James Rosen

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Morning Wire · No One Thought He Could Do It — But Nixon Won The Culture War · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

It seems to me that although it would have placed the Watergate scandal itself in a different light, probably those forces, including what became the special prosecutors, all of that was a raid against Nixon, and he didn't have the base of political support.

To combat it all, we had a not great economy in 1974 as well.

So I don't know that earlier disclosure would have spared Nixon his ultimate fate.

But nonetheless, as we continually reassess his historical legacy, it seems to me that he deserves credit for protecting the military from what would have been an episode of great damage to the reputation of the armed forces.

Only the passage of time sometimes can yield what really happened.

And that, of course, is the ultimate duty of the historian is to tell what happened.

So it used to be called the permanent bureaucracy.

Now it's called the deep state, which is, of course, sounds a little more sinister.

But in essence, what we're talking about would be cadres of government officials who are working actively against the policies of the elected presidents of the United States.

That doesn't always take illegal forms, mind you.

You know, simple delay in the discharge of your duties, which isn't a crime necessarily, can cause the sabotage of a given policy.

Now, we can't imagine that the deep state today is the same exact deep state as it was in 1971 when the plumbers discovered this military spying against President Nixon.

There would have to be a significant rate of generational attrition.

But the way I put this, Lyndon, is that the deep state reminds me to a certain extent of the New York Mets and the State Department.

The New York Mets today are not the same New York Mets of 1969.

We know this.

okay but yet no matter what management has done over the course of the intervening 50 some odd years no matter the generational attrition it seems that the same basic features define the new york mets generation after generation which is to say weak hitting and very strong pitching and at the state department again the people working there are not the people who were working there in 1969 there probably isn't a single person left who worked in the state department even as early as 1980 i'm willing to bet but

But again, the institution displays certain enduring characteristics.

And in the case of the State Department, that would be hostility to conservative foreign policies.

And so in the deep state, again, these are not the same people.

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