[livius]

That’s true. Nixon made mistakes and shouldn’t have tried to cover up for the idiots who pulled that stunt. But the left had been gunning for him since Day 1.

[nopardons]

No, the Commies and other assorted lefties had been after him since he beat Helen Gahagn Douglas, for the Senate seat from California. She had been a "starlette" ( she was in the remake of SHE and it was a lousy movie! ), married Melvin Douglas and went into politics. She absolutely WAS a stinking "PINKO" and Mr. Nixon printed an anti-Gahagan-Douglas flyer on pink paper, which made their heads explode; especially because he beat her.

And yes, there were damned RINOs back then as well, who were anti-Nixonians. They and the lefties NEVER stopped harassing him and doing EVERYTHING they could ( including trying to make Ike ditch him, as his running mate for Ike's second term ! ) to trash/get rid of him.

The idiotic beginnings of that failed impeachment took just about THREE decades.

What did poor Mr. Nixon in, was that damned tapping...which every single president, from FDR down, had engaged in!