Posted on 08/07/2014 7:03:28 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Forty years ago, on August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned the office of President; the first and only President to do so.
I was just into my thirties in 1968, the year Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States. What I recall most of that year was the way the Chicago police, after enduring an onslaught of name-calling and insults from anti-war protesters aggressively drove them away from their effort to disrupt the Democratic Party convention that would nominate Hubert Humphrey.
His opponent would be Nixon. George Wallace, a segregationalist, ran as an independent that year as well. I wasn’t particularly interested in politics at the time. My focus was on my career where I had transitioned from having been a journalist to positions with the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Looking back, I now know I should have been paying more attention because, in the end, whoever is President affects the lives of not just Americans, but others throughout the world.
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I look back and history and “impacts”.
If JFK hadn’t been killed in Dallas....he would have done eight years, and left with RFK likely doing the 1968 election, and I would doubt that Nixon would have been able to beat him. Nixon would have wrapped up his career at that point and gone to write several books. No Watergate....no Jimmy Carter...Reagan likely wins in 1976...and no Clinton legacy or Hillary.
If Oswald had missed, Goldwater would have beaten JFK in 1964.
These were all bad, especially the ABM Treaty, which killed our ballistic missile defense program.
Hey Pat, you left out Harry Blackmun, who wrote Roe versus Wade.
“If JFK hadn’t been killed in Dallas....he would have done eight years”
I heard he was doing badly in the polls up to that fateful day.
Which is why he went to Texas in the first place. Texas Democrats didn’t particularly care for him.
Go Nixon!
Nixon was one of the most incredible foreign policy Presidents in our history. His downfall was covering up for a “2nd” rate” burglary by his reelection committee and having his conversations taped. Our present resident of the White House commits worse abominations than this on a daily basis! The communist left wing press discovered that they could bring down a president and ensure military defeat during this period of time. Nixon did believe that you grasped a certain part of your adversaries anatomy and twist to get concessions!
Nixon was a terrible president, and his foreign policy consisted of legitimizing the world’s most brutal regime: Mao’s China. Anyone who suggests he required any concessions from Communist China has no understanding of history.
I beg to differ. Nixon’s opening up of China and Russia led to some of the most stunning economic changes in the world. I taught history for years and did several papers on Nixon. Yes, he had a negative, revengeful streak, but his grasp of international affairs was extraordinary. His support of Israel during Yom Kippur and our extrication from Vietnam via Linebacker II was a master stroke. His economic policies were hampered by typical Rockefellerian republican pre-supply side stupidity.
To me, saving Israel was Nixon’s greatest accomplishment. I believe South Vietnam would have been saved had he done Linebacker I and II in 1969.
By shaking the bloody hand of Mao, Nixon spat on the graves of millions of Chinese people and trampled the ideals of our country.
The Left in this country has found a unique opportunity in Nixon: on one hand, he is the never-dying bogeyman from Watergate, and on the other, a revered example of the “nuanced” international statesman who was willing to overlook the blood of uncounted millions who died at the hand of communism’s most violent dictator.
I ask again: what concessions did your hero wring out of the world’s greatest murderer?
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