Tricky Dick Nixon Quote of the Week!

“Think about it. I am not a Nixon loyalist. I am not even a Republican. I am gay. I am from Canada. I was 12 years old when Richard Nixon resigned.”

—Timonty Naftali, director of Orange County's Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in a recent New York Times story about a feud at the museum on how to present the Watergate scandal to visitors.

Nixon loyalists downplay the 37th president's crimes to common traffic infractions while they order the early bird special.

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Among other offenses, this delusional president authorized burglaries and illegal surveillance of political critics while sitting in the Oval Office.

Naftali, a Cold War expert and well-respected historian who has taught at Yale, doesn't want to lie. The OC blue hairs are ready to throw their knitting needles at him and Nixon must be rolling over in his grave just by his presence. Thus, he is worthy of many awards.

But a struggle is underway, reports Adam Nagourney, one of this country's premier political journalists.

–R. Scott Moxley/OC Weekly

R. Scott Moxley

CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.

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