This was during the '68 campaign / I think I remember seeing an interview with George Schlatter saying that they offered for Humphrey to come on too but he chose not to for whatever reason / the rest is history.....
@strident212 Richard Nixon was a terrible, terrible person, but compared to the nightmare Reagan years and both Bushes, he looks downright liberal. Hell, even the top marginal tax rate under OBAMA is half of what it was under Nixon.
@terracottapie Yeah, Reagan (and the pope) just won the Cold War, improved the economy, and reduced inflation. If that's a nightmare, I'll take it compared to Obama.
@dcavalli9 Wasn't it obvious I am not an Obama supporter, based on my statement of "EVEN OBAMA"?
Just because someone opposes a shitty Republican president, it doesn't mean they automatically support a Democratic president. This isn't sports where you root for sides.
Also, on what planet did Reagan improve the economy? It was stuck in a ditch when he took over, and he drove it off a cliff, not to recover for 15 years.
@terracottapie Let's see... Unemployment fell, inflation (way back then a big issue), free-fell, and the economy grew. By the time Reagan left office, unemployment was under 6 percent.
I'm sure the Communist Party or the Socialist Workers will put up a candidate you can take pride in. (I just read that Roseanne Barr/Arnold) will run on the far-left Green Party ticket. Maybe she's more your style than Obama...
@dcavalli9 That was cute how you just made up a bunch of stuff Reagan supposedly did, but didn't really do, cited zero sources, then threw in a stupid Rush Limbo line at the end. Two points.
I don't think any sitting president would do this. Only a candidate looking to charm the masses would play the comedian. But it's still funny, considering he was a prominent politician.
An invitation to appear on the show was also extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election", and "[Nixon] said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected. And I believe that. And I've had to live with that."
For anyone who doesn't know John Carpenter(1st million dollar winner on US who wants to be a millionaire) famously called his father on the last question to tell him that he was going to win a million dollars. The question was based on THIS
@loonmaniac Are you kidding me. Ford, in the long run did the right thing. Yea I'll admit, Nixon fucked up bad with watergate, but we would have NEVER moved on as a nation if Ford hadn't pardoned him, and we had bigger things like inflation, unemployment, Vietnam and other bigger problems in 1974 and '75 and honestly, Nixon was a godsend when compared to Geroge Dumbya Bush and at this point in time I would honestly take him over Obama, and I'm a Democrat.
They wouldn't have learned. If you really think about it, Obama really hasn't learned from any of Bush's mistakes in regard to Afganistan and the budget. For the most part, all 44 presidents are controlled by the same people.
No I want the war in Afganistan to end, and no I don't think Vietnam was a smashing success. The problem is Obama is doing the same thing Bush did. When the U.S. casualties increase, escalate more troops and hope for a victory. Obama promised to do things differently with Afganistan and he hasn't done anything different, he just picked up where Bush left of. Obama is doing a half assed job to, but hell I'll take Obama over Bush, the worst president since James Buchanon.
@davleuv I've always said Ford was criticized at the time but vindicated down the road since Nixon accepted the pardon, which was an admission of guilt. At the same time Ford had precedence for the pardon. Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederates after Lincoln's death on the condition they never hold political office again. Ford should have done the same thing only with everyone connected with Watergate. If he had, history would have been kinder.
Nixon appeared on the TV comedy show "Laugh In" (the first time a sitting President had done such a thing). The running joke on the show was to have the guest say "sock it to me." and get doused with water or some other crazy thing.
Nixon mulled over how to say the line for a while they say.
@Champion1970 His Democratic opponent, Hubert Humphrey, was also invited to appear on the show. He declined. Humphrey later said that his refusal was the biggest mistake of the campaign and cost him the election. Nixon's appearance humanized him with enough voters, and he won narrowly in a three-way race.
@Champion1970 He wasn't a sitting president when he appeared on Laugh In. He was running for president, and he claimed that his appearance helped him get elected- it put a human face on Nixon.
read about the election-fraud that year - the stuffed balllot-boxes in chicago and down south...back then, most voters weren't fruity enough to vote for a candidate because they thought he was handsome
and you know the REAL reason didn't ask for a recount, because he was afriad of the government finding out his dirty tricks that he employed to win the election. Kennedy simply outspent him.
you're sure getting passionate about a subject you know nothing about...read about Dick Tuck and Bob Kennedy's attempt to screw Nixon over a loan that his brother got from Howard Hughes to save his hamburger business.
You're the one who is passionate. i know Nixon spent a lifetime smearing people with lies like Helan Gahagan Douglas calling her the "pink lady" but heck, even Jack Kennedy contributed to Nixon's campagn to defeat her. I also know Nixon had electro-shock therapy which accounts for his bizzare behavior in the White House. If the American people knew this fact, it wouldn't have been such a close election in 1960, but more like a landslide for Kennedy.
And read about Nixon's relationship with Anna Chenault during the 1968 campaign. There is proof that the Nixon campaign was working with South Vietnamese President Van Thieu to block President Johnson's attempts for a negotiated settlement before the November election. Take a look at Robert Dallek's book Flawed Giant about LBJ.
Johnson arranged a cease-fire late in the '68 election. Chenault, a member of the Republican women's-club, went to tell Thieu that Nixon'd make a better offer. That's some scandal! Get your facts straight, Troodoo darling!
I think you ought to read Dallek's book. LBJ debated about whether to expose Nixon because his conduct was considered to be interfering with the national security. He elected not to act because he was concerned about how this would affect the sensitive negotiations the United States was engaged in at that time with both North and South Vietnam. It was a very serious issue. We are not talking scandal (that is misleading). We are talking about playing politics with national security.
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Hey, dz2ny... Get use to it. Obama is your President. There ain't a damn thing you can do about it. So bend over and take it in the ASS like you love it or shut the FUCK up!
yeah, well thats not the way it works obviously dumbass. otherwise, no one would have complained about George W for 8 fucking years. Thank god ill only have to deal with obama for 4, and if he keeps this hit up, hell be impeached long before that. fingers crossed
Uh, well since at this point obama has done shit except take giant steps backwards in the economy, military, and overall western civilization, and hes caused the biggest bipartisan divide in US history, and He cant seem to do a damn thing right, and his plan is to socialize/nationalize everything, its safe to say that every president ever was better than nobama. Youre an idiot, rofl? You were actually "rolling on the floor laughing" at somthing thats true? wow youre pretty fucking stupid.
Yeah, let's see if Obama will assassinate foreign presidents like Milhous did with Allende i.e., let's see if he's about to spy his politics opponents.
By the way, if you consider, that all presidents were better than Obama that somehow show at wich point your judgement is corrupted, kinda biased.
First rolling on the floor in laughter, now im making his day, all from someone hes never met on youtube, you dont have very much of a life. But the fact remains, in 2 months in office, nobama the magic negro has done more damage than any other president in that time in history. Not only has he broken 17 campaign promises in that time, but hes also set a budget in motion that will triple the national debt in 8 years. wow, yes you are an idiot. done with this, fuck off.
do you really think America will want a republican back after what the shrub did?Obama will prob be in for 8 years and then if Biden is crazy enough he may be elected.If he doesnt Kucinich will be
Are you kidding? nobama's approval ratings have been on a VERY steady decline since he took office, not to mentino the economy and the rest of the nation. Biden? Every time Biden opens his mouth he makes obama look stupid. You are a fool. A very wishful fool.
know ur the fool.When Obama brings us home money would be goin up.Or would you rather us stay there and loos emoney?Beisdes ur goin to see Obama for 8 years get over it its life Obama won by a landslide.
"know ur the fool.When Obama brings us home money would be goin up.Or would you rather us stay there and loos emoney?" ahaha wow powerful words you have there. I dont even know what to say to that...what does it even mean. fucking idiot.
"Obama won by a landslide."
Are you serious? Are you new to politics or something? No, it wasnt a landslide at all, 54%??? A landslide? wow, you are a fool. Reagans 49 state victory, that's a Landslide dumbass.
ur the dumb ass. i kno wmore about polotics then u do.Plus do you really think America will be better if we had 4 more years of circus elephants running america?
Im a dumbass and and you know more of politics? why? becuase you say so? Yeah, uh, no it doesnt work that way. Both are impossible becuase you aren't even capable of holding any kind of conversation at all. You're an idiot. But keep thinking what you want. You'll always be a tool in the worlds book.
By the way I talk? Wow, you should re-read everything I've said. You have a reading comprehension problem. You make spelling mistakes so often im actually wondering if you think its the correct way to spell the words. You're a fool. And a piece of black trash. get over it. A real land slide? Oh ok, winning 49 out of 50 states isnt' a landslide according to the welfare negro on youtube. Well, i guess hed know. since hes been to uh prison I guess. Weird.
A. You come across as a low intelligence ghetto piece of shit. B. I am not arguing with you. I am stating facts, and you are talking shit about things that are unrelated/make no sense at all. You're an idiot. Deal with it.
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This man make him won a million dollars
sk992085 3 weeks ago
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sk992085 3 weeks ago
this will win me a million dollars some day.
Ruckanucka22 1 month ago 2
According to Billy West (Futurama voice actor) They based all of Nixon's personality on this one line.
firebert123 3 months ago
This was during the '68 campaign / I think I remember seeing an interview with George Schlatter saying that they offered for Humphrey to come on too but he chose not to for whatever reason / the rest is history.....
jshalom65 3 months ago
If you don't get it don't ask, you won't get it, you weren't there or around
ViperRob42 4 months ago
@strident212 Richard Nixon was a terrible, terrible person, but compared to the nightmare Reagan years and both Bushes, he looks downright liberal. Hell, even the top marginal tax rate under OBAMA is half of what it was under Nixon.
terracottapie 5 months ago
@terracottapie Yeah, Reagan (and the pope) just won the Cold War, improved the economy, and reduced inflation. If that's a nightmare, I'll take it compared to Obama.
dcavalli9 3 months ago
@dcavalli9 Wasn't it obvious I am not an Obama supporter, based on my statement of "EVEN OBAMA"?
Just because someone opposes a shitty Republican president, it doesn't mean they automatically support a Democratic president. This isn't sports where you root for sides.
Also, on what planet did Reagan improve the economy? It was stuck in a ditch when he took over, and he drove it off a cliff, not to recover for 15 years.
terracottapie 3 months ago
@terracottapie Let's see... Unemployment fell, inflation (way back then a big issue), free-fell, and the economy grew. By the time Reagan left office, unemployment was under 6 percent.
I'm sure the Communist Party or the Socialist Workers will put up a candidate you can take pride in. (I just read that Roseanne Barr/Arnold) will run on the far-left Green Party ticket. Maybe she's more your style than Obama...
dcavalli9 1 month ago
@dcavalli9 That was cute how you just made up a bunch of stuff Reagan supposedly did, but didn't really do, cited zero sources, then threw in a stupid Rush Limbo line at the end. Two points.
terracottapie 1 month ago
These four seconds turned a tax collector from Hamden, Conneticut into the world's first TV Millionaire.
PokerJoker811 5 months ago
hes won a million dollars!
psychhoo 7 months ago
This is what got Nixon elected.
TerryCraig23 8 months ago
Hehehe. This is something to remind the Republicans of whenever they get all pissy about Obama going on talk shows and other "unserious" venues.
Serai3 9 months ago
I don't think any sitting president would do this. Only a candidate looking to charm the masses would play the comedian. But it's still funny, considering he was a prominent politician.
LateNightCable 10 months ago
thumbs up if u only watched this bcz that guy won a milion dollars for this question
artiplusrotti 11 months ago 63
@artiplusrotti lol yeah!!
danjoelabrenica 2 months ago
THIS SHOULD GO VIRAL
theshugchannel 1 year ago
@theshugchannel it went viral about 40 years ago :P
el6caballo6oscuro6 10 months ago
@el6caballo6oscuro6 lol u kno what i mean;)
theshugchannel 10 months ago
@el6caballo6oscuro6 An interesting trick considering there was no internet back then.
Serai3 9 months ago
@Serai3 who asked you?
el6caballo6oscuro6 8 months ago
My dad says this is what got Nixon elected.
oldgregg222 1 year ago
Early fall,1968-Nixon makes a cameo on Laugh-In.
Late fall,1968-Nixon is elected president.
Early spring,1973-Laugh-In's cancelation.
Late spring,1973-Events esculate in what will result in the Nixon Administration's cancelation.
RJRanke 1 year ago 2
An invitation to appear on the show was also extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election", and "[Nixon] said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected. And I believe that. And I've had to live with that."
Seasass 1 year ago
Sounds Like Someone Breaking In
mibevan 1 year ago
he didnt say it how i'd imagined he'd say it.
GianTheMan91 1 year ago
Sock it to me?!
SnorkyO 1 year ago
Thank GOd they Didn't have HI-Def back then.
gnrdude 1 year ago
Nixon had a sense of humor
nirvana2187 1 year ago
Arrooooo! XD
SuperWolsey 1 year ago
lol fuck that, nixon was the man.
PhilM662 1 year ago
For anyone who doesn't know John Carpenter(1st million dollar winner on US who wants to be a millionaire) famously called his father on the last question to tell him that he was going to win a million dollars. The question was based on THIS
peterh4u 1 year ago 2
This was the answer to the first ever million dollar winner on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
Celly222 1 year ago
Ford never should have pardoned that sonofabitch Nixon.
loonmaniac 2 years ago
@loonmaniac Are you kidding me. Ford, in the long run did the right thing. Yea I'll admit, Nixon fucked up bad with watergate, but we would have NEVER moved on as a nation if Ford hadn't pardoned him, and we had bigger things like inflation, unemployment, Vietnam and other bigger problems in 1974 and '75 and honestly, Nixon was a godsend when compared to Geroge Dumbya Bush and at this point in time I would honestly take him over Obama, and I'm a Democrat.
davleuv 2 years ago 3
Nixon should have been prosecuted. It would have made future presidents think twice about criminality. Nixon should have died in prison.
loonmaniac 2 years ago
They wouldn't have learned. If you really think about it, Obama really hasn't learned from any of Bush's mistakes in regard to Afganistan and the budget. For the most part, all 44 presidents are controlled by the same people.
davleuv 2 years ago
You can't dispiute that Afghanistan needs to be followed through on, after Bush's half-assed job. Unless you think Vietnam was a smashing success.
loonmaniac 2 years ago
No I want the war in Afganistan to end, and no I don't think Vietnam was a smashing success. The problem is Obama is doing the same thing Bush did. When the U.S. casualties increase, escalate more troops and hope for a victory. Obama promised to do things differently with Afganistan and he hasn't done anything different, he just picked up where Bush left of. Obama is doing a half assed job to, but hell I'll take Obama over Bush, the worst president since James Buchanon.
davleuv 2 years ago
@davleuv I've always said Ford was criticized at the time but vindicated down the road since Nixon accepted the pardon, which was an admission of guilt. At the same time Ford had precedence for the pardon. Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederates after Lincoln's death on the condition they never hold political office again. Ford should have done the same thing only with everyone connected with Watergate. If he had, history would have been kinder.
vccstudents 2 years ago
LOL! Do bad this wasnt after Watergate
bababooie 2 years ago
I don't get it...
Jellyfish60 2 years ago
Nixon appeared on the TV comedy show "Laugh In" (the first time a sitting President had done such a thing). The running joke on the show was to have the guest say "sock it to me." and get doused with water or some other crazy thing.
Nixon mulled over how to say the line for a while they say.
Champion1970 2 years ago 8
@Champion1970 I'm pretty sure he was running for President at the time.
AllenbysEyes 1 year ago
@AllenbysEyes You are correct sir....I stand corrected. ;)
Champion1970 1 year ago
@Champion1970 His Democratic opponent, Hubert Humphrey, was also invited to appear on the show. He declined. Humphrey later said that his refusal was the biggest mistake of the campaign and cost him the election. Nixon's appearance humanized him with enough voters, and he won narrowly in a three-way race.
dcavalli9 3 months ago
@Champion1970 Actually he was a sitting President yet. This episode aired about 2 months before the 1968 election.
TheGemini90 1 year ago
@Champion1970 He wasn't a sitting president when he appeared on Laugh In. He was running for president, and he claimed that his appearance helped him get elected- it put a human face on Nixon.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@Champion1970 now obama was on the daily show with john stewart
joey5605 1 year ago
Nixon really was an ugly sob. no wonder Kennedy beat him in 1960
3dartistguy 2 years ago
Nixon was really an ugly sob.
3dartistguy 2 years ago
actually Nixon won that election, drongo
chuckcolson 2 years ago
Of course he won, thats why Kennedy was sworn in as President.
3dartistguy 2 years ago
read about the election-fraud that year - the stuffed balllot-boxes in chicago and down south...back then, most voters weren't fruity enough to vote for a candidate because they thought he was handsome
chuckcolson 2 years ago
and you know the REAL reason didn't ask for a recount, because he was afriad of the government finding out his dirty tricks that he employed to win the election. Kennedy simply outspent him.
3dartistguy 2 years ago
you're sure getting passionate about a subject you know nothing about...read about Dick Tuck and Bob Kennedy's attempt to screw Nixon over a loan that his brother got from Howard Hughes to save his hamburger business.
chuckcolson 2 years ago
You're the one who is passionate. i know Nixon spent a lifetime smearing people with lies like Helan Gahagan Douglas calling her the "pink lady" but heck, even Jack Kennedy contributed to Nixon's campagn to defeat her. I also know Nixon had electro-shock therapy which accounts for his bizzare behavior in the White House. If the American people knew this fact, it wouldn't have been such a close election in 1960, but more like a landslide for Kennedy.
3dartistguy 2 years ago
you should start a club "Queers for Kennedy"
chuckcolson 2 years ago
hEY, You should do the same-"old ugly Fags for Nixon"
oh, and JFK hated Fags
3dartistguy 2 years ago
with your determination you could get a date with Teddy
chuckcolson 2 years ago
And read about Nixon's relationship with Anna Chenault during the 1968 campaign. There is proof that the Nixon campaign was working with South Vietnamese President Van Thieu to block President Johnson's attempts for a negotiated settlement before the November election. Take a look at Robert Dallek's book Flawed Giant about LBJ.
Trudeau790 2 years ago
Johnson arranged a cease-fire late in the '68 election. Chenault, a member of the Republican women's-club, went to tell Thieu that Nixon'd make a better offer. That's some scandal! Get your facts straight, Troodoo darling!
chuckcolson 2 years ago
I think you ought to read Dallek's book. LBJ debated about whether to expose Nixon because his conduct was considered to be interfering with the national security. He elected not to act because he was concerned about how this would affect the sensitive negotiations the United States was engaged in at that time with both North and South Vietnam. It was a very serious issue. We are not talking scandal (that is misleading). We are talking about playing politics with national security.
Trudeau790 2 years ago
and this one tricky dicks that election....still wouldnt of helped him if RFK didnt get shot.
Nacho2333 2 years ago
i am jest watching top 50 best tv quotes and i saw this so i typed it in. ty
DCAivan 2 years ago
SAME! this is hilarious.
MsPanini95 2 years ago
"I'm meeting you half-way you damn longhairs Arrrooooo!"
walrusonion 2 years ago 25
Futurama isn't it...classic!
Champion1970 2 years ago 13
i have a nixon/agnew lunchbox in my mom's attic...what do you think it will go for on ebay?
1clarinet1981 2 years ago
he was way better than nobama
dz2ny 3 years ago
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Hey, dz2ny... Get use to it. Obama is your President. There ain't a damn thing you can do about it. So bend over and take it in the ASS like you love it or shut the FUCK up!
creaturebotman 2 years ago
yeah, well thats not the way it works obviously dumbass. otherwise, no one would have complained about George W for 8 fucking years. Thank god ill only have to deal with obama for 4, and if he keeps this hit up, hell be impeached long before that. fingers crossed
dz2ny 2 years ago
Richard Milhous Nixon better than Obama ? rofl
Gr33nd0g 2 years ago
Uh, well since at this point obama has done shit except take giant steps backwards in the economy, military, and overall western civilization, and hes caused the biggest bipartisan divide in US history, and He cant seem to do a damn thing right, and his plan is to socialize/nationalize everything, its safe to say that every president ever was better than nobama. Youre an idiot, rofl? You were actually "rolling on the floor laughing" at somthing thats true? wow youre pretty fucking stupid.
dz2ny 2 years ago
Yeah, let's see if Obama will assassinate foreign presidents like Milhous did with Allende i.e., let's see if he's about to spy his politics opponents.
By the way, if you consider, that all presidents were better than Obama that somehow show at wich point your judgement is corrupted, kinda biased.
So i still rofl, thanks, you made my day.
Gr33nd0g 2 years ago
First rolling on the floor in laughter, now im making his day, all from someone hes never met on youtube, you dont have very much of a life. But the fact remains, in 2 months in office, nobama the magic negro has done more damage than any other president in that time in history. Not only has he broken 17 campaign promises in that time, but hes also set a budget in motion that will triple the national debt in 8 years. wow, yes you are an idiot. done with this, fuck off.
dz2ny 2 years ago
do you really think America will want a republican back after what the shrub did?Obama will prob be in for 8 years and then if Biden is crazy enough he may be elected.If he doesnt Kucinich will be
Nacho2333 2 years ago
Are you kidding? nobama's approval ratings have been on a VERY steady decline since he took office, not to mentino the economy and the rest of the nation. Biden? Every time Biden opens his mouth he makes obama look stupid. You are a fool. A very wishful fool.
dz2ny 2 years ago
know ur the fool.When Obama brings us home money would be goin up.Or would you rather us stay there and loos emoney?Beisdes ur goin to see Obama for 8 years get over it its life Obama won by a landslide.
Nacho2333 2 years ago
"know ur the fool.When Obama brings us home money would be goin up.Or would you rather us stay there and loos emoney?" ahaha wow powerful words you have there. I dont even know what to say to that...what does it even mean. fucking idiot.
"Obama won by a landslide."
Are you serious? Are you new to politics or something? No, it wasnt a landslide at all, 54%??? A landslide? wow, you are a fool. Reagans 49 state victory, that's a Landslide dumbass.
dz2ny 2 years ago
ur the dumb ass. i kno wmore about polotics then u do.Plus do you really think America will be better if we had 4 more years of circus elephants running america?
Nacho2333 2 years ago
Im a dumbass and and you know more of politics? why? becuase you say so? Yeah, uh, no it doesnt work that way. Both are impossible becuase you aren't even capable of holding any kind of conversation at all. You're an idiot. But keep thinking what you want. You'll always be a tool in the worlds book.
dz2ny 2 years ago
i can tell by the way you talk ur goin to get no where in life(and btw a real landslide is LBJ vs Goldwater)
Nacho2333 2 years ago
By the way I talk? Wow, you should re-read everything I've said. You have a reading comprehension problem. You make spelling mistakes so often im actually wondering if you think its the correct way to spell the words. You're a fool. And a piece of black trash. get over it. A real land slide? Oh ok, winning 49 out of 50 states isnt' a landslide according to the welfare negro on youtube. Well, i guess hed know. since hes been to uh prison I guess. Weird.
dz2ny 2 years ago
get ur damn facts straight.First off im white not black.Second this shows how smart you are for fighting with someone whos younger then you.
Nacho2333 2 years ago
A. You come across as a low intelligence ghetto piece of shit. B. I am not arguing with you. I am stating facts, and you are talking shit about things that are unrelated/make no sense at all. You're an idiot. Deal with it.
dz2ny 2 years ago
rofl ur not white or black ur mixed quit lieing :D
robisgangsta1 2 years ago