Sunday, June 17, 2012

Leaping Lizards! On the anniversary of Watergate, let's talk nice about Nixon!

On this day in 1972, the five bumblers who had broken into the Democratic headquarters were arrested; their caper and the coverup would become known as Watergate.  Next week, however, also marks the anniversary of Title IX, and as Allen Barra notes:

Nixon did leave some legacies that may outlast the memory of Watergate. Historians have argued that he did a great deal to desegregate Southern schools; that he defied the conservatives in his party to open relations with China; and that he had a good record on the environment. Significantly, he brought women into the world of sports, through the portion of the 1972 Education Amendments better known as Title IX, whose 40th anniversary is celebrated on June 23.

And in the era of Sheldon Adelson, Bebe Rebozo seems downright quaint.  Here's the link to the Title IX appreciation:   http://tinyurl.com/7ntoxut

Drones?  Secret assassination lists? 
Federal land being hoovered up for drilling?
A President who insists that the President has the right to
classify virtually anything he decides he wants secret?
Actually, I'm not talking about Nixon.

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