Nixon vs Reagan ( tickle the uvula alert)

thestonezone ^ | Roger Stone

[gusopol3]

The near simultaneous publication of historian Sean Wilentz book “Age of Reagan” and the publication of activist / reporter Rick Pearlstein’s “Nixonland”, previously praised on these pages, has caused a dust-up over who most personified and ultimately transformed the modern conservative age which played out on the New Republic website.

Although I am neither historian nor an unbiased reporter, I was a participant in the Nixon realignment which ultimately begat the Reagan revolution. .....

The change in Richard Nixon comes with Goldwater’s sweeping nomination and what Nixon then understands can be salvaged, even nurtured,in the ashes of Barry’s defeat. “You can’t win without the right, and you can’t win with just the right,” Nixon told me over a martini in his Saddle River, New Jersey home.....

Reagan was a staunch defender and bitter ender when Nixon got embroiled in the Watergate scandal and was forced to resign.

In the White House years, President Reagan was in constant touch with President Nixon almost always having Nancy Reagan on the bedroom extension so they all could talk and she could listen to the conversations.

[Clintonfatigued]

Well-stated. In a way, Truman’s renomination in 1940 was a sign of things to come later. He was challenged in the primary by Governor Lloyd Stark, who Roosevelt privately favored, and U.S. Attorney Maurice Milligan (whose brother had run lost the Democrat primary against Truman in 1934). On primary night, it looked like Truman had narrowly lost. In fact, a major paper announced that Stark had won the primary. But a surprisingly strong showing in St. Louis gave Truman a 7,000 vote victory. But behind this triumph is the fact that Truman would certainly have lost to either in a two-man primary.

That November, he won a 51% to 49% victory over Manvel Davis, a popular state Senator from a Democrat-leaning legislative district in Kansas City. In contrast to the combative Democrat primary, the general election was very polite, in part because both candidates were Masons with a number of mutual friends.