Hello, this is Yeukhon, and I am very proud to have you to come visit my blog. It is dedicated for my 2009 Arista Presidential Election. It will be the memory of this event. So today’s story I chose Nixon and the Watergate.
My AP US teacher, Mrs. Ali was absent today and Mr. Nobel came in to moderate our class. He gave out the worksheet that Mrs. Ali had left with, and the topic was “Nixon and Watergate”.
The aim was “Is Nixon’s Self-Justification convincing?”
From what I had read from the worksheet, he did not directly confess that he was directly involved in the Watergate. Instead he praised President Ford’s pardon and described his regrets to the Americans.
So, here is the story line. Nixon as a President, the only thing I think people remembered beside the Watergate, was his visit of China.
It was the first American President had ever visited China and the first world-power leader visited China after it fell under the control of the communist and the first time since the Cold War and Isolation broke out.
It was a dramatic change and turning point of the history. Since the visiting, China and many other isolated countries began to look forward in openess. Not necessarily in full openness, but in a progress.
But the remark about Nixon with Watergate had a greater impact with the world-leadership and its administration. Government was now appeared to be “self-interest” and “corrupted”, proved by the Watergate. Nixon’s direct invovlment made the America power looked corrupted and weaker.
In Nixon’s “regret” statment, he said he had mistaken himself so much that he could not face the reality. The Americans felt betrayed because Nixon had committed a crime as a President, who operate and control the government with law and justice. That the Watergate had proven that politics was never that pure. Everyone has a self-interest.
It is so clear that Nixon’s action had led to another “Progressive Movement”. Later when President Bill Clinton committed affair, he had lost so many supporters, and granted the a remarkable scratch on his ” life time transcript”.
So politic is never pure and people are never pure either. We need to moderate ourselves all the time, remember what is right and wrong. Like the student who had set up a small fire in the bathroom on April Fool in FLHS, remember that. He was arrested and had lost his entrance into college. His life is now “mess-up”.
Do not promise unless you know what you doing and think carefully before you ever move your feet apart. Set a time and make some changes, make sure you know yourself, and the court.