tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post5478115480519404029..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: April 25, 1973Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-56690809957827115502013-04-26T09:57:55.863-05:002013-04-26T09:57:55.863-05:00There's an interesting moment in that later co...There's an interesting moment in that later conversation with Haldeman that you link to.<br /><br />He seems to be justifying taking Dean on and fighting the thing out as 'my word against his' by virtue of his continuing popularity, especially in red America.<br /><br /><i>PRESIDENT: Ya, ya, that's right despite all the polls and all the rest, I think there's still a hell of a lot of people out there, and from<br />what I've seen, they're--you know, they,<br />they want to believe, that's the point,<br />isn't it?</i><br /><br />This reminds me of your post from June 8th, and especially the quote from Nelson Polsby:<br /><br /><i>Politics for Mr. Nixon was electoral politics, campaign politics. Election conferred a mandate, an entitlement for him to act in office as his predecessors had acted, i small ways as well as in large ways.</i><br /><br />So did Nixon at some level think the very idea of Justice, the Senate etc. bringing him down over this was an elite affront to the popular will? Did he think of the legal sphere, as well as the political, in electoral terms?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com