History For Hacks

by digby
from Hullabaloo

From Mary at The Left Coaster I see that the Nixon Library is going to try to become something other than a carnival sideshow since the GOP congress decided to trust them with the Nixon papers. (Gee, I sure hope nothing important disappears or anything ... )

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda has long been the most kicked-around of presidential libraries, and nothing invited more ridicule than the dim, narrow room purporting to describe the scandal that drove its namesake from office.

Venturing into that room, visitors learned that Watergate, which provoked a constitutional crisis and became an enduring byword for abuses of executive power, was really a "coup" engineered by Nixon enemies. The exhibit accused Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — without evidence — of "offering bribes" to further their famous coverage.

(The rest is here.)