Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The Rise And Fall Of President Nixon | Nixon In the Den | Timeline" video.

Most cogent analysis of Nixon online. I am of the generation that remembers exactly where and what I was doing when Nixon resigned, and have studied the man for years. This documentary nails it.
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@jamespatterson6972 No, Ford could still have pardoned him after impeachment, I don't believe he would have ever served time.
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@jamespatterson6972 I followed Watergate in real time, evidence of his crime was broadcast nightly, the public, at least the public that cared, had the information, and just wanted to move on, that's why Ford pardoned Nixon, and well done. Transcripts of the tapes were public. You make it sound like there was a "cover-up" after the base one was exposed? I hated Nixon, was of that age, but now look back and see many positive results from his two-terms. Jail would have sent a poor message to both our allies and enemies. Ford made the correct choice, perhaps his only one.
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@jamespatterson6972 "Many" top officials? I count only three. Prior to the resignation in August of 1974, (I was in the Canadian Rockies sitting in my hippie van), the evidence of cover-up was known, Dean had testified, but you alluded to people not knowing that prior to Ford's pardon. I understand Nixon much better now, being 66 and not 19. Listen to his speech establishing the EPA. He was a strange and complicated man. I just don't judge him in the same way, and glad he did not go to prison.
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Robert A. Leffingwell is the leading character in Gore Vidal's presidential political drama, "Advise and Consent". Not sure if this is just a coincidence or not, but Nixon's father's service station has a billboard on it pointing to the "Leffingwell" Rancho where the service station stood. (8:14) Seems like something Gore would inject into his work, no?
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@jamespatterson6972 Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, all "top", the rest secondary, with the possible exception of Colson.
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@jamespatterson6972 John Mitchell was not AG at time of Break-In, not in the "White House", he'd resigned to run Nixon's campaign, it was as head of CRP that he ordered the break-in.
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@jamespatterson6972 Maurice Stans was not in the "White House", either, resigned to help run Nixon's reelection with CRP.
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@jamespatterson6972 Jeb Stuart Magruder, left the White House in 1971, well before break-in, part of Nixon's reelection campaign, CRP.
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@jamespatterson6972 Even John Dean was a secondary player, a fall guy, the tapes prove that.
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@jamespatterson6972 Don't forget the "Pentagon Papers", which motivated CRP and the WH to plug the leaks going into the 1972 election. They wanted to fire bomb the Brookings Institute, ironic, considering the institutes part in the Steele Dossier. Time teaches humility, or should.
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@jamespatterson6972 Maurice Stans not in the WH, but part of the reelection campaign, CRP. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson in the White House. Three "Top" players.
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@gaylemc2692 Yes, why do you ask?
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