Submitted by Claude Bogardus, Apr 24, 2007 00:50

The Wretched Nixon did not enjoy being president during the revolution in culture and the American People's sensibilities, which occurred during his (and his immediate predecessor's) administration. He was always temperamentally unsuited to the task. In contrast, President Franklin Roosevelt so loved the Office that he campaigned for it and contrived to win four terms. Lyndon Johnson enjoyed wielding the power of the Office, which he employed with little insight or imagination. It was the wreckage left of his regime that Nixon was elected to repair and replace. The tapes of Oval Office conversations reek of distrust, but Nixon was unable to compel a rational description of the situation or extract a coherent plan of action from his damaged staff. He dirtied his hands sorting out the mess he inherited, and then he was dismissed from his dustman's job when it was time to resume the dominance of the corrupt Democrat Party, who are far more adroit at political crime.

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