From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 12:12:10 MST
MaxPlumm@aol.com wrote:
> ...
> I could go on and on regarding the merits and accomplishments of this
> "loon" (and believe me, I have), but perhaps it best to wait for Alex
> to author his rebuttal. President Nixon is certainly not without his
> faults, but I dare say that not one of his subsequent successors come
> close to matching his achievements, and even fewer have any
> accomplishments that will be discussed many decades from now, as
> Nixon's rapprochement with the Chinese is and will continue to be.
>
> Regards,
>
> Max Plumm
I would not characterise Nixon as a loon. Certainly Caligula was much
more insane. He did, however, betray his oath of office repeatedly. He
did suborn justice. He did attempt to destroy the evidence. I believe
that he did many more cimes, but those are matters of public record. So
he may not have been a literal loon. Perhaps. And he may have done
some good things. (OK. It's quite likely that he wasn't intending to
destroy the government, and he probably saw himself as the good guy, and
did what he thought a good guy would do.)
But he clearly deserved to be not only impeached, but convicted and
sentenced to hard labor. At minimum. My personal feeling was that he
should have been "crucified in a public square" for betrayal of his
country. But he wasn't as bad as Bush, not even nearly. We just had
higher standards then.
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