Speaking of anniversaries, 35 years ago today Richard Nixon's buddies broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel complex in Washington, D.C., to help them get political intelligence, to win an election that was a shoo-in anyway, and was ultimately a landslide. I distinctly remember a radio news report about it, perhaps even a day later. A totally unremarkable story, "a third-rate burglary," that was perhaps the closing item on the hour's news.
And so the lying and the cover-up did in the presidency of Nixon, just before a looming impeachment trial.
Will anyone believe that some 14 or 15 years later a sitting president was not impeached for circumventing the will of Congress to subsidize illegal guerrillas in Nicaragua?
Furthermore, will anyone believe, 50 years from now, that a succeeding sitting president was impeached (and acquitted) essentially for lying about his private sex life?
To say nothing of a current president carrying on a misdirected war on basic civil liberties in the name of freedom?
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
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