You haven't been paying much attention, then - many have noted that the weakness of Nixon brought about chains of events that destroyed SVN, as well as others.
Rush mentioned that, and so did Liddy yesterday (on Hannity's show) ... Chairman_December_19th_Society had a piece about it as well ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1414291/posts?page=89#89
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1414291/posts?page=88#88
Many other links on posts this thread, too...
I know. I know. Shot my mouth off before reading further.
I guess lots of people caught me goofing off. My bad.