One Word: ASA L E A K S
“Nixon didn’t do anything.”
Nixon wasn’t involved in the break-in, but he WAS involved in the cover-up. Which was his big screw-up. Had he simply come out and said, “There is no justification for this break-in, and the people responsible will be held accountable. Since it happened on my watch, and ‘the buck stops here,’ I will make damn sure they are,” he would have weathered the storm and served out his presidency. But that was just not in his character. Which is a shame, because I think he could have been a great president if he didn’t have that personality flaw.
Dems were running a call girl operation from that office in order to snare Republicans. The press has never reported and never cared.
Woodward knows this!
I wonder if Woodward ever asked why the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.
50 years after Watergate, Woodward still milking the cow.
Back then, Dems would shoot their candidate when the wrong one was in the lead.
- JFK
- RFK
- George Wallace
Nixon needed to know if they had anything planned for him.
Nixon, for reasons never revealed, did seem absolutely obsessed to the point of paranoia about McGovern. Far more concerned than about Humphrey in 68, who was a much more formidable opponent, It is known that through word analysis the CIA had detected a Soviet mole feeding KGB material into the McGovern press releases and probably had penetrated the inner level of the McG campaign operation. Nixon was not told because the CIA didn’t trust him not to immediately make a high profile TV statement about it versus quietly having George notified so he would sack the mole. Nixon may have found this out and, given his feelings that he was being betrayed all the time, figured he had to mount his own special ops operation.
For the record, spying on Trump and the whole Russia hoax was much worse.
I agree. Nixon was the first successful coup by the democrats which emboldened them, the Justice Dept., FBI, Deep State, et al to do “Trump”.
Nixon said it himself. He was loyal to his people. He should have just let the process play out, then pardon them after it was over.
Money and the chance of fame are temptations most people never avoid even if lying creates the money and fame
Exactly my thought. And Mark Felt was more of craven opportunist than an innocent ‘source’.
Like a pathetic, elderly drunk uncle who needs to dine on his football glory game from high school every single damn family get together.
Nixon didn’t do anything that the Kennedys and the democrats didn’t do to him years earlier. Everyone knew that including the opportunistic hypocrites at the Washington Post. Read It Didn’t Start With Watergate.
I’m not a shrink, but I’ve seem men crack under pressure. And the presidency is unrelenting pressure. IMO, Nixon cracked and paranoia set in. I believe Nixon was one of the most brilliant men to serve as president, but he had a flawed personality that led him to make bad decisions when he felt the heat of opposition.
Nixon was a bit too left wing for me but he should never have stepped down.
50 years and Woodward is still a loser hanging on trying to (needing to?) milk that dead cow.
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***.
2. Forget you installed an audio surveillance system in the White House and then get recorded discussing/ordering things that at best would make you look bad and at worst would be used in evidence against you in your impeachment/criminal trial.
3. Having done point 2, failing to erase the tapes the same day and put them back for reuse.
You have to be really, really, really, really stupid to do that. I know there’s some Nixon worshipers here, but between the above stupidity and China, I’m sorry, we were better off without him.
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.