By Frank Muller
(Re: ‘Scooter skates while Ann hates,’ July 6, opinion) (Jack Neworth) managed to wrap up a 53-year span of Americana with an unmentioned, but intuitively remembered by some of us, Richard Nixon as a young lawyer, being Sen. Joe McCarthy’s righthand counsel in 1954. I can see now that something did come out well, in that fearmongering era, which has been duplicated by this administration’s cronies, but this time it’s Christians and Jews against Muslims!
In some respects, Watergate, for many us young idealists who had been drafted between 1968 and 1972 as reservists, was considered as payback by Democrats who only chose to selectively remember Nixon as McCarthy’s righthand man, whence he got his reputation of being so much for America’s brand of democracy — which really is a technocracy — that he converted China to a free market pseudo calibrated Socialist state!
However tragic Watergate was, we don’t see President G.W. Bush and his cabinet making similar overtures to our perceived enemies like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, etc.... after his 2001 inauguration!
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 12, 2007. Read the original PDF.