In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore and the democrats took the shroud off a nasty secret. They showed the country that our election system is essentially operated on the Honor System” and that anyone who was willing to destroy the nation’s faith and confidence in the honor and fairness of our elections could use dishonesty, guile and rule bending to mount an attempt to steal the election.
Let me reinforce this by pointing to the dishonored Nixon. When presented with incontrovertable proof that the Democrats stole the election from Nixon and gave it to Kennedy by manufacturing votes in Chicago ... Nixon judged that contesting the election would so polarize the nation that it would be better for the country for him to accept the fraud.
History will judge whether he was correct.
Good point.
After being dragged through the filth, corruption and open law breaking of the Clinton and Obama years the trangressions of Nixon become almost miniscule. The way Clinton and Obama conducted themselves in office make it hard to recall wht people were so upset with Nixon.
But of course, Nixon was a Republican and his era was a time when there was still some expectation that a president would avoid even so much as the appearance of wrongdoing in office.
Unlike Clinton, Nixon revered the office of the presidency and held it in highest regard. He had the class to leave office quietly without putting the country through the trauma of an impeachment trial.
And unlike Obama, Nixon was an American through and through, in mind, in spirit, and in action. He vigorously fought America's enemies - he did not welcome communists, socialists into the White House and give them medals.
I do believe that Nixon will fare well with unbiased historians as time passes.