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fyshing t1_ivfnkcy wrote

Nixon got his revenge on Massachusetts by closing the Naval base in Boston. There's a little of it still left: The USS Constitution is based here.

Three years later, Nixon was out because of Watergate. A group of Republican senators told him that he would be convicted in a Senate trial, so he resigned. Gerald Ford (the VP) made himself very unpopular by issuing a blanket pardon to Nixon.

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PRPA1010 t1_ivgt5el wrote

The good ole days when you could get convicted by your own political party.

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I_eat_mud_ t1_iviahnz wrote

But he wasn’t though. They gave him the easy way out.

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