Bush's team learned from Watergate. They learned that they wanted to do even more of the kind of secret-government, royalist approach that Nixon tried. And to get away with it this time.
The Los Angeles Times has the story: Watergate Weighs on Today's White House by Peter Wallsten 06/07/05.
2 comments:
In September 1973 I was a college freshman, and I remember Watergate very well. Bush is as bad as Nixon ever was.
The difference is that Bush has God on his side. Thirty years ago, before God decided to enter politics, poor Dick Nixon paid a heavy price for undermining the Constitution. But W has learned that you can do whatever you want as long as you claim to do it all in the name of God.
If Nixon had thought Americans would buy such nonsense, he would have tried it. But we were so much wiser then.
Neil
Also, the press wasn't so craven and cowardly. And Congress still took its Constitutional responsibilities seriously. Times have changed.
The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow captured the difference well:
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19157
- Bruce
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