From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:51:16 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery

> At 09:09 PM 6/2/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
[...]
> >
> >I don't recall the timetable, but he *ran* on ending the war.  It was
his
> >principal campaign promise.  And the first that he broke.
>
> And probably why all the anti-war people hate him so much.  Watergate is
> just an excuse...they hated him already.  Right?

I'm not going to continue this.  Political discussions generally bore me
and I'm pretty sure this one is boring most WSFAns.  But, just to answer
this, I personally have detested Nixon since I was a kid and heard his
"Checkers speech" on the radio.  Those who followed his career since the
late '40s disliked him for far longer.  He was always slimey, always
willing to sacrifice principal for the expediency of the moment, always
willing to go the McCarthy route and brand his opponants "Reds" or "fellow
travelers" even when he knew very well they were not.

Nixon was a personally insecure man who spent his life seeking and getting
Power, but who never had a firm idea of what to do with that power -- other
than to hurt his enemies.  I suppose we should be grateful for that; he was
well on his way to totally subverting the US government by 1974.

Comparisons with Clinton are wholly false and made solely to attempt to
obfuscate Nixon's actual record.

--Ted White