A 41-year trip in the Wayback Machine to June 17, 1972--

[Jackpine Radical]

The Watergate breakin.

We have advanced so far since that day!

[Arugula Latte]

1. Is that photo from the presser when Nixon said: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"?

[femmocrat]

8. I think he was saying, "I am not a crook."

Well, I think it was "your president is not a crook", but that misquote makes a better caption.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. "The wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in America"

Nixon's election advertisement.

shown on Mad Men last night.

[hfojvt]

2. We have

now we have color photography

at least until the NSA takes my Kodachrome away.

[graham4anything]

3. We know now that Watergate was to hide that Nixon sabatoged LBJ we also know, in retrospect

that the Nixon team sabatoged LBJ to stop him from running and winning in 1968

In retrospect, all that protest did was to elect Richard Nixon and they took Nixon down to bring in the Bush's.

so lets tear down Obama to bring in the BushPaulfamilyinc.

yeah, that's the ticket.

oye.

[hootinholler]

10. I wish you would stop making shit up. n/t

[graham4anything]

11. It's my OPINION and no amount of anyone saying otherwise will change MY opinion.

but there is a direct line between the democratic president of 1960-1968, and what followed.

Any reasonable look at 1968 shows HHH was going to be the nominee even if Bobby was alive,
and HHH was a much weaker candidate than LBJ who knew how to beat Nixon and would have.

Nixon got rid of the one person who could beat him in 1968 and that was LBJ.

The MCCarthy fans were NOT going quietly, and they were quite bitter at Bobby for entering the race
(much like the core Howard Dean fans were quite unhappy in 2004).
A calm reading of 1968 shows that.

And HHH was a super nice person, (I met him myself a few times), but he had all the baggage of LBJ, but had ZERO of anything
that was positive, whereas LBJ had all those positives and had the power to beat Nixon and Wallace(who receieved 47 electoral votes).

I believe Wallace would not have received one electoral vote had LBJ been in the race, and LBJ would have prevailed in the electoral college.

Yes, it would have been dirty, but Nixon got LBJ out of the race, because the war ended in 1968 had LBJ not been sabatoged.

Six long years later, the official end of the war. Long after the 1972 reelection of Nixon.

(and Ford covered it up too for as long as it could, til the info was later revealed long after Nixon died.)

[hootinholler]

12. I meant the tear down Obama because we all want Bushpaul stuff.

I Still don't know why LBJ didn't prosecute Nixon for what they did.

Oh, your subject seems to indicate some confusion between opinion and fact on your part.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Well, THAT certainly aged me......sigh.

btw...Nixon pics should come with a warning, pls.
I STILL taste bile when I see that man.

[intaglio]

5. I just visualise him

with a ski jumper coming off his nose

[L0oniX]

6. So old school.

[Berlum]

7. Americans may have advanced in some respects, but the Republicans have degenerated

...to a stunningly debased level of ethical, moral, social, and political turpitude. As is painfully obvious.