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{"id":27281,"date":"2014-01-17T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=27281"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:37:21","slug":"advice-to-christie-its-always-the-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2014\/01\/17\/advice-to-christie-its-always-the-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to Christie: It\u2019s always the cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
First we heard James Carville, one of President Clinton\u2019s closest political advisors, who said, \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid.\u201d Now, with a clearer vision of what Richard Nixon did during Watergate, we can say, \u201cIt\u2019s always the cover up.\u201d That\u2019s what happened to Nixon in Watergate, to Clinton with Monica Lewinski, to General David Patraeus, to countless other public figures throughout the nation\u2019s history. The initial act or even \u201ccrime\u201d may be bad, but that malfeasance is always compounded by the effort to cover it up.<\/p>\n
If Richard Nixon had admitted to commissioning \u201cthe White House plumbers\u201d to instigate a host of pranks against Democrats, he might have survived. After all, he had a tremendous electoral lead over his opponent, Sen. George McGovern (D-SD). Similarly, Christie had a tremendous lead over his 2013 Democratic opponent for governor, State Senator Barbara Buono.<\/p>\n
Nixon held the country in suspense for over two years by not taking responsibility for his transgressions. Rather, he was firing attorneys-general, special prosecutors, or top White House aides, all the while trying to shift the blame. Without Watergate, he might now be viewed as a decent president who actually continued or strengthened numerous Great Society programs and also opened the door to China. His greatest mistake would have been his failure to get America out of Vietnam in a timely fashion. This certainly would have hurt his reputation, but not as much as mishandling Vietnam and then compounded by Watergate.<\/p>\n
Who knows what lies ahead for Chris Christie? In all likelihood he will either be caught lying (did he possibly have a tape-recording system in his office)? If it\u2019s not lying, then either his judgment of the character of his top aides was terrible or he was simply a careless manager of his staff. He has already been mimicking Nixon by firing aides, in his case with the crassness to not even meet with them face-to-face.<\/p>\n