@jitpring Your comment indicates an evidential lack of reading comprehension skills,as well as a disturbing lack of compassion for your fellow human beings and those of us who are courageously trying to make this world a better place.What are you doin' pal? THE 99 % ARE HERE AND THERE IS NO STOPPING US !!!!!!
There is a somewhat less silent majority in 2011.It is represented by the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the better angels of the Tea Party Movement.END THE WARS/END THE FED/RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION/DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!!
Nixon was quite the visionary in reaching out to the silent majority, and the employment of a southern strategy in 1968 race. Eventually, Republicans managed to gain control of most of south, as Reagan really cemented it (not a good thing but they owe Nixon a lot of credit)
boy was he so off. not only did he have to finally give up on the unpopular war, but he was subsequently shamed a few years later. the difference between then and now is that the protesters represent an overwhelming majority of ppl who are sick of the mass unemployment and underemployment, the vast and ever growing inequalities in income, and the ubiquitous influence of corporate money on the political process. what a different country and world we would have lived in if mcgovern was elected.
@HRpaperstacks06 He never gave up on Vietnam. His plan was always to shift the fighting on the ground to the RVN. He was weakened by Watergate and couldnt help RNV against PRVN in 1973 and 1974
"Only Americans can do that". .............or their president..........fucking wolverine demon badger. God, Ive never seen a man who just looks so fucking evil!
he was the smartest president we ever had. say whatever you want, he is the only person to have his name on a presidential ballot 5 times, now that's an accomplishment for a man who came from nothing.
@AllenbysEyes you're right, i forgot about that. but, i mean the upbringing of these two men were so different. Nixon had to scratch for what he got compared to others who had it easy.
@darius595 but he was right : only Americans could defeat themselves, and they did, just listening and not understandig this great man and this great President ! We need another Nixon today ! AMERICA FOREVER, AND MEN LIKE HIM ALWAYS AT THE POWER !
So tonight, to you, the great silent majority.... sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice....
U.S. MILITARY CASUALTIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 1960-1975 1960 5 1961 16 1962 53 1963 118 1964 206 1965 1,863 1966 6,144 1967 11,153 1968 16,589 1969 11,614 1970 6,083 1971 2,357 1972 640 1973 168 1974 178 1975 160 (There were a small number of casualties as early as 1957and as late as "1980-1995" - most of these latter being formerly listed as POW/MIA) Poor Boomers can't ever seem to make peace with the past...
Congress changed the draft law in 1971 eliminating the possibility of avoiding military service by pursuing a degree as a full-time student, thus reducing significantly the number of men applying for college undergrad or grad studies ...
"If the President of the United States does it--it's not illegal," Nixon was prophetic. Imagine what he could have achieved with the USA PATRIOT Act, under which any President can detain a U.S. citizen for up to 3 years in solitary confinement without charges; merely on suspicion of "terrorist activities." Thus incarcerated for 23 1/2 hrs/day in a cell no bigger than a typical bathroom-deprived of human interaction-sunlight, view of the outside & under constant surveillance most become psychotic
I like to think that in an alternate universe, watergate hadn't happened and Nixon went down in history as a good president. And, then we skipped right over Carter and Ford to Reagan.
@gingermhaight Are you kidding? He lowered taxes, closed loopholes that allowed the rich to allude their taxes, helped end the cold war, ended a recession in 6 months (unlike Obama), got Jimmy Carter out of office, helped bolster national confidence, deregulated the economy, cut nuclear weapsons, took on PATCO (I assume you hate unions, like all sane people), and helped the GOP briefly rally around an ideology rather than the bs it has become today.
@DimensionsofChange and you assume wrong??? Why would I want people to be working in unsafe inhumane conditions?? Have you heard the stories about people who worked in meat factories with rats and feasies...NOT COOL.. and the people who worked in factories whose boss wouldn't let leave and there was a fire so they had to jump out of the window... Do you understand why we have labor unions??
@gingermhaight Why would you assume that me, a man who's favorite president was the head of a union, hated unions? I recognize people's right to organize, just as I recognize people's right not to organize. The problem begins when people let the unions have as much power as big business. Which is why we need politicians like Reagan, and not fools who believe that unions are infallible and business is run by evil ogres who are with out souls.
@DimensionsofChange Yeah, anyone can get a job. I just passed a Taco Bell & KFC both with "Help Wanted" signs in the windows. The trick is to make it without working though...
@gaguy1967 What have labor unions done in the past 60 years since 1950? Mostly disappeared. Accd'g to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 11.9% of workers are in Unions, down from 12.3% in '09, 20.1% in '83 & peak union membership of 35 percent during the mid-1950s, after a surge in unionization during the Great Depression and after World War II ... This, by the way is working, doing your research for you and others to correct your gibberish -- why do you think it's called "work"?
@atrios28 Well I would not say the concept of a Union is bad in theory. Just like the concept of a multination corporation is not bad in theory. Some Unions have at times been good organizations. Again I bring up the example of Reagan running SAG. But, usually unions get out of hand, and fuck everything up. Kinda like they did to GM and Chrysler.
The problem about Nixon was that he let the new deal program extend itself. He claimed to be opposed against communism but not against communism in government. He ended the silver standard, which caused many recessions to come to posterity. He started the war on drugs, which has caused many non-violent offenders serve long sentences at your extent. Not to mention caused a black market underground network. A president that did more harm than good, he was typical.
CBS posted a Nixon tape where he's asked about ABORTION.
Nixon says that ''IT'S NOT BLACK AND WHITE as with rape. ''
That was a common expression in his day.
CBS manipulates and garbles his words and ''RE-WRITES'' over his face that he said abortion is fine ''as with black and white or rape''....painting him as racist.
I posted a correction so then, they re-posted the video and cut off access for comments (or future correction)How disgusting that the press is still fabricating lies
I have not reached a place where I can say Nixon was a great President. Nixon's secret recordings reveal obstruction of justice, patent paranoia, vindictive agendas, and total distrust of just about everyone.
Contrast this with his historic skills in foreign policy, and we have a very complicated man.
Very well said... The Nixonian way of life will come... he is the only US president born in Califonia... from Whittier College and Yorba Linda...I love this president. Our silent majority really represents America...I was there as a kid thru all his speeches. The silent majority has no color, but is truly AMERICAN in family and family values...NIXON NOW!
Perhaps American Presidents do receive societal rehabilitation after time. I think Nixon, although tainted and died a broken man was the epitome of power and paranoia run amok. He escalated in 1970 by bombing Cambodia, carried every state except Mass in 1972, yet unraveled like LBJ due to internal dissent. I don't envy the crisis' any President must face, but many of us have a strange smpathy given such tragic figures with their service and history has a strange way of showing us whom we'll envy
Nixon was a great role model. I always tell my children to follow his example - if you're ever in a position of power, abuse the shit out of it, because you'll just get pardoned anyway.
Are you all fucking crazy? He was a war criminal who ordered the bombing - and is responsible - of the death of hundred of thousands of Laotians and Cambodgians people, not to mention of course Vietnamese. His administration with the help of his cursed soul Henry Kissinger is also responsible of the dictatures who were put in place in South America which killed (and tortured) thousands of people. Despite his success with China, Nixon was a scum, a psychotic, one of the worst US president EVER.
@loaloauk `He also kept a very aggresive Soviet Union at bay with his policies. Opened up China to trade. His actions were necessary at the time. Kissinger was a god send. If he doesn't do these things, the USSR is set up on our doorstep for invasion by 1974. We would be speaking Russian and saluting the hammer and sickle. God Bless Nixon!!!!!!!
JasperFrankieDamnit my dear friend, I am not a Crook, We must screw our political enemies, I wear a Republican Cloth Coat. Go find an old book called , "The Begatting of a President"
sorry i'm not exactly watching the vid coz of what nixon did i'm not even american lol i'm just here to hear what his actual voice sounds like. He so does NOT sound like every1 impersonates him.
In all honesty, Nixon's Presidency was a mixed bag. His foreign policy was top-knotch in regards to dividing the Soviet Union and China, a development which would later prove critical to ending the Cold War in 1989. However, his domestic policies were largely ineffective and, in some cases, even criminal.
60,000 Patriots gave their lives for nothing, estimated 75,000 Vietnam vets live on the streets.
Don't understand why the American people put up with the subversion. Its outrageous , the US has been at war for another 10 years for nothing. This time I don't believe there is any recovery. The money system has been purposely hooped.
NIxon's "Peace" treaty was a cynical scam...he didn't end the war...he just postponed defeat until he was out of office. The Paris "Peace" Treaty left thousands of Vietcong troops stationed in S. Vietnam..The leaders of S. Vietnam knew it was a scam and virtually had to be forced at gunpoint to accept it..Did our terms of surrender with Japan leave thousands of Japanese troops stationed in Hawaii? The war could have ended in 1968.
I actually just got "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War" and I'm in the process of learning more about the topic. So, therefore, I'll concede your point. But, I loved William H. Rehnquist and he did get that right if nothing else.
When it comes to Richard Nixon you have to Examine the Good & Bad because there is so much of both with him & its the Only Way to look at Richard Nixon in a Fair & Accurate Way.
Nixon could have ended the cold war. Too bad he had those ''plumbers'' running around, screwing things up. But as far as his foreign policy, it was genius. He and Kissinger were a great team.
That may be true but what about the secret bombings in Vietnam's neighboring country's.
and JFK didn't start a war or get anyone killed, JFK's ideology on government secrecy and minimizing power to the federal government was something we haven't seen since JFK..Nixon tried to play the peace card but he was the same as all those dirty bastards.
Nixon ultimately ended that war. JFK, on the other hand, escalated the Cold War, put thousands of Americans into Vietnam, and invaded Cuba- and failed.
You talk as if JFK never hid anything...for God's sake he was on meds the whole time in office and had many many affairs, one of which was with an East German spy.
He didn't escalated the Cold War; how did he even do that? It was called the Cold War for a reason: because both nations were just building arms--which JFK didn't do, and actually signed a test-ban treaty. He didn't even give the Cubans air support, which the CIA wanted; he knew that helping them would just lead to a backfire. And Vietnam started before he entered office, and he was getting troops out, but his policy was reversed by LBJ. Learn your history.
JFK raved about a fake "missile gap", and increased American missiles, nuclear weapons, subs, etc. tenfold, prompting the Soviets to follow suit. Eventually this caused the USSR to outnumber us in certain weapons.
A test ban treaty did not stop the arms race. And he STILL authorized the invasion- it was his fault for not having the will to follow through so the invasion was a failure and Castro became closer with USSR.
Learn YOUR history. Before JFK, Vietnam had only American supplies and a few hundred advisors.
JFK added thousands more and made our stake in Vietnam bigger. After he was killed, LBJ tried to carry on the Kennedy legacy- he had the EXACT same cabinet members and saw the precedent JFK set. They told him to escalate so he did so- slowly. Too slow to try and win the war, but just fast enough so that he would win the 1964 by looking like a tough Cold Warrior. The point is, JFK set the standard.
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RICHARD NIXON lay dead on the ground a broken & deflated man his hair blackened by death & his teeth artificial. Gerald Ford sat motionless on the toilet expecting nothing else than more shit. Jimmy Carter went numb, the cold, icy hand of death violating his pancreas. I've got the worst pancreas of any president, he said in Georgian words. Geo. Bush fingered the prostitute's count, thrubbing her gingerly whereat Barbara had long past desensitized probably from R.J. Graves' disease.
Haha, so true. He got the biggest landslide in U.S. history since Washington, and he lost it by checking up on the Democratic convention. He obviously didn't even have to!
I'm not American. I think Richard Nixon was one of the greatest presidents you have ever had. He ended the war in Vietnam, opened up China, paid off the debt and pushed the Soviets back. Then he genuinely cared about his country, unlike the press establishment and all the hippies.
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr OH, so you admit he opened up China so U.S. companies could mass-export jobs? That makes him...the destroyer of our 1950's economy. An economy built up by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower.
@barneyfrankmyhero trade is always a good thing. U.S. trading with China, China tradiing with U.S. vice versa. What's not good is over the years increasing the taxes on businesses to operate from within the United States forcing them to take their business elsewhere where they can actually make a profit.
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr I find your comment interesting, in that, as a non-American you hold Nixon in high regard. I study history and global politics, and I've observed that non-Americans like our more liberal Presidents, such as JFK, even though many of his fans (both within and outside the U.S.) can't cite one thing he did to improve the nation. Also, while in anti-Yankee Argentina, I saw that Obama is popular while Bush was hated. Is your opinion common where your view common where you live?
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr: He was one of the planners of the war, so he should have done something. Besides, HE did not get the US out of Vietnam, the Vietnamese got the US out of Vietnam! Stop trying to re-write history.
Nixon and Kissenger were great policy makers. Many conservatives wanted to push more troops in....do not be foolish. Nixon was not a good person, but even I, a pretty liberal guy, admits his policy was sound. Detente, clean water act, recognizing China...ect.
@enverpasha55 Nixon and Kissinger were very liberal at the time. Ending the silver standard, nation building, starting the war on drugs, which is nothing but a war against your privacy, property and liberty. Kissinger started more conflicts than any other Sec. of State. In case you missed out what he did in S. America, middle-east, and Asia. He was a big advisor to Bush on Iraq. Look at Iraq, it is a chaotic oil satellite state.
The war on drugs was really a product of the Reagan Admin. and Bush Sr. in terms of the amount of Money spent (wasted) and the largess of it. Kissinger was a prick, but he was working within that cold war ethos that dominated US policy....he did win a nobel peace prize for his shuttle diplomacy in israel. I am pretty sure Nixon would not have been against the Iraq invasion as he was more of a true conservative/realist.
@enverpasha55 I'm pretty sure Nixon would have been for the invasion too, but I'm pretty sure he would have gotten approval from congress first instead of using other government entity resolutions as a means for a declaration of war. True conservatism comes from the republican philosophy which Nixon did not embody. If you want to judge a president by strict republican philosophy, then our last conservative president was Coolidge.
I am an American and one of the few Nixon fans....he was paranoid...but his Policy was great! Dont forget teh clean water act....was planning on health care reform...but he went to far to win.
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr You're wrong PT... Nixon emissaries frustrated U.S.-North Vietnam Peace Talks (initiated after the Ted offensive) so he could escalate the war, initiated Christmas bombings of civilians in Hanoi by B-52s, ordered secret invasion of Laos & bombing of Cambodia, More than half of U.S. K.I.A. 1969~1975, when the war ended a year after Nixon resigned, when loopholes that kept privileged sons safe (like Clinton, Bush, Cheney ... ).from the draft were closed by Congress
@atrios28 Some glaring historical inaccuracies in your comment. Clinton and Cheney were not "privileged sons". Also, it was the Tet Offensive not the "Ted Offensive".
@atrios28 wrong. the vietnamization process of 1969-1973 pulled U.S. troops to the sidelines of the war, drastically reducing American casualties. Nixon did this to calm the American people, because larger amounts of Americans were dying during Americanization (1965-1968), causing much social unrest.
So no, the majority of American deaths in Vietnam DID NOT occur during Nixon's presidency. Because of Nixon, many American lives were spared.
@atrios28 wrong. The Vietnamization process of 1969-1973 pulled U.S. troops to the sidelines of the war, drastically reducing American casualties. Nixon did this to calm the American people, because larger numbers of Americans were dying during Americanization (1965-1968), causing much social unrest.
So no, the majority of American deaths in Vietnam DID NOT occur during Nixon's presidency. Because of Nixon, many American lives were spared.
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr Idiot. Greatest presidents his ending of the war of Vietnam cost 30K deaths which was pointless because the war was lost by 1969, he bombed, drove and killed of millions of Cambodians and Laoations with his secret wars, he opened up China which now OWNS the USA and he violated and completely disrespected the entire system of American democaracy and made people lose all there faith in their goverment which still has not been restored. Great more like an utter failure.
@12Aggiefan Youre wrong. The US left Vietnam in April 1973 under conditions similar to the US in Korea in 1953. The war was WON by the end of 1972 and South Vietnam was capable of repelling North Vietnam with little direct US help. What brought down S Vietnam was Nixon got sidelined by Watergate, the OPEC oil price increase and the Dems cutting off aid to South Vietnam. It is also nonsense to say Nixon killed millions of people in Cambodia and Laos.
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr You obviously missed the fact that we LOST the war and more than 58,000 people died.Nixon sent troops home, but at the same time he was authorizing a number of covert attacks on the Loas and Cambodia. I really don't see any "Peace and Honor" in that.
Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos which are very rich in oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a Father of Vietnam who lives as a god and sacrifices his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
After 8 years of Bush people are still bitchin' about Nixon. Nixon had a progressive domestic policy, something that George W Bush, George H.W Bush, and RONALD REAGAN didn't have. He also had a great foregn policy, something that George W Bush also didn't have. Nixon was a saint compared to Bush.
the loss of the war wasn't really nixon's fault. he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. he pretty much inherited the war from Johnson, who was a terrible president
the US dropped its military aid to only a quarter of what it had been in the last year of the Nixon presidency in the year before South Vietnam fell. The US Congress caused the fall of south vietnam. The insurgency had been defeated.
Yes, he was just cleaning up the mess LBJ all the way gave us.. And I don't think he was a crook . They all did what he did in Water Gate,but he just got caught at it.
Nixon may have been progressive in terms of domestic policy, but what shouldn't be lost here are the secret/Christmas bombings and his abuse of office in watergate.
Nixon, like every other politican, is a man of his time. His 49 state landslide in 72 is amazing. And he didn't have ACORN rounding up street people and talking them to the polls.
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Sick, corrupt, paranoid and devoid of human compassion, Nixon was a horrific president and the embodiment of the worst part of America.
The facts about Nixon are obvious: He only moved around existing funds to "create the EPA". He visited China and Russia just to make himself look good. I challenge anyone to point to concrete gains for America from those Nixon trips. And he murdered thousands of humans for political reasons in Vietnam when he could have ended that war in Jan. 1969. Awful man.
Nixon was so anti-cool he was cool. What did he do? He opened up China and Russia. Then he went to Egypt to a tumultuous welcome from the Egyptian people. He supported the ERA, instituted the EPA, ended the draft, instituted block grants. He was creepy, but respected world-wide. Didn't like him then, but miss him now. He obliterated Reagan in the '68 primaries. He truly understood the fears and concerns of average Americans instead of the trendy elite. He understood Real-Politik. NIXON 2012!
@ripvanwinkle61 Nixon Killed jobs by creating the EPA and OSHA and how it took till the 1980's for Manufacturing to cease making everything. Hey Obama watch your buddy Nixon. Any member of Richard Nixon who runs for office should be defeated including his Grandson.
@ripvanwinkle61 No thanks too radical like left leaning. Even the Oil industry hated Nixon in the end. Forced the Oil industry to drill in the mideast instead of North America. Nixon Environmental policies was copied by Europe and even Australia-New Zealand regions of the world. That is why Oil companies was forced to drill in the mideast and Africa like Nigeria.
@v19d Is that 19d like 19 Delta? If so you are forgiven, because if you ain't Cav... I saw many signs on the campaign trail v19d, my friend, one of them was held up by a little girl and it said "bring us together".
@ripvanwinkle61 I just don't believe anyone that is related to Richard Nixon that runs for Congress is different then the grandfather like his grandson Christopher Nixon Cox saying he is a conservative. I don't see Christopher Nixon Cox will even win the Primary election At the end of the Richard Nixon presidency that ended in disgrace "bring us together" no longer met anything it was please throw Nixon in Jail.
@ripvanwinkle61 -You are right on the money. He was brilliant. Too bad he was so paranoid and disliked. Could have gone down in histroy as a great Pres if not for Watergate. It was a terribleera for soneone like him to be pres also. What if we had him in 2001-2009 instead of Bush? He wouldnt have pussyfooted around, but dont think he would have done anything foolish either (like go into Iraq when the real enemy is elsewhere)
@ripvanwinkle61 He also carpet bombed the neutral country of Cambodia, toppled a democratically elected government in Chile, took us off the gold standard, destroyed healthcare, started a stupid war on drugs, and ran a secret government through the Plumbers. I'm no liberal, and I'm disgusted that Nixon called himself conservative. But then again, a bunch of Egyptians liked him, so I may be wrong...
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This man was one of the most corrupt Presidents in the history of the nation and here we have all these idiots thinking he was some kind of god...lol.
He had his issues, his stupidity at Watergate, his list of enemies, and all that crap, but don't let that blind you from the good things he did by ending our presence in Vietnam, in which he established Detente, and opening up trading to China, and many more things that he did that benefited the country. Look the man up before you insult him.
He would be considered an ultra- Liberal/socialist by today's Republicans. He regulated the economy unlike the US has ever experienced, he created OSHA and the EPA. He was for universal health care, far above what Obama is proposing, and he expanded Affirmative Action to include quotas and set asides for minority students and Federal contractors. He also believed government spending as stimulus to bolster the economy.
In retrospect, his policies today would be rejected by his very own party.
126 North Vietnamese liked this while laughing their asses out xDDDDDDDDDDDD
VersusARCH 2 days ago
@jitpring Your comment indicates an evidential lack of reading comprehension skills,as well as a disturbing lack of compassion for your fellow human beings and those of us who are courageously trying to make this world a better place.What are you doin' pal? THE 99 % ARE HERE AND THERE IS NO STOPPING US !!!!!!
jshalom65 1 month ago
There is a somewhat less silent majority in 2011.It is represented by the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the better angels of the Tea Party Movement.END THE WARS/END THE FED/RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION/DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!!
jshalom65 1 month ago
@jshalom65 The "Occupy" scum as the new silent majority? Hilarious.
Jitpring 1 month ago
what a hypocrite....why did you bomb Cambodia then?
matador8485 2 months ago
Nixon was quite the visionary in reaching out to the silent majority, and the employment of a southern strategy in 1968 race. Eventually, Republicans managed to gain control of most of south, as Reagan really cemented it (not a good thing but they owe Nixon a lot of credit)
loyaldude10 2 months ago
boy was he so off. not only did he have to finally give up on the unpopular war, but he was subsequently shamed a few years later. the difference between then and now is that the protesters represent an overwhelming majority of ppl who are sick of the mass unemployment and underemployment, the vast and ever growing inequalities in income, and the ubiquitous influence of corporate money on the political process. what a different country and world we would have lived in if mcgovern was elected.
HRpaperstacks06 2 months ago
@HRpaperstacks06 He never gave up on Vietnam. His plan was always to shift the fighting on the ground to the RVN. He was weakened by Watergate and couldnt help RNV against PRVN in 1973 and 1974
gaguy1967 2 months ago
We need a modern Republican candidate to give this speech with the Occupy Wall Street protests going on
14534 3 months ago
That was in 1972 not 1969!
res57 4 months ago
Nixon was a great president. It's a shame he was too competitive. Shouldn't have spied on the democrats.
MarkmanT69 4 months ago
@MarkmanT69 yup. i hate i admit it now but he was right. i mean who would of thought tricky dick was right but he was. he is so very right.
hojoleon 1 month ago
This sounds like a more eloquent version of a W speech from 2004-2007.
SavagePersonified90 5 months ago
@SavagePersonified90 and just like W. he knew the way .
lord19561 5 months ago
"Only Americans can do that". .............or their president..........fucking wolverine demon badger. God, Ive never seen a man who just looks so fucking evil!
MrKGHunter 6 months ago
he was the smartest president we ever had. say whatever you want, he is the only person to have his name on a presidential ballot 5 times, now that's an accomplishment for a man who came from nothing.
hojoleon 6 months ago
@hojoleon You're forgetting FDR who was the Democrat's VP candidate in 1920.
AllenbysEyes 6 months ago
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hojoleon 6 months ago
@AllenbysEyes you're right, i forgot about that. but, i mean the upbringing of these two men were so different. Nixon had to scratch for what he got compared to others who had it easy.
hojoleon 6 months ago
@hojoleon and the only president to resign in disgrace.
darius595 5 months ago
@darius595 but he was right : only Americans could defeat themselves, and they did, just listening and not understandig this great man and this great President ! We need another Nixon today ! AMERICA FOREVER, AND MEN LIKE HIM ALWAYS AT THE POWER !
lord19561 5 months ago 2
I think Nixon was talking about the common working man, and the middle and lower classes in this speech.
GTH4250 6 months ago 2
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So tonight, to you, the great silent majority.... sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice....
graemeoliver84 7 months ago
atrios28 7 months ago
Congress changed the draft law in 1971 eliminating the possibility of avoiding military service by pursuing a degree as a full-time student, thus reducing significantly the number of men applying for college undergrad or grad studies ...
atrios28 7 months ago
"If the President of the United States does it--it's not illegal," Nixon was prophetic. Imagine what he could have achieved with the USA PATRIOT Act, under which any President can detain a U.S. citizen for up to 3 years in solitary confinement without charges; merely on suspicion of "terrorist activities." Thus incarcerated for 23 1/2 hrs/day in a cell no bigger than a typical bathroom-deprived of human interaction-sunlight, view of the outside & under constant surveillance most become psychotic
atrios28 7 months ago
The vast majority of death in Vietnam happened between 1965 and 1968.
gaguy1967 7 months ago
press 6 then 3 to reveal Dick's beyond the grave message.....woooooooo!!!!!
pipetheory 8 months ago
haha at his last statement... cause it's true!! press 8
hyaologo65 8 months ago
Say what you want about RIchard Nixon, he was a very intelligent man, sharp as a tack.
cheeriosinabowl 9 months ago
I like to think that in an alternate universe, watergate hadn't happened and Nixon went down in history as a good president. And, then we skipped right over Carter and Ford to Reagan.
DimensionsofChange 9 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Are you kidding me Reagan was a HORRIBLE President!!!!
gingermhaight 7 months ago
@gingermhaight Are you kidding? He lowered taxes, closed loopholes that allowed the rich to allude their taxes, helped end the cold war, ended a recession in 6 months (unlike Obama), got Jimmy Carter out of office, helped bolster national confidence, deregulated the economy, cut nuclear weapsons, took on PATCO (I assume you hate unions, like all sane people), and helped the GOP briefly rally around an ideology rather than the bs it has become today.
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange and you assume wrong??? Why would I want people to be working in unsafe inhumane conditions?? Have you heard the stories about people who worked in meat factories with rats and feasies...NOT COOL.. and the people who worked in factories whose boss wouldn't let leave and there was a fire so they had to jump out of the window... Do you understand why we have labor unions??
gingermhaight 7 months ago
@gingermhaight Why would you assume that me, a man who's favorite president was the head of a union, hated unions? I recognize people's right to organize, just as I recognize people's right not to organize. The problem begins when people let the unions have as much power as big business. Which is why we need politicians like Reagan, and not fools who believe that unions are infallible and business is run by evil ogres who are with out souls.
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Yeah, anyone can get a job. I just passed a Taco Bell & KFC both with "Help Wanted" signs in the windows. The trick is to make it without working though...
atrios28 7 months ago
@atrios28 what you mean, make it without working though?
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange Exactly: that's the trick
atrios28 7 months ago
@atrios28 Do mean just not working or making money off of somethign you enjoy doing so it doesn't feel like work?
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
@gingermhaight Youre talking about the early 1900s..What have labor unions done in the past 60 years since 1950?
gaguy1967 7 months ago
@gaguy1967 What have labor unions done in the past 60 years since 1950? Mostly disappeared. Accd'g to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 11.9% of workers are in Unions, down from 12.3% in '09, 20.1% in '83 & peak union membership of 35 percent during the mid-1950s, after a surge in unionization during the Great Depression and after World War II ... This, by the way is working, doing your research for you and others to correct your gibberish -- why do you think it's called "work"?
atrios28 7 months ago
@atrios28 What a long nonsequitor of a post you posted
gaguy1967 7 months ago
@DimensionsofChange You hate unions. You view yourself as sane. Therefore: all sane people hate unions. Excellent deductive reasoning
atrios28 7 months ago
@atrios28 Well I would not say the concept of a Union is bad in theory. Just like the concept of a multination corporation is not bad in theory. Some Unions have at times been good organizations. Again I bring up the example of Reagan running SAG. But, usually unions get out of hand, and fuck everything up. Kinda like they did to GM and Chrysler.
DimensionsofChange 7 months ago
The problem about Nixon was that he let the new deal program extend itself. He claimed to be opposed against communism but not against communism in government. He ended the silver standard, which caused many recessions to come to posterity. He started the war on drugs, which has caused many non-violent offenders serve long sentences at your extent. Not to mention caused a black market underground network. A president that did more harm than good, he was typical.
1337bard 10 months ago
He got us out of Vietnam and improved our relations with China! Now China almost owns the US
TNovaccaine 11 months ago
AARRROOUUU!
TheRealEzzy 11 months ago
he wasent illuminati ye?
1smokeloc 1 year ago
only american can humiliate united states which means united states can make fun of itself. what a dumb fuck nixon is.
Ahuitzotol 1 year ago
@Ahuitzotol
Yeah, ending the war in Veitnam, recognizing China, clean water act, detente with Soviets, helping to make peace in Israel.....
If he wouldnt have been so paraniod he would be considered one of the better Presidents.
enverpasha55 11 months ago
@Ahuitzotol Same to you.
1337bard 10 months ago
CBS posted a Nixon tape where he's asked about ABORTION.
Nixon says that ''IT'S NOT BLACK AND WHITE as with rape. ''
That was a common expression in his day.
CBS manipulates and garbles his words and ''RE-WRITES'' over his face that he said abortion is fine ''as with black and white or rape''....painting him as racist.
I posted a correction so then, they re-posted the video and cut off access for comments (or future correction)How disgusting that the press is still fabricating lies
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I have not reached a place where I can say Nixon was a great President. Nixon's secret recordings reveal obstruction of justice, patent paranoia, vindictive agendas, and total distrust of just about everyone.
Contrast this with his historic skills in foreign policy, and we have a very complicated man.
PacificEdibleSeaweed 1 year ago
Too bad they could not have had such glorious color during the JFK assasination only a few years earlier.
n0gar 1 year ago
He sounds eerily like Reagan, or vice versa.
ORUPRANKSTAZ 1 year ago
Very well said... The Nixonian way of life will come... he is the only US president born in Califonia... from Whittier College and Yorba Linda...I love this president. Our silent majority really represents America...I was there as a kid thru all his speeches. The silent majority has no color, but is truly AMERICAN in family and family values...NIXON NOW!
Lovetogolf2005 1 year ago
What he said on the end is so true, the American people made the US lose in Vietnam, not the North Vietnamese!
Macebeard 1 year ago
This was his "lettuce" speech.
signalcorp4 1 year ago
NIXON 2012! NOW MORE THAN EVER!
ripvanwinkle61 1 year ago 11
Perhaps American Presidents do receive societal rehabilitation after time. I think Nixon, although tainted and died a broken man was the epitome of power and paranoia run amok. He escalated in 1970 by bombing Cambodia, carried every state except Mass in 1972, yet unraveled like LBJ due to internal dissent. I don't envy the crisis' any President must face, but many of us have a strange smpathy given such tragic figures with their service and history has a strange way of showing us whom we'll envy
OSTARAEB4 1 year ago
FUCK U Nixon u lying sack of shit!!!!!!!!
Rowe2010h 1 year ago
Nixon was a great role model. I always tell my children to follow his example - if you're ever in a position of power, abuse the shit out of it, because you'll just get pardoned anyway.
rsrs17 1 year ago
Are you all fucking crazy? He was a war criminal who ordered the bombing - and is responsible - of the death of hundred of thousands of Laotians and Cambodgians people, not to mention of course Vietnamese. His administration with the help of his cursed soul Henry Kissinger is also responsible of the dictatures who were put in place in South America which killed (and tortured) thousands of people. Despite his success with China, Nixon was a scum, a psychotic, one of the worst US president EVER.
loaloauk 1 year ago
@loaloauk Every US president is a war criminal becase power means crimes.
You have to look beyond simple deontological explanations to understand that he was actually a good president.
dopamine83 1 year ago
@loaloauk `He also kept a very aggresive Soviet Union at bay with his policies. Opened up China to trade. His actions were necessary at the time. Kissinger was a god send. If he doesn't do these things, the USSR is set up on our doorstep for invasion by 1974. We would be speaking Russian and saluting the hammer and sickle. God Bless Nixon!!!!!!!
bhkidd 1 year ago 2
@bhkidd I loved Nixon. It would be horrific if I had to speak Russian.
ylchiang 1 year ago
I don't care what anyone says, he was a great president.
Unlucky320 1 year ago
@Unlucky320 i also liked him, i think he was set up, becouse people in high places wanted the vietnam war to go on so thay could cash in on it..
donpowell89 1 year ago
Lots of blinking.
TrandomnesstwO 1 year ago
That ending was priceless!
Axalara 1 year ago
JasperFrankieDamnit my dear friend, I am not a Crook, We must screw our political enemies, I wear a Republican Cloth Coat. Go find an old book called , "The Begatting of a President"
ripvanwinkle61 1 year ago
sorry i'm not exactly watching the vid coz of what nixon did i'm not even american lol i'm just here to hear what his actual voice sounds like. He so does NOT sound like every1 impersonates him.
Sorry...
xXDenverXx1 1 year ago
@xXDenverXx1 I'm watching for the same reason, and now I'm wondering where the futurama impersonation came from
182below0 1 year ago
@182below0 yes futurama! thats where i first heard an impersonation of Nixon. ......................I kind of like futuramas version better lol
xXDenverXx1 1 year ago
He won 49 out of 50 states so obviously there was a silent majority
dalkass 1 year ago 15
hey is there a way to download this video form somewhere? if so.. please provide a link or tell me how.. :o
thx
1manarmy93 1 year ago
Of course the Vietcong didn't defeat America Nixon just your left leaning policies had. America believes you are the worst president ever.
v19d 1 year ago
In all honesty, Nixon's Presidency was a mixed bag. His foreign policy was top-knotch in regards to dividing the Soviet Union and China, a development which would later prove critical to ending the Cold War in 1989. However, his domestic policies were largely ineffective and, in some cases, even criminal.
LeCreuset05 1 year ago
When I was a kid he was my hero!
Lovetogolf2005 1 year ago 2
@Lovetogolf2005 when you got out of high school that was no manufacturing left where you lived.
v19d 1 year ago
wow, burn statement at the end
CHSvideoman 1 year ago
60,000 Patriots gave their lives for nothing, estimated 75,000 Vietnam vets live on the streets.
Don't understand why the American people put up with the subversion. Its outrageous , the US has been at war for another 10 years for nothing. This time I don't believe there is any recovery. The money system has been purposely hooped.
boots920 1 year ago
@boots920 Does that mean that you are against President Obama?
HarpoFitz 1 year ago
Obama can't even show a long form Birth Certificate - that's outrageous. But in Banana Republics that's not a big problem.
You haven't seen the Federal Reserve Note go to 0 value, that's when the fun starts.
boots920 1 year ago
The only good things Richard Nixon did was end Vietnam and appoint William H. Rehnquist to the Supreme Court.
ZDWmiamicane 1 year ago
@ZDWmiamicane
NIxon's "Peace" treaty was a cynical scam...he didn't end the war...he just postponed defeat until he was out of office. The Paris "Peace" Treaty left thousands of Vietcong troops stationed in S. Vietnam..The leaders of S. Vietnam knew it was a scam and virtually had to be forced at gunpoint to accept it..Did our terms of surrender with Japan leave thousands of Japanese troops stationed in Hawaii? The war could have ended in 1968.
johnlouisville 1 year ago 3
I actually just got "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War" and I'm in the process of learning more about the topic. So, therefore, I'll concede your point. But, I loved William H. Rehnquist and he did get that right if nothing else.
ZDWmiamicane 1 year ago
@ZDWmiamicane True but he killed jobs in the long run.
v19d 1 year ago
When it comes to Richard Nixon you have to Examine the Good & Bad because there is so much of both with him & its the Only Way to look at Richard Nixon in a Fair & Accurate Way.
FrsBigeasy 1 year ago 3
Great president if you actually study the good things he did for this country.
St984 1 year ago 3
Nixon could have ended the cold war. Too bad he had those ''plumbers'' running around, screwing things up. But as far as his foreign policy, it was genius. He and Kissinger were a great team.
zilvesta123 1 year ago 3
JFK>Nixon
JFK = Last great president we've had, unlike this crock of shit..War on Terrorisom is the same bullshit as the war on Vietnam..
p00pdawg 1 year ago
Oh please. JFK was more responsible for Vietnam than Nixon. He was a warmonger by anyone's standard today with his phony "missile gap"
Albyiscool 1 year ago 5
That may be true but what about the secret bombings in Vietnam's neighboring country's.
and JFK didn't start a war or get anyone killed, JFK's ideology on government secrecy and minimizing power to the federal government was something we haven't seen since JFK..Nixon tried to play the peace card but he was the same as all those dirty bastards.
p00pdawg 1 year ago
Nixon ultimately ended that war. JFK, on the other hand, escalated the Cold War, put thousands of Americans into Vietnam, and invaded Cuba- and failed.
You talk as if JFK never hid anything...for God's sake he was on meds the whole time in office and had many many affairs, one of which was with an East German spy.
Albyiscool 1 year ago
He didn't escalated the Cold War; how did he even do that? It was called the Cold War for a reason: because both nations were just building arms--which JFK didn't do, and actually signed a test-ban treaty. He didn't even give the Cubans air support, which the CIA wanted; he knew that helping them would just lead to a backfire. And Vietnam started before he entered office, and he was getting troops out, but his policy was reversed by LBJ. Learn your history.
Theblizzardking 1 year ago
JFK raved about a fake "missile gap", and increased American missiles, nuclear weapons, subs, etc. tenfold, prompting the Soviets to follow suit. Eventually this caused the USSR to outnumber us in certain weapons.
A test ban treaty did not stop the arms race. And he STILL authorized the invasion- it was his fault for not having the will to follow through so the invasion was a failure and Castro became closer with USSR.
Albyiscool 1 year ago
Learn YOUR history. Before JFK, Vietnam had only American supplies and a few hundred advisors.
JFK added thousands more and made our stake in Vietnam bigger. After he was killed, LBJ tried to carry on the Kennedy legacy- he had the EXACT same cabinet members and saw the precedent JFK set. They told him to escalate so he did so- slowly. Too slow to try and win the war, but just fast enough so that he would win the 1964 by looking like a tough Cold Warrior. The point is, JFK set the standard.
Albyiscool 1 year ago
JFK got us into Vietnam. Just saying...
tikiedit 1 year ago 2
Jfk was more for the people. But ya i agree
p00pdawg 1 year ago
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RICHARD NIXON lay dead on the ground a broken & deflated man his hair blackened by death & his teeth artificial. Gerald Ford sat motionless on the toilet expecting nothing else than more shit. Jimmy Carter went numb, the cold, icy hand of death violating his pancreas. I've got the worst pancreas of any president, he said in Georgian words. Geo. Bush fingered the prostitute's count, thrubbing her gingerly whereat Barbara had long past desensitized probably from R.J. Graves' disease.
TheVicAndHelenShow 2 years ago
Only Americans like Jane Fonda. can defeat or humiliate uss.
glimmer2158 2 years ago 7
Nixon was a brilliant genius compared to the pile of shit we have dealt with under Shrub.
Thejbirdy 2 years ago 3
"Only I, Richard M. Nixon can humiliate the United States" That is what he should have said. We are still feeling the effects of Watergate!
InsuranceCIO 2 years ago
"North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States; Only Americans can do that"
ohh the irony
RATH3RUNIQUE 2 years ago 7
I would take Nixon over any of the presidents we have had since 88, god our country needs a leader
cowlateral158 2 years ago 5
Nixon's paranoia did him in.
SirProphet 2 years ago 3
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if paranoia means liberals and homos lol
greeniem 2 years ago
Haha, so true. He got the biggest landslide in U.S. history since Washington, and he lost it by checking up on the Democratic convention. He obviously didn't even have to!
veteranofthepsyche 2 years ago 14
I'm not American. I think Richard Nixon was one of the greatest presidents you have ever had. He ended the war in Vietnam, opened up China, paid off the debt and pushed the Soviets back. Then he genuinely cared about his country, unlike the press establishment and all the hippies.
ptnsteognoeghneutjhr 2 years ago 53
I agree. If you look at everything he did, he's actually one of the best presidents...ever.
MrAlexKeaton 2 years ago 3
I actually have to agree. As a person I really dislike him, but that doesn't mean he can't do a good job.
veteranofthepsyche 2 years ago 3
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr OH, so you admit he opened up China so U.S. companies could mass-export jobs? That makes him...the destroyer of our 1950's economy. An economy built up by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower.
barneyfrankmyhero 1 year ago
@barneyfrankmyhero trade is always a good thing. U.S. trading with China, China tradiing with U.S. vice versa. What's not good is over the years increasing the taxes on businesses to operate from within the United States forcing them to take their business elsewhere where they can actually make a profit.
SuperDude2569 1 year ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr I find your comment interesting, in that, as a non-American you hold Nixon in high regard. I study history and global politics, and I've observed that non-Americans like our more liberal Presidents, such as JFK, even though many of his fans (both within and outside the U.S.) can't cite one thing he did to improve the nation. Also, while in anti-Yankee Argentina, I saw that Obama is popular while Bush was hated. Is your opinion common where your view common where you live?
snipetracker 1 year ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr Read about Air Force Gen. John Lavelle
peachkim 1 year ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr Yea he was one of the greatest presidents ever...especially when he got impeached
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@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr Yea he was one of the greatest presidents ever...especially when he got impeached
paulpierce22 1 year ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr: He was one of the planners of the war, so he should have done something. Besides, HE did not get the US out of Vietnam, the Vietnamese got the US out of Vietnam! Stop trying to re-write history.
n0gar 1 year ago
@n0gar
Nixon and Kissenger were great policy makers. Many conservatives wanted to push more troops in....do not be foolish. Nixon was not a good person, but even I, a pretty liberal guy, admits his policy was sound. Detente, clean water act, recognizing China...ect.
enverpasha55 11 months ago
@enverpasha55 Nixon and Kissinger were very liberal at the time. Ending the silver standard, nation building, starting the war on drugs, which is nothing but a war against your privacy, property and liberty. Kissinger started more conflicts than any other Sec. of State. In case you missed out what he did in S. America, middle-east, and Asia. He was a big advisor to Bush on Iraq. Look at Iraq, it is a chaotic oil satellite state.
1337bard 10 months ago
@1337bard
The war on drugs was really a product of the Reagan Admin. and Bush Sr. in terms of the amount of Money spent (wasted) and the largess of it. Kissinger was a prick, but he was working within that cold war ethos that dominated US policy....he did win a nobel peace prize for his shuttle diplomacy in israel. I am pretty sure Nixon would not have been against the Iraq invasion as he was more of a true conservative/realist.
enverpasha55 10 months ago
@enverpasha55 I'm pretty sure Nixon would have been for the invasion too, but I'm pretty sure he would have gotten approval from congress first instead of using other government entity resolutions as a means for a declaration of war. True conservatism comes from the republican philosophy which Nixon did not embody. If you want to judge a president by strict republican philosophy, then our last conservative president was Coolidge.
1337bard 10 months ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr so true.
wesker1998 1 year ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr
I am an American and one of the few Nixon fans....he was paranoid...but his Policy was great! Dont forget teh clean water act....was planning on health care reform...but he went to far to win.
enverpasha55 11 months ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr You're wrong PT... Nixon emissaries frustrated U.S.-North Vietnam Peace Talks (initiated after the Ted offensive) so he could escalate the war, initiated Christmas bombings of civilians in Hanoi by B-52s, ordered secret invasion of Laos & bombing of Cambodia, More than half of U.S. K.I.A. 1969~1975, when the war ended a year after Nixon resigned, when loopholes that kept privileged sons safe (like Clinton, Bush, Cheney ... ).from the draft were closed by Congress
atrios28 11 months ago
@atrios28 Some glaring historical inaccuracies in your comment. Clinton and Cheney were not "privileged sons". Also, it was the Tet Offensive not the "Ted Offensive".
ambigera 11 months ago
@atrios28 wrong. the vietnamization process of 1969-1973 pulled U.S. troops to the sidelines of the war, drastically reducing American casualties. Nixon did this to calm the American people, because larger amounts of Americans were dying during Americanization (1965-1968), causing much social unrest.
So no, the majority of American deaths in Vietnam DID NOT occur during Nixon's presidency. Because of Nixon, many American lives were spared.
truecinema 10 months ago
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@atrios28 wrong. The Vietnamization process of 1969-1973 pulled U.S. troops to the sidelines of the war, drastically reducing American casualties. Nixon did this to calm the American people, because larger numbers of Americans were dying during Americanization (1965-1968), causing much social unrest.
So no, the majority of American deaths in Vietnam DID NOT occur during Nixon's presidency. Because of Nixon, many American lives were spared.
truecinema 10 months ago
@atrios28 what are you babbling about?? The draft ended in 1973.
gaguy1967 7 months ago
Respond to this video... No teleprompter unlike The One. His speech is in front of him and he only occasionally looks down
gaguy1967 7 months ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr Idiot. Greatest presidents his ending of the war of Vietnam cost 30K deaths which was pointless because the war was lost by 1969, he bombed, drove and killed of millions of Cambodians and Laoations with his secret wars, he opened up China which now OWNS the USA and he violated and completely disrespected the entire system of American democaracy and made people lose all there faith in their goverment which still has not been restored. Great more like an utter failure.
12Aggiefan 11 months ago
@12Aggiefan Youre wrong. The US left Vietnam in April 1973 under conditions similar to the US in Korea in 1953. The war was WON by the end of 1972 and South Vietnam was capable of repelling North Vietnam with little direct US help. What brought down S Vietnam was Nixon got sidelined by Watergate, the OPEC oil price increase and the Dems cutting off aid to South Vietnam. It is also nonsense to say Nixon killed millions of people in Cambodia and Laos.
gaguy1967 7 months ago
@ptnsteognoeghneutjhr You obviously missed the fact that we LOST the war and more than 58,000 people died.Nixon sent troops home, but at the same time he was authorizing a number of covert attacks on the Loas and Cambodia. I really don't see any "Peace and Honor" in that.
gingermhaight 7 months ago
Just as relavent today as it was 40 years ago. I don't know if relavent is spelled right......
bobthefreak09 2 years ago 5
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fuck that nixon he was terrible i dont why people like him?
dragonball7441 2 years ago
Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos which are very rich in oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a Father of Vietnam who lives as a god and sacrifices his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
TOMP66666 2 years ago 4
You forgot about the millions of people
derekmanzano 2 years ago 2
After 8 years of Bush people are still bitchin' about Nixon. Nixon had a progressive domestic policy, something that George W Bush, George H.W Bush, and RONALD REAGAN didn't have. He also had a great foregn policy, something that George W Bush also didn't have. Nixon was a saint compared to Bush.
davleuv 2 years ago 4
the loss of the war wasn't really nixon's fault. he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. he pretty much inherited the war from Johnson, who was a terrible president
samdiego 2 years ago
Loss? Fault?
Nixon kept us in a war to prop up a regime that could NEVER support itself.
He knew that, but he did it anyway.
Then he desolated Cambodia.
Think for yourself!
mvonwahlde 2 years ago
the US dropped its military aid to only a quarter of what it had been in the last year of the Nixon presidency in the year before South Vietnam fell. The US Congress caused the fall of south vietnam. The insurgency had been defeated.
joejabberoni 2 years ago
Yes, he was just cleaning up the mess LBJ all the way gave us.. And I don't think he was a crook . They all did what he did in Water Gate,but he just got caught at it.
flygirl1953 2 years ago 4
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Horseshit.
jamcrane3 2 years ago
Yeah, all that work with Civil Rights and the lower class, Johnson was a fucker...
Verbeke1992 2 years ago
Nixon may have been progressive in terms of domestic policy, but what shouldn't be lost here are the secret/Christmas bombings and his abuse of office in watergate.
JrFLYnnIV 2 years ago
richard nixon is my favorite president
libzsuk1 2 years ago 2
mine too
TylerHinds 2 years ago
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silent majoratys are bullshit.
Comradesnowball 2 years ago
Nixon, like every other politican, is a man of his time. His 49 state landslide in 72 is amazing. And he didn't have ACORN rounding up street people and talking them to the polls.
ACORNSUCKS 2 years ago 12
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Sick, corrupt, paranoid and devoid of human compassion, Nixon was a horrific president and the embodiment of the worst part of America.
The facts about Nixon are obvious: He only moved around existing funds to "create the EPA". He visited China and Russia just to make himself look good. I challenge anyone to point to concrete gains for America from those Nixon trips. And he murdered thousands of humans for political reasons in Vietnam when he could have ended that war in Jan. 1969. Awful man.
snesich 2 years ago
His visits to China and Russia achieved nothing?
In 1972 Nixon negotiated SALT 1 a strategic arms limitation treaty with Russia to try to bring the arms race under control.
His visit to China led to re-establishment of trade links if the Chinese werent buying US bonds the American Government would probably be bankrupt.
CharlesDickens99 2 years ago 10
dick was just a man who want to to searve and had a fear that a high power want to take him down
for that he was trap
uhfnutbar1 2 years ago
Nixon was so anti-cool he was cool. What did he do? He opened up China and Russia. Then he went to Egypt to a tumultuous welcome from the Egyptian people. He supported the ERA, instituted the EPA, ended the draft, instituted block grants. He was creepy, but respected world-wide. Didn't like him then, but miss him now. He obliterated Reagan in the '68 primaries. He truly understood the fears and concerns of average Americans instead of the trendy elite. He understood Real-Politik. NIXON 2012!
ripvanwinkle61 2 years ago 35
@ripvanwinkle61 Nixon Killed jobs by creating the EPA and OSHA and how it took till the 1980's for Manufacturing to cease making everything. Hey Obama watch your buddy Nixon. Any member of Richard Nixon who runs for office should be defeated including his Grandson.
v19d 1 year ago
@v19d Don't be a "nattering nabob of negativism". Don't be a "pusillanimous pussyfooter". Bring us together.
ripvanwinkle61 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 No thanks too radical like left leaning. Even the Oil industry hated Nixon in the end. Forced the Oil industry to drill in the mideast instead of North America. Nixon Environmental policies was copied by Europe and even Australia-New Zealand regions of the world. That is why Oil companies was forced to drill in the mideast and Africa like Nigeria.
v19d 1 year ago
@v19d Is that 19d like 19 Delta? If so you are forgiven, because if you ain't Cav... I saw many signs on the campaign trail v19d, my friend, one of them was held up by a little girl and it said "bring us together".
ripvanwinkle61 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 I just don't believe anyone that is related to Richard Nixon that runs for Congress is different then the grandfather like his grandson Christopher Nixon Cox saying he is a conservative. I don't see Christopher Nixon Cox will even win the Primary election At the end of the Richard Nixon presidency that ended in disgrace "bring us together" no longer met anything it was please throw Nixon in Jail.
v19d 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 -You are right on the money. He was brilliant. Too bad he was so paranoid and disliked. Could have gone down in histroy as a great Pres if not for Watergate. It was a terribleera for soneone like him to be pres also. What if we had him in 2001-2009 instead of Bush? He wouldnt have pussyfooted around, but dont think he would have done anything foolish either (like go into Iraq when the real enemy is elsewhere)
loyaldude10 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 Your kidding right?
JasperFrankieDamnit 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 yeh baby
crocetti46 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61
God Bless and Keep President Richard M. Nixon,
For unlike many of his detractors, I actually lived through
his presidency and they were without question
the best days I ever knew and ever will know.
He is forever MY President, and #1 in my heart.
LNei 1 year ago
@ripvanwinkle61 He also carpet bombed the neutral country of Cambodia, toppled a democratically elected government in Chile, took us off the gold standard, destroyed healthcare, started a stupid war on drugs, and ran a secret government through the Plumbers. I'm no liberal, and I'm disgusted that Nixon called himself conservative. But then again, a bunch of Egyptians liked him, so I may be wrong...
AmericanOutlaw87 1 year ago
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This man was one of the most corrupt Presidents in the history of the nation and here we have all these idiots thinking he was some kind of god...lol.
What a god damn joke.
BoomerNavy70 2 years ago
He was corrupt, but he was also very gifted. Are you too simple minded to understand the two are not mutally exclusive?
joe2stones 2 years ago 5
He had his issues, his stupidity at Watergate, his list of enemies, and all that crap, but don't let that blind you from the good things he did by ending our presence in Vietnam, in which he established Detente, and opening up trading to China, and many more things that he did that benefited the country. Look the man up before you insult him.
giantmetfan06 2 years ago 6
Well said.
cummyCroissant 2 years ago
You would think that...
MissMassMurderess13 2 years ago
Wasn't talking about Nixon...I was referring to what
giantmetfan06 said.
cummyCroissant 2 years ago
Howard Hughes.
MissMassMurderess13 2 years ago
Donl' mess with Texas
cummyCroissant 2 years ago
He would be considered an ultra- Liberal/socialist by today's Republicans. He regulated the economy unlike the US has ever experienced, he created OSHA and the EPA. He was for universal health care, far above what Obama is proposing, and he expanded Affirmative Action to include quotas and set asides for minority students and Federal contractors. He also believed government spending as stimulus to bolster the economy.
In retrospect, his policies today would be rejected by his very own party.
coliseumdog 2 years ago 3