8-9-10 Remembering Dick

Twenty years ago this week, Mariah Carey hit no. 1 for the first time ever with "Vision Of Love."

 

Yes, Nixon would just have to show that a feeble, dying old man started the "dirty tricks" squad to smear Edmund Muskie and other candidates to end any chance his own party had to win the 1972 presidential election, and that a private citizen nearly four years removed from office oversaw a break-in to the national headquarters of his own political party while living on a ranch in Texas, and then orchestrated a poorly-run cover-up from the grave.

But it could happen.

 

Twenty years ago today I was at Put-in-Bay getting bombed out of my mind. That goes for pretty much every day during the summer of 1990.

 

"Yes, Nixon would just have to show that a feeble, dying old man started the "dirty tricks" squad to smear Edmund Muskie and other candidates to end any chance his own party had to win the 1972 presidential election, and that a private citizen nearly four years removed from office oversaw a break-in to the national headquarters of his own political party while living on a ranch in Texas, and then orchestrated a poorly-run cover-up from the grave.

But it could happen."

From what I have seen recently, you can blame your predecessor for pretty much anything and those that want to believe it will believe it. It doesn't take much to get your cheering supporters to suspend reality if they are already convinced you are infallible.

 

"It was 20 years ago today ... Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ..."

 

That's true, in some cases.

But LBJ did not start Watergate, while Bush did start the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, with no clearly specified goals and with no exit strategies.

 

When the break-in happened, Nixon should have played it off as a prank gone wrong or perhaps a misguided overzealous effort by an RNC operative and tie it off.
Iran Contra was worse.

As we saw with the Clinton thing - once you open the door to a prosecutor, he's not going to leave empty handed.

 

I wasn't born when this happened and did not know the event happened on this day, rather yesterday... 36 years ago.

 

See, mustang. You learn something new every da.... 36 years.

 

These guys remember dick.

 

Sure he would. He'd have an entire TV network running interference for him 24/7 and filling the air with shrieking doom and gloom about the dire consequences of any actions against him.