absolutely. They should be chilling, as well as abhorrent to most of our sensibilities (Reply #9)

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bigtree (78,468 posts)

9. absolutely. They should be chilling, as well as abhorrent to most of our sensibilities

. . .and ideals about how government should operate.

I would note that Johnson's tapes were appalling. Nixon's should make many of those coarse and anti-democratic and anti-constitutional and sometimes outright racist and bigoted discussions sound like a society tea party in comparison.

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The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 [View all]	H2O Man	Jul 2014	OP
As I was posting this,	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#1
Good kids indeed.	panader0	Jul 2014	#8
Nothing like it	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#11
K & R nt	Guy Whitey Corngood	Jul 2014	#2
Thanks!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#12
K and R. Did you hear John Dean on NPR this am? n/t	Smarmie Doofus	Jul 2014	#3
I didn't.	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#13
I was surprised by how energetic he is.	Smarmie Doofus	Jul 2014	#19
What do you think	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#27
My image of him is frozen in time: '73 Watergate hearings.	Smarmie Doofus	Jul 2014	#32
Thanks H2O Man	lovemydog	Jul 2014	#4
One of my	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#14
The nature of Nixon is an endlessly interesting thing.	hifiguy	Jul 2014	#5
Right.	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#15
One of the most despicable things Nixon did	hifiguy	Jul 2014	#31
Yes, I think Nixon is a fascinating subject--on LBJ...	WI_DEM	Jul 2014	#6
To this day	hifiguy	Jul 2014	#7
absolutely. They should be chilling, as well as abhorrent to most of our sensibilities	bigtree	Jul 2014	#9
True!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#16
The Nixon Tapes: 1971 -1972	crazyward	Jul 2014	#10
Sounds good!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#21
So many bad things sprouted from Nixon's corrupted, toxic swamp.	Uncle Joe	Jul 2014	#17
Indeed, they did.	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#22
Nixon was one sick fu*k of a President.	Major Hogwash	Jul 2014	#18
Very well-said!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#24
PBS' History Detectives	MinM	Jul 2014	#20
Very good!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#25
"I have more books by or about Nixon...." I have over 80, if we count the topic of Watergate. Plus,	WinkyDink	Jul 2014	#23
Ah, now I feel better!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#26
I'm Class of '71; my 19th birthday was Election Day '68. When I was 10, I quit Girl Scouts because	WinkyDink	Jul 2014	#33
Very interesting!	H2O Man	Jul 2014	#35
Heh--Irish here, too! PA coal-cracker (Up the Mollies!), and my Sicilian great-grandparents dropped	WinkyDink	Aug 2014	#40
I think the Anna Chennault Affair of 1968 is the key to Watergate...	First Speaker	Jul 2014	#28
I was thunderstruck the first time I read the Anna Chennault story	hifiguy	Jul 2014	#30
Rumor has it that what "W-gate" was about was covering up details of Dallas '63. I find it	WinkyDink	Jul 2014	#34
Pat Buchanan has new book out on Nixon...	KoKo	Jul 2014	#29
Nixon was a protege`of none other than	hootinholler	Jul 2014	#36
Nixon was a saint compared to that line of 'Texans.'	Octafish	Jul 2014	#37
Surely the Baron would have been the mentor?	hootinholler	Jul 2014	#38
Nixon remembered what Willie Sutton said...	Octafish	Aug 2014	#39

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