascinating article by James Rosen in Real Clear Politics. The best of the Rosen article is in the last quarter of this lengthy but fascinating story. https://www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2022/06/20/watergate_at_50_ revelations_from_newly_declassified_ evidence_147766.html?callback=in&code= YJRIMGE3ZMMTNJNKNC0ZMZLML THJNJQTYMIXNTK5NTHMZMFJ &state=ae6f038062764537 bcb12db97c942b97 |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-09 18:59 |
| #3 This was a war between the Democrat media apparatus (post) and Nixon. This showed the power the media being used as a useful tool. The resulting Pulitzer prize was a gift. |
| Posted by: Dale 2023-08-09 18:26 |
| #2 Compared to Joe Biden, compared to any Democrat these days, Nixon was a Boy Scout. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-08-09 12:59 |
| #1 So it’s a day of hope. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-09 08:57 |