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[nichomachus]

I detested Richard Nixon -- however

Nixon also launched Project Independence, declaring, "Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving." (Automobile aside: Even before the oil embargo, in 1970, Nixon proclaimed in an environmental message to Congress: "I am inaugurating a program to marshal both government and private research with the goal of producing an unconventionally powered virtually pollution free automobile within five years.")

President Gerald Ford moved the date for achieving American energy independence back to 1985. (Auto Aside: Ford signed the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which set federal standards for energy efficiency in new cars for the first time.)

http://www.reason.com/news/show/34845.html

This probably gives you some clue as to why the corporatists decided that Nixon had to be taken down. Watergate and the subsequent drive for impeachment was an inside job. Nixon was brought down by the corporatists. The Democrats merely helped.