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Deep Throat and Genocide
The American Spectator ^
| 6-1-05
| Ben Stein
Posted on 06/01/2005 5:55:15 AM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica
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posted on
06/01/2005 6:34:54 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: veronica
Wow! Talk about putting things in historical perspective!
42
posted on
06/01/2005 6:35:25 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
To: OldFriend
43
posted on
06/01/2005 6:36:28 AM PDT
by
Paige
("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
To: Uhhuh35
He didn't. His mistake was loyalty to his own.
44
posted on
06/01/2005 6:36:40 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
To: bejaykay
Keeping on drinking the kool-aid!
45
posted on
06/01/2005 6:37:07 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
To: veronica
Nixon ended the war that Kennedy utterly stupidly started.
JFK sent 14,000 ground troops to vietnam with no strategy whatsoever.
46
posted on
06/01/2005 6:37:42 AM PDT
by
tkathy
(Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
To: veronica
To: bejaykay
"Nothing I said was arrogant."He said, arrogantly!
48
posted on
06/01/2005 6:39:27 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
To: ClearCase_guy
I love Ben Stein.
I thought the same thing after reading this. He is great.
49
posted on
06/01/2005 6:40:19 AM PDT
by
NormB
(Yes, but watch your cookies!!)
To: beezdotcom
From what I understand, he himself indicated that understood that coverups cause problems. I believe that he was betrayed by a 'friend' (I forget who - maybe Dean?) who lied to him about the break in several times. He therefore thought that Congress was overstepping on Executive Privilege, so dug in his heels over the issue.
I guess that his big problem was going to bat and showing loyalty for underlings who basically betrayed him.
To: sitetest
Mr. Nixon, having won the 1968 election in a squeaker, wished to manipulate the 1972 election to assure victory. Internal polling a year or two before the election indicated the only candidate over which he'd have a walk was Sen. George McGovern. Thus, the CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) did what it could to aid the senator and harm his opponents. "wished to manipulate the 1972 election"? Rather odd choice of words. I disagree with the apparent conclusion you want us to reach concerning CREEP and its impact on the general election and the democratic nomination for President. The idea that CREEP helped influence the selection of McGovern as the Dem nomonee is pure conspiritorial nonsense.
Nixon was reelected overwhelmingly because the public supported his policies. In the 68 campaign, Nixon favored a negative income tax, which became the earned income tax credit and an expansion of the welfare programs begun during the Great Society, creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the Clean Air Act, dramatic increases in social service spending, and interventionist economic policies ranging from dollar devaluation to wage and price controls. During his presidency, many of these proposals became law, particularly those that could be accomplished without Congressional approval.
McGoverns platform was unapologetically liberal: he campaigned on an immediate end to the Vietnam War, socialized medicine, and a guaranteed national minimum income. The radicalism of the 1972 Democratic platform was caused partly by a sense inside the party that its defeat in 1968 was caused by a failure to articulate adequately the differences between the Democrats agenda and that of then-candidate Nixon.
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posted on
06/01/2005 6:44:34 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: bejaykay
"the original argument that Mr. Stein made that all he wanted was peace..." I think Mr. Stein said that Nixon made peace..not that it was his only goal in life.
It's true that Nixon took us out of Indo China and that he went to great lengths to open doors to China (I was the neighborhood at the time).
If you look as what former presidents DID rather than what's been said of them then Nixon wanted to see peace both foreigh and domestic and Kennedy et al appear less saintly than sinister.
52
posted on
06/01/2005 6:44:35 AM PDT
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: Piquaboy
Actually the worst thing I can say about Richard Nixon is he was a classic Rockefeller (Liberal) Republican. If he had been a Democrat he would have been a darling of the media. I agree with Stein that things MIGHT have been different if Nixon had remained in office. No Gerald Ford who out Rockerfellered Rockefeller. Maybe no Jimmy Carter. AND maybe no Ronald Reagan. So maybe by sacrificing Richard M. Nixon we were able to at least defeat the Soviet Union.
53
posted on
06/01/2005 6:49:01 AM PDT
by
Bar-Face
To: OldFriend
Thanks for succinctly describing the reason for the msm's selective vile venom: "Nixon was a republican".
Oh how they love to hate Richard Nixon!
54
posted on
06/01/2005 6:50:37 AM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: YaYa123
Another piece of Watergate trivia. When Nixon ordered Special Prosecuter Archibald Cox fired, the Attorney General Eliot Richardson resigned and the Asst AG William Weld did also.
The 3rd in command who carried out the President's order was Robert Bork. The incident is known as "The Saturday Night Massacre".
To: bejaykay
Nice Freep name, although I don't recall a Clintoon intern named Kay...
56
posted on
06/01/2005 6:56:21 AM PDT
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
To: OldFriend
One slight tweak to what you and others have said: his sin was being a successful Republican. The MSM have no problem with loser pubbies.
57
posted on
06/01/2005 6:57:32 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
To: kabar
I am reading Richard Reeves' book on Nixon as we speak. Nixon didn't really care a whit about domestic policy. Once he told Haldeman that he didn't read everything he signed. He had to be almost literally forced to meet with his domestic policy advisors.
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posted on
06/01/2005 6:59:34 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: veronica
...started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?That in and of itself was bad enough. He created more bureaucracy and not just by adding a few jobs but an entire agency. I could care less about Watergate. All politicians are questionable, no matter what side of the aisle.
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:04:36 AM PDT
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: tkathy
Nixon ended the war that Kennedy utterly stupidly started. Your sentence brought to mind Kerry's repeated ploy during the presidential primary debates of referring to "Nixon's war". Needless to say, he was never called on this assertion. He who went to Vietnam when LBJ was president.
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