tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890005401873315247.post8246988365023487054..comments2024-02-24T00:45:43.708-08:00Comments on The VU Centennial Class: The Other Shoe DropsPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01814112133335823517noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890005401873315247.post-35742864804498239732008-09-27T20:06:00.000-07:002008-09-27T20:06:00.000-07:00Pat, Did you notice how L-O-N-G the sound bites we...Pat, <BR/><BR/>Did you notice how L-O-N-G the sound bites were back then?<BR/><BR/>The CBS characters wouldn't stand a chance in today's newscasts.<BR/><BR/>The personal note I remember from Watergate was that Don House (The Grinch) (Class of 1975) was a neighbor of Jason McCord, one the ringleaders of the Watergate break-in. Although Don was a died in the wool Democrat, it was personally very painful for him to see his neighbor held up to such ridicule and have to serve time to protect someone higher up.<BR/><BR/>I also remember you and I coming back from St.Louis the day that Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, and hearing that as we rode through the cornfields and tornadoes of Illinois. <BR/><BR/>I remember being ticked off at the time, but as I've grown older and maybe wiser, I have come to understand the importance to having a national nightmare be over.<BR/><BR/>It was a pardon for Nixon, a religious conversion for Charles Colson and Jeb McGruder. <BR/><BR/>It was political suicide for Gerald Ford and, the start of a national political career for Howard Baker, Fred Thompson, and Hillary Clinton. <BR/><BR/>It was the catapult to a talk show for G. Gordon Liddy, and hard prison time for Haldeman, Erichman, Mitchell, and a career CIA man taking one for the team, James McCord.<BR/><BR/>And all in an election where 49 states voted for Nixon. What a waste, what a nightmare, is it finally over? Have we learned the right lesson from Watergate after 36 years, or is it too soon to really understand it. Maybe that was just the first shoe, and the other one is still on the bed.<BR/><BR/>Wake me up when it drops.<BR/><BR/>Steve Womack<BR/>Wrvu73@Cox.netUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07330241942203851434noreply@blogger.com