FDR Fireside Chat Reference In Scott's Tower Calendar
Attorney Chase
attychase@comcast.net
Sun Mar 17 13:36:45 EDT 2013
Not to digress too far but can you give some examples? (re "And today our
president goes down the exact same road with an exactly opposite
reaction...one gigantic yawn" ) You aren't referring to the opinions
expressed on the Fox (so-called) News Network are you?
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> "What scares me is that Nixon 40 years later looks pretty good compared
> with current cast of characters."
>
> 40+ years ago I had a summer job during my college years: "studio/field
> engineer" (classy way of saying "board op") at what was then the ABC Radio
> Network (God only knows what it's called now) in New York. During the
> summers of 1973 (the Senator Sam kangaroo court) and 1974 (the House
> Judiciary Committee hearings and Nixon's resignation) we were intensively
> covering Watergate. I watched a bunch of hard-line conservatives in the
> newsroom, convinced that Nixon was the law-and-order president he claimed
> to be, come around to the conclusion that he had to go for the good of the
> country. It was because of Nixon's attitude ("When the president does it,
> it is not wrong...") that historians coined the phrase "the imperial
> presidency."
>
> And today our president goes down the exact same road with an exactly
> opposite reaction...one gigantic yawn.
>
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