Nixon was set up, from inside the administration.
It was quite the operation - keep in mind, he had won re-election in ‘72 against McGovern in a MASSIVE landslide, something like 509 Electoral votes. He was gone just a year or two later. Nixon wasn’t exactly Mr. Conservative either. Just staunch anti-communist. They never forgave him foe that.
Republicans never made much sense to me. By that I mean some of the people they hire as “strategists” or “campaign advisors”. Remember that chick who worked for Sarah Palin, in the McCain run? She was the one that set her up with an ambush TV interview with whatever her name was. With friends like that ...
I think it would be great for America if (after a fair trial and conviction this bum had his traitorous neck stretched.