Where we're you when Nixon resigned?

[Juan Marrero]

He will always be controversial. The important thing is for everything to be put on the table when he (like any other U.S. President is judged). My point is that the most publicized tapes show his worst side, one that, unfortunately, all (or AL aside) most "flesh is heir to." All presidents should be held up to the same standards.

Frankly, the "Trail of Tears", the "Palmer Raids" and Japanese Internment bother me more than Watergate, but I still think that Jackson/van Buren, Wilson and FDR were patriots who thought they were doing right, even in these instances.

We don't need a national "stock villain" among presidents because that will be all that is taught in school: "Well, kids here is what you need to know for your test: Kennedy: good. Nixon: real bad."