[Fiji Hill]

At 39, Vance is too young...with less than two years in the Senate as his only political office, he has nowhere near the experience that a VP should bring to a ticket.

Richard Nixon was 39 and had less than two years in the Senate when he was elected vice president--and he proved to be one of our best vice presidents.

[Jane Long]

Great point!

[rlmorel]

I will always be grateful to Richard Nixon for exposing Alger Hiss, and even more so, for Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.

Interestingly, I watched a little known movie called “Near Miss”, an actual true story about a US jeep carrier in Korea in 1953 that somehow ended up with a Korean-American infant on board that had been left in an allied ammo dump by a Korean mother who didn’t want him.

The baby almost got forced to stay in Korea where he would almost surely have been neglected and died because he was half American, and he was adopted by the ship’s crew and was going to sail back until Admiral Carney (Bill Halsey’s Chief of Staff in WWII) got wind of it and told the captain to get the baby off the ship before they came back to the states.

Typical bureaucracy.

But somehow Richard Nixon heard about it, and made a call to the CNO (Carney) to tell him to let the baby sail home on the ship, and convinced him it would be great publicity for the Navy. Apparently, Carney reluctantly agreed. It was indeed a near miss, as the ship was sailing in a matter of hours, or even minutes. (can’t remember)

I fully agree that Nixon had certain views that made him anathema to conservatives, such as the EPA and price controls, and am wholly in agreement with them.

But I always felt that Nixon got a raw deal. The Left never, ever forgave him for Alger Hiss, and hunted Nixon his entire life until they finally bagged him.

But Nixon did love his country, which puts him heads and shoulders over nearly all politicians today.

[Gil4]

Richard Nixon was 39 and had less than two years in the Senate when he was elected vice president--and he proved to be one of our best vice presidents.

I'm not sure how we measure that ...

[Blueway]

Only two years in the senate didn’t stop Obama from assuming the presidency.

[ansel12]

Nixon had also been a Congressman and had a reputation and a record.

[dforest]

Nixon was also very intelligent.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nixon had two terms in the house before he was elected to the Senate and earned a reputation as a staunch anti-communist in the House.