It’s a shame that Watergate overshadows his entire administration because Nixon was a decent president.
Nixon didn’t know anything about the break-in until after it made the news. Since he didn’t know about it, he ASS-U-ME-d his people didn’t do it.
The press always had had the long knives out for Nixon, so when they came at him HARD over the break-in his opening position was a blanket denial. Then when it became clear that Hunt, Liddy, et Al, were indeed guilty, he wouldn’t give the press the satisfaction of admitting that he had been mistaken. So he took a seriously bad decision and tried to orchestrate a cover-up.
And the demoncrats couldn’t tolerate that because they wanted to maintain their monopoly on the cover-ups. The rest is history.
Yup that was his mistake, he should have acted more like a democrat and threw them under the bus.🙄
I remember President Nixon’s remark to the ‘media’: “You bastards won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore!”
Nixon was hated by the establishment for bringing down Alger Hiss, former State Dept employee who lied to Congress about being a Soviet agent. Hiss was a pipe-smoking commmie intellectual. The eastern elites identified with him. Also, Nixon was anti-communist, and if there is one thing our elites hate worse than anything, it is anti-communists.