Posted on 11/20/2023 1:06:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A half-century before Donald Trump dismissed the four criminal cases against him as a “witch hunt,” a defensive President Richard M. Nixon famously declared, “I’m not a crook.”
Nixon made the comment 50 years ago Friday, on Nov. 17, 1973, at Disney World in Florida as the Watergate scandal was swirling around him. It came a month after the Saturday Night Massacre, when Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Then Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox.
Now Nixon was addressing 400 people at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual convention in an hour-long televised question-and-answer session, where he said he never obstructed justice. “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,” he said. “Well, I’m not a crook.”
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Not a one of them, including Washington, complies with everything you posted that you believe in/want.
And Ike wasn't so good on MANY different level, as a president.
As a nation, we've had a few GREAT presidents, some good ones, and mostly inept to HORRID ones.
But ALL of this are OFF TOPIC and a waste of space; not to mention BORING and just a matter of opinion!
Now go away and stop posting to me!
Ok, sorry, I was enjoying the discussion.
He did not have a choice.
LBJ had "uncovered" our gold already and it went from over sixty percent of our script was backed by physical gold reserves down to forty percent to twenty five in less then six years. Foreign countries were taking our dollars and exchanging them for gold at $35 an ounce. Our dear buddies in france were among the worst offenders.
We were at the point of either having to buy gold on the world market and give it, at a loss to other countries or going off the gold standard.
Well then, that makes JFK’s Assination even worse. He was an absolute supporter of the gold standard.
President Good Hair was more then willing to take us off the gold standard.
No.” We are not going to devalue. There is no possible use in the US devaluing. The US will not devalue it’s dollar.” His advisers wanted him to go soft money, he refused. Larry Kudlow has a book about this.
No.” We are not going to devalue. There is no possible use in the US devaluing. The US will not devalue it’s dollar.” His advisers wanted him to go soft money, he refused. Larry Kudlow has a book about this.
That’s the one that took power away from the Fed, and some think that it got him killed. The F3d should be ended.
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