Nixon got boned
Don Surber Aug 05, 2024
Friday marks the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American politics — the day when the FBI and the rest of the deep state overthrew the duly elected government of President Nixon by forcing him to resign in a scandal designed by teh FBI and promoted by the Washington Post.
The cover up was worse then the crime, because there really was no crime. Thus in less than two years, the deep state overturned the biggest Electoral College victory in 152 years.
Nixon’s 520-17 win in 1972 was bested only by James Monroe and George Washington; both were unanimous choices although one of Monroe’s electors in the Electoral College defected to allow Washington to be the only unanimous choice.
Nixon won the popular vote 60.7% to 37.5% over George McGovern. Only Lyndon Baines Johnson’s 61.1% to 38.5% win over Barry Goldwater eight years earlier topped that, and then only because of the Kennedy assassination a year earlier.
The deep state won by turning an insignificant incident in the campaign into a scandal. Mark Felt of the FBI and others fed information to the media, which agreed to never name them. That allowed them to never be held accountable for their actions. They never had to answer tough questions thus history can gloss over the motives of the deep state.
Felt and the rest fed mainly a couple of low-level reporters at the Washington Post, who were rewarded not only with the infamous Washington book deal, but an award-winning movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford.
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