Posted on 12/14/2024 11:35:05 AM PST by DallasBiff
Fifty years after he resigned the presidency, Richard Nixon is back. At least, some people on the right would like us to believe that he is and that it's time for conservatives to embrace his legacy wholeheartedly and to reject the stale leftist narratives about Watergate (among other things) that have sullied his reputation.
It is necessary to reject the standard left-wing gloss on Nixon. But doing so hardly absolves Nixon of his sins. From a conservative perspective, there was good to the man and his presidency, but also bad — and ugly. Conservatives will only learn the right lessons from ...
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How far they have fallen, Biden's crooks make Nixon's look like stealing from a candy store.
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Nixon was railroaded. There is a ten part series about Nixon on Red Pilled America that makes this clear. If nothing else what other President can claim to have made a phone call to the Moon?
I despised Nixon and LBJ and most of the leaders of the time, from university heads to Supreme Court Justices, they were destroying America with their liberalism.
Nixon ushered in a lot of bad things that ended up being Trojan Horses. He was naive and didn’t realize when the rats got their hands on them they would be used like a chain saw against us.
What’s the difference between Nixon’s oval office tapes and billy Clinton ‘s sock drawer tapes?
Nothing that I can see except of course for the Washington post’s idea
The same kind of underhanded lawfare used against Trump was used against Richard Nixon.
I adored Nixon and cried when I watched him get into the helicopter for the last time. Visited his library and got an autographed copy of one of his books. Was deeply impressed by his foreign policy vision and watched Watergate religiously on the edge of my seat. Adored G. Gordon Liddy and passed out copies of his book Will to everyone I knew.
Worked for him in my last year of high school, that is, for 3 local Republicans in Chicago. Only Republican in a Catholic girls’ high school that was gung ho for Kennedy. Got invited to a candidate’s banquet and that year I had grandmother vote straight Republican except for those 3. The trick, I had learned, was never to meet a candidate in person.
He’s still my favorite, next to Trump. It was probably that I had more time free then to concentrate on him. I was busier when Reagan came along and was turned off by Nancy so never paid Reagan as much attention as he deserved.
Congress should have been pinning medals on the entire Nixon Administraion. Watergate was about trying to keep a known-Communist out of the White House! The Nixon Administartion succeeded! Nixon, particularly, was a true patriot and hero as well as all of his staff!
All of the naysayers can go jump!
Gotta disagree with you.
Nixon’s crime was covering up the crime to protect his people.
That in and of itself is a crime.
Nixon’s loyalty to his staff is what burned him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl84ilI8Do&t=904s
Above is a youtube with Nixon speaking to students at Oxford. About a 5 minute speech, and one and a quarter hours of answering questions. No notes. It shows his humor pretty well too. And he is very forth-coming.
He has always been one of my favorites. I have a “Nixon Now” and a President Nixon, Now More than Ever button on my bulletin board.
Some of the stuff he did has been used by the liberals to grow government and regulations. But stuff like OSHA and the EPA were needed at the time.
Heck - probably every government thing was “needed” at the time, but then gets hijacked.
Nixon in 1968 had to deal with 57 Democrat Senators and 243 Democrats in the house and in 1972 56 Democrat Senators and 241 Democrats in the house. He did just about the best he could under the circumstances. After a landslide win in 72 he picked up almost nothing in congress.
Nice to find another enthusiast!
I remember, too, having a Nixon button, as well as an I Like Ike button.
Became a Republican aged 8, in a family of Democrats, watching the 1952 convention. Luckily, my family was more tolerant of political diversity than Democrats today.
Nixon was a great statesman and wonderfully smart and erudite.
Outclassed so many politicians of his era. Ours today are pathetic, venal, ignorant, by comparison.
The COMINTERN invested so much in the SDS and the networks to beat the drum for withdrawal from Viet Nam that there was no hope for support in this long war of attrition.
Had FDR and Truman responded to Ho's intelligent requests for support after WW2 in creating an independent Viet Nam, including freeing them from the French, the whole history of both the United States and Southeast Asia might be radically different.
And in retrospect, it might have been better if China had never been 'opened' to commerce and exchange with the West by Nixon. But at the time it seemed like the thing to do.
The GOP should have stuck by Nixon in Watergate, realizing that his transgressions were small potatoes compared with what Rat POTUSES had done.
Rats today are still gleeful over Watergate, and the GOP especially Senators are just as gutless and worthless now as then.
Oh look!
Another reason not read anything from National Review.
Globalist, Liberal who kissed Chi Com ass, and began the betrayal. Oh,band destroyed the Dollar by taking us off the Gold Standard.
You insult America First Trump by comparing him to the Woodrow Wilson loving globalist Nixon.
I compared the LAWFARE they were both subjected to, Karen.
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