Watergate: The Hidden History

[Major Hogwash]

22. Wow, the same thing happened with my dad.

He also said that Nixon was so crooked that he couldn't sell him a used car.
But, after Watergate, my dad was disillusioned about what this country stood for.
He was a World War II veteran, and he started questioning what the hell he fought for.
He questioned everything the federal government was doing more often as time went on.
He hated Ford with a passion for pardoning Nixon, and said he was just "a party man", but that he was as stupid as a doorstop.
He said that the only reason they replaced Agnew with Ford was because they saw Nixon's impeachment coming down the road the year before and nobody could stand the thought of Agnew becoming President.
He said that the only reason they chose Ford was because he had a clean background and would do what he was told to do.
He was a figurehead.

And he thought Reagan was also a figurehead, just a placeholder for photo ops.
To a certain extent, so was George H. W. Bush.
And his son, George W. Bush, was definitely just a figurehead.
That dumb S.O.B. couldn't find his way out of a public restroom without a green electric "EXIT" sign over the door.