That the coverup is almost always worse than the crime itself. Many since Nixon have learned the truth of this. Politicians from former President Bill Clinton to Congressman Gary Condit to more recently Cong. Larry Craig.
2007-12-08 08:33:09
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answered by Q&A Queen 7
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The main lesson?
As Michael Corleone said in "The Godfather Part II":
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Nixon kept his friends a wee bit too close, but it was his enemies -essentially the old school, hardline Goldwater faction of the Republican Party- that got him in the end. By 'stonewalling the b-stards' and completely ignoring his own party's agenda in favour of his own. Even with everything that happened during the Watergate scandal- how it all came out in the media, how his cronies all turned on one another in the end- Richard Milhouse was well and truly f-cked when, about a week before his resignation, Barry Goldwater walked right into the Oval Office and said, "Mr President, we can no longer support you. You HAVE to resign, for the good of the Party."
2007-12-10 00:28:21
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answered by Jesus Murphy 3
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The lesson from the Nixon years is the one from the Harding years which was neglected by Richard Milhous Nixon: You can't give high office to your friends and your campaign team. You have to find the best talent available to fill the slots in the Executive Office of the President and the cabinet.
Harding learned that lesson after six months in office. By then it was too late. William Jefferson Clinton never learned it either. Despite his overwhelming intelligence, he filled the slots in the West Wing with campaign staffers and cronies and it quickly led him into one scandal after another.
2007-12-08 08:03:34
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answered by desertviking_00 7
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i admire A. yet, in case you have an activity, i might say E. The President is concern to regulations and policies like something people. we ought to stop permitting what maximum of scream approximately as "unlawful" acts. We drove Nixon out because of the fact of it, yet take a seat returned and did no longer something on Clinton, or Bush.
2016-10-01 04:21:20
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answered by quellette 4
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The MAIN lesson we learned was that Nixon was not a crook.
Maybe a paranoid, vulgar, deceitful, greedy, slimey criminal, but...."not a crook".
2007-12-08 06:57:20
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answered by -RKO- 7
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Don't eat chocolate chip cookies from the girls that walk the dogs.
2007-12-08 07:39:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't tape anything.
2007-12-08 07:00:35
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answered by Anonymous
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don't fool the people.
2007-12-08 13:00:04
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answered by Anonymous
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