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{weblog_name} - NIXON RESIGNATION – 35 YEARS LATER
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Story By Joseph Velisek Thirty-five years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, the one word Watergate is still synonymous with the scandal that forced him to that decision, as well as being the yardstick used to measure the seriousness of any new and future political scandal. Is it worse than Watergate? The persistent fascination is that two years of a White House cover-up over a “third rate” burglary led to the downfall of the leader of the free world—who happened to be a man that many Americans loathed. The investigation also gave the American public—and the world—a glimpse inside the Nixon White House and into the psyche of Richard Nixon, his pettiness, his thin skin and need for secrecy, as well as the inadequacies of the men who surrounded him. At times, the Watergate saga was much like watching… read more