[eddiespaghetti]

Safire has been a whore for 30 years. The first one to trash Nixon before any evidence was in!

Safire was a speech-writer for Nixon (and Agnew) before he joined the Times in 1973. In his NYT columns, he defended Nixon during the Watergate proceedings, and defended Nixon's actions as President for several years after Nixon's resignation.

[international american]

Crap! I was in college during that time. He called for Nixon to resign, in the National Review, and the national media