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Posted By: earlybird, 8/5/2024 3:27:47 PM

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American politics — the day when the FBI and the rest of the deep state overthrew the duly elected government of President Nixon by forcing him to resign in a scandal designed by teh FBI and promoted by the Washington Post. The cover up was worse then the crime, because there really was no crime. Thus in less than two years, the deep state overturned the biggest Electoral College victory in 152 years. Nixon’s 520-17 win in 1972 was bested only by James Monroe and George Washington; both were unanimous choices although one of Monroe’s electors in the Electoral College

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FormerDem 8/5/2024 3:44:45 PM (No. 1773116)
and it is important to remember they had previously persuaded the elected VP to resign, and replaced Agnew with soomeone approved by Congress but voted for by zero voters, namely Gerald Ford. So with Nixon gone, it did not go to the elected VP, it went to an unelected person. Once in, he in turn proposed his own VP, Rockefeller, also approved by Congress, and at that point the USA had an unelected POTUS and an unelected VPOTUS. What total degradation of democracy. The only thing Clinton ever did that I liked, was refuse the same offer. They told him to step down and he said no bc he was elected. Exacto.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rumblehog 8/5/2024 4:02:56 PM (No. 1773133)
I always look at what they did to Richard Nixon in the light of what Nixon did for liberal Democrats. He gave the political left a bigger Federal government along with massively increased regulatory control over business and the lives of American citizens. Today Richard Nixon would be considered a very good Democrat. Unfortunately, Watergate also introduced the concept of "celebrity" journalists and attorneys, a "cross" which society has had to bear for decades since.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 8/5/2024 4:33:30 PM (No. 1773150)
I have always said Richard Nixon got the shaft.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley 8/5/2024 4:37:11 PM (No. 1773151)
While he was widely believed to be a crook at the time, compared to the crooks since him he was a rank amateur.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Chiritwo 8/5/2024 4:40:11 PM (No. 1773152)
Bob Woodward and his side kick were the lapdogs of the deep state.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/5/2024 6:09:53 PM (No. 1773219)
I read somewhere that Woodward was not a journalist, but an intelligence officer, before working for WaPo. We didn't have the internet to provide information alternative to the government then, and we were had. It was a coup. It was the second time Nixon was cheated, the first time in 1960 by stuffing the ballot boxes in Chicago, and the second time in the Watergate frame up. We do not have elections really in this country. I have always been cynical about the election process, which has always been critically flawed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 8/5/2024 8:33:03 PM (No. 1773288)
It took a couple of decades, 1950s to 1970s, for the media to hound Richard Nixon out of office. This emboldened them, and they have gotten arrogant and self-important. It takes less time to fatally smear a Republican politician. Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin are good examples.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Italiano 8/5/2024 9:12:50 PM (No. 1773297)
There has never been any evidence that Nixon even knew about the Watergate break-in in advance. Google John Dean. Google Maureen Biner. John Dean has been on the wrong side of the grass for too long.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: joew9 8/5/2024 9:30:17 PM (No. 1773305)
Several books have come out in the last 5 years mostly because of the full extent of the Nixon tapes being released. The break in was a CIA engineered blackmail operation in which they got caught. So they tried to get The White House or the Republican National Committee to endorse it so the CIA could get off the hook. The White house tapes were manipulated by Democrat lawyers to make it seem Nixon ordered the FBI to not investigate. He did not. It was all a cheat against him. He was not a crook in any way at all.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 8/6/2024 1:58:41 AM (No. 1773379)
Nixon ended the war the year I was up for the draft! My number was 3 so I would have been in the military! Probably the Marine Band. I am grateful to him for keeping me in Iowa City!
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