If you had were a voter at the time of Nixon's impeacher and resignation?

Question

,how would the watergate scandal affected your percepition of the government power?

Answer 1

Extremely poorly.

Nixon was a puppet of the military-industrial complex and we all knew it- that's why Vietnam dragged on for years and we sold weapons to the Israelis and the Iranians and others before and during the Yom Kippur War.

Just like Bush- a world-class @sshole.

Answer 2

It is tuff to isolate Watergate because of all the other stuff happening at the time such as Kent State Massacre, government opening mail, stopping NY Times from publishing articles. The term National Security was used in most press releases.

  But the lost of civil rights is much worse today than during Watergate, and for same reason. If Nixon had not been for UN Resolution  242 believe he would never have been set up.

Answer 3

It effected peoples perception of the government in a very big way.

People lost confidence in the government !!

The stock market took a severe dive!!

People lost a lot of money, the government lost a lot of clout due to people having disdain and disrespect for years!

Ten times the effect that the Clinton matter had.

But then again, when a sitting President AUTHORIZES a felony, why wouldn't it be TEN times worse than one that cheated on his wife

Oh yeah I know why----cheater was a democrat

                                    burglar/thief was a Republican

Answer 4

Negatively.

Answer 5

Well it goes to show if you have power you can get away with murder,lies deciet and any other crime.Be it in name of freedom or just plain old zionism. Just look at present lot of Senators who voted for war against Iraqi`s who incidentaly did not kill any US personell.  Untill US invaded it. So how about impeachment for these lotsssssssssss.

Answer 6

It didn't affect me at all because it wasn't true, an that was proven. Now Tricky d**k was a different story he was proven to be corupt . So whats your point?