Well here's another vignette.
Husband was also a liberal and he too voted for McGovern.
What can I say? We both were horrifically affected by Vietnam. I lost a husband to Canada for it and HE was scared of being drafted. Neither one of us were necessarily against the war and definitely not unpatriotic. And in retrospect we see that Vietnam was a war ill-fought and with little public sympathy.
Anyway, husband feels the same way about Watergate. "I'm no great fan of Nixon," he said the other day. "But I see now, especially after Bill Clinton, how it was a trumped up bunch of crap by the Democrats to bring down a Republican president.
Hey, I don't think it's resonating. No matter how "dangerous" Woodward and Bernstein tell me those times were, go on, there was no danger. Both of us former liberals and hippies have been laughing all week at those who fooled us.
Nixon was paranoid is all. And like they say, sometimes they really ARE out to get you.
He could have been sanctioned. He was a very popularly elected president. At the time the public knew no better although give me credit, I was suspicious.
Yeah, I think this was a pre-planned thing to restore credibility of the Lamestream Media.
It ain't working. Too many Internet pundits and conservative commentators are here to flesh out the big brouhaha Woodward and Bernstein made of it.
In my gut, and judging by my barometer, comments in the beauty shop, it ain't working. I think the MSM stepped on its own foot.
I wonder if in time Nixon's reputation will be resotred. I was always a NIxon fan. In terms of sheer brain power, I have always felt that he was the smartest POTUS in my lifetime.
Nixon did what he thought was the honorable thing given that we were in a dangerous position in the Cold War.