{"id":135485,"date":"2017-12-03T12:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135485"},"modified":"2017-12-03T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:27:07","slug":"the-more-things-change-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/the-more-things-change-5.html","title":{"rendered":"The more things change"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reprint of an Art Buchwald column from 1973 about things Nixon supporters could (and did) say in response to attacks on Nixon during the Watergate crisis.<\/p>\n

Stop me if these sound familiar …<\/p>\n

…
\n6. The Democrats are sore because they lost the election.<\/i>
\n7. Are you going to believe a rat like John Dean or the president of the United States?<\/i>
\n8. Wait till<\/i> all the facts come out.<\/i>
\n9. What about Chappaquiddick?<\/i>
\n10. If you impeach Nixon, you get Agnew.<\/i>
\n…<\/p>\n

Now to be fair, none of these are exclusive to defenders of Nixon or Trump … but the laundry list of kneejerk responses is remarkably similar to the present case.<\/p>\n


\n
\n<\/a>
\nOh yeah? Well, what about Chappaquiddick?<\/a><\/span>
\nA column written by the immortal Art Buchwald about Watergate-era Nixon defenders has a certain resonance as Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation proceeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reprint of an Art Buchwald column from 1973 about things Nixon supporters could (and did) say in response to attacks on Nixon during the Watergate crisis. Stop me if these sound familiar … … 6. The Democrats are sore because they lost the election. 7. 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