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In reply to the discussion: Tom Brokaw is an asshole. Just said on Andrea Mitchel's show there is not enough grounds for [View all]FormerDittoHead
(5,155 posts)I spend 3 fucking minutes on a right wing TV show and then I had to go chasing this bullshit down.
AVOID RIGHT WING MEDIA!
Brokaw has it so fucking wrong.
If you look at his interview:
https://www.today.com/video/tom-brokaw-talks-impeachment-and-fall-of-richard-nixon-his-new-book-72241221688
He says the democrats today don't have the "clarity" or the smoking gun that they with Nixon, rather, he goes on, the Democrats don't have "the goods" on this President"...
1) BROKAW MUST HAVE AMNESIA.
I was only a teenager at the time, but I remember MONTHS AND MONTHS of hearings. Nixon didn't prevent any of his people from testifying in front of Congress (Senate).
It should be realized that it was only DAYS after the tapes were finally listened to that Nixon lost all his support on "the hill" BUT by that point Nixon was no worse off than he was the day before, as it was the HEARINGS that made things very clear to even this teenagers.
2) BROKAW MUST NOT BE PAYING ATTENTION.
Just that redacted "summary" of that phone call is "the goods". Everything else paints a 3D HD picture...