Watergate Saga--[NYT]

liver411

When he accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1968, Richard Nixon said, ''Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth -- to see it as it is, and tell it like it is -- to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.''

Trust, said Ronald Reagan, but verify.

There you have it in a nutshell. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, drunk with power and insufficiently restrained, took the nation on hair-raising journeys that were as unnecessary as they were destructive. Now, in the first years of the 21st century, George W. Bush is doing the same.

香孜

''Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth -- to see it as it is, and tell it like it is -- to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.''
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彩虹玫瑰

实话实说，有一说一

太湖之梦

i cann't understand the following setence:

"There you have it in a nutshell. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, drunk with power and insufficiently restrained, took the nation on hair-raising journeys that were as unnecessary as they were destructive."

太湖之梦

前面还是不能理解，后面大概意思是，约翰逊和尼克松，滥用职权，把这个国家带入一个不必要的破坏性的进程中。