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Iwillnevergiveup

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Mon Aug 11, 2014, 12:07 PM Aug 2014

Woodward: Nixon was driven by "hatred" & "personal revenge"

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Forty years ago, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story for the Washington Post about the members of President Nixon's staff playing a role in breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Woodward and Bernstein recently reflected on the Watergate story on CBS' "Face the Nation":
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Nixon was apparently snubbed Iwillnevergiveup Aug 2014 #1

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
1. Nixon was apparently snubbed
Mon Aug 11, 2014, 01:37 PM
Aug 2014

by colleagues at the law firm where he practiced after he lost the CA governorship. He complained he was never invited to any of their country clubs to play golf. Brought these feelings of resentment into office with him as POTUS, and felt entitled to do whatever it took to assuage his hurt feelings.

This was a pretty good interview for a Sunday morning talk show.

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