Posted on 11/20/2023 1:06:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A half-century before Donald Trump dismissed the four criminal cases against him as a “witch hunt,” a defensive President Richard M. Nixon famously declared, “I’m not a crook.”
Nixon made the comment 50 years ago Friday, on Nov. 17, 1973, at Disney World in Florida as the Watergate scandal was swirling around him. It came a month after the Saturday Night Massacre, when Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Then Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox.
Now Nixon was addressing 400 people at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual convention in an hour-long televised question-and-answer session, where he said he never obstructed justice. “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,” he said. “Well, I’m not a crook.”
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Compared to the Biden and Clinton families, he wasn’t a crook.
The Tater and his Biden Family Syndicate actually ARE crooks.
Are they talking about Biden? That the only current President under investigation.
Straight from the communist post.
What the Washington Compost will print has failed to amaze me for a long time now.
Total projection, WAPO are the crooks.
Not to mention LBJ and Obama as well.
Today no real American would believe ChiComjoe if he claimed, “I am not a traitor.”
60 years ago, government ended the life of a president.
And he wasn’t a crook. The two Washington Post buttwipes, Woodward and Bernstein were the crooks in that fiasco.
The FBI and then media assassination of Nixon seemed to be a basic model for what they did against Trump.
Creating the narrative like good propagandist’s do.
Tell it often, loud and often.
Mr. Nixon was NOT a “crook” at all! He was railroaded and smeared, and set upon for many decades, by American Marxists/PINKOS/Fellow Travelers/and outright stinking COMMIES!
And the Wapo spent two years attacking him and still won’t let it go. Democrat scandals are heresy.
TWO YEARS? Try THREE DECADES and to this very day!
Nixon wasn’t a crook. He was more of a patriot than the crooks in office now days.
HE was always a crook.
Never voted for him.
registered Republican since 1960.
Why do you claim that he was one?
“There’s social media. There’s the internet. The news cycles are faster. I think Watergate would have occurred at a much more accelerated speed than the 928 days it took to go from the arrest at the Watergate to the conviction of [H.R.] Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and [John] Mitchell, et al. There’s more likelihood he (Nixon) might have survived if there’d been a Fox News.”Certainly if it were pre-2011 Fox News.
— John Dean
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