Posted on 08/08/2013 5:55:27 PM PDT by jfd1776
On August 8, 1974, Richard M. Nixon, fearing certain conviction by the United States Senate in an impeachment trial, resigned the office of the Presidency, the only person ever to do so.
There were good reasons to impeach him.
He had committed the economic sin of signing and managing a leviathanate Democrat hodgepodge of wage and price controls.
He had negotiated and signed an Anti-Ballistic Missile reduction treaty that basically advertised that we could not now, and never would, defend ourselves against ICBMs.
He oversaw the creation of nanny-state agencies such as the EPA and OSHA.
He created the well-intentioned but destructive minority set-aside program.
The list goes on. But he was not being railroaded out of office for those massive sins against the Constitution… and he was not being thrown out because he had failed to even try to undo the massive and crippling welfare state initiatives of the Great Society, which were not yet entrenched enough to be difficult to undo.
No, Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment – and ultimately forced to resign – because a campaign aide had authorized a second-rate burglary, and Nixon authorized and participated in its cover-up...
--- continue reading in Illinois Review, at http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/08/a-fall-from-grace-and-a-missed-opportunity-for-america.html
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I think that resignation was one heck of a missed opportunity, more destructive to the nation than anyone realized at the time. I address the issue in my Illinois Review column today, if you're interested, here:
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/08/a-fall-from-grace-and-a-missed-opportunity-for-america.html
John F. Di Leo
The MSM was gunning for him since the Alger Hiss trial.
Yes indeed, InterceptPoint! Thank you!
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I’m a bit of a luddite, so if it’s not really easy, I’ll have no chance of learning...
In relation to the current occupant of the White House, Nixon was a choir boy who told a stupid, trivial fib or two.
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The MSM hated him ever since his run against ultra-lib Helen Gahagen Douglas in CA. I think that was before the Alger Hiss trial.
And Nixon didn't hate America.
-—bflr—
Obama has managed to make utter and absolute baffoons out of Woodward and Berstein and the rest of the Washington press corp who made the little nothing ember into a raging bonfire. Obama just gets away with murder, time and time again and the press sits there cheering him on like dumb arses. They will take the blame for the destruction of our country. Third Estate—ROTFLMA
Watergate was no more than political infighting, and the only people affected were people who volunteered to join the government power game - Obama’s NSA and IRS scandals are assaults on the American people, who made the mistake of actually believing their government would abide by the Constitution and preserve their civil rights - eventually history will confront the difference......
look I basically believe that Nixon was done in by leftists who do the very same stuff and worse. I hate and despise socialism and communism
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