[Chinstrap61a]

By the time Watergate was in full development, the ground war was almost done - but you miss the 1973 Easter Offensive, where the NVA violated the peace accords and made a major push to seize South Vietnam. Nixon ordered the Air Force and carrier aircraft to hit the NVA columns and decimated them. It was pretty certain that very few presidents would have had the guts to do that and it was just as certain to Hanoi that they would never win while Nixon stayed in office.

The Left played their part: first there was the "illegal bombing of Cambodia scandal" which didn't gain traction because pretty much everybody knew that we were bombing the NVA in Cambodia (which was there "illegally" if such a term can apply to Communists). Then the Left tried something called the "Milk Fund Scandal" which went over like a personal gas event in church. That didn't work, so next came Watergate - which really only involved slimy 'ol John Dean and his black bag team. The investigators had that wrapped up in less than two weeks and had indictments ready - but the Democrats weren't about to let the guilty parties get charged and tried until they had a chance to get at the Nixon White House and 'ol Archy Cox was the right guy for the job. They deliberately held back the indictments, stalling for the Ervin committee and Cox (and a young unknown radical named Hillary in a supporting role) to find something, anything to connect to Nixon.

They pulled it off and Nixon resigned rather than put the country into a civil war.

With Nixon gone and the country in shock, the slimes in Congress passed the War Powers act, and the NVA steamrolled through what was left of our democratic ally almost unapposed.

We have that shame to live with - with the refugees and the "reeducation camps" and the genocide in cambodia - and it took a long time and Ronald Reagan to finally regain some trust with our allies.

But of course, you can't stand Nixon and he was a "crook". He didn't have people murdered, like JFK and he didn't use the White House as his personal bordello, like JFK and he didn't stand around looking stupid while the enemy stomped our ally like Jerry ford, and he didn't pardon the draft dodgers on his first day in office and then drastically reduce our defense department and intelligence agencies like Carter - but he was a bad man, right?

You are a true product of our Leftist school system...

[nufsed]

Never said I couldn't stand Nixon. Said he was stupid and a crook and hung himself.

You're history of Viet Nam does not negate the fact that we had already survived a change of president during that war. So your original point was ridiculous and a weak attempt.

I went to very conservative catholic boarding school where they also taught us to think and regognize that people who name call usually have already lost the argument.

Prissy.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

With Nixon gone and the country in shock, the slimes in Congress passed the War Powers act,

The War Powers Act was enacted on November 7, 1973, after congress overrode Nixon's veto. Ten days later, Nixon gave the "I am not a crook" speech. It was the following August before he resigned.