Counterpoint to Column on Nixon

Regarding Ken Khachigian’s column on April 27, it is amazing that a world-class newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, could waste precious editorial space on such a small-minded, completely personal assessment of Nixon.

He reduces the efforts of thoughtful people who had to vote for Nixon’s impeachment to mere emotional and partisan flippancy. Remembering the trepidation and fears of the great members of Congress who had to consider, void of hypocrisy, the historical implications of impeaching a modern president, I must find that the entire article of Khachigian is just so much pointless verbiage.

It is the same as saying Lincoln was a lousy president because he clung to a hopeless yearning for a single union which ended up killing thousands of Americans in a silly Civil War, but hypocritical fanatics view him as great just because he gave a great speech at Gettysburg.

DAVID GOLDENBERG

Dana Point