Posted on 06/08/2005 7:58:25 AM PDT by worldclass
I came to believe beyond any reasonable doubt that Nixon did not lie or direct a cover-up, and that if he had gone to trial in the Senate, he would have survived. Why did he then resign? Because he knew a Senate trial would take a year of the nation’s energy at a time when our economy was falling apart underneath him and we were at a point in the Cold War in which the Soviet Union seemed to be winning.
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I agree he was an honorable man and put the country first even though it must have been extremely painful.
Nixon did quite enough in overseeing the institution of the EPA. I've nothing to thank him for.
"If one more peace-nik calls up C-Span to suggest anyone who voted for President Bush should send their sons and daughters down to the recruiter's office, I am going to scream!!! It's a VOLUNTEER army!!! No one is drafted!!! So shut up and move on to something productive!"
Well, they are right that there is now a "backdoor draft" where reservists and National Guardsmen are being held beyond what they signed up for. And the Democrats' point is that lower income people (rather than "elites") are more likely to NEED to join the military, since their economic opportunities are more limited. We need not make a straw man out of their argument. What they miss, of course -- and what precious few, not even Bush, have been willing to admit -- is that we DO need a draft. We need more troops in Iraq and we need to be prepared in case another war is needed. I don't mean to sound like Charlie Rangel or any of the other libs pushing for a draft (though the public has no idea this is a liberal initiative), but at times of national crisis, a draft has always been employed, and our nation has usually been the better for it.
"Just like all blacks BELIEVING that democrats got them the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. WRONG! It took LBJ going to the republicans because southern democrats (SENATOR AL GORE SENIOR INCLUDED) opposed it."
Yes, but northern Dems were the ones who really pushed for it, largely because their constituencies (minorities, labor unions, Catholic churches, etc.) were demanding it. The way I look at it is this: yes, the Dems (at least, the northern ones, whose successors are now practically the only Dems left) spearheaded those civil rights bills. But (a) Republicans did ultimately support it, and (b) that doesn't excuse the culture of dependency that the Democrats fostered in the black community. That dependency has probably done more to hurt blacks than civil rights has done to help us. Then when you factor in the Democrats' holocaust against the unborn, their inexplicable affection for spotted owls and Alaskan caribou over human workers, their misguided faith in bureaucracy to solve social problems, and all the rest, blacks should be angrier at the Dems than at the Reps.
"[In Phillie,] The count is 70% to 30% for Kerry. I would say that is prima facie evidence of fraud and corruption."
In Chicago it was something like 79-19...and in New York it was around 84-14...If that's the number in Phillie, I'd actually be suprised because of how WELL Bush did there!
I believed at the time, and still do, that Nixon could have successfully defended himself and remained in office if he had merely refused to obey the Supreme Court order to release the tapes - on the grounds that he could not and would not make the office of POTUS subservient to a supposedly co-equal branch of the government.
"Nixon never put his own political interests over the interests of our country."
Sooo very true.
So you approve of our exit from Vietnam, basically handing it over to the Commies?
Compare all or nothing because all who have grown government or turned their back on innocent people are wrong.
Thanks !!
Nixon did one wonderful thing. He ended Vietnam, the democrats war. Nixon was a good man. He got caught up in a lot of crap and rather than do what Clintoon did the man resigned. He felt the welfare of the country was more important than his personal ego.
After Nixon's resignation, Jerome Zeifman, special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee (the David Schippers of his time), stated that Nixon was not guilty of any criminal acts -- only political errors.
"Yes, I read the article, and I have spent hours and hours of my life reading everyone's side of the story, and listening to the tapes and/or reading the transcripts. Despite what Jude says, I beleieve that there was a lot of unethical behvaior going on in the White House, and that it is the unethical behavior that is what brought Nixon down. No unethical behavior = no Nixon being brought doen."
Unethical behavior is NOT a reason for impeachment. What crime/s did Nixon commit?
Nixon was a great President. I believe in the end, we will find that what he did was simply "No big deal" and he resigned because he knew the Dems would put the Nation through hell.
Please remember that Hillary worked on the Nixon takedown and what she proposed to take him down was deemed both illegal and unconstitutional. So the pattern of Takedown still remains with the Dems....from the school grades of the President to the "FORGED" documents presented by Dan Rather.
I remember being at the Capitol Hotel in DC. A DC cop was talking not too nice about the FBI. He said "I'll bet they shred a million pages a day".
I have to believe that Felt has some papers someplace and his daughter found them. Wonder if she holds Power of Attorney?? That's probably a Duh!!
Not really. It's just a way to irritate liberals.
Interesting and very thoughtful opinion.
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