In retrospect, should Nixon have resigned?

[LBJ Revivalist]

In retrospect, should Nixon have resigned?

I'm considering that if he had fought it out, even if he was convicted and removed from office, his reputation might've been somewhat better. He wouldn't have been thought of as a quitter and the Watergate thing would've had real closure, instead of the abrupt and still controversial closure which the pardon gave.

President Ford could've issued a pardon after Nixon was removed from office and ensured that he didn't go to prison, but at the same time, his opponents would've been appeased, and his reputation might've been better for accepting a conviction in the Senate--it would've at least been a more open acknowledgement of guilt.

Not only that, but had he remained in office, he could've perhaps stopped South Vietnam from being overrun; He could've handled the economy better than Ford ended up doing; He could've done some more domestic achievements. He could've perhaps lessened the utter disaster of Watergate and somehow staved off the Reagan faction of the GOP gaining as much power as it did.

[LBJ Revivalist]

I don't know anybody who sees Nixon as a 'quitter.' I do know many people, me among them, who think he was an asshole.

Yeah but you're a Reaganite so that's kind of the pot calling the kettle black.

[LBJ Revivalist]

I don't know anybody who sees Nixon as a 'quitter.' I do know many people, me among them, who think he was an asshole.

Yeah but you're a Reaganite so that's kind of the pot calling the kettle black.

lol

I am no Reaganite, but he was miles ahead of Nixon. Not that it takes much.

I don't know anybody who sees Nixon as a 'quitter.' I do know many people, me among them, who think he was an asshole.

Yeah but you're a Reaganite so that's kind of the pot calling the kettle black.

If this is the same Giovanni that railed what I had posted as my  political platform (assuming memory serves me right and it was Giovanni), I don't think he's a Reaganite.

Sorry about that. I was having a bad day, so I figured I would act like Einzige for a bit.

I don't know anybody who sees Nixon as a 'quitter.' I do know many people, me among them, who think he was an asshole.

Yeah but you're a Reaganite so that's kind of the pot calling the kettle black.

If this is the same Giovanni that railed what I had posted as my  political platform (assuming memory serves me right and it was Giovanni), I don't think he's a Reaganite.

Yeah calling Giovanni a "Reaganite" is all sorts of lol.
I remember clearly hearing him say he would vote Mondale over Reagan

Yeah, Mondale probably wouldn't have been much better, but it wouldn't have taken much to outperform Ronnie.

Reagan, while not a "crook", was a big mistake in the long run for this country.