Nym90
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2004, 01:35:39 AM » |
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That's my point though, yes Nixon would have won anyway, but Watergate still worked to the extent that McGovern is perceived as a joke to this day still. He wouldn't have been a joke if it hadn't been for Watergate. He still would've lost, but the margin would have been much less and he wouldn't have been portrayed as a wacko peacenik. The man was a World War II fighter pilot, had gotten elected to the Senate from a conservative state (South Dakota), and he was made out to be some commie pinko radical. Yes, he was liberal, but he was also a great war hero and patriot.
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