I Lived Through The Nixon Resignation

I keep trying to find a parallel set of circumstances to what we're seeing now -- there's a general acknowledgement that there's some similarity to the withdrawal from Viet Nam, and we're just beginning to see calls for Biden's resignation a la Nixon, but it was fairly plain to observers in 1973, a year after the Watergate burglary, that a coherent plan was afoot. In October of that year, the deep state quickly ushered Spiro Agnew out of the vice presidncy in what one commentator at the time called "the first shoe of a two-shoe drop." Gerald Ford replaced Agnew as vice president in December 1973. Nixon resigned on August 8, 1974, with Ford succeeding him in what turned out to be a caretaker role. Nelson Rockefeller, with lizard ancestry clearly in his DNA, waited in the wings.

What strikes me in retrospect is how orderly this process was in contrast to what we're seeing now, which in many ways is looking like a very fast-action version of Nixon's collapse. Biden has retreated to a Wilmington bunker, and I'm not sure how long his position can remain tenable as deep-state sources leak documents daily that contradict Biden's own self-contradictory public statements. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, returned from vacation but seems disinclined now even to spin at press briefings. I strongly suspect that, even as establishment media begins to ask why Biden won't answer questions, he'll continue to have nothing concrete to say.

The whole Watergate episode lasted a little over two years, where the country had leisure to savor the circus and the people in charge had plenty of time to game things through. This will be nothing like Watergate.

UPDATE: As of now, Biden has changed his mind yet again over going back to Wilmington -- hard to tell if he will or won't.