Except that President Nixon engaged in the coverup. If he had not done that, he would have served out his second term.
You are correct but President Nixon never came close to what Clinton and Obama have done. I also suspect that the GOP,even then,did not make a substantial effort to protect Nixon as the Democrats always protect their own. Nixon loved America. Clinton and Obama love money and power and should have been impeached and kicked out of office for treason at the very least.
“Coverup” was the Left’s perjorative framing of the events. There is no evidence that President Nixon had any advance knowledge of the Watergate break in or even who was actually behind it.
He was constantly on the defensive - but President Trump isn’t one to sit back and hope for the best.
> “Except that President Nixon engaged in the coverup. If he had not done that, he would have served out his second term.”
It’s really not that simple. The whole Watergate break-in had the fingerprints of the CIA all over it, and Nixon was misled by John Dean, his White House counsel.
An excellent book on the subject is “Silent Coup” by Len Colodny.
The records of Ukrainian officials indicate they expected Trump to engage in coverup for Manafort.
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?