Posted on 06/19/2022 2:38:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty years after the Watergate burglary that led to the downfall of US president Richard Nixon, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is still haunted by one question.
"The unanswered question that pulses through all of this is 'Why?' Woodward said at an event at Post headquarters with his former reporting colleague Carl Bernstein.
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One Word: ASA L E A K S
“Nixon didn’t do anything.”
Nixon wasn’t involved in the break-in, but he WAS involved in the cover-up. Which was his big screw-up. Had he simply come out and said, “There is no justification for this break-in, and the people responsible will be held accountable. Since it happened on my watch, and ‘the buck stops here,’ I will make damn sure they are,” he would have weathered the storm and served out his presidency. But that was just not in his character. Which is a shame, because I think he could have been a great president if he didn’t have that personality flaw.
Dems were running a call girl operation from that office in order to snare Republicans. The press has never reported and never cared.
Woodward knows this!
Great point
I wonder if Woodward ever asked why the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.
50 years after Watergate, Woodward still milking the cow.
By legitimate skullduggery I mean the countless classified projects and initiatives that any President has to sign off on almost every day. I'm thinking specifically of the Glomar Explorer project that lifted Soviet submarine K-129 off the seabed 17,000 feet down, but there were countless others that we've never found out about.
Nixon had to sign off on Glomar explorer.
Back then, Dems would shoot their candidate when the wrong one was in the lead.
- JFK
- RFK
- George Wallace
Nixon needed to know if they had anything planned for him.
Nixon, for reasons never revealed, did seem absolutely obsessed to the point of paranoia about McGovern. Far more concerned than about Humphrey in 68, who was a much more formidable opponent, It is known that through word analysis the CIA had detected a Soviet mole feeding KGB material into the McGovern press releases and probably had penetrated the inner level of the McG campaign operation. Nixon was not told because the CIA didn’t trust him not to immediately make a high profile TV statement about it versus quietly having George notified so he would sack the mole. Nixon may have found this out and, given his feelings that he was being betrayed all the time, figured he had to mount his own special ops operation.
For the record, spying on Trump and the whole Russia hoax was much worse.
Agree 100%.
I agree. Nixon was the first successful coup by the democrats which emboldened them, the Justice Dept., FBI, Deep State, et al to do “Trump”.
“Nixon had to sign off on Glomar explorer.”
Absolutely.
But I don’t think that was “skullduggery.” It was a significant intelligence coup, and Nixon would have been derelict had he opposed the mission.
It’s no different from a crashed military aircraft that had classified material or components on board: Adversaries or potential adversaries would be beating feet to that crash site to recover the secrets. We do it; Russia does it; China does it; pretty much EVERYONE does it. And, from their viewpoint, it is fully justified. That’s just how the game is played.
That 1972 result. 49 states, over 60% of the national popular vote (not even Reagan in 1984 did the latter). Will never see that again in a U.S. presidential election in any of our lifetimes.
And the cover story covered up how successful the operation was.
Nixon said it himself. He was loyal to his people. He should have just let the process play out, then pardon them after it was over.
“That 1972 result. 49 states, over 60% of the national popular vote (not even Reagan in 1984 did the latter). Will never see that again in a U.S. presidential election in any of our lifetimes.”
I voted via absentee ballot as I was stationed in Asia for that election. Of course, I voted for the Nixon-Agnew ticket. Now, THERE was a real scumbag: Spiro Agnew. There must be something in the Maryland drinking water.
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