[Georgia Girl 2]

I beg to differ with Pat Caddell (a Democrat). Nixon was not a Muzzie lovin commie. He did not try to destroy the economy and install a communist dictatorship. He did not try to pit blacks agains’t whites. Nixon was actually eligible to be president and did not seal his records to hide fraud. He didn’t finance his campaign with illegal foreign funds. He was nothing like Obama. Nothing at all like him. The analogy is ridiculous.

Nixon’s crime of letting some of his guys sneak into DNC headquarters and spy on them was wrong and had he just admitted it early on and apologized he would never have been removed from office. It pales in comparison with the unconstitutional actions of Barack Obama.

Sorry Pat you are busted on this one.

[Verginius Rufus]

Nixon's support collapsed when it became obvious that he had lied to the country over his knowledge of the Watergate cover-up. He resigned because he knew he would otherwise be removed from office.

Clinton did something worse--he lied under oath. But the media was on his side so the Senate went through a sham of a trial.

Nixon's worst mistakes were to put two liberals on the Supreme Court (although he seems to have thought they were conservatives).

[William Tell]

Georgia Girl 2 said: "Nixon’s crime of letting some of his guys sneak into DNC headquarters and spy on them was wrong and had he just admitted it early on and apologized he would never have been removed from office."

As I recall, 65 people were convicted of felonies in Watergate. I think it is truly naive to think that the laundered money was only used once, to obstruct justice in the Watergate burglary. One need not praise Nixon in order to point out the failings of Obama.

Given that Nixon was impeached and forced to resign based on what was known from the tapes, one can only imagine the seriousness of whatever motivated Nixon to erase 18 minutes.