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Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last?
jonerik writes: "As part of its inevitable 30th-anniversary-of-Watergate coverage, ABC News has this article on the National Archives' search for someone who can recover part or all of the missing 18 ½ minutes of President Nixon's Oval Office tapes, whose existence had been unknown until the Watergate hearings. The famous tape - recorded on June 20th, 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in - was last examined in 1974, but Nixon tape archivist Karl Weissenbach is hoping that nearly thirty years of technological progress can make the difference this time, saying 'We have decided that the time is right and appropriate to determine whether that conversation can be retrieved or recovered.' Stephen St. Croix, one of several forensic audio experts who is interested in taking on the job, says 'You never completely erase a tape. You think you do, but you really don't.'" There's another article in Wired on this quest as well.
Maybe we'll here about what really happend during Clinton's presidency in 30 years. Maybe we dont want to know. Nixon had his problems just like all Polititions have. Mostly I think he was just dumb.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
The media is composed of Democrats raised on Watergate. That's why they only care about scandals in Republican administrations.
Sorry if it hurts all y'all leftists, but its true.
There are reasons why democracy does not work nearly as well as capitalism.
-- David D. Friedman
>>Why doesn't the media do aniversaries for things like travelgate, filegate, Vince Foster, etc...?
Probably because those things got investigated up and down seven ways from Sunday by a bunch of guys who really wanted to nail Clinton and they couldn't find enough to convince the country to toss him out, while Nixon had to run out of office fast enough to keep his pension?
And if the media thought they could rally enough support for anniversary specials on those things, trust me, we'd have 'em out the wazoo. Even Robert Ray doesn't care about those things anymore...
Because travelgate, filegate, Vince Foster, etc. are all stupid, and no one this side of Rush Limbaugh cares. At least the Republicans have the common courtesy to have decent scandals... Watergate, Iran-Contra and Inslaw are all monuments of scandal, and deserving of ongoing recognition.
Also, you may want to brush up on your politics, because some people from Watergate are still in positions of power. Even more Iran-Contra veterans are in the Bush administration.