nixon and the watergate issue?

Question

can someone give me some details. and perhaps some of your personal input and comments on the situation. thanks. also back when clinton was president do you think you were better off (finacially) back then or now with bush?

Answer 1

what about nixon and the watergate issue? He tried to cover for his staff and got forced out of office, by the work of hillary clinton. She was one of the prosecutors back then. In clinton's presidency, I had more money on hand, but bill let Al-Queda attack World Trade center 1993, US embassy Africa, and the USS cole, and did nothing about these attacks. So I am safer now, because bush actually DID something in response to the terrorism.

Answer 2

For 18 months they managed to circle the wagons, according to MSNBC pundit Pat Buchanon who was Nixon's speechwriter or gopher at the time.
A secluded and a religiously deluded man with serious personal issues and personal ambitions took the typical narrow minded right-wing view of matters before him, thinking everyone was about to stab him in the back, tricky dick nixon lowered the bar far enough that street gang rules prevailed in Washington and especially in the backrooms of the 1972-'74 White House.

The COVER-UP is what did Nixon in, he was desperate and heading for the deep end and could have instigated a civil war if he decided to command the Military to protect their Commander in Chief from the People.

Answer 3

Nixon was afraid that the DNC had dirt on him (as Nixon did have an unsavory past) so they broke into the HQ at the Watergate to see what they had.

The break-in was foiled and thus began the long downhill spiral of guilt, recrimination and duplicity.

I hadn't like Nixon since 1968. My mother hadn't like Nixon since 1948! But as revelation built on revelation, it turned out to be the most corrupt administration in the 20th Century and potentially the most corrupt ever (we are still uncertain where Grant's fits in)

Answer 4

It wasn't watergate, and it wasn't the coverup---it was the creeps themselves. Many unforgettable events, and quotes--here's an example--when Jeb McGruder (who later tried to kill himself) patted G. Gordon Liddy on the shoulder to show sympathy, Liddy said to him:
"If you ever touch me again, I'll rip your arm off and beat you to death with it."

This (watergate) was a horrifying experience because it played out live on television, and it was happening ON TOP OF the Viet Nam War, when men were getting drafted and sent to war. The American public was forced to watch the "hearings" and see every creep in Washington paraded in front of a congressional committee, and spill their guts about what the government was really doing, including taping the President's phone calls. Every character in the white house, and Nixon's campaign committee were horrifying, each stranger than the last. Weirdly enough, all this happened when Nixon had had many great policies and lots of foreign diplomacy successes. He also, sadly, remained, a pathetic sympathetic character, surrounded by a loving family (Nixon was 1,000% better in every way than either of the Bushes, and his family was too!). But it was a huge relief when he resigned. The American public was extremely disillusioned by the end of this nightmare - no one emerged as a hero, all ended up as disgusting. The "process" was damaged for all time. There are many theories about the break-in, one recent one being that it was to retrieve "blackmail" nude photos of Maureen Dean (the gorgeous wife of John Dean) that the Democrats had. But everyone related to Washington in those days was horrifying--we had believed in them, but no longer did---we knew more than we ever thought possible. It was on the same "gut" level of disgust that you feel seeing the internet pedophiles show up on the "dateline nbc to catch a predator" show.
Who DID the people think they were kidding?
2 great movies about the scandal:
ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN
NIXON
and, Dan Rather outlined everything in his book, "The Palace Guard."