[Elsie]

I recall reading; in a very old book, that there is nothing new under the sun.

[babble-on]

Warren = McGovern

[2banana]

The left had the four major networks locked up with their propaganda. And Nixon didn’t really fight back.

Times have changed. That playbook won’t work anymore.

[Moonman62]

I learned something.

Good article.

[Verginius Rufus]

C-SPAN aired Nixon's November 3, 1969, speech last weekend and I watched it.

It was very well-delivered and it's easy to see why it would have influenced public opinion. But Nixon did not know the future and that South Vietnam would eventually fall to the Communists, after thousands of additional Americans had died trying to prevent that from happening.

Would it have made a difference if Nixon rather than Ford had been President in the spring of 1975 when South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to the Communists? The Democrats were determined to prevent anything being done to help the Saigon government. Could any American action at that point prevented the fall?

[Sergio]

bkmk

[wardaddy]

An instant poll found that 70% of the country supported Nixon's declared policy. A coalition of 300 House members endorsed Nixon's stand. Liberal Democrats in the Senate rejected Nixon's policy, but Southern and conservative Democratic senators backed him.

Of yes that again sticky little inconvenient truth....liberal northeastern GOPe opposed Nixon as well as liberal Dems I’d point out

[Steven Scharf]

nattering nabobs of negativism

Spiro Theodore Agnew (9 November 1918 – 17 September 1996) Thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, under President Richard Nixon; born Spiro Anagnostopoulos

Some relevant quotes
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
From speech delivered Nov 13, 1969 in Des Moines, Iowa

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Denouncing Moratorium Day protest against Vietnam War; in NY “Times,” 20 Oct 69

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Speech in San Diego (11 September 1970).

Agnew’s signature quip against everything perceived to be liberal, particularly the media at that time.

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a problem for the Department of Justice…. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.
Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 28, 1970); reported in Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew (1971), p. 135

[x]

Nixon really relished the division, though, and made use of it to get elected. Fifty years on, Nixon versus “the Establishment” is a lot murkier than it seemed at the time. How much was hype and how much was real? How much was avoidable and how much was unavoidable?

[Impy]

Nixon did nothing wrong, punk *ss wussy “Republicans” let him get taken down for what wouldn’t have been a top ten scandal in the Clinton administration.