How Watergate brought down Nixon, but how Reagan is beloved despite Iran-Contra will never make any sense to me. Not that Nixon was squeaky clean, but his actions really can't compare to selling weapons to our enemies. Reagan should have been the one forced to resign in disgrace.
Remembering this is very important.
But Nixon is still the greatest criminal (with the possible exception of Andrew Jackson) to occupy the oval office. Not so much for Watergate (though that is pretty bad) but for Cambodia, Chile and Laos (and while doing so, wrecking the world's economy by pulling out of Bretton woods to fund the war in Vietnam and then his actions during the Yom Kippur war, which aggrevated Arab opinion).
I think, furthermore, it is time for
this thread again.
