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Nixon on the fall of the Shah of Iran
Nixon Foundation video ^ | 1983 | Richard Nixon

Posted on 06/13/2025 7:43:18 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

From the oral history collections of the University of Georgia. Recorded in 1983

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


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1979; ayotollah; carter; iran; islamicterrorism; jimmycarter; khamanei; khomeini; liberalagenda; nixon; richardmnixon; rop; shah; shahofiran; waltermondale; worldwar3
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To: marktwain

Nixon was an idiot.

No core.


21 posted on 06/13/2025 9:18:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

I got to know 3 Iranian women in the late 70’s. All were beautiful.


22 posted on 06/13/2025 9:37:24 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: volare737

Exactly.


23 posted on 06/13/2025 10:09:19 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: marktwain
Nixon was a brilliant politician. Not particularly “conservative” but far better than Carter.

Nixon surrendered to Vietnam's communists, established the EPA, set the national speed limit at 55, took the dollar off the gold standard, instituted price and wage controls in response to government spending caused inflation, started the process of outsourcing American jobs to communist China and even fell for a CCP honey pot, expanded welfare, started Affirmative Action, created OSHA. With Republicans like that, we don't need any Demonrats.

24 posted on 06/13/2025 10:13:51 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Republican Wildcat

The Shah wasn’t perfect, but Carter failed to understand that a democracy or a republican form of government is incompatible with Islam.


25 posted on 06/14/2025 12:11:00 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: volare737

Biden BARF Bump!

But you are correct about President Nixon.


26 posted on 06/14/2025 3:03:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: WASCWatch

The Shah was a big time hunter. I don’t see how he had any time left for other things. I saw his trophy room in a book once. The book was about the greatest hunters in the world.


27 posted on 06/14/2025 3:06:08 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: FatherofFive

They were not stupid decisions at the time, but they morphed into the Environmental Persecution Agency and dependency on what has become an enemy that wants to destroy us. He did some good, some bad. He started the lottery for the draft which I thought was fair, and he did get us out of Vietnam even though the withdrawal was a disaster. But I though Carter was a complete idiot, interest rates through the roof and a host of other dumb policies.


28 posted on 06/14/2025 3:12:24 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Reeses

I was born in 70 so I was a youngin. Wow Nixon sucked. Geez


29 posted on 06/14/2025 3:52:24 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: marktwain

AND... what Democrats did (and have been doing ever since) is as bad and worse than what they tried to hang on him. No one wants to talk about that!!

It should be remembered as well that the UK had their fingerprints all over what happened there.


30 posted on 06/14/2025 4:36:57 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: marktwain

AND... what Democrats did (and have been doing ever since) is as bad and worse than what they tried to hang on him. No one wants to talk about that!!

It should be remembered as well that the UK had their fingerprints all over what happened there.


31 posted on 06/14/2025 4:38:06 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: FatherofFive

The opening to China was a card to play to put pressure on the Soviet Union. I don’t fault Nixon for playing it given the choices he had at the time. It was a cheaper and more effective play then continued increases in defense spending which Congress wasn’t going to do. The problem with the “card” it was blindly played for no good reason* by succeeding administration. Played even after the Tiananmen Square massacre which was the last opportunity to actually do something.

* The false notion that close trade relations prevent war. It didn’t in WWI, or any other conflict. Yet the notion prevails amongst the fevered thinking of “Foreign Policy Specialists”.


32 posted on 06/14/2025 6:33:18 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Republican Wildcat

Nixon was a very good President. Jimmy Carter was a disaster. I think this was recognized by the American people. When Nixon ran for reelection, he won 49 states. When Carter ran for reelection, he won 6 states.


33 posted on 06/14/2025 9:25:19 AM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

THE SHAH WANTED TO ALLOW GIRLS TO GET EDUCATED.

THE MALES THREW HIM OUT


34 posted on 06/14/2025 10:32:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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