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Column: What I learned about myself at the Richard M. Nixon museum
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| 01/16/2023
| NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
Posted on 01/17/2023 1:23:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
01/17/2023 1:58:46 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
01/17/2023 1:59:38 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I am somewhat to the left of VP Nixon but very far to the right of Pres Nixon
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posted on
01/17/2023 2:02:29 PM PST
by
Nifster
(OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
01/17/2023 2:05:51 PM PST
by
LouAvul
(Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
To: ChicagoConservative27
The CIA has conducted three coup d’eta. Kennedy, nixon and trump.
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01/17/2023 2:07:58 PM PST
by
exnavy
(Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
In the house where I grew up, President Nixon was a villain. For me it was Kennedy. I still remember when he was shot my grandmother saying "The SOB got what he deserved".
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posted on
01/17/2023 2:43:16 PM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: Gene Eric
Yes, I read the whole thing and he’s still a liberal.
But maybe he doesn’t knee-jerk spew revulsion regarding Nixon or anyone who likes him.
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posted on
01/17/2023 2:43:54 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
To: ChicagoConservative27
It WAS abut national security. The Congress and Senate should have been pinning medals on President Nixon and his entire staff, including those who broke into the Watergate. They were, in fact, trying to keep an known-communist, ( communist-bitch McGovern, ) out of the White House.
To: Political Junkie Too
Nixon was recorded on the famous White House tapes saying Washington “is full of Jews,” and “most Jews are disloyal” and “you can’t trust the bastards.” But if those recordings were mentioned at the museum, I missed them.
Just as you will miss the “F’ing Jew Bastards” quote at the Clinton Museum.
Don’t forget the “I’ll keep those n!ggers voting democrat for 200 years” from liberal hero LBJ
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01/17/2023 3:11:11 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: rockrr
For me it was Jimmy Carter. Fortunately i was old enough to understand what was happening and my parents were Nixon supporters.
Ronald Reagan didn’t turn me into a staunch conservative at the ripe old age of 14- Jimmy Carter did.
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01/17/2023 3:13:59 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: Michael.SF.
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01/17/2023 3:14:47 PM PST
by
cowboyusa
(There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
To: pierrem15
Add meeting with the Deca murderer Mao.
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01/17/2023 3:16:29 PM PST
by
cowboyusa
(There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
To: Michael.SF.
Do you think that if Nixon had known how the Democrats would abuse the EPA, for their own purpose, he would have supported it's creation?I think there was a widely shared perception of the glories of the administrative state in the generation coming out of WWII combined with an incredible naivete about how easily it could be politicized. The Warren Court ought to have alerted everyone.
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01/17/2023 3:58:00 PM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: the OlLine Rebel
Kind of funny, because at the start he states that he decided to challenge his views. He's such a wonderful virtue-signaler.
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01/17/2023 4:35:54 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: Michael.SF.
I thought Nixon was a villain too. I was just 13 and didn’t know better. In the late 80s maybe 90s, a few years before he passed, I started seeing news articles about him. I think there was an interview with Nixon in Time or Newsweek I read. He seemed very human and I forgave him right there. I don’t think he was such a bad president and what he did is nothing compared to what we’re stuck with now.
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01/17/2023 5:09:28 PM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them )
To: the OlLine Rebel
I believe you have the correct perspective.
Excerpts often fail to do the article justice. And I admit to being hasty — though, I make the effort to read beyond the opening hooks ;)
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posted on
01/17/2023 7:20:54 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I rather enjoyed the article because I also toured the Nixon Library and museum some years ago and came away with an appreciation that it did at least make an honest attempt to explain the complexities of the man, explaining the faults as well as the accomplishments.
Quite the contrast to say, the Clinton library, where his perjury, sexcapades and calling in his political chits to skate through impeachment were entitled "defending the constitution."
Nixon could make a better claim of defending the constitution with the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up which ultimately drove him from office.
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01/19/2023 8:44:33 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Vigilanteman
the Clinton library I will say the food at the restaurant was excellent and reasonably priced. A minion told me that BJ's private chef for the 4th floor "love nest" works there often during the day.
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posted on
01/19/2023 8:46:45 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Let's go Brandon!)
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