Forty Years Later ...

[BTExpress]

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

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

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

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.

 

[Bob Cook]

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.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

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.

 

[Riptide]

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.

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.

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

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

 

[Boom_70]

Nixon accomplished more in office than each of the last two presidents.

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

 

[Starman]

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.

 

[doctorx]

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.

 

[dirtybird]

More HST on Nixon, because this paragraph is great.

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

 

[Riptide]

Yeah, HST sure could write, but, in retrospect, wasn't he also a jabbering dupe?

He was wound so tight that he needed narcotics and a loaded gun just to get out of bed.

 

[Walter Lippmann]

That 1964 election was sure a close one. LBJ should have run "Daisy" 'round the clock.

 

[Liut]

More HST on Nixon, because this paragraph is great.

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

Are you attributing this quote to Harry S Truman? I'm skeptical of its authenticity. Truman died in 1972.

 

[Starman]

Harry S Truman would likely have said much the same thing.
He had no love lost for Nixon and was not shy about saying so.

 

[Walter Lippmann]

You're not a cool journo if you don't adore HST.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

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.

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

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

Yeah sorry. You're right ..

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

More HST on Nixon, because this paragraph is great.

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

Are you attributing this quote to Harry S Truman? I'm skeptical of its authenticity. Truman died in 1972.

I think this was Lincoln's quote on Nixon.
I saw it on Facebook.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

You're never cutting-edge cool around here until you worship someone who destroyed himself.

 

[Liut]

You're not a cool journo if you don't adore HST.

I have tremendous respect for both Truman and Nixon. Yes, I'm a bit strange.

 

[Liut]

Harry S Truman would likely have said much the same thing.
He had no love lost for Nixon and was not shy about saying so.

Nixon and Pat paid Harry and Bess a courtesy call at the library in Independence late in Truman's life. Nixon got on the piano and played "The Missouri Waltz" attempting to please the older man not realizing Truman hated the song.

 

[Bob Cook]

This is a good look back at Nixon, the "last liberal president."

http://time.com/3095963/nixon-still-one/

Also, Nixon was quite skilled at TV recaps.