Posted on 10/01/2009 1:47:15 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
The statues depict two old men relaxing in easy chairs. As others mill about the drawing room, the men engage in conversation, one gesturing at the other to underscore a point. For nearly 20 years the likenesses of China's communist leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai have sat perfectly still in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.
Now, they are creating a stir.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Happens to all foundations and trusts.
yup
It would seem that these righties would have gotten rid of the stupid statues long ago. Now lefties are upset with them, irony of ironies. I didn’t have any idea that Nixon’s overtures to China included salutes to their bloody past.
Our government does not condemn the legacy of Mao the mass murderer? That CAN'T be right.
Part of his legacy? E.P.A.
He also started affirmative action, created OSHA, appointed Harry Blackmun, who wrote Roe vs. Wade, to the Supreme Court, and started affirmative action, so why do the liberals continue to hate him so much?
Answer: he nailed their fair-haired boy Alger Hiss, and they never forgave him.
According to the article, it was Nixon himself who wanted the statues of Mao and Chou En-lai, and the sign praising them, and the U.S. Government which wants to put up a sign saying we don't approve of them.
No wonder we are in the shape we're in. We dig into some of the crap that's been pulled through the years by these a..holes, and it is just amazing how they've been ‘playing’ with this great Nation. We now have ended up with someone who's determined to push us off the cliff.
I am in the process of reading Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”.
A few months ago, a sign appeared in the gallery explaining that the Mao statue was put there by the Nixon Foundation and doesn't represent the point of view of the Federal Government, which now runs the library. Recently, it was replaced by another sign which notes that none of the statues--which include Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, and Japanese premier Yoshida Shigeru--represent the government's views.
From the article: "A quote from Nixon on a wall explains his selections: 'They are leaders who have made a difference. Not because they wished it, but because they willed it.'"
Sounds interesting. Is it a ‘difficult’ read?
It is an easy read, but it is filled with a lot of details of his life. I read slowly at first, then scanned through a few hundred pages, and now I am slowly reading the accounts of the testimonies before the committee.
That sounds similar to my habit on thicker books. I’m wondering if my local library has a copy (probably not) as well as ‘Atlas Shrugs’.....(have you read that one too?)
The copy I am reading is a library book.
I have not read Atlas Shrugged. I’ve always wanted to, but I have been told it is horribly written and a chore to read.
It is more a reflection of our times even though it was published in 1957 than an artful read. If they tax the “rich” to death we will see Atlas Shrug big time and folks going Gault.
I used to read important books in spite of their difficulty or clumsiness, plenty of ancient Great Books, etc., but now my time is so valuable that I can’t bear to struggle through a book. I want to devour my books.
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