“Nixons hatchet man Charles Colson”
A tempest in a teacup.
“the White House Counsel jailed for his Watergate involvement”
Ridiculous tempest in a teacup.
Both the Stupid and the Evil parties wine and dine moneyed citizens as part of their efforts to obtain donations. They try to get the citizens head spinning by inviting him to any event that will put him in the company of the famous and powerful.
At that particular time, in the run-up to the 1972 election, the demonrats had expanded this itinerary to include treating potential donors to the services of prostitutes, paid for out of DNC money—you know, Joe Sixpacks ten bucks that he contributed to have a voice in our representative republic.
That was a felony. Actually, each instance was a separate felony.
Some of Nixons subordinates, without his knowledge, decided to try and obtain documentary proof of this, with the intention of exposing the demonrats felonious behavior. Unfortunately for America, for the people of South Viet Nam, and for mankind in general, they were not practiced and proficient criminals. As one might have guessed, they made a hash of it.
Nixons subordinates, then, were guilty of conspiracy to expose multiple felonies involving the improper use of DNC funds to pay prostitutes.
When his subordinates finally told him the truth, Nixon decided it would be best to cover up this trifling indiscretion. This was entirely reasonable, in view of the heinous crimes that the media had covered up for Roosevelt, maybe Truman, certainly Kennedy, and even Johnson. (Later, they even covered up murder for a sitting president.)
The demonrats, knowing that they had the media in their pocket, decided to lie, lie, lie, and spin, spin, spin, and artificially escalated this tempest in a teapot to the status of a (barf alert) constitutional crisis.
They had a few reasons for knifing Nixon.
1. Nixon had been involved in the effort to root foreign agents of influence out of the State Department and other government posts, which was an unforgivable sin against the Evil One.
2. The huge cloud of dust they raised with their hysterical blather about Nixons crimes completely obscured the reason for the break in: multiple demonrat felonies, involving a vice that most of America still found repugnant.
3. Nixons Vietnamization program had succeeded, and he was on the brink of Peace with Honor in Viet Nam. That would have been a ghastly defeat for the left.
And, of course, a hodge-podge of obvious reasons: To embarrass the GOP, to demoralize the Silent Majority, to move the demonrats further to the left, and to forestall any good things Nixon might have done in a second term, with reelection off the table. You can probably name others.
With their customary shameless dishonesty, the left has elevated the Watergate incident to near-mythical status, like the assassination of Abe Lincoln or the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. This needs to be contradicted with the truth at every opportunity.
I think its important, because every time a lib realizes that one of the lefts axiomatic propositions is nothing but lies and deceit, the possibility exists that he will begin to question other planks in their platform.
Nixon was a deal maker with Communists in the USSR and China and the China policy he began is heading towards a “Zenith” in the South China Sea, meanwhile he signed off on the expansion of government in this country with the creation of OSHA and the EPA.
Nixon was not RINO Rockefeller per se, but he used Rockefeller’s foreign policy man Dr. Henry Kissinger and Nixon’s resignation paved the way for Gerald Ford to appoint Nelson Rockefeller VP of the country.
But getting back to the original, the fundamentalist radio preacher (Dr. Carl McIntire) was a real man who was really wronged by the Nixon Administration for wanting a World War 2 style military victory in Vietnam.
That’s something that the D and R foreign policy elites have not allowed America to have since WW 2.
After 9/11 RINO GWB picked the wrong nations to fight because the world system of the elites would not allow the Saudis or Pakistanis to be dealt with like they should have.