In one of my previous blog entries I wrote about the comparisons that were made between the terms of President Nixon and President Bush. After reading the article and being blown away by the contrast I decided to dwell a little deeper and read Final Days, written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they followed the complicated story that was the Watergate scandal. My main reasoning was I wanted to read for myself the real emotions that Nixon felt knowing he had betrayed the country’s trust and compare them with the way Bush is reacting to his own administrations failures. After reading the book I found that Nixon was truly and deeply hurt by what he had done, not to himself, but rather to the American people and the country he really loved. He showed that by calling and apologizing to friends and family, showing true human emotion. President Nixon may have had a lot of faults and he definitely did some illegal things. Given all that, he still knew it was wrong and admitted to his mistakes and I believe it when he meant he said he never did it for “personal gain, never.” He resigned not to protect his image but rather to protect the American people. He felt that a President on trial “would not be fair to the country.” There in lies the difference between Bush and Nixon. Bush still to this day has not admitted that the failures of his administration were in fact, his. He chooses, however, to blame intelligence reports, which really sounds like a big game of he-said, she-said. Being the President means having to make tough decisions and with that comes the responsibility of those decisions.