Reply #3: Quick Perception Correction

[ThomWV]

I won't argue your point but there is an inaccuracy in a small part of what you said that you might want to know about.

Your statement "it was the Republicans who wanted Nixon out" isn't exactly true. I believe it was Bernstein who made the statement, and I don't recall his exact words, but the truth of the matter is that it was a group of Republicans, led by Barry Goldwater with others, who went to Nixon and told him there was no choice but that he resign. He had to do it, it was not a matter of those Republicans wanting him to resign. I am sure that Goldwater was savy enough to know that the stain of Nixon's resignation in disgrace on the Republican party would be so great that would ruin his own Presidential ambitions. However even that evil son of a bitch (Goldwater was as hawkish as his one-time running mate, retired Air Force General Curtis Lemay) held the good of the country above his personal ambition. Not a chance of that treasonous bastard in the White House now stepping down or doing anything else for the good of the nation.

That's all.