But I think Tricky Dick was a pretty good president, based on his record. Why would I want to slime his name with a comparison to Rather? Remember, if the left had not subverted the United States by siding with the Vietcong, Nixon would have won that war.
It's kind of reverse sliming. Rather helped lead the liberal charge to take out Nixon. Watergate was trivial, the phone tap Nixon hadn't known or approved of didn't even work. And the Cuban break-in team headed by the mysterious Hunt (former CIA) were either: 1)The Keystone Cops, or 2) unwittingly working for some other party in a plan that could only hurt the RNC. The wrong phone was bugged, for instance, and when the first bug failed, the idiots returned in such a clumsy way that the nightwatchman couldn't help but notice them.
Pardon the rant, but there was so much beneath Watergate that no one person knows the truth to this day. Who was "Deep Throat"? A composite man of Woodward and Bernstein's, how honest has Woodward proven to be since then? Watergate made Woodward's career, Bernstein went into a personal tailspin, and Rather made his whole career off helping take Richard Nixon down.
Comparing him to Richard Nixon is really cutting, because he painted Nixon to be blacker than Satan and such a liar.