Anyone else think Nixon was treated unfairly?

It's like hundred dollar handshakes in recruiting, nobody is clean but rules are still rules.

You have to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew. Getting away with it, or making sure someone else gets busted, is political. It is politics after all

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Compare Nixon's Watergate to some of the scandals of HRC and Obama that the media swept completely under the rug, and what he did just really doesn't seem like a big deal (I still don't think it that bad even without this frame of reference).

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Nixon actually ordered the break-in at the DNC. That is pretty important.

"The transcripts depict a campaign finance scandal that dwarfs the current controversy in Washington (10/21/97). Mr. Nixon, the statesman who opened doors to China and the Soviet Union, also sold ambassadorships for $250,000. He and his aides shook down business executives and labor leaders for millions of dollars. The President also kept a large stash of diverted campaign cash as a political slush fund at the White House.

On July 25, 1972, he asked about its size. Told that $300,000 was on hand, Mr. Nixon seemed disappointed. ''That isn't a hell of a lot,'' he said.

The transcripts show Mr. Nixon, weeks or months earlier in the crisis than was previously known, talking seriously about destroying the White House tapes, resigning the Presidency, and facing the looming threat of impeachment. Some excerpts from the tapes, which are housed at the National Archives, were published this week by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, which made their own transcriptions."

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Anyone else think Nixon was treated unfairly?

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Given the crap pulled by the Clinton's and Odumbo......without a doubt...he was treated unfairly. Having said that, he was rightly driven out of office...but so should Clinton and Obama have been.

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scandals of HRC and Obama

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What tha...? Are you sure about this?

I just heard Shelia Jackson Lee say Obama had a scandal-free presidency

Not really no. People had integrity in those days. These days, politicians doing dishonest things is unfortunately business as usual. Sadly that was practically a reason people were giving to vote for Hillary over Trump

OP, I was alive at the time and watched it going down.

Nixon got totally railroaded.

Other world leaders at the time thought the same thing. They considered Watergate a relatively minor issue and laughed at the media storm that developed over it.

But the liberals and their associates in the media HATED Nixon, going back to the Whitaker Chambers/Alger Hiss matter.

Nixon was an extremely capable guy, more so than most of those that succeeded him.

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Anyone else think Nixon was treated unfairly?

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In present day context, yes. What the Nixon administration was mild compared to blatant compromise of national security under the Obama admin.

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what he did just really doesn't seem like a big deal

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What he did was send people into Democratic headquarters as burglars to steal strategy papers in the run up to the election. That's bad. He's a farking thief and a burglar.

I can see why a young person might be confused. In the run up to this election, electronic thieves broke into Democratic computers to steal strategy papers. Yet as of this point, no one has been outed as the thief.

Just wait and watch. This will ultimately be found to be very similar.

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Compare Nixon's Watergate to some of the scandals of HRC and Obama that the media swept completely under the rug, and what he did just really doesn't seem like a big deal (I still don't think it that bad even without this frame of reference).

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Hillary's email scandal coverup with the destroying of subpoenaed documents and the lying to congress was as bad or worse than Watergate.

Obama's friends in the IRS committed the same sins as what the articles of impeachment for Nixon were exposing.

The shady deals for BHO and HRC with the Justice Dept AG's Holder and Lynch were beyond comprehension. Never in my life have I heard an AG just say were not going to enforce that...