Posted on 05/31/2005 6:11:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
I almost wonder if Reagan did suspect it, because Nixon's resignation paved the way for conservativism within the GOP.
i never did like woodward and bernstein.
The guy was pardoned for acts similar to what Nixon's guys did.
The mistake by Nixon was that when he found out, he protected his guys instead of turning them in.
By the way, isn't it nice to see the presidential pardon used this way, instead of being used in favor of FALN terrorists and career crooks?
Boy, great points by Rush, he really had a handle on this today!
The media will be hailing him as a hero, but this could hurt Woodstein given that his probable motivation was revenge for not being given the top FBI job and they've been saying that he's the second coming...
"I almost wonder if Reagan did suspect it, because Nixon's resignation paved the way for conservativism within the GOP."
Nixon WAS THE Conservative back then. He fought Kennedy's big union government, he fought the communists on moral grounds, and he would have won the war in Viet Nam had he not been cheated out of victory by vote fraud in 1960.
And that vote fraud was outrageous but he did not want to throw the country into turmoil (unlike Kerry).
Nixon is a fallen hero of the conservative movement.
I always wondered: Just how much truth in the story to Woodward & Berstein?
Nixon should never have resigned! He should have fought the "slime media-Democrats". Because he did not fight back, we have the Democrats using smear tactics yesterday, today, and tommorow. Clinton did much worse and never even felt guilty.
I guess at 91, this guy's only thrill in life is to see his name in the headlines before he craps out. Besides, the family can capitalize on it with book sales, speaking engagements etc. Everything comes right back to money.
I would say very little to none.
I originally went with none but every lie has a kernal of truth to it.
Maybe this will be the end of Woodard jumping on TV every chance he gets.
I don't believe him.
He has rode this Deep Throat story to its death.
And if he'd left it at the 1962 "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" speech, he wouldn't have "fallen".
If he had come out in the open when ANYBODY cared, he should have been tried for treason.
Since he didn't, who cares NOW, except his family hoping to get some bucks out of it, and it's probably too late for them too.
Then Conservatives were neo-leftists.
Pat Buchanan is clear as day that Nixon wasn't a conservative, and Michael Moore in one of his own books had to concede that Nixon was more liberal then each and every single president who came after him.
He's a fallen hero of the conservative movement the way Lucifer is a fallen angel of God.
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I think President Reagan had a feeling Mark Felt was "deep throat", if not, he definatly thought he was a Nixon leak, and he did not like Nixon.
Thank God for Mr.Felt. The Woodward and Berstein show is finally over.
I thought so! I had always believed Nixon received a raw deal in the whole thing! I remembered being sickened by the feeding frenzy by the CBS News Reports on Nixon's doings!
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