Nixon, Deep Throat, and Kennedy

Back in high school, I wrote a report on Nixon saying that his presidency did many good things like opening up China and the Salt I treaty with Russia, as well as eventually pull-out from Vietnam. I, of course, wound up getting a lecture from my history teacher about what an evil man Nixon was.

However, when one looks at the alleged goings-on in Nixon-Kennedy presidential race of 1960, it makes one wonder if the politics of the day weren't full of Watergate style shenanigans. Was the difference truly a media and press that was out to get Nixon while they were willing to cover up Kennedy's affairs, pain medication use, and illness ten years earlier?

In the end, Mark Felt helped bring down Nixon in a somewhat ironic way considering Mr. Felt himself was later indicted for authorizing the FBI to committ illegal break-ins on the Weather Underground.