Do you know any history other then what you were taugh by the main stream media?
Were you alive during this time?
Do you remember the total control the main stream media had on "the news"?
Do you know Proportionality?
The press weakened the President at at time we still had a lot of enemies. By the time he resigned, the United States was a paper tiger on the world stage. From President Nixon, we got President Ford and then the Mayaguez incident where we could not even perform a simple military operation against some pirates at sea. Following President Ford we had four years of President Carter. If it was not for Watergate we would not have had Carter and I doubt if Iran would have took over our Embassy.
We are all still too close to make good judgement about Watergate, and the role of the media in bringing down a President, and so I will leave it up to history to decide if the punishment inflicted on Nixon for the crimes Nixon was accused of (and which could have been condemed by a censure from Congress) was worth the price this nation paid.
I agree with everything you say here. We were weakened as a nation. CArter came in and made it worse. Of course we can only blame ourselves because the republicans ran Jerry Ford and not Reagan.
I agree with some posts here that imply that Felt could hav been spying for Russia. I mean he effectively disposed of a president who was tough on the Russians and at the time was cozying up to China.
I think this should be looked into.
nav