Posted on 08/12/2024 11:39:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty years after he resigned the presidency, Richard Nixon is back. At least, some people on the right would like us to believe that he is and that it’s time for conservatives to embrace his legacy wholeheartedly and to reject the stale leftist narratives about Watergate (among other things) that have sullied his reputation.
It is necessary to reject the standard left-wing gloss on Nixon. But doing so hardly absolves Nixon of his sins. From a conservative perspective, there was good to the man and his presidency, but also bad — and ugly. Conservatives will only learn the right lessons from Nixon by looking at all three.
To admit that there might have been anything good at all about Richard Nixon is to set oneself against the guardians of post-war leftism, for whom Nixon was a chief antagonist. That antagonism may have begun in Nixon’s own upbringing. His relative poverty and lack of initial contact with the elite institutions of American life (though he earned a scholarship to Harvard, he attended college in his hometown of Whittier, Calif.) may have helped breed in him a lifelong discomfort with America’s upper echelons.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I don’t want to read the article badly enough to need sign up for National Review. X.x
The Legend of Tricky Dick
I voted for the first time for President Nixon against George McGovern and am still proud of it.
And rightly so.
Also nailing Alger Hiss and ending the political career of Comrade Helen Gahagan Douglas. Not even the EPA, OSHA, SALT I, Harry Blackmun and AMTRAK can offset these evil deeds.
Read the book Mao - the authors claim that Nixon and Kissinger knew that Red Chinese troops were in Viet Nam - but Nixon wanted to meet Mao and didn’t say anything.
Our guys were sacrificed so Nixon could have a Photo-Op with Mao.
“the elite institutions of American life”
that Satan rules.
“The New Dick......short, sweet and everybody wants to see it!”
I will try to be temperate with you:
1. The Chinese did have advisors in the South - I know, because our sniper killed one near us. The Chinese also funneled supplies, munitions, and other support to the enemy - as did the USSR, the Warsaw Pact, and even some of our "allies". Nixon's gambit to open China to the US and establish relations with us caused China to reduce their support of the North Vietnamese and pushed the NVA towards negotiating with us.
2. Nixon's "perestroika" overtures to Brezhnev had the same effect with the USSR as well as opening a rift between the Soviets and the Chinese. For the first time since the end of WWII, the Cold War was ratcheted away from imminent thermonuclear war.
This article reminds me of the two-faced sleaziness of the "professional conservatives".
Well, that was queer of you.
Ah yes ... and the Jan Curtin retort - “yes it’s short and sweet but no one wants to see it.” :-)
There are some Vietnam vets here who may give you a better perspective on what the Chinese were up to over there at that time than a book about Mao does, if you are not old enough to remember Vietnam...
I have always had discomfort “about America’s upper echelons!”
How can we trust the Ivy League graduate?
The average performance record grade for them should be, “D-.
Watergate was a lie. Nixon was forced to resign because he ended the vietnam war and the war profiteers ( bankers and the media) didn’t want it to end.
The official story is garbage. Presidents don’t resign over a minor burglary committed by someone else.
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