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Old 11-12-2008, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl View Post
Nixon accomplished so much when he was in office (relations with China, etc) it's not funny. He would have been screwed no matter what he did because the press hated him. If he'd turned the Watergate burgulars in, he would have been a stool pigeon who didn't support his friends.
One of the interesting things about Watergate is it's caused people to forget just how brilliant Nixon was in his foreign policy. His paranoia just became his downfall.
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