Biden/Harris and the Nixon/Agnew Parallel to Watergate - LRC Blog

Jun 18, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    96% Extremely Conservative

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"Among those present at the ceremony of Cox repeating his oath of office were two longtime friends, Senator Edward Keedy and his sister-in-law Ethel Keedy, widow of Attorney General Robert Keedy, under whom Cox had served."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Among those present at the ceremony of Cox repeating his oath of office were two longtime friends, Senator Edward Keedy and his sister-in-law Ethel Keedy, widow of Attorney General Robert Keedy, under whom Cox had served."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Eliot Richardson himself came from the liberal Rockefeller-wing of the eastern Establishment, and was chosen by Nixon to placate these elements."
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0% Conservative
"Biden and Harris should take careful note."
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0% Conservative
"Biden and Harris should take careful note."
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0% Conservative
"Katzenbach who succeeded Keedy."
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-8% Liberal
"They were determined to get Nixon."
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-14% Liberal
"Nixon then ordered the acting Attorney General, Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox, which he did."
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-14% Liberal
"Nixon was deeply suspicious of Cox and his motives in widening his investigation beyond the Watergate break-ins and cover-up, and with good reason: of the thirty-seven lawyers Cox recruited, all but one were Ivy Leaguers, eighteen from Harvard; most were Democrats; many had worked in the Justice Department under Bobby Keedy or Nicholas dfB."
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-18% Liberal
"Agnew plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Nixon Attorney General Elliot Richardson appointed his former Harvard Law professor Archibald Cox."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The Watergate scandal eventually led to the resignation of Nixon on August 9, 1974."
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-28% Liberal
"Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign due allegations relating to criminal charges filled against him by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy."
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-30% Liberal
"On October 20, 1973, Nixon ordered Richardson to fire Cox."
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-32% Liberal
"The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of forty-three persons, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Rucklehaus to fire Cox, Rucklehaus refused and was fired."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"The hopelessly incompetent, willfully insincere and ignorant Kamala Harris should be packing her bags for exile to political Purgatory."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"We can next deal with an erratic and utterly corrupt President Pelosi in due course."
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-42% Liberal
"Like Richard Nixon, will the delusional, decrepit and disgraceful Joe Biden (with his shaky geriatric finger on the thermonuclear trigger) become the target of a coordinated coup d'etat by the deep state, the top apparatchiks of the Democratic and Republican Parties, and the despicable regime media establishment?"
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Like Richard Nixon, will the delusional, decrepit and disgraceful Joe Biden (with his shaky geriatric finger on the thermonuclear trigger) become the target of a coordinated coup d'etat by the deep state, the top apparatchiks of the Democratic and Republican Parties, and the despicable regime media establishment?"
Negative
-4% Liberal
"But in the previous investigatory case of Donald Trump, Robert Mueller proved no more independent than Harvard Law School Keedy family tool Archibald Cox was in Watergate."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"But in the previous investigatory case of Donald Trump, Robert Mueller proved no more independent than Harvard Law School Keedy family tool Archibald Cox was in Watergate."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The Prospect of Impeachment or Implementation of the 25th AmendmentAlso like Nixon, will the decrepit, delusional, and disgraceful Biden soon become the target of a manufactured witch hunt investigation by a supposedly independent special prosecutor?"
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0% Conservative
"The Prospect of Impeachment or Implementation of the 25th AmendmentAlso like Nixon, will the decrepit, delusional, and disgraceful Biden soon become the target of a manufactured witch hunt investigation by a supposedly independent special prosecutor?"
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