Indeed.
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.
Including the CIA plotting against the GOP candidate.
The Left wanted Nixon’s scalp ever since he worked on HUAC.
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