Posted on 07/05/2024 7:30:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
With Reagan in home rehab after the assassination attempt, the White House planning began for a dramatic return and major address to a joint session of Congress. It was no secret; we were going to exploit all his heroic national goodwill to sell this economic plan.
*** I returned a call from Nixon, and he offered wide-ranging advice. “Ken, on the economy, don’t go to the well too often, and don’t worry about minor GOP defections,” he advised.
As for Reagan’s health, “I’ll be quite direct. It’s hard to come back from an operation. Don’t waste the asset [public sympathy]. On the first time out, don’t give a dull, major speech.”
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Nixon was set up by the deep state the same way they tried to take out Trump.
About the Nixon involvement, I knew about it in 88 or 89. My cousin’s good friend was chief of Nixon’s SSS detail then. He told my cousin that the President was often in communication with Nixon. My cuz kept it to himself till after Reagan left office.
Times were 1000% better back then.
Love that President
Judging by how the entire Watergate fiasco was a sham, he must have been considered a genuine threat to the established order.
Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon
Ken Khachigian
Post Hill Press, July 23
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Reagan-Nixon/dp/B0CMP7DQW2
He’s going to sell a lot of books with this, the timing couldn’t be more perfect; what a contrast to the vindictive fraud in the White House now.
I never understood how Nixon could be such a threat since he was pretty much a RINO.
Bob Novak said the American Left could never forgive him for being right about Alger Hiss.
Good ol Reagan.
“I came prepared and started sharing my notes. He stopped me halfway through and said, “Well, I don’t know. Maybe while I’m up there, I want to know what you think of my doing this?” He grabbed his chest, began coughing, and pushed his head down on the table. “I just thought about perhaps I could do the death scene from Camille.”
For a just a second, the three of us almost took the leader of the free world seriously. We finally joined in laughter at his perfect mimicking of Greta Garbo’s famous 1936 film performance.”
Here is a heart breaking line that mentions something we miss, “Blue Dog Democrats”.
“The answer to a government that’s too big is to stop feeding its growth. Government spending has been growing faster than the economy itself. The massive national debt which we accumulated is the result of the government’s high spending diet. Well, it’s time to change the diet and to change it in the right way …The old and comfortable way is to shave a little here and add a little there. Well, that’s not acceptable anymore. I think this great and historic Congress knows that way is no longer acceptable.
At that last line, the forty-plus “blue dog” conservative Democrats started leading the applause and then got up along with the Republicans, cheering and whistling at Reagan’s attack on big government.
Tip O’Neill saw the rebellion in his ranks, and turned to Vice President Bush sitting next to him and said, “Here’s your forty votes.”
“”I returned a call from Nixon, and he offered wide-ranging advice. “Ken, on the economy, don’t go to the well too often, and don’t worry about minor GOP defections,” he advised.
As for Reagan’s health, “I’ll be quite direct. It’s hard to come back from an operation. Don’t waste the asset [public sympathy]. On the first time out, don’t give a dull, major speech.””
Here is that speech, and the pajamas are mentioned near the beginning.
President Reagan’s Address on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_G111N1NY
Nixon had a huge plan ready for his second term to radically cut and reorganize the federal bureaucracy. A whole lot of unelected people with real power were about to be sent packing. But of course he wasn’t able to do that because of Watergate (leaked by Mark Felt from the FBI) distracting and weakening him.
ping for later
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