Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Will Break Laws To Achieve Goals

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Some things never change.

The parallels between the Bush and Nixon administrations are eerily familiar. Both bullied the press, were/are highly secretive, obsessed over leaks, engage(d) in massive cover-ups and quickly branded aides as disloyal if they dared to raise questions about the President’s policies.

The Washington Post, the very paper that is credited with forcing Nixon’s resignation, summed it up perfectly in a Nov. 25, 2003 story on the similarities between the two administrations.

“Bush… structures his White House much as Nixon did. Nixon governed largely with four other men: Henry A. Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles Colson. This is not unlike the "iron triangle" of aides who led Bush's campaign and the handful of underlings now -- Cheney, chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr., national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and communications director Dan Bartlett -- who are in on most top decisions. Nixon essentially ended the tradition of powerful Cabinets in favor of a few powerful White House aides -- a model Bush has followed.”

“The most striking similarity is in the area of secrecy and what Nixon staffers called "managing the news." Nixon created the White House Office of Communications, the office that has become the center of Bush's vaunted "message discipline."

Unfortunately, neither the Washington Post nor any other mainstream newspaper or magazine in this country will ever be credited with exposing another Watergate.


The sad reality these days, however, is that it takes a scandal such as a president receiving oral sex in the Oval Office by an intern to qualify for above the fold headlines and impeachment. Leading the country into a war under false pretenses? Sorry, not juicy enough

[whistle]

1. Watergate also proved that power hungry people will go to any ...

...extreme even in a country like the United States of America which has a constitution and a bill of rights to protect its citizens against tyranny, lies and injustice to gain greater power and wealth. Richard Nixon was the lowest kind of slime-ball politician who was without morals and ethics who surrounded himself with like-minded individuals which he used to cover his own actions which came direct from his black sick mind.

Those who want to honor Richard Nixon as one of America's great presidents are not only seeking to erase all memory of Nixon's depraved conduct about the Vietnam War, but they also must rely upon historians never uncovering much of the truth of Richard Nixons presidency, especially those missing 18 minutes of secretly recorded White House tapes.

[rkc3]

2. And we've learned that anyone trying to stop a republican president is

disloyal to the office and should be run out of town.