Forgive me, I'm a little shaky on Watergate history, since I was just a kid at the time. However, it was my understanding (perhaps flawed) that Nixon was neck-deep in the coverup of the Watergate hotel burglary. Yes, it is truly awful that so many died in Vietnam because the US backed out. However, is that the fault of the man who exposed wrongdoing, or is it the fault of the man who did the wrong in the first place, who perhaps should have been thinking what would happen to his plans if he was exposed in what he should not have been doing?
I'm not saying Felt was a hero at all. His actions stink of self-interest, since he had been passed over for the post he desperately wanted as head of the FBI. But it seems to me that saying Nixon should have gotten a pass on his bad behavior is like all the libs who want to give Clinton a pass on his bad behavior since it was "only sex" or "only a little lie." Bad behavior is bad behavior.