Posted on 06/19/2022 2:38:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
lol, Watergate is his Polk High.
Nixon was a good man falsely maligned by the communist press. Not a great President, but better than average. Better than everyone since him except for Reagan and Trump.
Nixon had nothing to do with the break-in. So “why” is a stupid question.
He probably participated in the cover up.
I think Johnson had the recording system put in. Nixon just decided to keep it.
Standard OP for Democrats. Can't win elections honestly, or facts and policies, so they have to resort to setting people up to destroy them.
> “50 years after Watergate, Woodward still wonders why Nixon did it
Nixon did it because there were (as now) deep domestic enemies inside the US government, the Media, and the two main political parties.
Nixon was not personally popular. He lacked the charisma of JFK. He was not inspirational.
He made some mistakes.
But there was no doubt he was a patriot who loved his country.
Patriotism and love of country took a backseat to the drop-in-turn-on-tune-out popular culture of the 60s. Ergo, Nixon was not “groovy.”
But there is one thing that surfaced recently that would have saved Nixon from his hurtful and disastrous 2nd term.
Geoff Shepard found out more than 40 years after the fact, that the Watergate prosecutors cheated and colluded with democrats to deny Nixon due process. This fact sealed Nixon’s fate. Had Nixon’s attorneys been given access to notes and records, as by law they should have been at the time, Nixon would have survived.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/nixon-defense-lawyer-geoff-shepard-says-watergate-prosecutors-cheated
50 years later, the records of the cheaters were finally released.
It would be like accusing someone of grand larceny and causing loss of job, instability, health problems, social removal and personal non grata status, then hiding the evidence it was all a setup.
Nixon fired people and secretly taped others because he needed to prove who the real enemies were. This is when Americans learned it’s not so much the crime as it is the cover up.
Trump learned not to follow Nixon’s fatal steps.
When Trump ran in 2015-2016, he knew, like Nixon before him, there were dangerous enemies of the American People abroad and within.
Trump mentioned repeatedly before he was elected that there people in power who did not have the best interests of Americans in mind. Trump knew he would be setup to be the next Nixon.
And today we see how Trump has so far outsmarted the evil axis in DC and Davos, and they are livid about it.
Embrace the Suck, Woodward!
Johnson had one put in. Nixon had it removed when he took office in 1969, but then had his own put in on February 16, 1971.
So, nope.
The (com)Post is going through a self-congratulatory anniversary celebration of its role as a Deep State agent in bringing down a President.
Ignore this crap.
“Nixon saw the rise of the deep state ( 1952-1970’s) and I think he feared them which is what drove him in the corner and made him think he had to cover up.”
He saw it because he was to an extent involved in its creation; and he didn’t trust any of it.
Nixon was a tragic figure, and I say that in the classical sense, as it was of his own making, BECAUSE he couldn’t do otherwise! It was who he was, and he couldn’t escape it anymore than the earth can escape its orbit around the sun.
50 years later and he’s still trying to be relevant to anything and anybody.
Bernstein is the Post’s version of Joe Biden: an old crank trying to remain relevant.
I have no trouble recalling the vivid details of Watergate. It kept all of the soap operas off the air. I am not ashamed to tell you that it was only mildly interesting to a 21 year old and, looking back, not near as important as Bob Woodwood thinks it was.
You have made an excellent point.
It lives in his mind...nobody else’s.
Was Nurse Ratched wiping the dribble off Woodward’s chin when he supposedly posed the question?
“””I too wonder why Nixon did it.
By ‘it,’ I mean:
1. Have a constant audio surveillance system installed in the White House ***at your own request***.”””
Yes but, come forward to 2020 and why does Trump have something like 20 people listening in on a conversation he has between himself and Zelensky from Ukraine?
Does Joe Biden have 20 people listening in when Hunter Biden gives him a call?
Nixon used his dirty tricks campaign on the guy that released the “Pentagon Papers”. The papers were a government analysis of JOHNSON’s running of the war. Nixon loved America.
Right before the gap in the tapes Nixon said something like “It will bring up the whole Cuban thing...”
Somehow bringing up the Bay of Pigs disaster which would bring that disgrace to light again? (IIRC, one or two of the guys involved were Cubans involved in that mission), or something worse - the use of the Cubans by the CIA/LBJ to assassinate JFK??
And then by resigning, he thought about fighting it, others told him to fight, but he thought it would be best for America to resign.
50 years later. Maybe Nixon won't get impeached after all. But back then, Nixon had no control of the narrative.
Exactly
Woodward. Still trying to stay relevant.
He was a very liberal Globalist.
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