Comments on: Nixon died for Mark Felt’s sins

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 17:35:56 +0000

Dean’s book “Worse than Watergate” is a useful collection of reasons why the country was insane to re-elect the guy. Dean’s latest Findlaw column suggests Felt (Deep Throat) was wrong about various things … a good lesson respecting trusting sources that is useful these days.

By: David Lawrence

David Lawrence — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:53:45 +0000

The sad truth is most people today have no idea what Watergate was about and it seems the revisionists are winning.

Small wonder. In many ways, the current administration is more Nixonian than Nixon’s. He never had the gall to try to send Woodward and Bernstein to jail, after all.

I’m particulary baffled by Buchanan’s bizzare ramblings on Southeast Asia. The holocaust he refers to primarily in Cambodia not Vietnam. Cambodia was destabilized by the secret and illegal extension of the war there; a strong argument could be made that the blood spilled there is on the hands of Richard Nixon.

By: Christopher Edwards

Christopher Edwards — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:00:48 +0000

Ben Stein and Limbaugh are also running around parroting the Khmer Rouge line. In fact, I read in Ben Stein’s piece (in National Review or some such) were he wondered allowed apparently without irony, “Do you even remember what Watergate was about” and that it was a non-scandel about nothing and that really Nixon should be remembered for China! Wow, talk about political blinders…

By: Rolando J. Mendoza

Rolando J. Mendoza — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:26:54 +0000

Your description of Nixon sound similar to George W. Bush. I see an impeachment coming.

By: New Trommetter Times

New Trommetter Times — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:44:11 +0000

Deep Throat a Hero?

I’m not old enough to remember the Watergate scandal. I was only 6 years old when Woodward and Bernstein broke the story. But we learned about it in middle school and high school. Our teachers told us that "Deep Throat" did the country a …