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 By 1972, Nixon had withdrawn from Vietnam with a non-Communist government still in place in Saigon, had opened relations with China, signed the greatest arms-control agreement in history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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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.
Yet he gave the left everything they love today...OSHA, EPA, etc.
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.
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.
Oops! You lost me at “founded the Environmental Protection Agency”...
Good point. I missed that.
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.
How about a serious evaluation of the Benghazi affair? That was so much worse than Watergate.
At least he loved his country more than himself and had the courage to resign
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.
Spying on democrats should be legal, it’s a national security issue.
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