PJM Exclusive: Nixon Aide Chapin on the Worst Scandal Facing Obama

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PJ Media: PJM Exclusive: Nixon Aide Chapin on the Worst Scandal Facing Obama

by Bridget Johnson Bio June 22, 2013 - 10:10 pm

 

"These things seem to be compounded by time — that's what happened with Watergate," he said in an interview. "This is the drip, drip, drip, drip."

 

WASHINGTON — The former deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon and the first member of the White House team to resign as the Watergate scandal unfolded told PJ Media on Saturday that he believes the IRS targeting of conservative groups is President Obama’s greatest current scandal.

 

But Dwight Chapin said he does not think any one of the scandals on its own is enough to bring down Obama’s presidency.

 

“It’s fascinating some of the similarities, you know; the talk about Nixon having an era of criminality or whatever it might be in the Nixon White House, and at the same time now we’re wondering about this aura of prejudice against the Tea Party people and so forth — and whether or not that rhetoric from the very top of our leadership led to the possible actions by the way of IRS agents. And it’s a very similar situation,” Chapin said in an interview