Nixon entered office with the deck stacked against him. He was the first president since 1849 to take office with both Houses of Congress controlled by the opposing party. The permanent bureaucracy, media, and political elite were all aligned against him.

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1/ Here's what so many people get wrong about Richard Nixon and Watergate.

  

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2/ First - the context. Nixon entered office with the deck stacked against him.

He was the first president since 1849 to take office with both Houses of Congress controlled by the opposing party.

The permanent bureaucracy, media, and political elite were all aligned against him.

 

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3/ Washington was in chaos.

The Vietnam War split the nation. Between 1967–72, D.C. was rocked by massive protests - some with over a million people.

The White House was literally barricaded by buses. Nixon governed through a storm.

 

 

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4/ The media monopoly despised Nixon.

There were three networks, two major newspapers, and two newsmagazines - all hostile.

He wasn’t part of their club. And they never let him forget it.

 

 

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5/ The Watergate break-in? Nixon had no idea.

It was a rogue operation by the campaign committee that broke in, without Nixon’s knowledge or authority.

The burglars? Mostly tied to the CIA. And to this day, no one knows what they were really after.

 

 

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6/ The so-called cover-up began without Nixon.

On June 19 - just two days after the arrests - John Dean convened a meeting to begin protecting campaign officials.

Dean even bragged about being the “desk officer of the cover-up.”

 

 

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7/ That infamous June 23 “smoking gun” tape?

You might want to listen to it. Nixon never told the CIA to shut down the FBI.

His concern? Protecting two Democratic donors who had quietly contributed before disclosure laws kicked in.

 

 

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8/ Nixon told the FBI to go full speed ahead.

On July 6, 1972, he told Acting Director Pat Gray to “go wherever the leads take you.”

That’s a president demanding the truth.

 

 

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9/ The tapes? Every president since FDR taped.

Nixon’s were voice activated - he often didn’t know they were rolling.

Only about 5% of 3,600 hours relate to Watergate. And that infamous 18½ minute gap? No proof it was intentional. Nothing on it was even about Watergate.

 

 

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10/ Watergate was weaponized.

The special prosecutor? A Kennedy loyalist. His staff? Almost all ex-Kennedy and Johnson DOJ lawyers.

They even held secret meetings with the judge. That’s the real scandal.

 

 

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11/ The “abuse of power” charges fall apart.

No IRS audits were ever ordered by the White House. 19 wiretaps were legally placed to stop national security leaks.

Compare that to modern administrations - then tell us who crossed lines.

 

 

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12/ Nixon wasn’t a crook.

He didn’t plan the break-in.

He didn’t order the cover-up.

He told the FBI to investigate.

The establishment repeats the same tired myth. We’re here to set the record straight.

 

 

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Did it take this long for the truth about Nixon (he did nothing wrong) was Musk buying X? Remember he carried 49 states. The American people like Nixon. But don't blame the democrats. It was the republicans who stabbed Nixon in the back. The senate was split 50/50 so Nixon could not have been impeached. Now republicans in the senate is trying the same thing on President Trump.

 

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I still say John Dean commissioned the Watergate break-in to retrieve the list of DNC hookers that included his soon-to-be wife.

[laconic]

Nixon was put in a bad position by the recession and the oil embargo. He had come to the rescue of Israel in the 1973 war for which he received no credit. The “press” really came through for the liars and schemers that they were and remain. Curiously, they almost never showed the slightest interest in Lyndon Johnson’s overt corruption and his probable role in at least eight murders including that of JFK.

[mass55th]

When was the last time a Republican-controlled Congress completely shut out the minority RATS, and fully supported their Republican President?

[Salman]

I think it was because of his anti-Communism back in the HUAC days.

And unlike Joe McCarthy, he was very effective. For example nailing Alger Hiss.

The commie wing of the Democrats never forgave Nixon for that, even though he was later with them on a lot of issues.

[cowboyusa]

He was a very liberal globalist.

[Honorary Serb]

Nixon was a great President who did many good things that endure to this day.

The “Washington Post”/NYT gang who took him down were a bunch of leftists. They gave us the miasma of the mid-to-late 70s, which Reagan barely got us out of. Then we had Bush-clinton-Bush-obama. Not so good.

And there are still Nixon-haters in 2026.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ve always said Watergate was a Sunday School picnic compared to the scandals Joe Biden got away with.

Not to mention Obama and the Clintons.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The way Richard Nixon was treated was an absolute disgrace. They've been trying to do the same
thing to Donald J. Trump, but he learned fast and went on the offensive. President Nixon was a
good man, and history will ultimately remember him as such.

[Jim W N]

Nixon was a Republican who held onto moral values but he was a RINO who loved power and gov’t.

[Jacquerie]

Candidate Donald Trump made enemies of both parties and their Deep State the moment he beganhis June 2015 Escalator Speech.

Trump didn’t come up through party ranks. He owed nothing to anyone. Didn’t need GOP money. No one could bribe him.

Of course, he had to be destroyed.

[Chainmail]

I knew the truth back then:

- The United Stateswas fighting a war against communist aggression on the other side of the world - with 1960s logistics - and almost half a million troops. All while the enemy orchestrated a massive 5th column operation in our own country disguised as a "Peace" movement.

The Civil Rights movement was undergoing a violent period, culminating with several cities burning and multiple deaths and the murder of Dr. King.

The US was funding a massive "space race" to race towards landing on the moon.

The Cold War was in full cry, calling for massive numbers of troops in Germany and huge investments in missile/warhead development and nuclear-armed bomber deployment.

The 1973 Israel vs Egypt/Syrian war required massive military aid to help Israel.

Despite all of this Nixon dealt with the issues and reduced Cold War tensions with the USSR and China, aided Israel (I remember Navy A-4 Skyhawks in Norfolk harbor being painted with Stars of David prior to being sent to Israel to replace the massive losses they had sustained in combat). He also got the talks with the NVA going and withdrew American troops from Vietnam - and got our POWs back. South Vietnam was on track to survive as long as we gave them ammunition and air cover.

Coincidentally, the Left campaigned to remove him and when they succeeded, the Democrat Congress stopped all aid to South Vietnam and no air support was coming the when the NVA rolled south in violation of their signed cease fire agreement.

The shameful part of all? the Republican Party didn't do a damn thing.

A lot like today.

[Paal Gulli]

Incoming demoncrat POTUS #1 disregarded a warning from the outgoing Republican POTUS (who just happened to have been the Supreme Allied Commander of the victorious WWII Allied Forces in Europe) not to get involved in a ground war anywhere in Asia.

demoncrat #2 got the US entrenched in demoncrat #1’s war Southeast Asia but lacked the leadership or resolve to win it.

There are surviving recordings of telephone calls made by both demoncrats #1 & #2 in which they remarked that couldn’t pull the US out of the war in Vietnam because it would have have been devastating to their re-election chances.

Then the demoncrats fomented anti-war hatred of the government, which Nixon inherited.

Nixon cut through the crap and ended the war in Vietnam, and for this, he’s remembered as a villian.

[Red6]

Most politicians are simply whores.

That simple.

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I’m not advocating for another system, what we have is the best there is.

But one needs to realize the limitations and shortfalls of a systems such as ours. A truly informed and engaged electorate would largely mitigate the problems we have today:

—It lends itself to be very shortsighted and faddy / trendy: climate change, LGBTQIA, DDT ban based on a silly book, covid, immigration, nuclear power...

—Promises made in the past mean nothing to the new guy who sees these as limiting their freedom of political maneuver: not an inch to the East for NATO, ballistic missile treaty (Bush W.) and now we have a war we blame the Russians for.

—The political system needs money for campaigns, the party, and to enrich the politicians and their family (most become extremely wealthy while in Congress and it’s mostly legal). Those with real money (the Walton’s, Soros, Bezos, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg...) in such a system have a disproportionate say since they can work the political end, but also usually have a huge sway in the media.

—You get real idiots in positions of power. The election system does not require an education, job experience, background check, on-site testing, a polygraph... One would hope the electorate demands some form of qualifications, but they often don’t and that is especially true when it comes to the pure demographic candidate: Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, Ilhan Omar, AOC. You get real weirdo’s, folks with a questionable character, idiotic-ideological and naive ideas...

It’s the ONLY system that reflects the “will of the people.” But it is definitely not without its shortcomings.

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[daler]

“I think it was because of his anti-Communism back in the HUAC days.”

I’ve always believed this.

What they did to Joseph McCarthy was just a warmup.

When Nixon won re-election in a landslide the Deep State had enough and took him out.

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this

[rod5591]

When Nixon was elected president I was 13. I hadn’t yet learned that the network news was fake and horribly slanted, and I bought into all the anti-Nixon hysteria. I hated Agnew also—that dude seemed wrong in a way that Nixon did not. In fact, Nixon seemed nice personally, lots of smiles from him, but I hated that gesture where he thrust his two arms in the air. It took me until Jimmy Carter before I saw how messed up the Democrats were. Still, Nixon did some messed up things as President. He took the first step towards Communist China. He ordered his infamous “Wage and Price Freeze”. Still, I like him now and still smile at how he completely massacred the Democrat nominee George McGovern in 1972.?

[Zathras]

The Watergate break in was looking for a connection between Daniel Ellsberg, the DNC and the Communist Party.
Daniel Ellsberg was working for Los Alamos labs on advanced nuclear weapon design and there were indications he was going to defect to the USSR with the secrets.
The FBI had already started tracking Ellsberg.

Ellsberg had access to the W76 warhead design, Fogbank, linear compression and the RV ablative coating which all made sub launched MIRV possible.
Fortunately, Fogbank and the ablative coatings are still secret.

[Zathras]

Correct, without Nixon’s help, Israel probably would have fell in a counter attack.
If you haven’t seen it, “The Valley of Tears” is I think on HBO.
The oil embargo was the Arab world retaliation.

[Maine Mariner]

In 1974, the year President Nixon, the makeup of the US Senate was: 56 Democrats, 40 Republicans, 1 Independent, and 1 Conservative. Sixty-Seven votes are required to remove a president who has been impeached by the House.

Of course President Nixon needed to be removed from office.
During the 1972 election, he put together a very diverse group of voters. The AFL-CIO remained neutral but the Teamsters, the Seafarers’ International Union, as well as other groups supported his re-election. The Teamsters had a bumper sticker on some of their trucks that simply said Re-Elect the President.

If the Republicans had carried through after 1972, we could have had a major realignment of the body politic.