As Americans prepare for their election, a look back at Nixon

It is election year and one candidate divides Americans like nobody else. Reviled with an intense fury by many, he is adored as a protector by many others aghast at developments being pushed by social radicals. His previous — and graceless — fall from power was accompanied by assurances from the great and good that his career was over and that he could never return. Now, thanks to his extraordinary political skills, he has recaptured and remade the Republican Party. In so doing, he has broadened its base by attracting voters from groups that were long part of the Democratic coalition, thus redrawing America’s political map. On the Democratic side, an incumbent president who achieved major legislative victories early on still finds himself out of touch with a new generation of cultural revolutionaries. College campuses are in a state of uproar, as the social radicals protest wars in distant lands, and a nervous Democratic Party prepares for a Chicago convention which could turn ugly. This election will be knife-edge close, and the possibility of a popular third-party wildcard candidate makes the outcome impossible to call.

I reject Nixon’s actions with the EPA, price controls, and the gold standard, but I will always respect him for green-lighting Operation Linebacker II.

He has my respect and gratitude for that.

There is a major difference between 1968 and now. That is the absence of New York Jews among the protesters. It was them who masterminded and attended the anti-war demonstrations. They came looking for trouble and found it in Chicago and DC. This year’s crowd is made up of mostly screaming women who’ve been repressed by their own culture.

May 13 1958—This is an anniversary of a huge event.

From Wikipedia
On May 13, 1958, US Vice President Richard Nixon’s motorcade was attacked by a mob in Caracas, Venezuela, during Nixon’s goodwill tour of South America. The event was described at the time as the “most violent attack ever perpetrated on a high American official while on foreign soil.”
Close to being killed while a couple of his aides were injured in the melee, Nixon ended up unharmed and his entourage managed to reach the U.S. embassy.

“Upon learning of the incident, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke ordered the airlift of elements of the 2nd Marine Division and the 101st Airborne Division to staging areas in Puerto Rico and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The aircraft carrier USS Tarawa, along with eight destroyers and two amphibious assault ships, were ordered to put to sea towards Venezuela.”

“Privately, Eisenhower was reportedly furious at the attack on Nixon and, at one point, told his staff “I am about ready to go put my uniform on”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade#U.S._mobilization

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