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- From: ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow)
- Subject: Re: Have some respect
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:00:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.160012.18510@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- References: <D2150056.j4l3m1@erics.infoserv.com>
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- In <D2150056.j4l3m1@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
- >ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow) writes:
- >> 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
-
- This is true enough if you demand "proof" that Nixon aides were invloved,
- but it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who was responsible
- for the break-in. Who stood to gain anything by it? No cash or objects
- of value were removed, only documents relating to campaign strategy and
- things of that type were tampered with. I went to bed the night of the
- election with joy in my heart that no-one could possibly not clearly
- understand that Tricky Dick (or at least his closest pals) was/were
- crooks, and hence, not to be voted for. Imagine my shock the next AM
- at a 49-1 landslide (electoral, not a big plurality, though).
-
- >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.
- >-----
- >Eric Smith
- >erics@infoserv.com
- >CI$: 70262,3610
-
- I can't disagree, but I don't feel that requiring a court-style burden of
- proof beyond reasonable doubt should be required of my fellow Americans
- to convince them to reject a person from the highest office we have to
- offer. I'm still disappointed in us, your mileage probably varies as
- results from then til now have born out.
-
- Ob-Qq: If traffic in this group is any indication, rumors of it's
- immanent demise seem to be greatly exagerrated.
-
- Ralph
-