[xJones]

Woodward, Bernstein and their fellow travelers hated and will forever hate Nixon for pursuing the case against Alger Hiss ...

Julie Nixon, in her biography of her mother, said that her mother would only comment to her about Watergate that it all went back to Alger Hiss.

The press ignored all of JFK's and LBJ's real crimes. They hung Nixon for something JFK or LBJ would have laughed at. It was a determined lynching and Woodward is still a "hero".

[laconic]

Yes, according to the phony, two-faced Washington Post (whose then-editor Ben Bradlee was a bosom pal of JFK who wrote a glowing book about their friendship), Republican Donald Segretti was an awful criminal dirty-trickster but Democrat Dick Tuck was a practical joker. Democrat Lyndon Johnson (whose half-assed policy killed 58,000 Americans in Vietnam) was a lovable rogue, Republican Nixon (who tried to get us out of Vietnam with some honor) was a crook. Democrat Attorney General Janet Reno loyally protected her president by covering up, Republican Attorney John Mitchell belonged in prison for loyally covering up for his president. Loyal Democrat Judge John Sirica (who openly campaigned for Jimmy Carter) was a good, tough, hard-sentencing judge; but the Post doesn't want any tough, hard-sentencing Republican judges confirmed. I saw Bradlee on the History Channel today; not a word about the Post's own liar Janet Cooke (awarded a Pulitzer Prize, later withdrawn, for making up a story about an eight-year old heroin abuser), only much self-praise and slurpy kudos to Yale Bob Woodward and Red Diaper Baby Carl Bernstein. The unfortunate thing for these folks at the Post is that they are in a time warp; few, if any of the old Nixon haters like the "cartoonist" Herblock are still alive and the younger generation doesn't remember the Eighties, much less Watergate.