Posted on 04/13/2019 4:12:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For most of my lifetime, “Watergate” has been used as the measuring stick for political corruption. What exactly was the Watergate scandal?
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D. C. It was never alleged that President Richard M. Nixon knew about the burglary prior to the attempt, but that he tried to use the power of the presidency to obstruct justice in order to protect members of his administration and his reelection committee from facing criminal charges. Ultimately, Nixon was forced to resign in order to avoid congressional impeachment and a trial in the Senate.
The great irony is that Nixon was going to crush McGovern in the general election without any illegal help. Nothing that could have been stolen from the Democrats could have helped the Republican Party win any bigger in 1972 -- Nixon claimed 520 electoral votes and carried 49 states. The break-in was stupid and unnecessary.
And most importantly, it was illegal. Sure, the people initially apprehended were only a couple of Cuban refugees and a pair of former CIA spooks, but James W. McCord was with them -- a security coordinator for the Republican National Committee and Committee for the Re-election of the President. Investigators were eventually able to connect those five to G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt, and those seven men were indicted by a grand jury on September 15, 1972. Over the course of the Watergate scandal, 69 people were eventually indicted, and 48 were found guilty. Nixon was pardoned by President Gerald Ford on September 8, 1974, officially putting an end to the whole sordid matter.
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Much worse in every respect.
The whole reason for Watergate was some Republican operatives discovered that the Democrats were involved in treason. They got caught trying to get proof. They were guilty but got the most severe punishment because the judge, Sirica was their enemy.
Nixon did nothing but did try to shield his people. Probably was technically guilty of trying to coverup.
Not even close to what a lot of other presidents did and btw I am no fan of Nixon.
Will there be a patriot in the Democratic Party with the courage to paraphrase the same question Howard Baker posed about Watergate in 1972: “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
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The answer to that is clearly no. (with the exception of some intersectional democrat whom the rest of the party will genially or vociferously blow off.)
The sad part is that Dick Nixon was the start of the Dems RESISTANCE that continues today, every time a Republican President gets elected, they try to destroy them.
Watergate was am over due library book infraction compared to this one.
Watergate was no more than what Hillary Clinton did. Trying to overthrow a legally elected president is light years beyond that.
Someone really needs to come up with a name for this scandal that doesn’t involve appending gate to the name. Whatever is used to refer to it should eclipse that stupid gate reference since this is many orders of magnitude more serious.
...”Someone really needs to come up with a name for this scandal that doesn’t involve appending gate to the name”....
.......’TREASON’.......
Watergate is a dog whistle to Dims. They don’t care about any facts other than it got rid of a sitting President, which is their goal.
That’s not what Liddy or historians Colodny and Gettlin say, & their story held up in 2 separate trials.
John Dean sent them to collect a madam’s book that his fiancee was listed in.
John Dean’s girlfriend’s name was supposedly in a “little black book” of Democrat “escort ladies”. The book was in a desk in the Dem office in Watergate. - G. Gordon Liddy’s assessment of the motivation behind the break in.
Nixon’s greatest crime was beating McGovern in a nationwide landslide. No one in the lamestream media voted for him or knew anyone who did.
Most people have no idea how far down the rabbit hole we are.
BOTH parties colluded to put an ineligible usurper in the White House.
When the completely predictable crime wave of destruction of the USA occurred, they’ve done their best to keep most of it under wraps, but the last crimes are being exposed despite their best efforts.
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Not even close to what a lot of other presidents did and btw I am no fan of Nixon.
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Let’s consider the bugging of Nixon’s campaign plane by LBJ.
LBJ said Nixon was colluding with Claire chenault to prolong the vietnam war.
I don’t believe it
I only knew about one but it was downright funny that John Dean filed suit and then tried to back out of it, but Liddy wouldn't let him and so they had a trial. Liddy won.
“.......’TREASON’.......”
Perhaps ‘TreasonGate’?
“The whole reason for Watergate was some Republican operatives discovered that the Democrats were involved in treason.”
That makes more sense than any other reason to take that risk. Do you have any details on what was going on?
I read “Silent Coup” too.
The writers and G Gordon got sued by John Dean.
John Dean won.
That is how I remember it too. And her sitting next to John Dean during the Watergate hearings. Sickening.
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