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Jarqui

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8. The North Vietnamese might have been able to blackmail

Reply to rufus dog (Reply #7)

Wed May 10, 2017, 05:01 PM

May 2017

Nixon to gain some favors. But the favors they might have gained would have been fairly limited. It was just North Vietnam after all.

Russia being able to blackmail the President of the US can call in massive favors. That's considerably different.

The other key difference was the GOP did not control congress in 1974.

So the similarities have real limitations.

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You can't make this stuff up [View all] jberryhill May 2017 OP

History is repeating itself to a degree Jarqui May 2017 #1

The burglary was to get the tape Nixon thought Johnson had rufus dog May 2017 #7

The North Vietnamese might have been able to blackmail Jarqui May 2017 #8

agreed rufus dog May 2017 #9

Really? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #13

I'd also like substantiation of that claim jberryhill May 2017 #21

The theory is Larry O'Brien had info on Nixon passed on from Johnson rufus dog May 2017 #23

Your link states no such theory jberryhill May 2017 #24

It was the cover up that did him in tavalon May 2017 #25

It was specifically to bug the phones and photograph documents in the DNC office, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #27

Message to the American people! Laf.La.Dem. May 2017 #2

Except that Kissinger was considered a friend malaise May 2017 #3

So was Trump jberryhill May 2017 #4

Exactly. nt pnwmom May 2017 #14

But... mzteaze May 2017 #6

They had a cordial relationship, as two diplomatic people dealing with each other. pnwmom May 2017 #15

Yep, Dj Vu! n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #5

War criminal n/t hibbing May 2017 #10

Some type of vortex or time warp? kentuck May 2017 #11

If you DID make it up Nevernose May 2017 #12

He and old hank both need to be in lock up madokie May 2017 #16

One BIG Difference: Democrats Controlled Congress while Nixon was President. berni_mccoy May 2017 #17

In Nixon's final days (daze?) he allegedly roamed the WH halls Fritz Walter May 2017 #18

Oh well, you can't blame little Donny for wanting to re-live his youth. TrollBuster9090 May 2017 #19

It's too late for woodstock... jberryhill May 2017 #22

Back then the dems were in congress and that means everything. It is NOT the same for that reason. BigmanPigman May 2017 #20

Dumbest bastard perhaps MFM008 May 2017 #26