I remember that incident well The US paid $61.8 million compensation to the victims' families. Let's see how much Iran pays out.That ship then and Iran now are completely at fault for killing those people, that's not the same situation at Boeing.
My point, though, was different. It is often said that Nixon's downfall was his desire to document everything. The Oval Office recordings and notes did him in. Absent those, there might have been a lot of partisan palaver, but nothing would have come of it.
In this century, e-mails seem to have been at the source of every scandal large and small. Enron, Auction Rate Securities (2008), Mueller stuff, and so forth. My reference to e-mails was meant as hyperbole. They present a risk that far too many people ignore. Like Nixon's recordings, after awhile, he forgot it was being done and let his guard down. The same is true for the salacious stuff Mueller uncovered. There was no intent on my part whatsoever to make light of either what just happened or the Vincennes incident.