Thursday, April 06, 2006  Plamegate Summer  There's a blog name
I like called Watergate Summer mainly because the name harkens
back to my childhood, a time when there was nothing on
television in the afternoons but the Watergate Hearings. The
President of the United States at the time had been found to
abusing his power, authorizing illegal wiretaps against
political enemies, and break-ins to the opposition party's
headquarters to acquire incriminating photographs of associate
E. Howard Hunt as one of the "mystery tramps" arrested in Dealey
Plaza on November 22, 1963. The hearings were at a time when not
only was our country at war, but facing the greatest
Constitutional crisis it had ever faced. During the time this
was going on, as I mentioned, we were fighting a war, much the
same as we are today. We were fighting in Viet Nam, a
southeastern Asia country. We were not at war with Viet nam, but
merely fighting against the spread of Communism, a political
ideology in direct opposition to our own. The Communis