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The Velveteen Ocelot

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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.

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How Did So Many Watergate Figures Wind Up In Jail?..... [View all] 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