The Best Nixon Document Ever?

At Slate.

Oh, man, that guy was quite the psycho. You've gotta love some of his attempts to cite evidence that he's actually a minimally human being, especially his reference to "the calls that I make to people when they are sick, even though they no longer mean anything to anybody."

Jesus, what a bleeding-heart pansy.

And don't forget: many of our friends on the right who are still defending W are the kinds of people who would still be defending Nixon if this were 1974. Hell, for that matter, many of our friends on the right who are still defending W are still defending Nixon in 2007. Don't forget, Nixon had around a 40% approval rating during Watergate. A large percentage of the right is nothing if not intensely tribal; mere facts are usually insufficient to shake their allegiance to their (usually ill-chosen) heroes. The only way they can lose the support of their dittohead followers is by being insufficiently conservative. Mere injustice and incompetence won't do the trick.