The Almost Scoop on Nixon’s ‘Treason’

[yurbud]

7. official DC including LBJ gave Nixon a pass on this, but then he was chased out of office for

WATERGATE?

Let's see, treason that extended the Vietnam War by five years to win a potentially close election versus supposedly covering up a burglary to win an election he had sewn up already.

It is hard to believe he didn't piss off the rich and powerful in some way that hurt their pocketbook like dialing down the Cold War with SALT and opening China, or being too nosy about the Bay of Pigs stuff that was code for the Kennedy assassination.

What seemed to be incredible about Nixon like several other presidents, was his whole career he was a servant of the wealthy, but once elected president, some concern for the greater good seemed to infect him. And for that, he had to go.