Cambodians this, Cambodians that, it's just like today with the Arabs, WHO GIVES A F*&K! NOOOOOOO other country will catch us if we fall, Cambodians died, big deal, we have americans dying every hour, every minute. I wish stupid Americans: democrates and republican will just learn to care about us and only US. Cry over Cambodians, if you died in their country they wouldnt give you one thought
Despite his Watergate woes, Nixon, in his later years, finally got the respect and admiration of most Americans. And he earned it without taking "the easy way".
There had never been a gesture of contriteness on his part. The people yearned for Nixon to ask for forgiveness, so that they could forgive, but he would not. Never had.
It helped, of course, that he lived long enough. Passions cooled, he mellowed, his enemies died off. He wasn't, after all, remotely like Hitler or Stalin.
the point nixon was trying to make to the people after the presidency is that the president doesn't have that much power over how the people feel about him or how they or the system reacts to policies, but the president sure as hell is the top dog in the white house and no one's gonna stand in the way of what he asks for, legal or not.
Nixon was a victim of his own personality. He was an effective president-he did open relations with China, he did end Vietnam. But he was also arrogant and paranoid, a bad combination. He isolated himself from people, and then resented them for letting him be isolated. He was a great president, but if he had just managed to get out of his own way, he could have been one of THE greatest of all time.
I deplore the crisis that his people created that brought down an administration and embarrassed this country, but Nixon was clearly the most important President of the past 50 years.
It is in the President's gift to issue pardons despite the law and I think this element of being above the law needs to be noted here (as Nixon himself was pardoned).
He abused his position and by comparison to today stands tall in his admission when pressed while so many modern politicians show far less honesty. For that, I think Nixon may permitted some consideration. He was not a wicked man, but he failed to remember his high office when it counted.
I don't like his politics or methods, but I do respect the man. I'm happy the Frost/Nixon movie portrayed him as a decent man who made some bad mistakes, because that's what he is.
@krutmin his actions directly lead to genocide and he was responsible for mass killings of civilians. these aren't 'some bad mistakes' these are whats known as war crimes. why you respect the man is beyond me.
@krutmin Regardless of his decency, the world "mistakes" was what people were trying to get away from at the time. They weren't mistakes, they were acts of wrong doing. He purposely broke laws.
@krutmin he wasnt a decent man... watergate wasnt his biggest sin.. look into his history.. the man elongated the Vietnam war to win a election, he overthrew a democratically elected govt in south america, sold weapons to dictators, weapons later used to commit inhumane acts, he also took many illegal contributions during his election.. all are well documented cases...
@krutmin How can you possibly know Nixon was a decent man who made bad mistakes? Have you ever personally met with him and discussed politics?
I didnt think so. For you to be so naive to think that a movie, no matter how well made, is an accurate depection of what went on outside the interviews is propostertous.
I enjoyed the movie, and I dont hate Nixon because I didnt know him. The only way we can judge his character and "decency" on is his political decisions and media appearances.
Jesus Christ, you cannot be serious. The hundreds of thousands of Cambodians dead? The thousands dead in the illegal (Fully secret) war in Laos? The fact that not the Army pilots dropping the bombs had their guidance hardware hacked midway in flight so that even they thought they were dropping bombs in Vietnam? You know absolutely nothing about this man, or what he did.
Nixon's body language during "& the whole thing woulda gone away" suggests to me that he doesn't even believe that(clemency = end of corruption) - any1 else think so?
Nixon tarnished the presidency and was punished. George W. Bush destroyed America's image abroad and ruined the futures of generations of American children... and should be hanged from the neck till dead.
Actually, "savemyolaylist", there are many liberal Democrat hippies and former hippies who are very cognizant of Nixon's accomplishments. I know that for a fact because I'm one of them. There are many like-minded hippies like me who will actually defend Nixon's legacy.
@smpl; "Legacy" involves more than political scandals; it has to do with governing effectively. Many programs championed by Liberals began during Nixon's administration.
With the exception of the Obama Administration, The only administrations in my lifetime were untainted by scandal were the Carter Administration, the Ford Administration, and so far, the Obama administration. While Carter was a very decent man, he was not an effective President. Obama?? So far, not an effective President.
I like Ford because he pardoned a fucking criminal. And allowed inflation to run ramped with ridiculous Keynesian economics.
I like Carter, because he created the Dep of Education which is now used to indoctrinate more robots. And because he gave weapons and aid to Al Quida. And because he gave sanctuary to the brutal dictator Shah of Iran in the States.
I like Obama because he is repeating the same mistakes as Carter AND Ford. To a fucking T.
@smpl; Your vulgar language is the sign of a feeble minded simpleton seeking to express himself forcefully. You were not even born during the time of Nixon, Ford, or Carter, and you are grossly ignorant of what caused the hyper-inflation of the 1970's.
Get some help for your Tourette Syndrome, (Haloperidol and Pimozide have been proven to be quite effective for many afflicted people!!) park your ignorant, mindless rhetoric, and go educate yourself..... or, is that expecting too much of you??
Aww isn't that cute? You can't respond to my arguments so you resort to ad hominem attacks.
Low interest rates and money printing (a Keynesian tool) were the reason for the inflation. The second Paul Volcker ramped up the rates, the inflation got under control.
Why, of COURSE that's what happened. That's why we had double-digit interest rates AND double digit inflation. Of course, the only problem with your arguments are these trivial matters called "facts".
Ford did not introduce the theory of Keynesian economics The economy was already in the throws of a serious recession when Ford took office.
Ford appointed Volker, dummy!!
By the time Ford left office, inflation and interest rates were down to about 6.5% per year.
Paul Volcker was appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve in August 1979 by President Carter and reappointed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.
Volcker's Fed is widely credited with ending the United States' stagflation crisis of the 1970s. Inflation, which peaked at 13.5% in 1981, was successfully lowered to 3.2% by 1983.
The federal funds rate, which had averaged 11.2% in 1979, was raised by Volcker to a peak of 20% in June 1981. The prime rate rose to 21.5% in '81 as well.
The 1st round of stagflation occurred in the mid 1970's, and the problem was already presented itself when Ford took office; so, your notion that Ford caused stagflation is clearly wrong.
@smpl: Now, regarding your preposterous claim that Carter established The Department of Education?? WOW!! Carter did not establish the Department of Education; he simply signed "The Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88).
PL96-88 simply broke the Department of Health, EDUCATION, and Welfare into separate entities. The formerly combined entities became The Department of Education, and the department of Health and Human Services.
No, NOT "exactly" The department of Education has long been in existence when Carter took office. PL96-88 simply established it as a separate entity from HEW. THat's not "creating" a Department of Education.
You're missing the forest for the trees. The thing was expanded nonetheless, and I can hardly see how that is a liberal cause. Allowing federal bureaucracy to skim money off education funds is just plain corruption.
On July 3, 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan. As a part of the Central Intelligence Agency program called Operation Cyclone, led by their elite Special Activities Division, which included the massive arming of Afghanistan's mujahideen.
Carter did, as you claim, authorize funding to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan; but there was no "Al Qaida" at that time. Al Qaida was not formed until the 1980's. Not a bad move on Carter's part at all; Bush41's bungling of Ireaq's invasion of Kuait is what caused the souring relationship between the US & the Taliban.
Oh wonderful, Carter gave them the means, Bush gave them the incentive. I can hardly see how these entangling alliances are a good thing.
Besides, Carter gave sanctuary to the brutal dictator Shah of Iran. If that's not just as disgusting as what the neocons do, I don't know what is. He should have gave that bastard and THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH back to the Iranians to be hanged for the piece of shit he was.
No, but there was the mujahadeen who received CIA funding to combat the Soviets. This was the birthing of Bin Laden as he was essentially a paid mercenary and was later stabbed in the back when he was exhiled from his native land of Saudi Arabia due to US involvement.
He would have done it and not recorded it. Nixon and crew knew they were on tape, and taped every fucking thing that came in. EVERYTHING. Kennedy and LBJ only taped when they presed a button, they kept everything else secret.
This is not a matter of the POTUS being "above the law". While The President's powers of office are not absolute, the President's power to grant pardons is absolute.
Dissent is irrelevant?? Truth is irrelevant?
Unfortunately, there is some truth to the points you make; but I'm not the one who wrote the rules.
"Congress can impeach a President who abuses his pardoning power."
Actually, the POTUS's power to pardon is absolute, so that power, however unwisely it may be used, can not be "abused". A President can not be impeached simply because he makes an unpopular decision.
There is no way Obama can win. It will only prolong the death & drive the US into the Depression.
Obama promised to end the war. Instead he is spilling more blood. Wasting more money. Global warming will soon scare the sh*t out of everyone & get everyones attention. Here comes the worst flood in history.
We must drive O-bomb-a out of office like we did LBJ & NIxon. Make O-bomb-a cry uncle.
Why does King Dick Nixon I get to keep dangling, at us? Do we look like pud-baiters? Do we not have a President, Dick VIII? Is he not of the line, of Dick V, the Bushmaster? Is Cheney not happy with Dick 5.5? Hillary is Dick VI, Bill is Dick VII. Hillary gets half a dick for letting Bill live, so O'bummer is Dick ATE, already, from Kenya but he cannot punk his brain to understand, how Jews, Purple Gang or kosher are from ETHIOPIA, so expect WWIII, after awhile. 360.yahoo/bobgnote
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A great American home too - for instance, the cancer program. Many things more. And the way he managed to let the American dollar come a little bit down to fulfil American commitments; outstanding... A great, great Patriot and a man full of Christian principles. Sometimes you can afford to say such things when you are not American. Thank you very much.
Re: Full of Christian principles... he was so in "the republican way", and by this I mean he would pick and choose certain principles applicable to his success and personal beliefs.
You ignorant. You communist mutant. In the last resource, you should be ashamed to think of the monstrous crimes the communists committed during the Vietnam conflict but, most of all, of the millions who perished under their regimes next. You bloody selfish hypocrite. You traitor.
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President Nixon was probably the most gifted and intelligent man in the White House ever. Full of principles, convinced that politics around Congress wouldn't harm his own policies, he went on. Brilliantly, he matched world Communist menace. Vietnam, where sadly many thousands of Americans had died, was probably - in retrospect - his greatest achievement.
nixon is a sad story he was a great american and he screwed up and he acknowledged it and i think he took it to the grave.
i know it shouldnt exonerate him but he was not evil he just did a foolish think. and people tend to forget the good he also did, and im more of democrat then republican but i acknowledged he proably did more right then bad. i wish we could get the same regret from bush, but he will never say he was wrong
He only acknowledged it because he was caught, he was anti democratic and borderline fascist in my opinion, and responsible for the death of 100s of thousands of indo-chinese in a war only created make the rich even richer, If Hitler had won WW2 his later interviews would have been similar to these, he thought he was above the law and above God.
How can you say he was responsible for all those deaths? when he took office in Jan 20 1969 the war was still going on it had been since 1959..He thought to himself that whaterver happened in watergate he could come out clean on the other side..That was his mistake. Plus he did make a share of enemies who wanted him down..
he was responsible for cambodia, and continued vietnam based on the principles that had nothing to do with the american interest, particularly (as he mentions) for the sake of reputation
You're fairly nutty and stupid. The length of the Vietnam war was due to the failed military strategies implemented by Kennedy and Johnson. Nixon was successfully bringing the war to an end, and preserving the South Vietnamese government until Watergate ended his presidency and Congress abandoned our Vietnamese allies.
No he didn't. The North Vietnamese took the war into Cambodia. Nixon did what every military strategist was recommending and asking for and attacked the communist bases and trails in Cambodia. Allowing the enemy to use Cambodia would only have prolonged the war.
I don't know how a person can mark this comment down. It's 100% truthful. There isn't a shred of poltics in this comment. The communist took the war into Cambodia. The communist violated Cambodian neutrality and used the country as a safe haven from which to launch attacks into South Vietnam. This is 100% indisputable truth.
Kennedy might have had his strenghts, but he didn't appear to be a good war president. Bay of Pigs is an example of that, which got dumped in his lap by the Eisenhower Administration.
Then Kennedy is assassination and Vietnam is dumped in the lap of President Johnson. And it just continues, just like now, where the War on Terror has been dumped into the lap of President Obama.
Because at the time he took presidency he was vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. Also he was re-elected while no one saw the real nixon. He was very professional but after the scandal he began to show his true side.
I admit that I made a mistake. Eisenhower was famous and because of Nixon's relation with him. The American's at the time liked him. He also used backhanded tricks to make his opponents look bad.
Wow...internet intellectual? You have no education of history. Not only do you not know when Nixon took office you have no understanding of his policies. Noxon ended a long war and opened China and the Mideast to US trade. Go educate yourself.
I admitted that I made a mistake what more do you want. Go see Frost/Nixon and see what Nixon was really like. Watch the entire interviews and see how his view was wrong. He believed that because he was the president he could do nothing illegal. Now you tell me to go educate myself. Nixon could have used some actual morals. If someone's going to be my president I don't want him to cheat to become president. So would you want a cheater and rasisct to be president?
How could you ask that? Why did Americans elect Bush the second time?? Who the heck knows...they just did. Politicians are good at campaigning and not politic-king! Once every century you'd get a good lad who is considered a hero. But 9 times out of 10 most of them are pure and adulterated losers, just like Nixon!
No. Nobody ELECTED Bush in 2000 because he was appointed by the Republican governor of Florida. Shows how politics can get in this country. And in 2004, he used the 'fear' tactic to win his second term. That's not being elected. That's bribing the vote. Obama was ELECTED..!
Why do you bloody Englishmen consist of categorizing one person with all of America? I didn't vote for him and I am telling you that he won because he started the war in Iraq and traditionally we do not change presidents in the middle of a war. So the traditional Republicans utilized that strategy to get another four years.
I don't ever see you Brits speak highly about the puppet-Brown who prances around like a frog with no tongue. He is as good as dirt...he needs to be stepped on.
Maybe you want someone to personally attack you - if that's your forte', but I am not here to do that. I am here to tell you that your generalizations only get you as far as a head stuck in a donkey's rear! It's assinine to generalize that all of America watches Fox and voted Republican in 2000/2004. Obviously your ascertions only prove that your mental capacity is two eggs shy of a dozen.
And if you read correctly, Brown is only pulling out active troops, not all troops.
Changing presidents in a middle of a war is not foolish in most cases. To say a war is morally wrong and illegal is a bit redundant. We hear that same phrase during every war! From WW2 to today...we hear the same idiot protestors cry about war being illegal and morally wrong; totally incompetent to the overall reason we go to war in the first place. And look, while the radicals ranted about WW2 being morally wrong and illegal, who served nearly 2 decades in office?! History is not for you, pal.
DOC - I didn't say that Bush was as good as FDR! If you actually read what I said; I will repeat: we have heard the same cries that war in general is morally wrong and illegal EVERYTIME we have a war with a country, but in most cases the people do not change presidents during a war! What part of it don't you understand?
Why would I be an idiot because I have an opinion? I'm am not an incredibly smart person but I do know enough to say my opinion. Going from your title your opinions would side with Nixon since he is Republican. You don't have to be immature towards other people at least I hope that you aren't this way regulary. Rude.
It seems to me that the only difference in the devient behaviour of nixon/bush is that now the public are dumber than back then. Mainly due to the mainstream media nowerdays streaming "fear bytes" of news instead of the facts. At least Nixon tried to hide what he did, the bush admin lied publicly, invaded iraq illegaly and got away with it via a shitstorm of media confusion! Its true that the 1st victim of war is the truth! Mahalo.
"now the public are dumber than back then" --- Exactly. And then they throw the fiasco of 9/11 at us to scare us into trusting the President with whatever he does. We're a bunch of stupid sheep.
I'm no fan of Bush but you inside job guys are out of control. You can't see the forest for the trees now. Looking at your ideology and the following it's garnered, it's no wonder politicians feel they can get away with anything. Then most inside jobbers are anti-religion. So am I, but there is hypocrisy there as well. Conspiracy vs. religion, you have no definitive evidence of either. Yet you feel there is something tangible to be gained from an Orwellian belief system. I dunno.
I'll cite Henry Rollins here in that those guys you named built an empire off the blood of troops. Cheney was flat out scary. Also, I'll give you this. How many camera angles do we have of that plane landing on the Hudson, yet not one of a plane flying into the Pentagon???
Always the Republicans, I'm curious what will happen with Rove and Plamegate. Would not be surprised if Cheney and Bush go down the drain, as they should be!
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Sanctimonious garbage! Why not then make a movie about Warren G Harding or Andrew Johnson? Simple... those corrupt men didn't pique their generation's prolonged adolescent rebellion against any authority as a means self realization. Isn't sad how they still haven't gotten over it even by their 5th and 6th decades! GROW UP!
chrdelgro- your comparing apples to oranges. The public was much more informed during the Nixon years than during those of Harding or Andrew Johnson due to the speed of communication. I have no doubt that Harding or Andrew Johnson been president during the Nixon period they would have received the same scrutiny.
Andrew Johnson's impeachment was based on technicality. Nixon broke the law and should have been held responsible. He had redeeming qualities in his foreign affairs but was still a criminal. As a young individual who was raised by conservatives, I still have enough intelligence to know that the Nixon Watergate scandal was a corrupt incident and apparently you are stupid enough to just blow over it as another scandal instead of the historic landmark it was.
It's amazing how the libs still cannot get enough of beating on Nixon! It's been nearly 40 yrs now folks! Put down the bong, take down the CCR posters and get on with life, unless you WANT your epitaph to read "really hated Nixon"
chrdelgro- It's not about "beating up" on anyone. It's about never letting people and especially politicians forget that even a president is not above the law. To remain silent is to set a terrible precedent that the law doesn't matter. As with ancient Rome, once Caesar is allowed to become the law the Republic ceases to exist. I don't hate Nixon. I hate the contempt he showed for the law.
You don't repeat the mistakes of the past by remembering them. Especially at a time like now things like holding a President responsible for the things he supports or covers up is incredibly poignant.
From Wikipidia: On 15 January 1973, citing progress in peace negotiations, Nixon announced the suspension of all offensive actions against North Vietnam, to be followed by a unilateral withdrawal of all U.S. troops. The Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" were signed on 27 January, officially ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Also, I was 15 at the time and remember reading about it in the newspaper.
Sundreez- the key word in what you have posted is "officially." Here's what that same page says further down: "President Gerald Ford gave a televised speech on April 23, declaring an end to the Vietnam War and all U.S. aid. "Schlesinger announced early in the morning of April 29, 1975 the evacuation from Saigon by helicopter of the last U.S. diplomatic, military, and civilian personnel."
Huh, well, while you're 'researching this for history', do not forget the 'shit politics' in your own back yard. We have liars in the current UK regime that make Nixon look like the angel Gabriel. Ask your teacher what she/he thinks of that comparison (and from their answer, you'll know her/his politics - always useful).
to all you nutjobs who think Nixon's worse than Bush jr.
are u stoned?
Nixon didnt start any wars, use his office to make his war-mongering friends rich, rob U.S citizens of our tax dollars to bail out his wall street buddies, rob from the poor and give to the rich.
no, nixon just bugged some office, got caught and ran off embarrassed. Nixon's no saint, but his crimes dont come remotely close to the blatant looting of these United States bush jr and cheney did the last 8 yrs.
wat. Didnt nixon kill thousands of innocent Cambodians, etc.?
And I thought Bush cut taxes. If anything, it took the liberal policies of the government giving people loans to buy homes expecting to get paid back that destroyed our economy. Bush doesnt have the power to tax, only to suggest a plan, and his "buddies" are your democrat friends. The R's dont like bailouts.
Dont expect Obama to be all that you hoped for. Im hearing things that suggest that he is sane.
I could have easily covered it up because I'm the president... wow, he's not even trying to hide how much of a scumbag he is. Or maybe he's just plain stupid. I blame the people for electing such a crooked looking motherfucker
what naive moron thinks theres such a thing as a LEGAL or ILLEGAL war. arguments of morality and motivation aside. Wars have never and likely will never be operated within any sort of legal guidelines. and dont fucking mention the joke that is the geneva conventions, name one war where that was truly respected by both belligerents.
Calm down. In America we have this thing called checks and balances. Bush wanted to start a war in Iraq. He couldn't do that because the United Nations was like wtf? and the Senate and House were like wtf? So he called it a "military action", not a war and got it to pass in the Senate and the House. But everyone knew it was a war he was starting without calling it one. I'd call that starting an illegal war.
Cambodians this, Cambodians that, it's just like today with the Arabs, WHO GIVES A F*&K! NOOOOOOO other country will catch us if we fall, Cambodians died, big deal, we have americans dying every hour, every minute. I wish stupid Americans: democrates and republican will just learn to care about us and only US. Cry over Cambodians, if you died in their country they wouldnt give you one thought
TheScarecrow1988 8 months ago
The Khmer Rouge killed the people, Nixon didn't.
73SD455TA 10 months ago
I kinda fell bad for nixon, because he made so many incriminating statements in the heat of the moment,,....its kinda funny though
maxmaxmax295 11 months ago
500,000 Cambodians dead--yes, of course, it was simply a mistake.
CarmineRaven 1 year ago
Nixon was the fall guy for the utopia.
GameOver1260 1 year ago
Despite his Watergate woes, Nixon, in his later years, finally got the respect and admiration of most Americans. And he earned it without taking "the easy way".
There had never been a gesture of contriteness on his part. The people yearned for Nixon to ask for forgiveness, so that they could forgive, but he would not. Never had.
It helped, of course, that he lived long enough. Passions cooled, he mellowed, his enemies died off. He wasn't, after all, remotely like Hitler or Stalin.
harley55100 1 year ago
cont...
Americans want to be proud of their Presidents, and Nixon was one of them. He had done some good, some bad, as they all had.
harley55100 1 year ago
The only difference between Nixon and any other sitting U.S. president was that he got caught.
BayesianMan 1 year ago 22
the point nixon was trying to make to the people after the presidency is that the president doesn't have that much power over how the people feel about him or how they or the system reacts to policies, but the president sure as hell is the top dog in the white house and no one's gonna stand in the way of what he asks for, legal or not.
samm1809 1 year ago
Nixon was a victim of his own personality. He was an effective president-he did open relations with China, he did end Vietnam. But he was also arrogant and paranoid, a bad combination. He isolated himself from people, and then resented them for letting him be isolated. He was a great president, but if he had just managed to get out of his own way, he could have been one of THE greatest of all time.
dkupke 1 year ago
I deplore the crisis that his people created that brought down an administration and embarrassed this country, but Nixon was clearly the most important President of the past 50 years.
Sierra688 1 year ago
'And the whole thing would've gone away' -- Richard Nixon to David Frost
'And I would've got away if it weren't for you meddeling kids!' -- The villain to Scooby-Do
plusplusplusplusp 1 year ago
It is in the President's gift to issue pardons despite the law and I think this element of being above the law needs to be noted here (as Nixon himself was pardoned).
He abused his position and by comparison to today stands tall in his admission when pressed while so many modern politicians show far less honesty. For that, I think Nixon may permitted some consideration. He was not a wicked man, but he failed to remember his high office when it counted.
MarkMuses 1 year ago
Nixon was a criminal, but he wasn't the only US President who was one.
Perhaps it's become a part of the job.
Perhaps power really does corrupt.
Elwood1992 1 year ago
Nixon does have a point. I mean, he's the President. He could've made it all go away with just barely a flick of the wrist, but he didnt.
pineapole3 1 year ago
Great Man.
arcade117 1 year ago
Young Bush could never had the class that Nixon had. History will treat Richard a hell of a lot better than Bush.
skipper8257 1 year ago
Richard Nixon has a Point there.
FrsBigeasy 1 year ago 3
Epitome of 'foot in your mouth'
utoobluke 1 year ago
oops i poooped the bed why isnt J edgar hoover protecting me............... oh shit he's dead now my ass is in the wind and its a mess
dcs2608 1 year ago
I don't like his politics or methods, but I do respect the man. I'm happy the Frost/Nixon movie portrayed him as a decent man who made some bad mistakes, because that's what he is.
krutmin 1 year ago 40
@krutmin well said
brackishnz 1 year ago
@krutmin his actions directly lead to genocide and he was responsible for mass killings of civilians. these aren't 'some bad mistakes' these are whats known as war crimes. why you respect the man is beyond me.
solostash200 1 year ago
@krutmin Regardless of his decency, the world "mistakes" was what people were trying to get away from at the time. They weren't mistakes, they were acts of wrong doing. He purposely broke laws.
slyoctober 1 year ago
@krutmin he wasnt a decent man... watergate wasnt his biggest sin.. look into his history.. the man elongated the Vietnam war to win a election, he overthrew a democratically elected govt in south america, sold weapons to dictators, weapons later used to commit inhumane acts, he also took many illegal contributions during his election.. all are well documented cases...
midgetman433 1 year ago
@krutmin How can you possibly know Nixon was a decent man who made bad mistakes? Have you ever personally met with him and discussed politics?
I didnt think so. For you to be so naive to think that a movie, no matter how well made, is an accurate depection of what went on outside the interviews is propostertous.
I enjoyed the movie, and I dont hate Nixon because I didnt know him. The only way we can judge his character and "decency" on is his political decisions and media appearances.
MrTpolich 1 year ago
@krutmin
Some ''Bad mistakes''?
Jesus Christ, you cannot be serious. The hundreds of thousands of Cambodians dead? The thousands dead in the illegal (Fully secret) war in Laos? The fact that not the Army pilots dropping the bombs had their guidance hardware hacked midway in flight so that even they thought they were dropping bombs in Vietnam? You know absolutely nothing about this man, or what he did.
BelfastAtheist 11 months ago
@BelfastAtheist I..the..but..uhm..what??
joesnotdead 7 months ago
@joesnotdead
He's a very bad man, that's what.
BelfastAtheist 7 months ago
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They say microwave frequency cuts right through the brain like butter; is that why so many people are having melt downs?
MrButttterr 1 year ago
Nixon's body language during "& the whole thing woulda gone away" suggests to me that he doesn't even believe that(clemency = end of corruption) - any1 else think so?
ymouchai 2 years ago
Nixon tarnished the presidency and was punished. George W. Bush destroyed America's image abroad and ruined the futures of generations of American children... and should be hanged from the neck till dead.
Baldtimbo 2 years ago 3
@Baldtimbo you make me sick you piece of shit commie obama voting anal sex loving pice o f shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shelter93 1 year ago
Lmao 'I didn't think of as a cover-up', sure. Could of done it so easily, no you tried and failed pathetically.
AtheistMovement 2 years ago
Wheres Nixon when you need to stomp some hippies?
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
Actually, "savemyolaylist", there are many liberal Democrat hippies and former hippies who are very cognizant of Nixon's accomplishments. I know that for a fact because I'm one of them. There are many like-minded hippies like me who will actually defend Nixon's legacy.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
It's worth defending!!!
The lies, the scandals, the corruption... oh wait that's every president.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
@smpl; "Legacy" involves more than political scandals; it has to do with governing effectively. Many programs championed by Liberals began during Nixon's administration.
With the exception of the Obama Administration, The only administrations in my lifetime were untainted by scandal were the Carter Administration, the Ford Administration, and so far, the Obama administration. While Carter was a very decent man, he was not an effective President. Obama?? So far, not an effective President.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
I like Ford because he pardoned a fucking criminal. And allowed inflation to run ramped with ridiculous Keynesian economics.
I like Carter, because he created the Dep of Education which is now used to indoctrinate more robots. And because he gave weapons and aid to Al Quida. And because he gave sanctuary to the brutal dictator Shah of Iran in the States.
I like Obama because he is repeating the same mistakes as Carter AND Ford. To a fucking T.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
@smpl; Your vulgar language is the sign of a feeble minded simpleton seeking to express himself forcefully. You were not even born during the time of Nixon, Ford, or Carter, and you are grossly ignorant of what caused the hyper-inflation of the 1970's.
Get some help for your Tourette Syndrome, (Haloperidol and Pimozide have been proven to be quite effective for many afflicted people!!) park your ignorant, mindless rhetoric, and go educate yourself..... or, is that expecting too much of you??
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
Aww isn't that cute? You can't respond to my arguments so you resort to ad hominem attacks.
Low interest rates and money printing (a Keynesian tool) were the reason for the inflation. The second Paul Volcker ramped up the rates, the inflation got under control.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
Why, of COURSE that's what happened. That's why we had double-digit interest rates AND double digit inflation. Of course, the only problem with your arguments are these trivial matters called "facts".
Ford did not introduce the theory of Keynesian economics The economy was already in the throws of a serious recession when Ford took office.
Ford appointed Volker, dummy!!
By the time Ford left office, inflation and interest rates were down to about 6.5% per year.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
Paul Volcker was appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve in August 1979 by President Carter and reappointed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.
Volcker's Fed is widely credited with ending the United States' stagflation crisis of the 1970s. Inflation, which peaked at 13.5% in 1981, was successfully lowered to 3.2% by 1983.
The federal funds rate, which had averaged 11.2% in 1979, was raised by Volcker to a peak of 20% in June 1981. The prime rate rose to 21.5% in '81 as well.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
The 1st round of stagflation occurred in the mid 1970's, and the problem was already presented itself when Ford took office; so, your notion that Ford caused stagflation is clearly wrong.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
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@Outlaw1257
My quote: "I like Ford because he .. allowed inflation to run ramped with ridiculous Keynesian economics."
The key word: ALLOWED
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
@smpl;
Up to this point, you offered no arguments; just an asinine swipe at hippies. Never mind that you weren't even born during the 60's or 70's.
You are also grossly ignorant of the facts that drove Ford to pardon Nixon.
As for your Al Qaida / Carter connection??
ROTFLMFHippieAO!! At what flea market university did you study history??
Al Qaida was not even formed until the late 1980's. Carter was long gone from Washington by then!!
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@smpl: Now, regarding your preposterous claim that Carter established The Department of Education?? WOW!! Carter did not establish the Department of Education; he simply signed "The Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88).
PL96-88 simply broke the Department of Health, EDUCATION, and Welfare into separate entities. The formerly combined entities became The Department of Education, and the department of Health and Human Services.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
Exactly, he created the thing. And look what wonders it has done for education in our country.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
No, NOT "exactly" The department of Education has long been in existence when Carter took office. PL96-88 simply established it as a separate entity from HEW. THat's not "creating" a Department of Education.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
You're missing the forest for the trees. The thing was expanded nonetheless, and I can hardly see how that is a liberal cause. Allowing federal bureaucracy to skim money off education funds is just plain corruption.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
No argument there; but that's a far cry from "creating" the Department of Education. you are correct about the corrupt act of skimming.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
@Outlaw1257
@Outlaw1257
On July 3, 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan. As a part of the Central Intelligence Agency program called Operation Cyclone, led by their elite Special Activities Division, which included the massive arming of Afghanistan's mujahideen.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
Carter did, as you claim, authorize funding to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan; but there was no "Al Qaida" at that time. Al Qaida was not formed until the 1980's. Not a bad move on Carter's part at all; Bush41's bungling of Ireaq's invasion of Kuait is what caused the souring relationship between the US & the Taliban.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
Oh wonderful, Carter gave them the means, Bush gave them the incentive. I can hardly see how these entangling alliances are a good thing.
Besides, Carter gave sanctuary to the brutal dictator Shah of Iran. If that's not just as disgusting as what the neocons do, I don't know what is. He should have gave that bastard and THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH back to the Iranians to be hanged for the piece of shit he was.
savemyplaylist 2 years ago
No, but there was the mujahadeen who received CIA funding to combat the Soviets. This was the birthing of Bin Laden as he was essentially a paid mercenary and was later stabbed in the back when he was exhiled from his native land of Saudi Arabia due to US involvement.
frambesbuckeye 1 year ago
Oh well
IrishLincoln 1 year ago
I wanna slap that guy...
malekai777 2 years ago
no they can't
utube44333 2 years ago
He would have done it and not recorded it. Nixon and crew knew they were on tape, and taped every fucking thing that came in. EVERYTHING. Kennedy and LBJ only taped when they presed a button, they kept everything else secret.
deltapunk21 2 years ago
This is not a matter of the POTUS being "above the law". While The President's powers of office are not absolute, the President's power to grant pardons is absolute.
Dissent is irrelevant?? Truth is irrelevant?
Unfortunately, there is some truth to the points you make; but I'm not the one who wrote the rules.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago
"Congress can impeach a President who abuses his pardoning power."
Actually, the POTUS's power to pardon is absolute, so that power, however unwisely it may be used, can not be "abused". A President can not be impeached simply because he makes an unpopular decision.
Outlaw1257 2 years ago 4
If you ask me the President should not have the authority to give pardons, otherwise it's just asking for problems.
Nixon shows that in this video, if someone is to be pardoned it should be done by the house of reps in my opinion and not the president.
ThirdEyeBlind33 2 years ago 2
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Why did Obama widen the war?
There is no way Obama can win. It will only prolong the death & drive the US into the Depression.
Obama promised to end the war. Instead he is spilling more blood. Wasting more money. Global warming will soon scare the sh*t out of everyone & get everyones attention. Here comes the worst flood in history.
We must drive O-bomb-a out of office like we did LBJ & NIxon. Make O-bomb-a cry uncle.
See the video: You tube: paul8kangas
paul8kangas 2 years ago
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AnaLetixoxo 2 years ago
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Why does King Dick Nixon I get to keep dangling, at us? Do we look like pud-baiters? Do we not have a President, Dick VIII? Is he not of the line, of Dick V, the Bushmaster? Is Cheney not happy with Dick 5.5? Hillary is Dick VI, Bill is Dick VII. Hillary gets half a dick for letting Bill live, so O'bummer is Dick ATE, already, from Kenya but he cannot punk his brain to understand, how Jews, Purple Gang or kosher are from ETHIOPIA, so expect WWIII, after awhile. 360.yahoo/bobgnote
bobgnote1 2 years ago
Homer Simpsons Nixon impression is hilarious!
DaHonestAbe 2 years ago
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A great American home too - for instance, the cancer program. Many things more. And the way he managed to let the American dollar come a little bit down to fulfil American commitments; outstanding... A great, great Patriot and a man full of Christian principles. Sometimes you can afford to say such things when you are not American. Thank you very much.
AntoniodePignatelli 2 years ago
Full of Christian principles huh? That's more of a reason to put him down. The last thing a President should be is full of dogma.
qqs764 2 years ago
Re: Full of Christian principles... he was so in "the republican way", and by this I mean he would pick and choose certain principles applicable to his success and personal beliefs.
element68 2 years ago
You ignorant. You communist mutant. In the last resource, you should be ashamed to think of the monstrous crimes the communists committed during the Vietnam conflict but, most of all, of the millions who perished under their regimes next. You bloody selfish hypocrite. You traitor.
AntoniodePignatelli 2 years ago
haha i do not believe you read the english properly sweetheart
element68 2 years ago
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President Nixon was probably the most gifted and intelligent man in the White House ever. Full of principles, convinced that politics around Congress wouldn't harm his own policies, he went on. Brilliantly, he matched world Communist menace. Vietnam, where sadly many thousands of Americans had died, was probably - in retrospect - his greatest achievement.
AntoniodePignatelli 2 years ago
nixon is a sad story he was a great american and he screwed up and he acknowledged it and i think he took it to the grave.
i know it shouldnt exonerate him but he was not evil he just did a foolish think. and people tend to forget the good he also did, and im more of democrat then republican but i acknowledged he proably did more right then bad. i wish we could get the same regret from bush, but he will never say he was wrong
Goldensonic2008 2 years ago
He only acknowledged it because he was caught, he was anti democratic and borderline fascist in my opinion, and responsible for the death of 100s of thousands of indo-chinese in a war only created make the rich even richer, If Hitler had won WW2 his later interviews would have been similar to these, he thought he was above the law and above God.
DavidSpain69 2 years ago
How can you say he was responsible for all those deaths? when he took office in Jan 20 1969 the war was still going on it had been since 1959..He thought to himself that whaterver happened in watergate he could come out clean on the other side..That was his mistake. Plus he did make a share of enemies who wanted him down..
TruthorDare21 2 years ago
he was responsible for cambodia, and continued vietnam based on the principles that had nothing to do with the american interest, particularly (as he mentions) for the sake of reputation
element68 2 years ago
What? God you're fucking stupid. What does it mean he was responsible for Cambodia? That's got to be one of the dumbest comments I've ever read.
DeadlyMACD 2 years ago
You're fairly nutty and stupid. The length of the Vietnam war was due to the failed military strategies implemented by Kennedy and Johnson. Nixon was successfully bringing the war to an end, and preserving the South Vietnamese government until Watergate ended his presidency and Congress abandoned our Vietnamese allies.
DeadlyMACD 2 years ago 2
That has no implications on Cambodia. Nixon began a war in Cambodia.
element68 2 years ago
No he didn't. The North Vietnamese took the war into Cambodia. Nixon did what every military strategist was recommending and asking for and attacked the communist bases and trails in Cambodia. Allowing the enemy to use Cambodia would only have prolonged the war.
DeadlyMACD 2 years ago
I don't know how a person can mark this comment down. It's 100% truthful. There isn't a shred of poltics in this comment. The communist took the war into Cambodia. The communist violated Cambodian neutrality and used the country as a safe haven from which to launch attacks into South Vietnam. This is 100% indisputable truth.
DeadlyMACD 2 years ago 3
Kennedy might have had his strenghts, but he didn't appear to be a good war president. Bay of Pigs is an example of that, which got dumped in his lap by the Eisenhower Administration.
Then Kennedy is assassination and Vietnam is dumped in the lap of President Johnson. And it just continues, just like now, where the War on Terror has been dumped into the lap of President Obama.
Dahrol 2 years ago
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obama sucks anyway
wc470 2 years ago
Obama > You.
Dahrol 2 years ago
Cause Bush was so great!!! HAHA!!! Yeah right!!!
damon323 2 years ago
Clemency
kaktisbalaktikakel 2 years ago
I thought the movie of this was much better
tommynz 2 years ago
Nixon was a terrible man. He was racist, sexist, and took the country through turmoil right after the war.
beaverlions 2 years ago
Then why did americans elect him?
ElPopularVale 2 years ago
Because at the time he took presidency he was vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. Also he was re-elected while no one saw the real nixon. He was very professional but after the scandal he began to show his true side.
beaverlions 2 years ago
Um, there were two whole (well, mostly)admistrations in between Eisenhower and Nixon.
joha841 2 years ago
I admit that I made a mistake. Eisenhower was famous and because of Nixon's relation with him. The American's at the time liked him. He also used backhanded tricks to make his opponents look bad.
beaverlions 2 years ago
Wow...internet intellectual? You have no education of history. Not only do you not know when Nixon took office you have no understanding of his policies. Noxon ended a long war and opened China and the Mideast to US trade. Go educate yourself.
wtamu1 2 years ago
I admitted that I made a mistake what more do you want. Go see Frost/Nixon and see what Nixon was really like. Watch the entire interviews and see how his view was wrong. He believed that because he was the president he could do nothing illegal. Now you tell me to go educate myself. Nixon could have used some actual morals. If someone's going to be my president I don't want him to cheat to become president. So would you want a cheater and rasisct to be president?
beaverlions 2 years ago
How could you ask that? Why did Americans elect Bush the second time?? Who the heck knows...they just did. Politicians are good at campaigning and not politic-king! Once every century you'd get a good lad who is considered a hero. But 9 times out of 10 most of them are pure and adulterated losers, just like Nixon!
CazK88 2 years ago 3
People elected Bush because it was either Bush or Kerry. Take your pick.
joshmakesmovies 2 years ago
No. Nobody ELECTED Bush in 2000 because he was appointed by the Republican governor of Florida. Shows how politics can get in this country. And in 2004, he used the 'fear' tactic to win his second term. That's not being elected. That's bribing the vote. Obama was ELECTED..!
CazK88 2 years ago 7
amen to that.
ihaveboggyturds 2 years ago
we didn't. they rigged the elections.
cotullaguy 2 years ago
Aided almost single-handedly by his watchdog Karl Rove
Kain5th 2 years ago
Bush got the 2nd term because he took you up the garden path of 911 and you ladies wanted pay-back.
The election occurred in the middle of the Iraq party and your guys watched FoX and listened to how they told you to vote.
The8thDOCTOR 2 years ago
Why do you bloody Englishmen consist of categorizing one person with all of America? I didn't vote for him and I am telling you that he won because he started the war in Iraq and traditionally we do not change presidents in the middle of a war. So the traditional Republicans utilized that strategy to get another four years.
I don't ever see you Brits speak highly about the puppet-Brown who prances around like a frog with no tongue. He is as good as dirt...he needs to be stepped on.
CazK88 2 years ago
for a person that hates generalisations you certainly like irrelevant personal attacks?
Whats Gordon Brown done to you?
oh yes. he reversed Tonys decision and is pulling out of Iraq.
BTW the idea of " traditionally we do not change presidents in the middle of a war"
is foolish, especially if the war is morally wrong and illegal.
goes to show how easily laid you are.
The8thDOCTOR 2 years ago
Maybe you want someone to personally attack you - if that's your forte', but I am not here to do that. I am here to tell you that your generalizations only get you as far as a head stuck in a donkey's rear! It's assinine to generalize that all of America watches Fox and voted Republican in 2000/2004. Obviously your ascertions only prove that your mental capacity is two eggs shy of a dozen.
And if you read correctly, Brown is only pulling out active troops, not all troops.
CazK88 2 years ago
you watch to much tv
kcg5000 2 years ago
keep watching your magic tricks.
politicians like slight of hand
The8thDOCTOR 2 years ago
CazK88 is on the right track here. dont generalize an entire country by one idiot
Because I enjoy magic, I cant have an opinion?
kcg5000 2 years ago
Changing presidents in a middle of a war is not foolish in most cases. To say a war is morally wrong and illegal is a bit redundant. We hear that same phrase during every war! From WW2 to today...we hear the same idiot protestors cry about war being illegal and morally wrong; totally incompetent to the overall reason we go to war in the first place. And look, while the radicals ranted about WW2 being morally wrong and illegal, who served nearly 2 decades in office?! History is not for you, pal.
CazK88 2 years ago
CAZK88
so in your opinion GWB is as good a President as FDR?
"History is not for you, pal."
why the personal attack? and upon what do you base this comment?
The8thDOCTOR 2 years ago
DOC - I didn't say that Bush was as good as FDR! If you actually read what I said; I will repeat: we have heard the same cries that war in general is morally wrong and illegal EVERYTIME we have a war with a country, but in most cases the people do not change presidents during a war! What part of it don't you understand?
CazK88 2 years ago
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I kinda wish Nixon turned the military on idiots like you
gopconservative78 2 years ago
Why would I be an idiot because I have an opinion? I'm am not an incredibly smart person but I do know enough to say my opinion. Going from your title your opinions would side with Nixon since he is Republican. You don't have to be immature towards other people at least I hope that you aren't this way regulary. Rude.
beaverlions 2 years ago 14
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I think you need to go to Gitmo for reeducation
gopconservative78 2 years ago
GREAT NIXON, also Jimmy Carter ,Ford and Reagan, not last presidents (see Bush etc etc.) .
70's for ever.
wanniset77 3 years ago
ignorant americans ...
mikextase 3 years ago
Nixon was at least smarter than Bush...and less corrupt
WKaliber1 3 years ago
It seems to me that the only difference in the devient behaviour of nixon/bush is that now the public are dumber than back then. Mainly due to the mainstream media nowerdays streaming "fear bytes" of news instead of the facts. At least Nixon tried to hide what he did, the bush admin lied publicly, invaded iraq illegaly and got away with it via a shitstorm of media confusion! Its true that the 1st victim of war is the truth! Mahalo.
cmomofilm 3 years ago 5
"now the public are dumber than back then" --- Exactly. And then they throw the fiasco of 9/11 at us to scare us into trusting the President with whatever he does. We're a bunch of stupid sheep.
sheens43 3 years ago 4
only because americans are so ignorant they blindly follow their president no matter how disgraceful and corrupt he is.
bush is the prime example.
follow him into an illegal war with 2 countries, for which there is 0 proof for either.
bin laden was related to 9/11. but it wasnt his idea.
CFR + Project for New American Century wanted it to happen.
They helped.
tjbayliss 3 years ago 2
I'm no fan of Bush but you inside job guys are out of control. You can't see the forest for the trees now. Looking at your ideology and the following it's garnered, it's no wonder politicians feel they can get away with anything. Then most inside jobbers are anti-religion. So am I, but there is hypocrisy there as well. Conspiracy vs. religion, you have no definitive evidence of either. Yet you feel there is something tangible to be gained from an Orwellian belief system. I dunno.
itowedin 2 years ago 3
yeah well said, i guess you are replying to my rather aggressive comment on what to do about certain people i hate.
i wasnt really referring to an inside job.
on the contrary, i dont just believe what i hear --- i did at one point ---- but im not a typical "inside jobber"
i just look at Giuliani, Rumsfeld, Cheney - and see nothing but pure evil.
i think most people do.
they are like satan's offspring for crying out loud!
tjbayliss 2 years ago
I'll cite Henry Rollins here in that those guys you named built an empire off the blood of troops. Cheney was flat out scary. Also, I'll give you this. How many camera angles do we have of that plane landing on the Hudson, yet not one of a plane flying into the Pentagon???
If anything, perspective is key.
itowedin 2 years ago
A lot of these insiders jobbers seem to use the God save you line a lot. It's almost a way of coercing people into converting.
theredraven 2 years ago
Always the Republicans, I'm curious what will happen with Rove and Plamegate. Would not be surprised if Cheney and Bush go down the drain, as they should be!
KvittaBday 3 years ago 5
Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Silverstien,Giuiligani......
Should all be tried + hung for what theyve done.
tjbayliss 3 years ago 2
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What have they done?
whiteboyrunnin 3 years ago
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Sanctimonious garbage! Why not then make a movie about Warren G Harding or Andrew Johnson? Simple... those corrupt men didn't pique their generation's prolonged adolescent rebellion against any authority as a means self realization. Isn't sad how they still haven't gotten over it even by their 5th and 6th decades! GROW UP!
chrdelgro 3 years ago
chrdelgro- your comparing apples to oranges. The public was much more informed during the Nixon years than during those of Harding or Andrew Johnson due to the speed of communication. I have no doubt that Harding or Andrew Johnson been president during the Nixon period they would have received the same scrutiny.
frc1968 3 years ago 2
Andrew Johnson's impeachment was based on technicality. Nixon broke the law and should have been held responsible. He had redeeming qualities in his foreign affairs but was still a criminal. As a young individual who was raised by conservatives, I still have enough intelligence to know that the Nixon Watergate scandal was a corrupt incident and apparently you are stupid enough to just blow over it as another scandal instead of the historic landmark it was.
WillyRJones 3 years ago
You're sounding pretty sanctimonious yourself there, brother.
BuckFush425 3 years ago
It's amazing how the libs still cannot get enough of beating on Nixon! It's been nearly 40 yrs now folks! Put down the bong, take down the CCR posters and get on with life, unless you WANT your epitaph to read "really hated Nixon"
chrdelgro 3 years ago
chrdelgro- It's not about "beating up" on anyone. It's about never letting people and especially politicians forget that even a president is not above the law. To remain silent is to set a terrible precedent that the law doesn't matter. As with ancient Rome, once Caesar is allowed to become the law the Republic ceases to exist. I don't hate Nixon. I hate the contempt he showed for the law.
frc1968 3 years ago
You don't repeat the mistakes of the past by remembering them. Especially at a time like now things like holding a President responsible for the things he supports or covers up is incredibly poignant.
uberche 3 years ago
I really do feel bad for nixon
myRincon 3 years ago
Why?
dicribb123 3 years ago
i could have done it right after the election...(why oh why didnt i do it after the election!)
pause at 0:24
hartnell114 3 years ago 2
Bush, Cheney & Nixon fell off the same tree.
janebusby 3 years ago
not really... nixon was much MUCH worse
tazzman560 3 years ago
Bush got us into an unpopular war - nixon got us out of one.
Sundreez 3 years ago 2
At least Nixon was well-educated. Cheney was the REAL Prez. Bush was a figure head...without a clue in his head.
sigu655 3 years ago
Sundreez- It was President Ford who got us out of Vietnam not Nixon. Nixon escalated the war by spilling it over into Cambodia.
frc1968 3 years ago
From Wikipidia: On 15 January 1973, citing progress in peace negotiations, Nixon announced the suspension of all offensive actions against North Vietnam, to be followed by a unilateral withdrawal of all U.S. troops. The Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" were signed on 27 January, officially ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Also, I was 15 at the time and remember reading about it in the newspaper.
Sundreez 3 years ago
Sundreez- the key word in what you have posted is "officially." Here's what that same page says further down: "President Gerald Ford gave a televised speech on April 23, declaring an end to the Vietnam War and all U.S. aid. "Schlesinger announced early in the morning of April 29, 1975 the evacuation from Saigon by helicopter of the last U.S. diplomatic, military, and civilian personnel."
frc1968 3 years ago
Nixon first escalated it then he go out.
uberche 3 years ago
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And so CONgress gave Bush the necessary clemency to instigate the cover up...
America, you've been had by your elected officials...
... And so Rome fell that way, too.
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maxx1000 3 years ago
where's the whole interview?
oldhacks 3 years ago
The whole interview is 28 hours long.
Area5107 3 years ago
Wow! America has had some shit politics! I'm researeching this for History...
13debbievitty 3 years ago
Huh, well, while you're 'researching this for history', do not forget the 'shit politics' in your own back yard. We have liars in the current UK regime that make Nixon look like the angel Gabriel. Ask your teacher what she/he thinks of that comparison (and from their answer, you'll know her/his politics - always useful).
ludocrat 3 years ago
yeah, you can't just forget mrs thatcher.
StreetlightEagle 3 years ago
yes, the need to work for necessities is quite liberating.
lostkeys42 3 years ago
God bless Nixon!
RockyBalboa211 3 years ago
I have a large penis.
coughyman 3 years ago
hes a fucking ninja. Bush is a superhero.
lymph12 3 years ago
I concur with you, Lymph12
LymphityLymphLymph 3 years ago
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Bush was amazing
MatthewJBoulton 3 years ago
to all you nutjobs who think Nixon's worse than Bush jr.
are u stoned?
Nixon didnt start any wars, use his office to make his war-mongering friends rich, rob U.S citizens of our tax dollars to bail out his wall street buddies, rob from the poor and give to the rich.
no, nixon just bugged some office, got caught and ran off embarrassed. Nixon's no saint, but his crimes dont come remotely close to the blatant looting of these United States bush jr and cheney did the last 8 yrs.
naturespride2000 3 years ago 7
you don't understand economics, war, or politics do you?
nathanielKnemis 3 years ago 2
wat. Didnt nixon kill thousands of innocent Cambodians, etc.?
And I thought Bush cut taxes. If anything, it took the liberal policies of the government giving people loans to buy homes expecting to get paid back that destroyed our economy. Bush doesnt have the power to tax, only to suggest a plan, and his "buddies" are your democrat friends. The R's dont like bailouts.
Dont expect Obama to be all that you hoped for. Im hearing things that suggest that he is sane.
lymph12 3 years ago
he was a disgrace for the nation
comercio76 3 years ago
yeah, giving clemency to everyone would've totally worked. sort of like how when ford pardoned you it removed the stain on your reputation!
the point is that bush does not even come close to the toxic mixture of evilness & stupidity that nixon achieved.
youcancallmebetty 3 years ago
it is so uncomfortable to watch him
o0OWEINERSO0o 3 years ago
nothing much has changed.....
infiniteproduxions 3 years ago
I could have easily covered it up because I'm the president... wow, he's not even trying to hide how much of a scumbag he is. Or maybe he's just plain stupid. I blame the people for electing such a crooked looking motherfucker
meowdragon 3 years ago 2
And I blame your parents for raising you so ignorant and such a bigot
cwhat32 3 years ago
Ignorant for hating a president for abusing his power? I guess I am
meowdragon 3 years ago
That's a silly thing you just wrote.
ballantrae101 3 years ago
Bush is a stupid dumb ass turd yet Nixon was and will always remain an entire pile of steaming menure!
fredericwhite 3 years ago
"Come on now. I'm no fan of Bush's policies for the most part, but he hasn't done the highly illegal things Nixon did. "
did you just wake up from cryo-sleep or something>
SuperBravoOne 3 years ago
tell us.. besides the typical college kid drug binge, what specifically did bush do that was "illegal"?
nathanielKnemis 3 years ago
started an illegal war...
PixieGal262 3 years ago
what naive moron thinks theres such a thing as a LEGAL or ILLEGAL war. arguments of morality and motivation aside. Wars have never and likely will never be operated within any sort of legal guidelines. and dont fucking mention the joke that is the geneva conventions, name one war where that was truly respected by both belligerents.
eckohour 3 years ago 3
Calm down. In America we have this thing called checks and balances. Bush wanted to start a war in Iraq. He couldn't do that because the United Nations was like wtf? and the Senate and House were like wtf? So he called it a "military action", not a war and got it to pass in the Senate and the House. But everyone knew it was a war he was starting without calling it one. I'd call that starting an illegal war.
PixieGal262 3 years ago 6
United nations dont do anything. They are useless and without us could be taken over by a hitler type
lymph12 3 years ago