Nixon Was a Great President Wrongly Removed by Media and Deep State Conspiracy
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The Gist
The author argues that Richard Nixon was actually a great president who was unfairly forced out of office by biased media and government conspirators, not because of real wrongdoing. He claims recent books prove Watergate was a setup, and that removing Nixon led to foreign policy disasters in the 1970s.
Conclusion
America should celebrate Richard Nixon as a great president rather than the Washington Post, because Nixon was wrongfully removed from office through a coordinated effort by media and deep state actors, not legitimate investigative journalism
Premises
- Recent scholarship by Jim Hougan, Len Colodny, Robert Gettlin, and Geoff Shepard provides evidence that Nixon's downfall was orchestrated by deep state actors rather than legitimate journalism
- Watergate special prosecutors secretly met ex parte with judges and conspired with Democratic congressional staffers to develop a 'Road Map' to remove Nixon
- Woodward and Bernstein's reporting was compromised, relying on leaks from a disgruntled anti-Nixon FBI deputy director without revealing his motives
- Nixon was a foreign policy genius whose triangular diplomacy with China and USSR, outreach to Soviet satellites, and Middle East initiatives set the stage for Reagan's successful policies
- Nixon's removal had catastrophic consequences including the fall of South Vietnam, Carter's presidency, loss of Iran and Nicaragua, and Soviet geopolitical advances
- The Washington Post was and remains an ideologically leftist publication, not the objective news source portrayed in popular culture
Assumptions
- The conventional narrative of Watergate as portrayed in 'All the President's Men' is fundamentally false
- Secret meetings between prosecutors and judges constitute evidence of a conspiracy rather than normal legal proceedings
- Nixon would have successfully prevented the geopolitical disasters of the 1970s if he had remained in office
- Media bias automatically invalidates journalistic findings
- Foreign policy success outweighs domestic scandals in presidential evaluation