On this day, October 21, 1973, this was the front page of the New York Times:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Nixon Discharges Cox for Definace; Abolishes Watergate Task Force; Richardson and Ruckelshaus Out

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[Vinca]

1. Imagine. As it turns out Nixon wasn't even the worst president.

[Best_man23]

2. The BBC Documentary on Watergate

The timeline leading up to the Saturday Night Massacre starts at 55:30.

[tavernier]

3. Republicans already said they made a big mistake

when they didn’t stand up for Nixon and they will never let that happen again. And that’s exactly what is happening with January 6.

[Hekate]

4. I never imagined a worse POTUS than Nixon, but they just keep coming

[niyad]

6. During the nixon nightmare, one of my poli-sci professors said, "You do not

believe this now, but one day there will be a president worse than nixon." I should ask him if he ever imagined t**** and the current insanity of that party.

[JI7]

9. Reagan, W Bush , and Trump were all much worse than Nixon

[Hekate]

13. Nixon was first, though -- and in the end, we thought the good guys won. I rejoiced...

I still have the newspaper. “The Constitution is Whole.”

I had no idea what was to come. Did you?

[marble falls]

5. And we all know how well that worked out for him.

[Champp]

7. Republicans have a long criminal history

They disdain honesty, integrity, honor, decency. Sick and sad.

[pazzyanne]

11. Added to that is lack of human compassion and a conscience. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

8. The whole tussle is about the public good vs. private interests

Concentration of economic and financial power. Private property rights. Privilege. All sides of the same coin.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Nixon was the snake head we could see. The GOP which enabled his excesses and the hidden network of

conservative patrons has continued to corrupt government and public perception. The Dark Money we hear about, which the MSM never actually documents, was the real danger and still is. Joe Manchin is a current tool of theirs as are the 6 conservative members of the US Supreme Court. As we are discovering there is a vast RW network afoot with nearly infinite cash to use steering the GOP further into the Dark Side towards single party rule and the end of democracy.

I remember asking why the Watergate Committee didn't follow the money then. Like the Warren Commission before it the Watergate investigation was carefully steered away from asking deeper questions: questions like who paid to enable the election dirty tricks and who had a larger interest in the outcome.

[pazzyanne]

12. Excellent post!!!