JOHN F. KENNEDY TAPES: Richard Nixon is Psychotic

JFK & Gov. Pat Brown
November 7, 1962
Dictabelt 6A.2
White House Telephone

President John F. Kennedy talks with California governor Edmund "Pat" Brown after his victory over Kenndy's former rival, Richard Nixon, in the 1962 California gubernatorial race. They discuss Nixon's so-called "Last Press Conference," when he told the press, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." The two men agree that this farewell press conference showed that Nixon was "nuts."

(Although I've cleaned up the source recording some, the quality of this tape is poor.)

(Photo: Presidential candidates John Kennedy & Richard Nixon in 1960.)

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[teddy12543]

Say what you will about Nixon's obvious strangeness ---- HOWEVER, it was Kennedy's terrible incompetence that brought us to the brink of nuclear war. Kruschev took the measure of the man accurately and concluded he was callow. Kruschev knew Nixon could not be bullied --- there would have been no Bay of Pigs and no missiles in Cuba.

[BartA22]

@ReadmanJ Maybe but he still was without question....PSYCHOTIC.

[BartA22]

Well....it's obvious that they knew what would come to pass if Dick Nixon ever sat in the Oval Office. Kennedy loved to talk s***t about Nixon, he didn't need much prodding.

[bookguitarguy]

@VengeanceMineIs Funny, I don't remember that quote...

[observer9670]

@1916jutland I agree that Kennedy would have been re-elected in 1964, but I doubt if Bobby would have even ran in '68. Presidents usually have rougher times during their second terms and a Republican - perhaps Rockefeller - would have defeated LBJ in 1968. My guess is that Bobby would have ran for Senate AFTER JFK's 2nd term and positioned himself for a 1976 Presidential run. RFK would only have been 51 then.

[1916jutland]

@Nominay You are so right. Even Republicans said that JFK would have been elected in 1964 and Senator Robert F. Kennedy would have been elected in 1968 easily. Nixon won that election by 500,000 of the popular vote. I've just read THE LAST CAMPAIGN, about RFK's last 82 days. JFK's aides said RFK would have been the 3rd or 4th best President. The phone call is about Nixon losing the California Govenor's election of 1962. Nixon told the press that they won't have him to kick around anymore.

[Nominay]

@ReadmanJ all subsequent Republican Presidencies were built on the back of Kennedy's and his brother's assassinations. The Republicans can count their lucky stars on their deaths, because they'd be out of business without them.

[Nominay]

@ReadmanJ actually, your argument strengthens Brown's claim dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2­032912/One-25-bosses-psychopat­h-hides-charm-business-speak.h­tml ... guess you should know what a psychotic is first, eh?

[ReadmanJ]

Pat Brown couldn't have been more wrong not only did Nixon comeback but he won two terms. not bad for a "Psychotic"

[joshweiss01]

You know who threw this country down the economic toilet and paved the way for Reagan and the Reagan revisionism?: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and how they stamped their feet about how they COULDN'T be the first presidents to lose a war, so they pissed away the 2011 equivalent of a trillion dollars in Viet Nam and, in Nixon's, case erected wage and price controls, got rid of Bretton-Woods and with all the war costs coming home and the oil embargo created the stagflation that gave us Reagan.