YOUR OPINION: Memories of the Nixon years

Dear Editor:

I was slithering down memory lane when I came across the Nixon years.

Some like Gordon Liddy thought Nixon should use his executive power to set the country on a straight and narrow-minded path. Nixon was commander-inchief of the armed forces and had the attorney general in his hip pocket. Haldeman got rid of any leftist opposition.

Most newspapers were laid back so as to not lose subscribers in spite of what their own biases might be. Some though had political cartoons picturing King Milhouse the Third. Some magazines had photographs of squads of men in 19th century operettastyle military uniforms parading on the White House grounds.

My boss a very intelligent man said that Nixon would never have a chance at any kind of takeover because the governors were too powerful and would prevent it. I quite by chance came across a way he could get around this. I read in a write-in section of a Hattisburg, Mississippi, newspaper that in 1969 Nixon had passed by presidential decree a law dividing the U.S. into 12 administrative districts. This law is still on the books. There is a precedence for this - Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Reserve system.

How would the administrators of these districts be chosen? Would they be appointed like Supreme Court justices by the president? Would they regulate finances of the districts? What other things would they have power over? Would the governors become powerless clerks?

I commend Nixon for not being mesmerized by his psychopathic followers and throwing in the towel preventing a lot of grief.

I admit I was as bad as can be. I was a Democrat for Nixon. I saw a picture of him in Life magazine hugging a cat and I was hooked.