"That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me," Richard Nixon
Unfortunately it's also a burden the country will bear for all of it's history.
President's and EGO - what's the deal?
posted at 11:48 PM
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Still, Nixon was better than Bush. I bet the Bush people learned some wrong lessons from Nixon though, especially since so many came from his administration.
12/29/2006 04:48:00 PM
Bush has said (I wish I could find the reference) that Nixon was his personal ideological hero and the only thing he ever felt Nixon did wrong was not stand behind failed members of his administration.
Nixon better than Bush?
That's a hard call if you were around in Nixon's time with your eyes open, so far it's neck and neck, the difference being the Congress that has enabled Bush.
12/29/2006 04:53:00 PM
God Bush is almost like a Nixon 2.0, without the constraints of congress and what still seems to be a lap dog media.
12/29/2006 08:23:00 PM
I think Damien hits it right on the head here...
I would think Nixon was better than Bush in one way, and that would be that he tried to get us out of a war instead of getting us into wars... but the rest of the way, they seem pretty similar.
I was around in Nixon's time, but my eyes were not open. I was a hormonal teenager living in a conservative household, and I tended to take my dad's views on most things... thus, I was sure Nixon was not guilty and that the bad old Democrats were ganging up on him. (Once I got several more years under my belt and once I left my hometown and went to a left-oriented university, I had an awakening, but until then I thought Nixon was a good president).
12/30/2006 01:12:00 PM
I do need to add that while Nixon talked about "peace with honor" he also ordered secret bombings, etc. Maybe Nixon isn't that much better than Bush after all...
12/30/2006 01:14:00 PM
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