{"id":402658,"date":"2019-04-08T01:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russiagate-is-not-watergate\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T01:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:15:53","slug":"russiagate-is-not-watergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russiagate-is-not-watergate\/","title":{"rendered":"Russiagate is Not Watergate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph Source White House Press Office<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Richard Nixon was a complicated man.<\/p>\n

He was arguably our last liberal president.\u00a0 He transformed the political scene in countless ways; some good, some far from it.\u00a0Together with Henry Kissinger, he was a geopolitical strategist of distinction who served the empire and the military industrial complex well.<\/p>\n

Like Kissinger, he was also no slouch when it came to war crimes, crimes against the peace, and crimes against humanity.\u00a0 \u00a0He got a whole lot of people killed and maimed \u2014 in Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia and throughout the world.<\/p>\n

And while neither he nor the administration he superintended were unusually corrupt, he could boast, were he so inclined, of having many a \u201chigh crime and misdemeanor\u201d under his belt, and of taking his oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States lightly or not at all.<\/p>\n

He was, in short, a later-day version of the sort of villainous and tormented figure that readers might encounter in a historical drama authored by William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

Ironically, in light of all he deserved punishment for, Watergate,\u00a0\u201ca third rate burglary,\u201d and the bollixed cover up it precipitated, did him and his administration in.<\/p>\n

To this day, in the public imagination, Nixon and Watergate are joined at the hip in ways that, for example, Nixon and his secret war in Cambodia will never be.<\/p>\n

Thus Watergate, like George Washington\u2019s cherry tree, has become part of the American…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photograph Source White House Press Office Richard Nixon was a complicated man. He was arguably our last liberal president.\u00a0 He transformed the political scene in countless ways; some good, some far from it.\u00a0Together with Henry Kissinger, he was a geopolitical strategist of distinction who served the empire and the military industrial complex well. Like Kissinger, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}