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.
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.