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At its most virulent, Watergate was a brazen and daring assault, led by Nixon himself, against the heart of American democracy: the Constitution, our system of free elections, the rule of law.
Wow, and ObamaFraudForgeryUsurperMuslinGate is 100 times worser, I read somewheres ...
Nixon's resignation restored my faith in America. It took too long, but the system worked, and we ran the bastard out of town.
America: We make mistakes, then we correct them, then we make new mistakes and then we correct those, and 40 years later it's a better country. It's messy but it works. I gave up advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Did you know he wrote 9 books after resigning?
The night he resigned, I was in Bathysphere, Md. or wherever it is, where I went to high school. I jumped in my car with a couple buddies and drove down to the White House immediately. What a scene, the only totally spontaneous demonstration I ever saw: thousands of people there who nobody invited, horns honking, wine bottles waving in the air, and a flood of pure joy that washed right over the White House fences and into the Oval Office. An unforgettable night.
But if Nixon could have ordered out the military and declared himself president for life, I have no doubt in the world that he would have instantly done it. The president is the most powerful man in the world, but he can't do that. He can not do that.
I looked at that, wild uncouth stoned-out hippie that I was, and said, "Y'know what? This country ain't so bad after all!"
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