Reply #54: The Media was more liberal yes but DID discredit Watergate at first...

[demodonkey]

seemed to me like the tide turned AFTER Tricky Dicky's 2nd inaug... I remember how divided everything seemed, especially up to the 72 election. After he got in the second time, things seemed to start to turn. But again, I was a kid so maybe I saw things from a different perspective.

I remember that the GOP did succeed in defining McGovern and he really was dismissed as a serious candidate. After the '72 election though, people saw things differently.

You are right that Nixon was nothing as bad as ** though. At least he had a bit of a social conscience and believed in helping the poor (at least little), etc. Unlike the "Compassionate Conservatives" we have now.