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Forty Years Later ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by doctorquant, Aug 8, 2014.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Kept the country from disintegrating during the Depression, implemented Social Security and the minimum wage, presided over most of World War II ....
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
     
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    That seems right to me.

    PBS had a special on friday highlighting Dick Cavett's tv show out in front of the Watergate coverage.

    Nixon was a foul, petty, vindictive, evil man.
     
  4. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    The current president has a bigger ego than Nixon ever had.
     
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Probably. Nixon felt the sting of losing elections. Obama has never lost anything. That tends to feed the ego pretty well.
     
  6. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Nixon hated the Kennedys.
    That fuel went a long way for him.
    If he'd gone to Harvard instead of Whittier and weren't the son of a lemon rancher, things might have gone differently.
     
  7. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Nixon resigning is the political version of SMU's death penalty -- no one is ever going to let things go that far again.

    Nixon didn't resign until Republicans made clear they no longer had his back. But, today, everyone would take their sides and hang in for the long run.

    Politically, while Nixon did a lot of things today's Tea Partiers would find too liberal, his lasting legacy is the politics of resentment and rage. Nixon's crew invented the Southern strategy that made sure to play to the fears of every white man. Even though the Republicans put out their document saying that strategy isn't a national winner anymore, the party (and the base Nixon riled up) is too habituated to stop.
     
  8. Nixon and his boys hardly invented that strategy ... See Goldwater's "Daisy" ad.


    And I think that's true. And a HUGE part of the problem today.
     
  9. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    The "Daisy" ad was from the Lyndon B. Johnson camp. It ran only once.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    And if people don't want to accept that, they are being intellectually dishonest.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The. "Daisy " ad should have run 100 times a day.

    In May 1964, Goldwater discussed quite casually the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam as a practical option being proposed by 'serious military people. '

    He hedged and tiptoed away from it, but didn't flat-out disavow it. A large proportion of his John Birch Society-powered base was fully on board with it.
     
  12. doctorx

    doctorx Member

    Somewhere I have the AP bulletin that came off the old machine. My desk was closest and it rang like crazy a good bit of the day.
     
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