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Richard Nixon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
National Review ^ | 8/11/24 | Jack Butler

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 ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: biden; legacymedia; nationalrepuke; nixon
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To: mairdie

My Grandmother-In-Law (The Mother of my Maternal Uncle’s Wife), worked as the Chief Cook in Hyannis. When she passed away, my Mom gave me all her Sewing Supplies, because I was into quilting at the time.

At the very bottom of her sewing basket there was an “I LIKE IKE” button.

The irony was PRECIOUS.


21 posted on 12/14/2024 2:14:55 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: left that other site
Chief Cook in Hyannis.

Kennedy Compound.
22 posted on 12/14/2024 2:15:39 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: left that other site

MARVELOUS story.

Waving frantically.


23 posted on 12/14/2024 2:22:17 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: mairdie

Waving Back!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! :-)


24 posted on 12/14/2024 2:26:40 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: left that other site

Happy Christmas!

I was just sent the documentary I was interviewed for back in August, as well as the source of my interview with permission to make my own documentary out of it. Henry and Moore as authors of Night Before Christmas. REALLY frustrating that one of the Moore aficionados says NO PROOF. It’s that same old problem, trying to explain why statistical analysis of the movement of the tongue in the mouth while reciting aloud is just too complicated and people’s eyes glaze. So instead of saying there’s proof but it’s difficult to explain, they skipped EVERYTHING about the statistical analysis. Deep sigh.

https://vimeo.com/1038368056


25 posted on 12/14/2024 2:32:13 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What has happened to Trump is FAR worse


26 posted on 12/14/2024 2:46:19 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: mairdie

That’s frustrating!

There are so many delicate things about Poetry, Lyrics, and Literature that are hard to explain.

Tomorrow I am recording a song I wrote on commission for a documentary about the Military dogs in Vietnem.

I had to extract the Lyrics from a Short Story, which meant I had to apply a LOT of edits, to meter the lyrics and make it “sing”.

The Author of the Story didn’t want to part with any of his adverbs!

I think I did a decent job.

I hope he likes it.


27 posted on 12/14/2024 3:08:49 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: DallasBiff

You cannot understand “Watergate” until you understand the role of the FBI and the genesis of Crossfire Hurricane.


28 posted on 12/14/2024 3:10:27 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: South Dakota

All presidents, from FDR forward, made recordings! The Commies went after Mr. Nixon from the time he ran against Helen Gahagan Douglas for the Senate and then beat her!!


29 posted on 12/14/2024 3:13:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Jim Noble

Nixon did more than any other politician in my 81 years to send the US in the wrong direction. He made the states addicted to borrowed Fed money. The states now have to raise taxes to match the money the Fed borrows. The #1 inefficiency is the redundancy of the Feds borrowing money to finance what is not the Feds concern.


30 posted on 12/14/2024 3:19:05 PM PST by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: mairdie

Eyew...Whoopie’s in it! YIKES!

I hope she won’t be in YOUR Documentary. LOL!


31 posted on 12/14/2024 3:19:20 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: cowboyusa

How long have you practiced being an obnoxious Captain Obvious Karen?

You are very good at it.


32 posted on 12/14/2024 3:19:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take your nastiness elsewhere.


33 posted on 12/14/2024 3:21:56 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: cowboyusa

Take your smarminess elsewhere.


34 posted on 12/14/2024 3:23:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: left that other site

Let me see it when you’re done.

I did a translation of a Korean song.

My Love from the Star - Love Always Runs Away - Lim Young Woong
https://youtu.be/PB9TbWXPA7Y

I’m always frustrated when I’m reading English lyrics that don’t match the Korean syllables. So I searched for all translations of the song and lined them up so I could see how much leeway I’d have in inventing a new lyric that matched meaning. Then I did the standard thing you’d do with poetry for rhythm and matched lyrics with syllables until I could imagine it was almost 1 for 1 as I listened. Really liked the singer but the song was from a drama that was the absolute pits, so I ran it with video from a great show about a long-lived alien who comes to earth during an historical period and lives today waiting for his ET PHONES HOME moment about to happen. But just before he’s going to leave, he falls in love with a fading actress. Great drama.


35 posted on 12/14/2024 3:24:15 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: left that other site

Never.


36 posted on 12/14/2024 3:24:47 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not sure why you ate so upset, but whatever.


37 posted on 12/14/2024 3:25:56 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: mairdie

LOL...I KNEW you would say that.

hahaha

I’ll ask the Author to send me a copy when it’s done. :-)


38 posted on 12/14/2024 3:29:10 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: mairdie

BTW, you look really nice in the Video.


39 posted on 12/14/2024 3:32:13 PM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: cowboyusa
Not sure why you ate so upset, but whatever.

Because your fist smarmy comment was a lie.

You insult America First Trump by comparing him to the Woodrow Wilson loving globalist Nixon.

40 posted on 12/14/2024 3:32:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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