Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 22 2022 12:11pm)
Nixon's reputation as an insidious man without a moral compass really did him in. Watergate confirmed all the negative preconceptions people had of him. It probably helped that he was in his second term and thus a lame duck - made it easier for his party to throw him to the wolves.
the irony is that Nixon as a person was far better than most people in his era and had a great moral compass compared to most of the presidents we have. Jimmy Carter of course gets the Morality goat title for presidents, but Nixon wasn't bad at all. There's i believe a recording (or maybe i just read a transcript) or Nixon's speech to the white house staff on the day he was to resign that was powerful stuff and caused most of the people to cry. Its funny in the long run we have figures like Roger Stone that are all about transparency and then his idol is Nixon who's most known for his scandal, and even more ironically Stone led a raid on a voting center in the Gore-Bush election to make them by violent force stop counting votes, which almost certainly bought time for the SCOTUS to rule against the infamous hanging chad ballots, which eventually won Bush (unfairly in my opinion) to win.