[SoCal Pubbie]

That’s the root of Nixon’s inferiority complex that eventually became paranoia. He was smarter, worked harder, and actually cared more for the citizenry than any of the Ivy League snobs who always put him down. I really feel sorry for Nixon. He wasn’t the monster the likes of Oliver Stone would like us to believe.

[dowcaet]

A couple of years ago I went out to California and visited the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. They have tours of the library and the house where Nixon grew up. The house is so small that only ten people, at most, can be inside at one time. Granted, they refurbished it for the tourists, but you get an idea how cramped and small it is. For Nixon to emerge from those humble beginnings to the presidency is a credit to him. The left demonizes him of course, but then that was because he showed the country what a bunch of rats and traitors they were. It always amazes me how even today lefties can still praise a piece of scum traitor like Alger Hiss. No, Nixon was far from perfect. We know today he would be considered a big time RINO, but he doesn’t deserve the scorn and hatred he gets from the media and the left.

[hinckley buzzard]

FWIW, Nixon earned the enmity of the left wingers for life when he beat a communist sympathizing Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, way back when. I have a Herblock cartoon from the early fifties smearing Nixon with a totally unwarranted characterization (Herbert Block, a total unethical psychopathic asshole, plagiarized himself and used the exact same cartoon on Newt Gingrich decades later.)

The fact is, Nixon was absolutely targeted by the left wing from the git go. He was not paranoid in that sense. That was cold reality. The outcome of his presidency, ironically, is a validation of his grip on a malignant reality most Americans have shuddered to avoid.