[Gritty]

I remember Nixon as a pretty decent President and although a bit quirky in some ways (he wore his black dress shoes to the beach) he was a loyal and patriotic American and a pretty honorable man. However, he was brought down by the unnecessary campaign exploits and subsequent coverups of his staff, which he belatedly and loyally also tried to cover up. It was relatively minor stuff, but his ham-fistedness and the malignant Liberal political climate in Washington turned it into a major problem.

Then there was the hostile Liberal new media, baying at his heels and the Democrats, whose main goal in life was to sabotage the Vietnam War effort. The Liberals also hated him because he was a staunch anti-Communist and was a key figure in exposing massive Communist espionage in the government during the Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers affair when Nixon was in Congress.

It is an entirely different situation today and hardly analogous at all. I think Bob Lonsberry (whom I usually admire) is too young to remember what really went on and is getting his facts from revisionist history. He is being far too kind to Hillary and far too critical of Nixon by equating what Nixon did compared to Her Heinous.

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Gritty, I agree with your analysis. He was one of my favorite presidents. He was, however, kind of a social klutz who seemed uncomfortable with real day to day people. He wasn’t the guy you’d sit down with and have a beer. He was a very effective president who loved his country.