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global1

(26,507 posts) Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:33 PM Aug 2017

How Did So Many Watergate Figures Wind Up In Jail?.....

Why didn't Nixon pardon them?

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How Did So Many Watergate Figures Wind Up In Jail?..... (Original Post) global1 Aug 2017 OP

nixon resigned and was no longer president JI7 Aug 2017 #1

Too late. elleng Aug 2017 #2

By the time of them had been convicted Nixon was already out of office. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #3

Was he really that bad? sarah FAILIN Aug 2017 #5

Nixon was very bad. He was deeply dishonest and corrupt. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #6

And that is my point sarah FAILIN Aug 2017 #8

Because, in the end it's every man/woman for themselves in Trumpland...except family. n/t CincyDem Aug 2017 #4

Because pardoning co-conspirators was too unseemly even for Nixon. n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2017 #7

JI7

(93,905 posts)

1. nixon resigned and was no longer president

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:34 PM

Aug 2017

elleng

(141,926 posts)

2. Too late.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:41 PM

Aug 2017

The Velveteen Ocelot

(131,233 posts)

3. By the time of them had been convicted Nixon was already out of office.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:43 PM

Aug 2017

If he'd pardoned those who were charged and/or convicted while he was still president, even more shit would have hit the fan. Nixon was already in such deep crap that he didn't dare.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)

5. Was he really that bad?

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:20 AM

Aug 2017

I'm serious. Given what I know is possible in this Trump situation, I'd much rather have Nixon and KEEP him rather than deal with this insanity. The choice of Nixon or Trump would be easy. I'm sure Nixon wasn't the only POTUS to overstep his bounds and the way Trump is going he will start another world war.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(131,233 posts)

6. Nixon was very bad. He was deeply dishonest and corrupt.

Reply to sarah FAILIN (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:34 AM

Aug 2017

However, he was neither stupid nor insane - although he is said to have started drinking heavily and wandering around the WH talking to the portraits of dead presidents as the Watergate investigations closed in on him.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)

8. And that is my point

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:44 PM

Aug 2017

I don't think he was insane and that is what we have now.

I really don't think he would sell us out to the Russians either.

CincyDem

(7,412 posts)

4. Because, in the end it's every man/woman for themselves in Trumpland...except family. n/t

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:16 AM

Aug 2017

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

7. Because pardoning co-conspirators was too unseemly even for Nixon. n/t

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:40 AM

Aug 2017

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