President Nixon 1969 Inaugural Address

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President Richard Nixon delivered his first inaugural address on January 20, 1969.

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[Chad3150]

It's interesting how democrats have critizised President Nixon for watergate over the years when every modern president democrat or republican has recorded conversations or spied on other people. Lets not forget that he ended the Vietnam War for the United States just like he said he would do, for a while he eased Cold War tensions by improving relations with the Soviet Union and China the first president to ever do so. He does not get the credit he deserves, he was a great president.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Nixon will be much more appreciated in the years to come.

Watergate should never have been the issue it was.

Nixon was respected around the world and he was on top of everything.

There were a lot of things happening during his years in the White House, but he was brave through it all.

Most presidents would not have stood as tall in the face of it all as Richard M. Nixon.

George Vreeland Hill

[NYerintransit]

It must have been painful for Earl Warren, a longtime Nixon enemy, to administer the oath of office.

[DarthCormac]

Hmm. All the hate for Nixon seems to be coming from 2 camps:

1) The nutjobs who support Texas Rep. RuPaul and want America to be a RuPaul dictatorship. We'll go back to the gold standard the day after we go back to traveling via horse and buggy. Get over it, dunderheads.

2) Democrats who whine about Nixon visiting China, yet overlook that scumbag Clinton handed nuclear missile technology to China in exchange for campaign money.

Fact is, Nixon was greater than Rep. RuPaul & Clinton combined.

[ihofaerefa]

@Chad3150 partisan politics is disgusting.

[briteness]

@KCShinn With all of Nixon's flaws, I find it hard to see him as a bigger failure than Bush/Cheney. It would be a real challenge to argue that Nixon damaged the country as much as they did. In many ways their incessant legal push to strengthen the presidency was a reaction to what was done to Nixon. They used their major, previously unheard-of enhancements to the power of the presidency as as cover and shield for crimes and bungling which were worse than anything Nixon ever considered.

[Mrpastry909]

I'm a Democrat but I admire Nixon. He did so much good for this country. Watergate can't be justified but I'm glad he won re-election.

[JamalDOA]

"Now Watergate does not..booother me..."

[ShoutForJesus]

We all mess up, some more than others. Why can't people look at all the GOOD things he did? He did a lot of good things. Give him credit.

[Derekrife]

@Chad3150 Nixon did more than wire tapped citizens, he outright attacked his critics. He deported citizens, audited their taxes, slander them as communists agents, and would implicate US generals for his own executive deicisions to drasticaly expand bombings into North Vietnam and Cambodia.

[24klc67]

@derekxnl Nixon NEGLECTED the space program, Obama DISMANTLED the space program.