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Major Hogwash

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11. Great thread, H20 Man!!
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:50 AM
Aug 2012

Watergate became a huge turning point in American history.
It was not just rumors and tabloid sensationalistic newspaper headlines that brought Nixon down, it was his own crazy, wild-eyed rants talking about breaking the law caught on audio tape!

So many millions of young Americans were affected by it that it literally turned this country upside down, with "the establishment" members of the day clearly in denial about just how big of a crook Nixon really was during his entire political career.

My grandfather was not very surprised by the news, though.
I talked to him about it in 1974, just after Nixon resigned from the White House.
Having lived through the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations, each rife with their own scandals, he said that the Republican party was the party of the rich . . and always has been!

Mitt Romney MUST release his income tax returns.

Or face going back to oblivion.

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