Real Richard Nixon: 28 DAYS (7) - Prayer with Henry Kissinger & Pat's actions

[Carollnn]

As much as I dislike Nixon's policies (for the most part, I like EPA and SALT), it's hard not to feel compassionate toward him. It was all of his own doing, but there is still tragedy here.

[geekorthodox9]

I could never imagine Dick Cheney going through the same sort of debriefing.

[C0NTR4B455]

God you can really see his hurt over Kissenger...

[C0NTR4B455]

The truth I take from this is that the struggles Nixon went through made him very compassionate..Can't but help warm to him..He allows you to see his failures.

[DrZenith]

Nixon was light-years more intelligent as President than G.Bush or Reagan for that matter. A complex man from a modest family who got to the top on his own.

[mainsqueeze1977]

Or Carter and Clinton for that matter.

At light-years of light-years than Obama, who however shares the fake honesty.

[taytaystrk]

WTF...Tricia and Julie are beautiful! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

[Derby14]

The man loves to use the term "incidentally".

[vivthefree]

It's a convenient word, as it allows him to digress into his obviously prepared material that portrays him as a tragic hero, and his enemies as ruthless, blood-hungry scoundrels.

[Zappafan5150]

YOU COMMUNIST!!!

[titans0002]

Wouldn't you prepare for an interview, too?  Assuming, of course, that anyone cared about anything you had to say, which I highly doubt. With regard to Nixon, whatever your opinion of him, I can't imagine Obama, Bush I or Bush II, Clinton or any other recent president being this interesting to listen to in an interview.

[vivthefree]

Nixon is a very interesting person, I'll give you that. You obviously care about what I say or else you wouldn't have responded.

Nixon's prepared material allows him to portray himself as a victim, whereas he wasn't really a victim, as it seems he committed a crime and he never was prosecuted.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Nixon to say Reagan or GW Bush, but I still think he was corrupt and deserved what he got.

[mainsqueeze1977]

He was a perpetrator but he also was a victim. Sure, his personality took the reaction to all new depths but for the treachery of one Ellsberg, the corruption of one New York Times and the arrogance and delusion of a Supreme Court he never would have been going down there!

[CounterCultureLives]

@vivthefree I remember the saga of Watergate quite well. Nixon was more petty than corrupt. Watergate was a tawdry spectacle, but Nixon's personal involvement was not that which many would have you believe. Nixon didn't order the breakin at DNC, and Watergate was a gnat in his ear. The problem was that his closest people, from Haldeman,& Erlichman, and John Mitchell, were involved, and Nixon was trying to protect them.

[vivthefree]

@CounterCultureLives Thank you for a thoughtful, reasonable response. And thank you for not reaching for partisan politics, upon the first criticism of a president. I'm not from the US, but it seems clear to me that political dialogue has sunk into an awful grudge match.

[CounterCultureLives]

@vivthefree Quite sadly, you are all so correct. :o( The art and science of thinking has been replaced with shallow platitudes and mindless rhetoric. I'm a former Conservative Republican - turned Left of Center Democrat. Much to my shame, there were all too many times times that I "drank the Kool-Aid" of rhetoric and shallowness. The past decade has done much to open my eyes to see the damage that such behavior causes.

[CounterCultureLives]

@vivthefree What many people do not understand is that the stage for the Watergate saga was set by Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's (who was a military analyst) release of "The Pentagon Papers", which exposed the ineptitude of former Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson's handling of the Vietnam war. LBJ and RNM were diametrically opposed in terms of political beliefs, but they were also very close friends. Nixon was angry because the leaking of The Pentagon Papers" was an embarrassment to LBJ's legacy.

[CounterCultureLives]

@CounterCultureLives Another thing that people don't understand is that RMN'spredecessors from both sides of the political aisles, & their administrations had engaged in conduct and actions that were not so different from those RMN's Administration. But with the explosion of communications technology, accompanied by America's era of social revolution and change, the the "unwritten rules" of the imperial presidency had changed. Nixon was too isolated from society to be able to see it, though.

[mainsqueeze1977]

It's a good and beautiful word.

[sdasoa]

Indeed they were

[avaition321]

...what?!

[jhr459]

One thing he was right about-his daughters were beautiful girls. Makes you wonder about the miracle of genetics.