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His pardon of Nixon was a terrible mistake and denied the country the full truth of his crimes.
By the time RMN resigned, the depth of his crimes were pretty well known through investigative reporting and congressional testimony. The rest of your analysis is pretty good though.
We'll have to agree to disagree on Nixon.
No need to argue since I'm not changing my mind nor asking you to change yours, but there was still much unknown then and still some question persist - though how important such things as what was in the infamous "gap" are now moot.
Much of the further details came out years later as Ehrlichman, Kissinger, et. al., all blabbed their own "spins".
Honestly I may be overly hostile to him, so that may "salt" my opinion and perspective. I actually asked - and got - my parents to take me to the Watergate hearings in the summer of 1973 when I was just a kid. I was addicted!
I may have been the only person in America who wasn't "disillusioned" by Watergate. From my unspoiled youthful perspective without the prejudice of expectation, I have always seen it a triumph of the Constitution.
And, in fairness, Nixon willingly giving up power aided that along ...
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