Reply #5: No way. I lived through it

[Stargleamer]

and it seems ridiculous to say it was ripping or could have ripped the country apart. How? What specific disaster would befell the country if he had been prosecuted and done some time? The few loyal Republicans he had left would have ripped their hair out? When Nixon left his poll ratings were rock bottom. This nation could survive any small measure of justice, I would think.