Nixon got us out of a mess in Vietnam instigated by Kennedy and pushed along by Johnson, but he was vilifiled by the MSM and the hippie/anit-war/liberal movement for not ending the war quick enough.
Watergate was a second-rate political operation, no different than the crap that goes on now. Nixon should have held his ground, and now that he's dead, the MSM is dancing on his grave.
Pitiful.
This is true but it is also true that Watergate was the origin of the cliche that "the coverup is worse than the crime."
http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/01-13-99.html
January 13, 1999
The Impeachment of Richard Nixon
Memo To: A Newsweek columnist
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Comparing impeachments