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They don't (none / 0) (#65)
by Ga6thDem on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 10:07:35 PM EST
exist. This is why the country is completely screwed. We've got a bunch of Trevors running the country who don't care about anybody but themselves. Apparently they think this is all just going to "go away" if they ignore it.  

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Yes, where are the honorable (none / 0) (#84)
by KeysDan on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 01:22:08 PM EST
Republicans.  Meet the new Republicans, same as the old.   True, Eliot Richardson resigned rather than follow Nixon's order to fire Archibald Cox as Watergate Special Prosecutor.

 True, too, that William Ruckelshaus subsequently refused the order to fire Cox, and was, himself, fired by Nixon.

 But, Robert Bork, the Solicitor General, was quite willing to do the deed, and served for a while as acting Attorney General.  This was presidential life or death for Nixon. (not a question of a lawful executive order).

 The Saturday Night Massacre propelled Nixon to his resignation and the end of the "national nightmare," .--up until then.  But, not all Republicans were like Richardson and Ruckelshaus, considered by some party members to have betrayed Nixon (as Trump says about Yates).

 The then chair of the RNC, George HW Bush was always steadfastly is support of Nixon, and was among Nixon's very last defenders.  Until, the smoking gun made the defense inoperative even for Bush.

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That's true. (5.00 / 1) (#86)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 04:30:38 PM EST
Until the "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972 was pried from President Nixon's clutches in late July 1974 and conclusively proved that he had indeed instigated a criminal conspiracy to cover up White House involvement in the Watergate break-in only six days after the crime occurred, most Republicans stood resolutely by Nixon, poll numbers be damned. That contents of that tape rendered their further support politically untenable.

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