This is more tension-filled than Watergate was...

[Oldem]

2. This deserves at least one response, and I respectfully disagree.

Nixon was President of the United States. I was an avid follower of the Watergate debacle as it unfolded, and we forget how many people Nixon and his henchmen damaged or destroyed with their "dirty tricks." This current creep's misdeeds are widely publicized, now. They are horrific and disgusting. But he hasn't yet been, and I pray will never be, in a position to subvert the Constitution. Nixon was a mean, mean man. He tried to steal the election from somebody who could never have beaten him, anyway. That's what was at the root of Watergate. Nixon was guilty of crimes against his nation. His admission of guilt was legally a part of his acceptance of Ford's pardon. The current creep's misdeeds and possible crimes are many; we may never know the depth of either man's guilt. But Nixon was in a position to take down the democracy, and he tried to do it.