Forty years ago Watergate forced Nixon to became the only US president to resign

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Forty years ago on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon became the only US president to resign from office. His departure came because of his involvement in the Watergate scandal and subsequent cover-up, which began when Republican campaign operatives broke into Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington in June of 1972. Read full article

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Think
TWIMC...

Fourty years ago this prime example of an American WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) was bombing the “baddies” in Viet-Nam back into the stone-age...

Today, a prime example of an American MAKS (Mulatto Anglo-Kenyan Secular) is doing the very same thing in Iraq...

An American “Bad Habit”, I reckon...
Aug 09th, 2014 - 07:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
Did you just make that up, Think?
MAKS, Indeed! lol!
And what, pray tell are you?
MTFC-(Mad Turnip-farmer From Chubut).
You are in Chubut, aren't you, Think?
Aug 09th, 2014 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 2 lsolde

Well, the name of the country has Swede.. in it. But a plonker is a plonker wherever he is lurking.

To Nixon: a poll about three years ago in the US resulted in Nixon being considered 'great'. They had had the Dynamic Duo of the Bushes by then of course.

My best friend who was on a cruise recently told me they were at a table with an American couple and the guy 'whispered' in a loud voice 'do you have trouble with the damn Muslims in England? We have a Muslim in the damn Whitehouse now.

Out of the mouth of babes and big hatted Yanks...
Aug 09th, 2014 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Room101
Some people don't take account anymore of the David Frost interview with Nixon. Watching him then, there was no doubt that he believed that being wrong was right.
Aug 09th, 2014 - 10:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hepatia
I remember these years well. He is not missed.
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