Revisiting the Nixon narrative On another thread ( https://voat.co/v/QRV/3524707 ) we ended up in a comments discussion about Nixon in which lots of goats were offering feedback.  In light of that I thought everybody might find a couple things I've run into about Nixon and Watergate interesting. First, this from Chapter 11 called "Becoming Deep Throat" in Lee Smith's recent book The Plot Against the President (page 156): In the Watergate legend, Woodward and Bernstein's source was a whistle-blower, a man of conscience serving the people he had protected for decades as a federal agent.  That was Mark Felt, the second-highest-ranking official at the FBI. But Deep Throat, Felt's alter ego, was a disgruntled senior bureaucrat who believed he was entitled to succeed J. Edgar Hoover and fumed when Nixon passed him over for the Bureau's top job.  Instead of going public with what he knew was a crime, a senior law enforcement official used tactics he'd learned in Hoover's FBI to go after his enemy:  the commander in chief.  The real Watergate story, then, is anything but heroic.  Rather, it's a tale of ambition and revenge and how those all-too-human emotions play themselves out in the large office buildings scattered along the Potomac, where backstabbing shapes the life of a nation. (Given what we've all been witness to in these ridiculous impeachment hearings, this sounds all too freaking familiar.) The book goes on to skewer Bernstein (page 157):   It was appropriate that Carl Bernstein's byline appeared on the January 10 CNN story leaked by intelligence bureaucrats for the purpose of destroying Trump.  After more than forty years, he was still paying off the debt he had incurred by becoming Carl Bernstein.  He owed them everything. Second, and more interesting, is this twitter thread by T. Benjamin which has blown my mind.  It's super long but full of amazing historical photos and docs and stuff so it reads really fast and it's fascinating.  Nixon doesn't make his appearance in the thread until #62) but then he figures prominently.  This thread is called "Trump--the Greatest Actor of All Time -- a hypothesis".  Just amazing work here.  Top kudos to the guy who did this.  https://twitter.com/1FreeInhabitant/status/1099515180008955904 The guy worked on the thread for months.  Watch for the spots where you open more replies to see more of his tweets. Enjoy, Patriots!  I sure did.