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In reply to the discussion: OK, Old Timers, I gotta say this: [View all]bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)13. There is deper detail known more immediately today
WG era was filtered by what the newsmedia - tomorrow's newspapers and 3 national news networks and various syndicated wire services - selected as important and shared to the country. It was not an era fraught with fierce partisanship or the NGO's that we have today. Today the political opposition to these hearings bring an ideological war and army against politicians adhering to rule of law. Nixon's transgressions remained an inside job, managed by insiders for the most part. Not so today. Partisanship is killing the country, and it's driven by money, privilege, and the quest for power because they fund the political organizations.
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you liked that bubblegum? It was always hard and broke into pieces too big to chew.
librechik
Sep 2019
#8
Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the break-in as "a third-rate burglary attempt"...
George II
Sep 2019
#19
Different times, different laws. This whole thing is way more important than some semen stain
ancianita
Sep 2019
#25
The Koch's, The Family, 1%, etc. had a plan ready to implement from the get go.
Ligyron
Sep 2019
#36
+1. Nixon would have survived were it not for cover up and that so many were tired of VN war.
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#32
I am wondering if both of them and the rest of the Trump cabal will defect to Russia.
TruckFump
Sep 2019
#47
Well Watergate is what Nixon got caught on. There was that crap where he interfered with the
yellowcanine
Sep 2019
#51
However, if you only watched they live fox House hearing, with chyrons, and were not real
empedocles
Sep 2019
#56