re: #364 ProLifeLiberal

I object more to Reagan than Nixon.

Watergate was far less damaging to the US and less of a legal infraction than Iran-Contra.

True, but character and intentions count. Americans saw Reagan as a fatherly patriot who always tried to do what was right. They saw Nixon as a cold, paranoid creep who could get things done (until Watergate, then they just saw the creep part). Image is everything.