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So Ben Stein thinks all Nixon did was tell a fib? Please set the record straight.

The first article of impeachment charged that he had used presidential powers to obstruct justice. This is not a misdemeanor. A criminal indictment was prepared in which Nixon it was shown that from the evidence on the tapes Nixon was involved in blackmail, attempting to get the CIA to obstruct the investigation by the FBI, destroying evidence, bribery, conducting political espionage, illegal wiretapping of citizens, and breaking the law and firing the special prosecutor to protect his own hide.

p>If this is a little fib, then America is in big trouble. br> -- Noel Schutz , Associate Professor br> National Chi Nan University br> Puli, Taiwan /p> p> After reading Ben Stein's "Deep Throat and Genocide," I do believe he is out of his mind. So Mark Felt, Bob Woodward, and all the rest of Nixon's "enemies" were the ones responsible for losing the Vietnam War as well as the Cambodian genocide? It sounds like just the kind of seeping paranoia that got Nixon in trouble to begin with, and now we can see the mentality was pervasive among those who surrounded him. Stein sounds like a stark raving mad lunatic, nothing less. I would suggest that before you publish another one of his articles, you ask him to have a psychiatric evaluation, before the credibility of your fine publication comes into question. br> -- Dan Bernard /p>

Ben Stein is totally wrong in his assessment of Nixon.

Whatever Mr. Nixon was, he was the kind of president who thought nothing of ordering his supporters to commit black-bag burglaries; to literally hoover around someone's office or home in order to find out God knows what about who knows what.

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