Richard Nixon Addresses POWs

Clip from a speech. Richard Nixon defends secrecy in government actions, pointing out the secret negotiations that warmed relations with China and ended the Vietnam War.

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[fredq33190]

A patriot, peacemaker and man who did not make excuses and took responsibility for his actions and resigned. His resignation is more than what I can expect from many politicians in the world today.

[avien84]

Now that's something Mr. Assange should bear in mind as well

[matticchio]

Nixon was too modest. He should have said, "If I hadn't engaged in a Byzantine scheme involving withdrawing troops, covertly bombing Cambodia and lying to Saigon, I couldn't have stretched out the war another four years!"

Let's keep government secret and sex private!

[jksonny]

He's 100% correct. No government can survive if it is transparent.

[greeniem]

homo

[ACWrestlingCO]

Im Ricard Nixon brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rr

[Outlaw1257]

TruthDare21 Wrote:

"This man was really a true political figure and real smart."

Actually, T/D21, Pres. Nixon was probably the most intelligent President in US History, but he was was not all so "smart"; that's part of what led to his downfall. Passionate in his beliefs, but unwilling to forsake his pettiness.

Pres. Ronald Reagan was smart, but his raw intellect paled in comparison to Nixon's. Bill Clinton was both intelligent and smart, but his judgment was not always sound.

[Backin65]

Wrong, we killed their POW's in Vietnam, like for like.

[Outlaw1257]

TruthorDare21 Wrote:

"This man was really a true political figure and real smart.. "

Actually, Truthordare, Nixon was incredibly intelligent, but not very "smart". The same man who was able to open US diplomatic relations with China was easily confounded by the act of driving an automobile.

[Outlaw1257]

In reality, I don't think the Nixon Administration did anything worse than preceding, administrations, be they Republican or Democrat.

For whatever covert actions there were during preceding administrations, the crimes of Presidential administrations that followed (both GOP & DEMs) were even worse.

BTW, I'm not talking about "MonicaGate"

[Outlaw1257]

Speaking as a Liberal Democrat, the spectacle of Watergate was as needless as it was tawdry. The Democrats had no chance of capturing the White House in 1972.

In reality, I don't think the Nixon Administration did anything worse than preceding, administrations, be they Republican or Democrat.

With the social and cultural revolution of the 1960's, it was as if the "unwritten rules" governing covert actions changed, largely during LBJ's 1st full term and Nixon's full term.

there was .