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Bob Woodward and the Watergate Myth
National Review ^ | October 29, 2015 | Conrad Black

Posted on 10/30/2015 9:16:28 AM PDT by EveningStar

Edited on 10/30/2015 9:36:59 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Richard Nixon came into office in 1969 with 550,000 conscripts in Vietnam, 200 to 400 coming home dead every week, no exit strategy, and anti-war and race riots constantly erupting all over the country. There were no relations with China and no substantive discussions in progress with the Soviet Union or the principal Arab states. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated in 1968, and the routine skyjacking of civil airliners had begun. By 1972, Nixon had withdrawn from Vietnam with a non-Communist government still in place in Saigon, had opened relations with China, signed the greatest arms-control agreement in history with the USSR, ended school segregation while avoiding the lunacy of court-ordered busing of millions of schoolchildren around the metropolitan areas of the country for “racial balance” (i.e., chaos), started a peace process in the Middle East, founded the Environmental Protection Agency, and abolished the draft. There were no more riots, skyjackings, or high-level assassinations.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; china; conradblack; nixon; richardnixon; vietnam; watergate; woodward
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To: samtheman

Yes, the Left had a long-simmering crusade against President Nixon.

That said, the reason he wound up resigning was because the GOPe did what they always do...folded like a cheap tent.


21 posted on 10/30/2015 11:48:53 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Swede Girl

Yet he gave the left everything they love today...OSHA, EPA, etc.


22 posted on 10/30/2015 11:59:24 AM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: EveningStar

and there’s the little matter that the entire break in was the scheme of John Dean, to collect evidence of his wife’s past.


23 posted on 10/30/2015 12:01:23 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: basalt

Read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers (1952) to get the full story of Alger Hiss and the Soviet Union’s spy network in DC from 1935 onward.

They put Chambers through hell also.

And guess what—history proved that Joe McCarthy was right.


24 posted on 10/30/2015 12:05:16 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: EveningStar

Oops! You lost me at “founded the Environmental Protection Agency”...


25 posted on 10/30/2015 1:24:13 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: forgotten man

Good point. I missed that.


26 posted on 10/30/2015 1:29:42 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: exit82

http://www.watergate.com/

This website is from the author of the great book “Silent Coup”. Documents that Woodward lied, and had actually been in the navy in communications, and then used those old channels (and/or the old channels used him) to help bring down Nixon. Haig being one of those channels.

The book also goes into detail (with TONS of documentation) on how Dean was the one that orchestrated the break-in, and then turned as witness against Nixon.


27 posted on 10/30/2015 1:29:42 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: EveningStar

How about a serious evaluation of the Benghazi affair? That was so much worse than Watergate.


28 posted on 10/30/2015 1:40:42 PM PDT by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: PA-RIVER

At least he loved his country more than himself and had the courage to resign


29 posted on 10/30/2015 3:06:50 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: forgotten man

I believe the percentage was 70% volunteer for the SE Asia conflict.

In contrast, during WW2, nearly 70% of the military was made up of draftees.

As if the name ‘Woodward’ wasn’t enough to make me jaundiced at the outset, that bogus number did it.

If I can reference a source for these numbers, I will.


30 posted on 10/31/2015 3:54:10 AM PDT by Kodos the Executioner (.. the revolution is successful, but survival depends upon drastic measures..")
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To: EveningStar

Spying on democrats should be legal, it’s a national security issue.


31 posted on 10/31/2015 8:01:32 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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