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And it should be noted that he was a piker compared to Lyndon B Johnson, Al Gore Sr. etc. These guys, among many other Dems., fought to stop the 1964 Civil Rights Act legislation from becoming law. No one is comparing political parties here in terms of racial bigotry but I can't help but 'sense' its implied and/or believed by some of the younger folks that the Rep party is/was the party of prejudice, bigotry/racism and a general hatred of black Americans.
Those old videos you see every year around MLK Day were incidents (fire hoses/ German Shepard's being turned on blacks, beatings, bus burning etc) were recorded in Democrat controlled areas of the country/south. Bull Connor and George Wallace were Democrats. Many whites believed blacks to be inferior, descended from apes etc. To their credit, quite a few came to terms with their bigotry later in life and tried to make amends.Dem.Sen.Robert Byrd for example was a former KKK member.
It just infuriates me how the Libs have brain washed so many young people that the Rep./Tea Party are a party of racists. There was enough of bigotry going around in all parties at one time or the other. It lives on today in various forms of legislation based on the thought that 'blacks' can't compete with whites so they need to be given an artificial advantages.
Many lib/Dems., truly believing that blacks are inferior and they keep racial tensions alive and well with their bs, I have no problem letting the chips fall where they may - just don't lie about it. The sin of omission is just as despicable. The Lib media are well versed in this too. Win with truth, with ideas - thats supposed to be the American way.

Nixon was an odd guy. He did break the law. The thing you need to keep in mind is that those were very scary times and his paranoid personality is what caused him to act as he did. To the WWII generation it appeared the country was literally being destroyed from within. He justified to himself that to protect the country he needed to win the election. Portraying him as a dime store crook, a run of the mill thief is not presenting the truth or accurately showing the man. I you truly believed that communists were about to control the country you had just fought so hard to preserve in WWII only a few years prior, how far would you be willing to go to prevent this from happening ??

Nixon, his personality quirks getting in the way again, believed he was the man to do the job. He didn't do what he did because he was a Bernie Maddoff type - it wasn't for 'power' or money - he was delusional - thinking he had a mandate from the 'silent majority' to retain the reins of power at any cost so as to save the country from the commies within. In this movie there was a scene when he pushed for 600k instead of 550k to do the interview. No doubt he, like many of us, liked to make/have money. But I really don't think he was in this for the money and I doubt he uttered those words - at least not in the way as it was portrayed in this movie. In these days of book deals, movie rights, celebrity tv appearances etc., its easy to think he might have concocted the break in with an eye toward future book deals, film and TV interviews etc.
If not for his mental problems I doubt any of what happened would have. He was a very intelligent man, had high ideals/principals but no insight into just how screwed up he was psychologically.His paranoia was his downfall not his greed/love of money. Its a shame he made it all the way to the White House, it never should have happened. But I can't 'hate' a person because they have/had psych. issues. Be embarrassed for them, yes but 'hate' ? No.
If only, back in the day, this modern bumper day sticker/T-shirt existed:
"Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you'
and he saw it enough times to give it some thought, spark some 'introspection'
(guided by a competent psychotherapist), who knows what great things he might have gone on to accomplish ??