He loved his country enough to resign and it amazes me that so many people think he was impeached
Idiotic article. Nixon inherited and ended the war, and his conduct of it had diddly squat to do with his resignation. The idea that attacking the North Vietnamese in Cambodia in an already hot war was “unilateral warfare” is a liberal fantasy.
the democrats screwed us and our allies so bad in Vietnam after they got Nixon out, it makes me sick reading their crazy revisionism.
The common thread in the acceptance/denial of the two Presidents and their powers is the media. The Progressive media hated Nixon for jailing their Communist darling, Alger Hiss. The Washington Post made toppling his Presidency its central mission.
The Progressive media love Obama for muscling through the kind of totalitarian welfare state they've lusted for. With very few exceptions they'll support and defend his every attack on the Republican form of government.
Kudos to Jonathan Turley. The man has courage and integrity.
Stupid article - trying to catch eyeballs with a catchy headline. What this really says is what we’ve said all along. The RATS are like cheating husbands - it’s OK if I do it - just don’t let me catch YOU doing it.
It’s OK for the RATs to have an enemies list, use drones, basically act like Mob bosses. Just don’t let the other party do it or they’ll go all holier than thou.
Nixon didn’t win - the RATs won. Sheeesh.
The truth about Watergate is that it was nothing more than a defensive gambit by scared Democrats. They feared that Nixon was just about to launch an enormous investigation into “Who lost the Vietnam War?”, with dozens of Democrats under the hot limelight.
Therefore, Watergate was going to be a bargaining chip to get Nixon to back off, before the Democrat party had been decimated, in hearings akin to the HUAC investigations that unveiled extensive communist infiltration in the federal government. (For which Nixon had been a lead attorney.)
But to their amazement, Nixon did not launch this investigation.
So they decided to just keep pushing with the Watergate scandal, and maybe make some political capital out of it. And because Nixon was so ill prepared, the Watergate investigation crushed the Republicans, like the war investigation would have crushed the Democrats.
It was a leftist coup, no more, no less.
Is he saying Obama is a Dick?
Actually, that would be John F. Kennedy, but I get the point.
Of course, it was Nixon's application of his prerogatives to domestic politics that cost him.
If he'd just been content with the powers of the office in foreign and military affairs, he would have served out his second term with more of those powers intact.
Whoever is moderating Turley’s blog has let a comment by me stay up on the blog:
Seizethecarp 1, March 26, 2013 at 11:44 am
Would now be a good time, Professor Turley, to take another look at the evidence that President Obama has also been dishonest about the authenticity of his birth certificate pdf image that he “released” to the press, but not to any plaintiff in any court?
Here is local Arizona CBS coverage of Sheriff Arpaio’s presser which has been suppressed, IMO by the cult of personality running the national media (aided by intimidation in some cases, I suspect, such as Fox News):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh37rWmUL9Q
Here is Arpaio’s full presser from March 1, 2012. (Reportedly Arpaio has accumulated additional federally certified forensic document laboratory confirmation of the forgery and is awaiting congressional support for a select committee investigation.):
http://www.westernjournalism.com/sheriff-joe-arpaio-march-31-press-conference-full-video/
Note that on the White House’s own website the transcript of the BC “release” event shows Dan Pfeiffer and Bob Bauer exhibiting obvious “plausible deniability” tactics as well as “consciousness of guilt” behavior:
Q And this is going to sound — I mean, you can just anticipate what people are going to — remain unconvinced. They’re going to say that this is just a photocopy of a piece of paper, you could have typed anything in there. Will the actual certificate be on display or viewable at any — (laughter.)
Q Will the President be holding it?
MR. PFEIFFER: He will not, and I will not leave it here for him to do so. But it will — the State Department of Health in Hawaii will obviously attest that that is a — what they have on file. As Bob said, it’s in a book in Hawaii.
MR. BAUER: And you’ll see the letter from the director of the Health Department that states that she oversaw the copy and is attesting to –
Q But do you understand that this could quiet the conspiracy theorists?
MR. PFEIFFER: There will always be some selection of people who will believe something, and that’s not the issue.