2014-08-09

40 years ago today, Tricky Dick said nighty night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Resignation

"Realizing that he had no chance of staying in office, Nixon decided to resign. The morning that his resignation was to take effect, the President, with Mrs. Nixon and their family, said farewell to the White House staff in the East Room."

What a fucking criminal -

http://warisacrime.org/content/nixons-treason-now-acknowledged

"It's almost universally maintained by those who have expressed any opinion on the matter that if the public had known about Nixon's treason while he was president, all hell would have broken loose.  Are we really such idiots that we've now slipped into routinely acknowledging the truth of the matter but raising no hell whatsoever?  Do we really care so much about personalities and vengeance that Nixon's crime means nothing if Nixon is dead?  Isn't the need to end wars and spying and government secrets, to make diplomacy public and nonviolent, a need that presses itself fiercely upon us regardless of how many decades it will take before we learn every offensive thing our current top officials are up to?"

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