Posted on 10/06/2019 9:35:12 AM PDT by Chainmail
When Richard Nixon took office in 1969, the Left was somewhat new to the art of attempting to remove a president from office but they had some real advantages: they had all of the media on their side (only three TV networks and all or most of the newspapers) and they had a fully mature organization formed to help our North Vietnamese enemy to win.
The Leftists hated Nixon with every ounce of passion in them: Nixon made his mark as a Congressman by taking down the Communist operative in the State Department, Alger Hiss and defeating the Left’s darling, Helen Gahagan Douglas to win his seat in the House.
Those of you who are my contemporaries will remember that from even before he was sworn in, he was attacked in every single editorial, every TV commentary, every political cartoon, every day, day after day through both of his terms in office. But Nixon was a gentleman. No matter what silly caricature of him that was made, or false rumor, or foul calumny, Nixon stayed above it all. He relaxed the Cold War with his ground-breaking overtures to China and the Soviet Union, he supported Israel during the ’73 War, he dealt with the hellish Vietnam War, he ended the draft - he even appeared on TV to lampoon himself on the comedy program “Laugh In” but nothing he did could overcome the unremitting hatred of the loser Left.
He was finally wrenched from his office by a carefully stage-managed “scandal” in which no one died, no money was earned, no advantage given to the enemy – but the Watergate “crimes” were trickled out in inflated form, day after day, until the Left had him where they wanted him and his own Republican Party ran away from him. The Democrats/Left succeeded in their campaign and Nixon resigned, rather than disgrace the office through impeachment and shortly after, the enemy won the war in Vietnam as the Left had planned. Now we have exactly the same tactics being applied to President Trump (and as they were applied to some lesser degree against Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II) – but this time we have other ways of getting our information. Thank Heaven for the internet and Rush Limbaugh and maybe Fox News.
President Trump is a different breed of cat and he fights! His manner and techniques may not be courtly and refined but swings back when he’s hit and lets everyone know why. It’s up to us this time to keep him where he is and to help him fight back. When our representatives support the attackers or just fail to support Mr. Trump, we need to let them know that we stand behind our elected president.
When editorial writers attack him, we need to write Letters to the Editors back to let them and their readers know that we are watching and support President Trump.
The lessons of what happened to Richard Nixon should show us what we have to do to avert yet another disgraceful coup by the Left. Today is even more critical to our country's future than it was 50 years ago - we need to remember that our wholehearted support is critical to keeping this president where he needs to be to keep America great.
I don't recall if Colodny talks about it, but the gap in the tapes was right after Nixon said something about the break-in like “...and the whole Cuban thing.”
I wondered if that refers to the assassination of Kennedy (I think it was Haldeman that later thought that as well). Or perhaps the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Neither one of which had anything to do with Nixon. Nixon I believe was trying to protect our country by doing the coverup to protect a former President (Johnson/assasination, Kennedy/Bay of Pigs, or CIA/assasination, etc.)
Nixon also used the “plumbers” and his dirty tricks against the guy that released the Pentagon Papers. The Papers were a harsh and critical assessment made during (and of) Johnson's administration, and his poor execution of the Vietnam War. While it would have been perhaps good political fodder for Nixon to use - Nixon tried to suppress it as it put America in a bad light.
Hence Nixon's reason to resign - to save America from a drawn-out legal battle that would make his presidency ineffective - and probably future presidencies as well.
Notice also the similarity between the Nixon tapes and Trump's phone call leak. Nixon didn't want to release the tapes due to foreign leaders speaking with him with the expectation of privacy. It would be a terrible precedence if those leaders couldn't rely on that anymore.
I don’t know if it had been proven that Nixon was a participant of a coverup but what caused his downfall was the 18 ½ minute gap in a tape he had recorded. This article in the Washington Post describes the length the democRats go to when a Republican’s data is deleted. On the other had it is quite Ok for a democRat to purposely delete over 30 thousand emails?
Thanks Chainmail.
Actually, no: the 18 minute gap in the White House tapes was never actually linked to President Nixon - his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, allegedly made some mistake with the tape that was never solved.
The main fact was that once the White House taping system was disclosed, President Nixon refused to destroy any of the tapes as his advisors had recommended. There was no "obstruction of justice".
If you really want to see Obstruction of Justice, try the IRS' wholesale destruction of computer hard drives and files - against congressional instructions - during Obama's reign - and Hillary's destruction of all evidence during her highly illegal use of a personal computer and server to transmit classified information.
All I remember is the missing 18 minutes of tape. Sadly all he had to do was not try to cover up. I do believe this country owes an apology to Nixon for what they let Obama get away with.
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