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When Nixon Taped Joe Biden
WSJ ^ | 11/15/2020 | Luke A Nichter

Posted on 11/16/2020 9:41:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Joe Biden can be heard on the Nixon tapes. President Nixon called Mr. Biden on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1972. The president had returned from Camp David, where he had been planning an ambitious second-term government reorganization. Delaware’s Sen.-elect Biden had narrowly defeated a popular incumbent and Nixon ally, Caleb Boggs, 13 days before his 30th birthday. He became the second-youngest person ever elected to the Senate.

Nixon—who won Delaware by more than 20 points in his 49-state landslide—took note of this rising star, who had flipped a GOP Senate seat. “If I had gone to Delaware, it wouldn’t have changed one iota,” Nixon said to Chuck Colson about Boggs’s defeat. “He just had a damn good young candidate running against him.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1972; 197212; 19721219; biden; nixon; taped
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I have heard it all now.

1 posted on 11/16/2020 9:41:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We all know what passed for ‘damn good’ in the 70’s


2 posted on 11/16/2020 9:44:17 AM PST by SMARTY ("Barbarism is the absence of standards to which an appeal can be made" Y Gasset)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think the take-away is:

1) Nixon spied on people or at least taped conversations.
2) Democrats like Obama are allowed to spy on people because Nixon did it.
3) But everybody should remember that Republicans are like Nixon and they are just the worst people ever.
4) Joe Biden is awesome and even Nixon knew that.


3 posted on 11/16/2020 9:44:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon won in a landslide against a leftist, McGovern. Today, a whole team of radical leftists led by a retarded, dementia stricken old crook, beat one of the best presidents we’ve ever had.

America is on greased rails to Hell.


4 posted on 11/16/2020 9:45:01 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

“Nixon won in a landslide against a leftist, McGovern. Today, a whole team of radical leftists led by a retarded, dementia stricken old crook, beat one of the best presidents we’ve ever had.”

Beat?

If election fraud counts.


5 posted on 11/16/2020 9:46:51 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

“If election fraud counts.”

Good point. I know the election was stolen, but a loss is a loss. I feel beaten, bruised and bloodied.

The future is bleak.


6 posted on 11/16/2020 9:48:04 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

Don’t start crying just yet.

The President was not chosen by the Congress until one day before inauguration day—in 1876.

I am sure there were a lot of folks just like you freaking out for months—only to find out they had won after all.

Life is too short to worry one day earlier than necessary.


7 posted on 11/16/2020 9:52:33 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Or what their intended take away was their goal to illuminate Biden in hopes that people would fawn over a President Biden, at any rate. But they lost in that effort. 8>)


8 posted on 11/16/2020 9:55:43 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The visual of that headline is disturbing.


9 posted on 11/16/2020 9:56:57 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow. How did Biden beat an incumbent senator in a state where that senator’s party won the vote by more than 20 points? Was Bob’s extremely unpopular for some reason?


10 posted on 11/16/2020 9:57:18 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: cgbg

> Life is too short to worry one day earlier than necessary.

ROGER THAT! ^^

Plan, consider, execute, do everything you can. But worry? It ain't over 'til it's over.

11 posted on 11/16/2020 10:03:57 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most of the Nixon haters are in their 80’s or dead now?
Most every one i know thinks Nixon got a raw deal.
Biden is a life long corrupt politician who never did a real days work in his life. back there in “Scanton,Pa”


12 posted on 11/16/2020 10:04:59 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: brownsfan

The future is bleak

You needed to be in the Trump DC rally last Saturday. I was there with my son and we both came home SKY-FRIGGEN-HIGH!!It's time to pull together. . .72 million of us. Trump ain't going away. . NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE UP!!!

13 posted on 11/16/2020 10:07:37 AM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: McBuff

“Trump ain’t going away. . NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE UP!!!”

I envy your enthusiasm but there are some hard truths. That is, the forces aligned that want Trump gone are numerous and powerful.

They want him gone because he can’t be bought, and he wants to do what’s best for America. The Chinese masters of our politicians and media do not look favorably on that.


14 posted on 11/16/2020 10:13:16 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS.

Google “Frank Sheeran (AKA the Irishman) and Joe Biden.”

Teamsters under Sheeran blocked the Wilmington newspapers from going out.

Plugs won by 3,00 votes. And they were likely phoney.


15 posted on 11/16/2020 10:15:21 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: cgbg

Life is too short to worry one day earlier than necessary.

Yes, THIS indeed. I did my part by voting and encouraging other like-minded people to vote. I live in a state that Trump carried easily. Anything that happens elsewhere is out of my hands. That's for the lawyers to fight.

Many of my neighbors are old boomer university professors who spend every night glued to MSLSD or CNN, freaking out that "Trump is going to steal the election". These are people who will be dead in 4 to 8 years. They think they're going to live forever.

16 posted on 11/16/2020 10:17:52 AM PST by UncleDenny77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is weird on many levels.

For one, Nixon did go to Delaware in 1971 for a Republican fundraiser.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19711006&id=C_RNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=14oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7180,4532177&hl=en

It’s a famous trip because by making it Nixon became the first president to visit all 50 States.


17 posted on 11/16/2020 10:22:10 AM PST by edwinland
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To: brownsfan

You sound very weak, and you seem to be artificially replacing a natural intelligence with a very low IQ thought process.


18 posted on 11/16/2020 10:35:23 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

You sound very delusional, with an infusion of smug. It’s very similar to the toxic cocktail I note in the liberals around me.

Good luck with that.


19 posted on 11/16/2020 10:42:31 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

You’re the one giving up on our great stable genius President Trump.


20 posted on 11/16/2020 10:52:35 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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