1960 - Nixon on Civil Rights

[longfootbuddy]

civil rights are granted by goverment to its citizens.. they deny your human rights, and have no authority to do so..

[FRSFreeStatePlus]

Richard Nixon sounding like a liberal on Civil Rights

[loyaldude10]

@FRSFreeStatePlus --on this issue, Nixon was a moderate. I'm not sure if this was lip service at the time, or if he really would have been behind it had he been in office from `1961-64. But he did enforce the Court decress on the busing issue while Pres. IMO, Nixon sometimes unfailry got a bad rap--people never got how he was during the Hiss hearings, and many just hated him. Even some politicians in his own party

[ForzaJersey]

@FRSFreeStatePlus You mean the same Richard Nixon that started Affirmative Action and the EPA???

[skybart]

@nwoalexjones ..but Kennedy had the better shave!

[3dartistguy]

Too bad we don't have equal rights with Affirmative Action giving preference towards minorities and women just to fill a government mandated quota system. How is giving preference to minorities and women and mandating quotas equality? it isn't. Even Liberals have admited that AA is Reverse Discrimination.

[spgpc1]

Can't believe Nixon said all the right things back then, today you can't get the grand old party to say that today! Tea Party has taken us backwards!!!

[handsockpuppet]

@spgpc1

...Do you actually believe the GOP and the Tea Party don't believe in granting African Americans civil rights? Or are you just thinking about gay marriage (which I should note even liberals would have scoffed at in 1960)? Or granting full benefits to illegals? Well, anyway, you're especially wrong on the Tea Party, they have no position on any of that anyway. And you would certainly be hard-pressed to actually find real evidence of racism at a Tea Party rally.

[RightWingHunter666]

Wow look how far the GOP has fallen. Sad.

[Seaworldexists]

Nixon was a brilliant man and preceded only by TR and FDR as the greatest president of the 20th century. However it is important to remeber this man wanted equality of oppurtunity not the hyperdemocratic ideal of equality of ability. Intelligence and ability should still be a qualification for priviledge.

[PrototypeU41]

@Seaworldexists watergate GG, your comment now holds no ground

[Seaworldexists]

@PrototypeU41 Watergate lmfao, I couldnt give two fucks. I dont believe a president is held to the same standard. I approve of presidents who love power, fuck the laisser faire bullshit of the founding fathers a leader must lead by his own will not some antiquated document.

[larryiloos]

I think Nixons greatist accomplishment was opening the door for negotiation

with China.i believe he does not get enough credit for his cotribution to ending

the cold war

[PrincessTS01]

did Nixon like LGTB?

[harley55100]

Nixon was a very smart guy and he did accomplish many good things, but this Watergate thing overshadowed all that.

He was probably the last president who personally wrote many of his own speeches.

In retrospect, I think the media was grossly unfair to Nixon, who had in most areas of his criminal acts only followed where his Democratic predecessors had led. The taping system that existed in the Nixon WH was virtually the same that LBJ and JFK used during their WH years.

[billyguns2]

Too bad he always looked as though he had indigestion.

[pieceofcake125]

that motherfucker Nixon....oh wait it was a postive speech

[TheMagmagoblin]

ShitFromShinolla, in case you're reading, it's bad to debate using terms like "statistical facts" and "mathematical facts". If they're true, just call them "facts" and that's plenty good with no modifiers needed.

[ifhgsfj]

Nixon would've been better in 1960 than in 1968. Don't get me wrong, Kennedy was awesome, but in 1968 and the years onward, Nixon was a very bad president. If he had been elected in 1960 instead of 1968, his reputation would be much better.

[amateurextra58]

Nixon was more of a centrist that tried to have people owrking together to get things done. I am a Democrat, but, it sure would be nice if we had more people like Nixon around when it comes to his expertise with foreign affiars and domestic affairs here at home. He did try some great things like wage and price controls. He was not afraid to try !!!!

[Hello59239]

Republicans were great then.

[StanwoodSpartans]

@Hello59239

republicans dont exist anymore, there called Neocons

[falconpunch10]

nixon making the slightest bit of sense

he obviously didn't write this

[pieman97405]

If Nixon hadn't normalized relations with red China, he would be one of my favorite presidents.

[The1976spirit]

Nixon lived in the world,

not in an environment.

Watching Apollo 12 takeoff,

I recognize the real person.

Sth. was forgotten nearby Surveyor 3,

does anyone remember?

His soul goes marching on!

(the Na´Vi are hard to kill)

[fox9ninja]

Nixon would have easily made it onto the list of America's top 10 greatest Presidents had it not been for Watergate.

[galenct]

What a difference to the Republican Party of today. Mindless Neocons.... I'd have voted either party based on the candidate before 1988.

[freakylocz14]

I voted for Nixon.

[MrWsad]

@freakylocz14 Wow. You must be old.

[MrWsad]

@freakylocz14 ...and stupid...

[BosnianBosSs]

What a Reptilian

[jkr785]

It's odd how Nixon was more liberal than modern day Democrats.

[fortisKID]

@jkr785 lol the Democrats are TOO liberal right now man.

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

@jkr785

And fiscally responsible, unlike post-1980 conservatives . . .

[xtrmsprts]

phony haha ... he's sporting a sexy gal pose

[skatepunkzero]

sorry dick I'm voting for Kennedy

[vantalge]

@ShitFromShinolla You didn't answer the question, and your answer is full of BS. And you throw around terms like Communist and Marxist awfully loosely. Regardless of that, what really counts are HIS beliefs. And if you look at it objecitvely, he's a centrist president. He gave the same bailouts the Republicans had been giving, and the health care plan that passed was less "liberal" than Nixon's idea. But why should I even listen to someone who can't spell shinola?

[openedup09]

If Nixon was going to make something with policy or priority he would have make sure that it would work.For better or for worst.

[stephenwinkler]

I believe Nixon's stand on civil rights and the "Compact of Fifth Avenue" cost him the presidency. The state delegation from Louisiana offered Goldwater's name for the nomination and ten delegates cast their votes for Goldwater. Nixon lost Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Missouri. In 1968, with a southern strategy, Nixon won all of these states and the presidency.

[titans0002]

I wonder how a Nixon White House would have handled the Civil Rights issues that boiled over in the 1960s. Contrary to popular history, Eisenhower actually had some fairly solid accomplishments in that area, including the 1957 Civil Rights Act and enforcing desegregation orders in Arkansas. However, Tom Wicker's book on Ike said that while he gave support to certain civil rights measures, he should have spoken out much more emphatically because he could have had a huge impact if he had done so.

[ShitFromShinolla]

Ha ha ha... now we have a communist president

[gamesDAMNED]

@ShitFromShinolla Seriously, dude, are you high?

[ShitFromShinolla]

@gamesDAMNED seriously dude, are you blind?

[vantalge]

@ShitFromShinolla You obviously don't know shit from shinola. How is he Communist? Specifically?

[ShitFromShinolla]

@vantalge If I have 2 start explaining this 2 u quite honestly it would be an educational process u would have 2 want to endure because u obviously know nothing about him or his past. But let's start with his Marxist dad, communist mom & grandparents, Frank Marshal Davis his communist childhood mentor, Communist colleague Bill Ayres, Marxist Czars like Mark Lloyd, Van Jones, + 30 others, Marxist spiritual advisor Jim Wallis, Marxist pastor Jeremiah Wright, & socialist public policies, etc..

[vantalge]

@ShitFromShinolla Why would a "communist" or "socialist" (you can't seem to make up your mind) bail out the auto companies and Wall St. firms? You've fallen for the neocon agenda hook, line and sinker.

[ShitFromShinolla]

@vantalge 1- Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Do u now c the relationship shit head? Marxism, Communism, Statism, Progressivism, Liberalism, etc. r all branches of the same ideological root which u r a proponent of. Obama nationalized the car companies, banks, the mortgage market, the student loan program & now can control any private industry @ government discretion thanks 2 the new financial reform bill.

[ShitFromShinolla]

@vantalge 2- GM Bond holders were screwed receiving 5 cents on the dollar while the UAW was awarded 40% of GM ownership. Most Republicans r progressive 2 at lesser degree & Obama has increased our national dept 2 record highs. How do u know Obama’s healthcare plan is less liberal than Nixon’s? Unlike congress have u read all 2700 pages?

[ShitFromShinolla]

@vantalge 3- By definition Socialists nationalize private industry, over tax & spend on social entitlement programs designed 2 control the people by making them more & more dependent on government. They r tyrannical not charitable. But why should I even listen to someone who can’t spell objectively?

[MoonstompingMike1985]

@ShitFromShinolla being a no good socialist scumbag myself i can assure that Obama is not a communist. If for some ludicrous reason he does aspire to achieve the political philosophy and practice the Marxist Leninist, Maoist & Stalinist theories i shall be happy to let you know. also nationalization can sometimes be beneficial to the free market too, northern rock's collapse in shares affected the UK market shares dramatically. and finally a bail out is not a method that is considered 'Marxist'

[BiffaBacon]

@ShitFromShinolla and the dependence of the populace on corporations is less controlling? The proceeds of profiteering and monopoly extortion are not spent on social programs but on a tiny minority. A minority that use their wealth and influence to avoid tax, leaving you and me to pay more to provide a basic infrastructure Capitalism is now in crises and is NOT delivery the basic needs of the majority of people. International capital is charitable !!! that doesn't deserve a comment

[ShitFromShinolla]

@BiffaBacon Oh stop spewing ur anti-capitalist BS will u? Statistical fact; Top 1% pay more in fed income tax than the bottom 95%. Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40.42% of total federal income taxes. So go flush ur BS about how we foot the tax bill for the rich. If it weren't 4 the rich capitalists supporting the government there would b no gov. $ 2 fund ur socialist programs. Fact; America is the most charitable country on earth. Fact; capitalism is a success - big government power & greed FAIL!

[BiffaBacon]

@ShitFromShinolla You don't know what your talking about. Where did you get those ridiculous figures from??? Capitalism a success.? If it hadn't been for Government bail outs the banking system would have collapsed. Big government saved the capitalist system. Capitalism has failed and only socialistic solutions have kept it crawling along. And as for America being a charitable country tell that to Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan and most of South America. Stop spewing trite propaganda.

[ShitFromShinolla]

@BiffaBacon 1- umm, no asshole, I'm quoting statistical facts sighted by the NY Times & sourced by the US IRS. It's also a statistical fact the conservative capitalist Americans and the US in general is more charitable than you red ass commies are. & that's because you socialists take more than you produce & that's why you can't sight one socialist nation with a higher standard of living than any free market capitalist one.>>>

[ShitFromShinolla]

@ShitFromShinolla 5- Yes, that is incredibly charitable – American’s shedding their own blood & giving their lives so that others might be free. It’s morons like you who revile freedom fighters who deserve to be ruled by the socialist dictators you call for.

[BiffaBacon]

@ShitFromShinolla You are an idiot and have no insight only the accepted propaganda of your corrupt state. By the by you do have a money tree - the federal reserve that creates money without product -that is the problem. Go away, learn a little more about life and the world before you propose to give people lessons . Don't bother to reply - you are a miserable little shite and I can be bothered with you

[ShitFromShinolla]

@BiffaBacon 3- Correction # 3; The socialist policy of the "Affordable Housing Act" passed in 1979 by Carter & enforced by the Clinton Administration was the root cause of the sub-prime housing bust of 2007 where banks were forced by the government socialist policy to give money to people who didn't earn the credit standard to receive it. Do your research asshole because I'm getting tired of educating you.!.!.!

[ShitFromShinolla]

@BiffaBacon 2- Economics 101; There isn't a money tree in the back yard of ur state capitol building shit for brains. Instead of achieving ur own success you'd rather leach off the others who actually produce in ur society which only erodes everyone’s profit incentive leaving you and your country bankrupt. Now grow up and stop acting like the little brat that you are crying to mommy government for more substandard services. If you won't accept mathematical facts then I can't help you.>>>

[ShitFromShinolla]

@ShitFromShinolla 4- Oh, do you mean helping to liberate countries from tyrannical dictators like Saddam Hussein who tortured & killed thousands of his own people by feeding them through wood chipping machines feet first while they were still alive? So that now the Iraqi people are FREE to vote in democratic elections? Oh and the US attempt to fight back communist dictators in Vietnam? >>>

[v19d]

Attention all Americans you have been lied too by college far left Nixon was for the same thing as Nixon called Civil Rights.

[v19d]

@PoliticsNewsNews He got older even thought of it.

[mossimo654]

As much as Nixon has had a tremendous impact on fostering immense mistrust in the executive and repeatedly lying... I don't know. I'd almost rather have had him instead of W for the early 2000s. At least Nixon's eloquence masked his political thievery and his foreign policy KIND OF made sense.

More than you can say about Mr Bush's administration

[riverlioness]

Wasn't Nixon caught lying on the stand before he was elected president?

[truebeliever786]

Lying pig.

[mavivirgie]

FUCK THE JIG A BOOs

[7980COOL1]

FUCK YOU TOO !!!

[7980COOL1]

On the other side, Nixon strangely said nothing and worse did nothing to help. As a sitting Vice President Of The United States, he certainly had the power and influence to free King.For millions of eligble black voters who did not like or trust Kennedy because of him being catholic,this action by Kennedy and inaction by Nixon in a super close election was what caused Nixon to lose !

[7980COOL1]

It is indeed ironic to see this campaign ad by Nixon on Civil rights.First, Nixon ( being a quaker) was a lifelong member of the NAACP ( although this fact was kept a top secret ). Second , when Dr. Matin Luther King was arrested AND sentenced to several months of hard labor in a Alabama prison, several weeks before the election, it was Senator Kennedy who made a phone call to Mrs King showing concern and asking if there is annthing I could do . Meanwhile making calls to get hin freed. Cont`d

[tsartodd]

of course, Tricky Dicky himself didn't like Negroes (or Jews) -- and he and Ike had to be dragged kicking and screaming into desegregating schools after Brown v. Board of Ed. it's nice to see that even early political ads were as dishonest as today's political ads.

[rmspears]

Your comment lacks context, historical accuracy and documentation (particularly the men's own word's) to back up you assertion. Are you a brainwashed liberal idealogue?

[davleuv]

Nixon was a great president in regard to foreign policy, and he was okay with the domestic issues. He did many good things as president, he just niped it with Watergate. Eisenhower and Nixon to me were better than Reagan, Bush, and Bush because they were moderate, and they were more pogressive. Reagan was too conservative and the Bushes are Reagan kool aid drinkers along with the rest of the brain washed "conservatives."

[EyeLean5280]

davleuv,

Yes, I do believe it was the Nixon administration that first addressed modern environmental issues.

[davleuv]

@EyeLean5280 It was the Nixon administration that first adressed the environmental issue. Nixon was probablly the only republican, at least in the modern era that wanted to reform healthcare. As a democrat, I have respect for Nixon.

[a1cjlock]

Nixon won in '68 because the Democratic Party was in a battle within its own party. It wasnt because if his Silent Majority. That strategy never got him over the top and barely won him the election. Humphrey who was a supporter for the vietnam war changed his policy, but it came little too late. He naver had to run on a strong Civil Rights platform, he didn't need to. Johnson years before did the work for him.

[rmspears]

Are you stupid? Nixon won in a landslide! You liberals seem to be the ones drinking the Kool Aid...

[a1cjlock]

He won the landslide 72 not 68.. Hope you like your Kool-Aid..

[rmspears]

Humphrey was considered indecisive, like LBJ, on the war and even opportunistic by changing his platform. This is by volunteering for service in Vietnam being UP under Nixon. This while the draft was being wound down. Nixon's civil rights work was done while in the Congress, as VP and as President. More than can be said for JFK or LBJ.

[rmspears]

I meant to type "illustrated by"...I'm afraid part of your US History education lacks comparative facts and may even have been taught with an agenda. Check the Electoral Map for 1968. That's a landslide either by State or Electoral College.p.s. I like Strawberry Kool-Aid, but I make it myself.

[benny2tooth]

Nixon was an ok guy, and an environmentalist, don't forget all the great things he did for our country like strengthening foreign affairs with china and USSR while secretly weakening relations between them

[EyeLean5280]

Yes, what a terrible waste. A waste and a shame, what his arrogance and paranoia led him to do to the country and to himself.

[illmaticjesus]

@benny2tooth

Nixon wasn't an environmentalist, even though he created the EPA it was largely due to public pressure. He created it nonetheless though, which was a huge step for environmentalism.

[v19d]

@illmaticjesus There are no manufacturing left in America due to EPA.

[illmaticjesus]

@v19d

I'd argue that the high minimum wage has more to do with the lack of manufacturing jobs in America than the EPA.

[v19d]

@illmaticjesus I believe the pressure to create the EPA is that they wanted Americans to lose the best standard of living in the world. Look who runs Washington DC Federal Politics today accept the president they were the 1960's hippies that wanted the EPA because they were a bunch of lazy bums that never wanted to work. Time for a change no peace doves this time not a bunch of keep out of manufacturing this time, this time real tax relief candidates including local level candidates.

[darqualish]

@benny2tooth He didn't "Secretly weaken them" LOL

[AndyJackson1776]

@benny2tooth the moment a President thinks he is above the law he should cease to be the President.

[Lardawan]

@benny2tooth That was Kissinger actually...

[jpalmz92]

@benny2tooth he was the furthest thing from ok, and time continues to show that. don't forget Vietnam.... Cambodia.... and Laos. he committed unspeakable evil in that region of the world, and no diplomatic accomplishments (which were actually a result of Henry Kissinger) can make up for that

[MrWsad]

@jpalmz92 Don't forget that now US declassified that he negotiated with vietnamese to extend war so he can use fearmongering in his campaign.

[sprucepantherkmt]

@benny2tooth ur nuts

[Willredd94]

@benny2tooth The Nixon of the 50s and 1960 was far better than the Nixon of the 70s. I wish he had been elected in 1960. He lost by a very very small margin and probably wouldnt have escalated Vietnam and wouldve got civil rights quicker than did Kennedy. Nixon was deeply effected by his loss in 1960 and loss in the '62 gov. race in CA, not to mention the counterculture.

[3dartistguy]

Im GLAD Nixon wasn't., JFK did not escalate Vietnam, LBJ did. JFK wanted to end our involvement in Vietnam by 1965 after the eleciton, and they knew he would and thats why JFK was asassinated. LBJ reversed Kennedy's withdrawal plans the day they buried Kennedy. Moreover, if Nixon had been elected in 1960, its very doubtful we would have beaten the Russians to the moon in 1969, going to the moon was was Kennedy's dream, not Nixon's. Kennedy made history and progress in his short three years.

[Willredd94]

@3dartistguy I wasnt clear, what I meant with regards to Vietnam, is that if Nixon was president, johnson (who escalated the war) would never have been president, thus the war wouldve never been escalated. I still think Nixon wouldve been better with the budget, foreign policy (kennedy bounced from one catastrophe to another plus LBJ and vietnam sucked) and civil rights.

[3dartistguy]

well i don't agree with you about Nixon and the budget or foreign affairs The Bay of Pigs was an Eisenhower plan and the CIA told Kennedy they knew what they were doing. They changed their plans when they requested military intervention after telling Kennedy that none would be needed.I don't think Nixon would have funded the space program or going to the moon. Kennedy stood up the Soviets in 1962 and told them to get their missiles out of Cuba. I dont think they would have taken Nixon seriously.

[CentristFiasco]

@3dartistguy You're forgetting the most important part... JFK was shot by a Cuban.

[3dartistguy]

He was??

[CentristFiasco]

@3dartistguy Yes, look this up...

[3dartistguy]

Are you talking about the mysterious shooter at the Grassy knoll fence area?

[ForzaJersey]

@3dartistguy Not true they would not have pulled a stunt like the Cuban Missile Crisis with Nixon. They knew Nixon was a hard-nosed anti-communist crusader that would have gone to war over the Soviets installing missiles in Cuba. The Soviets feared war more than they loved Communism.

The Cuban Missile Crisis arose out of the Kremlin's misjudgement of Kennedy's resolve after he bungled the Bay of Pigs operation. In the end, both Nixon and Kennedy were strong in this area.

[discohead111]

Southern Democrats were not the same as Northern Democrats. Making the claim that "dems" started the KKK is terribly misleading.

[DistantLover]

But no less true

[chopngratty]

The dems started the KKK, let us not forget..

[Filby]

I think Nixon was a rotten bastard, but I give him props for his support of civil rights.

[deuxhardboiledeggs]

I guarantee you that didn't run in the Southern states.

[jimaroo100]

@deuxhardboiledeggs Sure it ran in the south..... the south was all democrat.... they weren't going to vote for Nixon no matter what. It was the Republicans who got the Civil Rights bill passed and it was Democrats who fought it.