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...thoroughly corrupt president.

Thoroughly corrupt president?!?!? Let me tell you something, get informed. Richard Nixon was set up like a bowling pin.

John Dean snookered John Mitchell into letting him do the Watergate. Then he let Howard Hunt and Jim McCord get in on the break-in. Now, if you were President, you'd fire the "smoking gun" too.

If you don't know why, go find out. The President was faced with two CIA operatives, both involved in very serious cold war black operations (Bay of Pigs, etc.), being arrested for petty crimes. He told Halderman to get in touch with the Director of the CIA (Richard Helms) and tell him to call off the dogs (FBI).

Any President would have done the same thing. The problem is that the whole daggone thing was a set-up from the get-go. And what we got was millions killed by communists in Southeast Asia, Vietnam syndrome, and the establishment of the leftist press (along with a lot of other leftist crap like President Jimmy Carter).

So carefully consider Richard Nixon, he didn't do anything that a true patriot would not do.

[LdSentinal]

And let me tell you something.

I didn't make that comment. You replied to thr wrong poster.

[PLMerite]

“John Dean snookered John Mitchell into letting him do the Watergate.”

I still think the real reason behind Watergate was John Dean. IIRC, his fiance (later wife) Maureen was rooming with a hooker who was (?) working for the DNC. Now, I don’t know how it goes now, but in 1972 if your roomie was a hooker, it tainted your rep too. I wonder if John was wanting to keep tabs on Mo ?

[LucyT]

"It took the entire MSM and their Liberal "Fellow Travelers" ... to bring Richard Nixon down. They were out to destroy Nixon ever since he dared to expose the traitor Alger Hiss as a Communist Agent.

"The final nail in Richard Nixon's political coffin was when gutless Republicans turned on him under the guise of "upholding the law"."

The removal of Richard Nixon was a coup d’état of an elected President of the United States.

There's a book setting on my desk right now,"Silent Coup; The Removal of a President" by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, available on Amazon, or through the local library.

Search engines can provide a synopsis, and here's a website to peruse at your leisure.

http://www.silentcoup.com

[7thson]

I think Nixon was a very complicated individual. I read long ago that had he won the presidency in 1960, it would have been a different Nixon than the one that won in 68. The left was after him for nearly all his political life. He had the audacity to defeat a female Dem to get into the House. He had the audacity to ensure Hiss was convicted. The left and their cohorts in the press hounded him for years. And he did not have many friends in the Republican Party either. So, I always thought that what he did concerning Watergate was a result of how he was treated by decades of a hostile environment.