RICHARD NIXON Watergate 1973 (Part 22) All at Once, (Part 6) The Dust Settles

The Richard Nixon Experience

Send us a Text Message.

In this episode we bring this historic month to an end. The Israeli's agree to a ceasefire with Egypt and Syria at the behest of our government and negotiated by Henry Kissinger. The ending of the war where it was, would eventually help lead to the Camp David Accords between two of the three countries involved that would come to fruition years later by President Jimmy Carter. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat probably lost his life for his willingness to reach out for peace with Israel as well.
The aftermath of the Saturday Night Massacre also weakened President Nixon's position and was the catalyst for the first real push to move toward impeachment against him. In my opinion, one clear hero of the events emerged, Robert Bork the Solicitor General. It would come at a price a decade later when Ted Kennedy mauled him and worked to steal his dream of becoming a Supreme Court Justice. No matter those events, Robert Bork would become and continue to be a hero to the conservatives of America and his mistreatment at the hands of Ted Kennedy was the single event that galvanized a movement that would eventually succeed in getting six conservative justices on today's Supreme Court.
We end this show with a long segment that dealt with two of the historic events of October 1973 with the only real heroic figure to emerge from these events, Robert Bork.