| Had the tape not been found, and had the break-in not been discovered, Nixon would have still been impeached. At the time of the Watergate break-in, resolutions for the impeachment had already been filed in Congress for the illegal and immoral bombing of Cambodia. Dozens of sorties and tons of bombs were dropped, directly against the will of Congress, on a neutral country in an attempt to halt the flow of supplies to the Army of North Vietnam via the Ho Chi Mihn trail. Beyond the bombing, in 1971, the Pentagon Papers had been published, disclosing the realities of the Vietnam War, and the Administration's attempts to hide or distort these facts. It may not have mattered. Trust was breaking down within and without the Administration. Betrayal had become the norm of the Oval Office, and culminated in 1973 with the Saturday Night Massacre, as Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the Watergate special prosecutor Archibal Cox. Richardson, refusing, resigned his cabinet post. In the end, Nixon took most of his own Administration down with him, including many White House aides, and replacement attorney general John Mitchell. The Presidency has yet to recover. |
Nixon for King! Oh, wait...he's dead, isn't he? Aw man, Nixon was cool. He was as unpredictible then as Yeltsin is today, but he didn't need no stinkin' vodka. Ruthless and sharp, he was a president with his own little secret-keeping organization and the cojones to do what he had to do, from bombing Cambodia to get rid of the NVA to using Government Agencies to take care of his extensive list of enemies to slapping around McGovern's mother. I think he shot George Wallace, too, but I can't be certain (his intelligencia shielded him from scrutiny and made it look like someone else did it). Nixon may have been corrupt as any Dickensian villian, but in the service of the United States, especially in the realm of foreign policy, he was the guy to have. At the Paris peace talks with North Vietnam, Secretary of State Henry Kissenger played good cop to Nixon's bad cop. Kissinger would go to the table insisting he was working for a madman and the Vietnamese had to bend a little, and when they didn't, Nixon bombed their little villages until they did. With this tactic, Nixon actually made some headway and got the U.S. out of the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Then Nixon opened the door to China, who didn't do that for NOBODY. Nixon knew what the Chinese were about, and it was their respect for a fellow closet tyrant that allowed him in. Nixon may have disgraced the Presidency, but despite all his faults domestically, he was our champion where we needed him. He may have been a corrupt, conniving, underhanded S.O.B., but he was ours. Until they got rid of him. |
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