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To: MizSterious



Nixon's major crime was loyalty to his friends.

As a result, he helped to cover up an investigation into wrongdoing.

He was threatened with impeachment by Democrats, who had an overwhelming majority, after much hounding by the Old Media - who were representing the communists who were still looking for an opportunity to avenge Nixon's bringing down Alger Hiss (as well as McCarthy's demeaning their Hollywood idols). Representatives of Nixon's party, Republicans, took a walk from the Capitol to the WH to ask in a private conversation that he resign.

Nixon further showed his loyalty to his friends and his country by resigning, instead of forcing the party and country to split in a raucous trial over this, though he never believed his actions were wrong. In fact he believed that the state of war gave the executive branch the right to do what his subordinates did, though he never specifically authorized their ill-fated actions, and cited WW2 precedents.

An unbiased history of Watergate would include this, and you won't get that from most history books or the Old Media FRAUDcasters.


In addition, you probably will find it hard to locate the information that the US Atty Gen was well into an (grand jury?) investigation of the break-in before WP and MF "broke" the story in the media. MF ought to have gone to him and the judge with information he had, rather than doing what he did for his own aggrandizement.

Felt's illegal leaking of FBI files was due to avarice, not nobility.


13 posted on 06/02/2005 6:45:37 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys

Excellent summary and the options that Felt had instead of what he did.


15 posted on 06/02/2005 6:49:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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To: AFPhys
(as well as McCarthy's demeaning their Hollywood idols)

That was the House Committee on Un-American Activities. McCarthy, a senator, had nothing to do with it.

47 posted on 06/02/2005 8:04:03 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ('Arur hagever 'asher yivtach ba'adam vesam basar zero`o, umin HaShem yasur libbo!)
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To: AFPhys
as well as McCarthy's demeaning their Hollywood idols

This was a fallacy. Tailgunner Joe's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations only pervue was communist infiltration of the federal government. The hollywood thing was HUAC.

52 posted on 06/02/2005 9:12:35 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: AFPhys; Jim Noble; Dems_R_Losers; Mo1; kcvl; Miss Marple; pinz-n-needlez

Amen to all that!


63 posted on 06/02/2005 9:49:48 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: AFPhys
Felt's illegal leaking of FBI files was due to avarice, not nobility.

Now that's something that needs to be plastered all over creation.

72 posted on 06/02/2005 10:27:47 AM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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