Fifty Years of Deep State Propaganda American Greatness

The book repeats endlessly, without any attempt at substantiation, that the Nixon presidency came apart and was righteously legally assaulted because of the infamous "Cover-up" consisting mainly in the "Hush money" Nixon authorized to be paid to Watergate defendants in order to "Keep them quiet." Once again, and as always, not one whit of evidence was presented in support of the argument that Nixon authorized these payments for any such purpose.

To the end of his life, Nixon claimed that he authorized the payments in order to assist the defendants in paying their legal bills and taking care of their families.

Nixon foresaw the zeal of hostile prosecutors and he knew that any jury in the District of Columbia would be hostile to Republicans.

These were terrible tactical errors and no one can deny that Nixon paid heavily for them.

These are the reasons, and not any minor political skulduggery, that President Nixon was reelected by 18 million votes in 1972, a plurality that has not been approached in the subsequent half-century even though the electorate has grown steadily larger.

Not only does Richard Nixon deserve a sober reevaluation, but some of his more vocal critics deserve a sober second look as well.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are still active and apparently somewhat influential commentators on contemporary American politics and the absurdly antagonistic and muckraking treatment that they have frequently inflicted on some of Nixon's successors must reflect on the credibility of their coverage of the Watergate affair that so durably influenced public and international opinion about Nixon.

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