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hifiguy

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17. i followed the Watergate hearings on the radio.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 01:26 PM
Aug 2014

I was a teenager working at a car wash. I still remember my reaction and that of the whole country the day Butterfield casually let the tapes cat out of the bag. The nationwide "WTF???" was thunderous.

Nixon was truly a man without a conscience. He even lied to his own family until the very end.

will record it but when I see Nixon I want to do what Hunter S Thompson did randys1 Aug 2014 #1
Ha! H2O Man Aug 2014 #4
... PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #7
IIRC he wanted to drive to the White House and truebluegreen Aug 2014 #10
That story is definitely true. The one about the bag of rats. hifiguy Aug 2014 #15
I agree totally. truebluegreen Aug 2014 #26
Thanks. elleng Aug 2014 #2
You are welcome! H2O Man Aug 2014 #5
Nixon didn't like Jews, as several of the tapes show... PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #3
He hated most people, H2O Man Aug 2014 #6
I do not know what the proper psychological term would be for Nixon hifiguy Aug 2014 #16
...including women. Octafish Aug 2014 #22
Jews, Af.Americans and Liberals. JaneyVee Aug 2014 #24
Those Senators were household names pscot Aug 2014 #8
I was not at all surprised by the Watergate mess... Punkingal Aug 2014 #9
i followed the Watergate hearings on the radio. hifiguy Aug 2014 #17
WHAT AN SOB! elleng Aug 2014 #11
The documentary H2O Man Aug 2014 #12
Indeed, Man. elleng Aug 2014 #13
I watched that and started hating him all over again Voltaire Aug 2014 #14
In more ways than one. hifiguy Aug 2014 #19
Fall damnit, fall! Aroo! NuclearDem Aug 2014 #18
I saw Nixon more for being a man of his times...... dmosh42 Aug 2014 #20
Hope it talks about the ''Hard Hat Riot'' Octafish Aug 2014 #21
Rick Perlstein's book "Nixonland" hifiguy Aug 2014 #23
I agree...his '68 campaign is the template BeyondGeography Aug 2014 #28
The best thing about it is that Perlstein hifiguy Aug 2014 #30
Guy's a real pillar of society. Octafish Aug 2014 #29
Dear old Prescott Bush. hifiguy Aug 2014 #31
It was awesome in the revelation of his actual words hearing them coming from his mouth bigtree Aug 2014 #25
One thing about Nixon puzzles me; I don't know if anyone knows the answer eShirl Aug 2014 #27
That really is the bedrock question hifiguy Aug 2014 #32
Growing up, his family lost two boys to illness. Octafish Aug 2014 #33
His mother was H2O Man Aug 2014 #34
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