I spent some time going through History video last night. I love that kind of stuff. The Nixon years was what I was into. My Parents LOVED Nixon. He did end the war in Vietnam. Being a high school girl , I only cared about ending a war that had been going on since my toddlerhood. All the stuff about Watergate was just "The Leftists" and "commie sympathizers" bringing down a GREAT President.

LOL, what brought me into looking at this stuff? Well E Howard Hunt died:

Yet the bulk of his notoriety came from the one thing he always insisted he wasn't -- a Watergate burglar. He often said he preferred the term "Watergate conspirator."

"I will always be called a Watergate burglar, even though I was never in the damn place," Hunt told The Miami Herald in 1997. "But it happened. Now I have to make the best of it."

While working for the CIA, Hunt recruited four of the five actual burglars -- Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Rolando Eugenio Martinez and Frank Sturgis, all who had worked for Hunt a decade earlier in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

All four also had ties to Miami, where part of the Watergate plan was hatched.

"According to street gossip both in Washington and Miami, Mr. Castro had been making substantial contributions to the McGovern campaign," Hunt told CNN in February 1992. "And the idea was ... that somewhere in the books of the Democratic National Committee those illicit funds would be found."

In  2006 Daniel Ellsburg came out talking about Watergate.

EXCLUSIVE: Nixon White House Counsel John Dean and Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg on Watergate and the Abuse of Presidential Power from Nixon to Bush

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On June 28, 1971, Ellsberg surrendered to face charges of espionage. Henry Kissinger would go on to describe him as "the world's most dangerous man" and the Nixon administration made attempts to ruin his life going so far as breaking into his psychiatrist's office with the hope of uncovering incriminating information

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Is this where the Swiftboating REALLY got its start?

ANd John Dean has become a very vocal critic of GW Bush. The parallels are there folks.

Listen to this piece of testimony from Erlichman (another player in Watergate) See how much he sounds like the douchebags of today.