I remember the watergate series of disclosures, every day it was something new. Then came the disclosure that every conversation had been taped by Nixon himself. On the tape he came across as a vulger man who was very suspecious of the electorate who overwhelmingly elected him. He did bring it on himself, by revealing his true personality to the voters. He could have withstood the burglery and bugging if he came clean before the world found out about the tapes. BTW, his use of the F word was much the same as Kerry, and he will be destroyed by this as well, even though the use of vulgarity is more common today, people do not want this in their leadership.
Memo to future presidents, forget the auto tape system, find a way to conduct the secret parts of the mission in secret, and have a moral compass.
I did not have the opportunity to listen to all the tapes, just what the media made available to the public. Obviously you had privileges the average American did not have.
It would indeed be surprising to learn that the man was vulgar and suspicious 24/7 thus "revealing his true personality." I don't buy it.
I shared Nixon's defensive attitude toward the liberal media then just as I scrutinize the mainstream media today. There is no question that they hated Richard Nixon then and will always despise the man.
President Bush is hated today by the very same people. As we see, getting the truth is secondary to getting the man.