mcfudd
May 30, 2004, 11:39 PM
“But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing: [unclear] you can’t trust the government; you can’t believe what they say; and you can’t rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it’s wrong, and the President can be wrong.”
-- H.R. Haldeman to President Nixon, Monday, 14 June 1971, 3:09 p.m. meeting.
Has the Bush administration done anything during the Iraq war that would damage the presidency as much as The Pentagon Papers did during the Nixon administration in 1971?
Has Bush lost the confidence of the American people? If not, what would it take?
-- H.R. Haldeman to President Nixon, Monday, 14 June 1971, 3:09 p.m. meeting.
Has the Bush administration done anything during the Iraq war that would damage the presidency as much as The Pentagon Papers did during the Nixon administration in 1971?
Has Bush lost the confidence of the American people? If not, what would it take?
