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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Have some respect
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:38:15 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.j4l3m1@erics.infoserv.com>
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- ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow) writes:
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- > Others have pointed out that Ronnie Rayguns was elected (gasp) and then
- > re-elected (Oh my God!!!). But I think those facts pale beside the fact
- > that we'd seen Tricky Dick Nixon as a VP and elected him (words fail
- > utterly) and then, following Watergate, re-elected him!!! Phineas T.
- > Barnum was absolutely dead bang.
-
- Well, in fairness to the American people, the series of scandals known
- collectively as "Watergate" mostly either became public knowledge or
- else occurred after Nixon's re-election. The Watergate break-in occurred
- before the election, but it wasn't until after the election that the
- break-in and subsequent cover-up was traced to key Nixon aides and to
- Nixon himself. Other Watergate-related scandals such as the break-in of
- Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office being traced to Republican campaign
- workers, the Republican dirty tricks, and the White House "enemies list",
- did not become public knowledge until after the election. All of the
- Senate and House testimony, plus the evidence which resulted from the
- special prosecutor's investigation, the sum of which uncovered the heart
- of the scandals, happened after the election, as did related events such
- as the "Saturday night massacre", the release of Nixon's tapes and the
- discovery of the "eighteen minute gap".
-
- I think it's a testimony to the American system that a man like Nixon,
- who carried 49 states with 521 electoral votes in his re-election, had
- to resign in disgrace less than two years later when the truth about
- him and his aides became known.
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- Eric Smith
- erics@infoserv.com
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