I was a young man in ‘68 when he was first elected. (Everyone I knew hated him. That’s kindaTrumpian I suppose). Any questions you might have regarding his term(s) I’d be happy to address. I even remember the campaign slogans. His wage/price freeze was utterly unconstitutional. He ushered in Jimmy Carter. That alone is enough to condemn him. Still better than LBJ though.
He wasn’t exactly Trumpian. That is, he negotiated an end to the long running Vietnam war which Biden closely emulated in Afg. IMHO we’d won that war by ‘69.
(after Tet and the battle of Hue the NVA had shot their wad. They were wiped out. The uprising they sought in South Vietnam didn’t happen. We’d won. Until, that is, Walter Fucking Cronkite surrendered for us on national television. That broadcast convinced Ho Chi Minh, or so he said, to continue diplomatically after he’d lost militarily.)
We could/should have finished off Uncle Ho. Nixon also relied a little too heavily on Kissinger. They micromanaged the war. He also cultivated Maoist China, based on faulty assumptions, leading to our current problems. Thanks Hank.
Well I was curious about if you recall if Nixon actually explicitly admitted to ordering the Watergate spying. My teachers insisted he did and tried to shut me down for questioning it, though I couldn't really find any concrete evidence of this.
Richard Nixon went as a guest once. I think Alexander Haig invited him. Called it “the faggiest goddam thing I’ve ever seen”. or words to that effect.
Tricky Dick wasn’t all bad.
I loved studying about Nixon for my high school IB Extended Essay (any IB students here?).
In a way Nixon was the pre-Trump. Funny how Trump was mentored by Nixon and was a great friend to JFK Jr.
I was a young man in ‘68 when he was first elected. (Everyone I knew hated him. That’s kindaTrumpian I suppose). Any questions you might have regarding his term(s) I’d be happy to address. I even remember the campaign slogans. His wage/price freeze was utterly unconstitutional. He ushered in Jimmy Carter. That alone is enough to condemn him. Still better than LBJ though.
He wasn’t exactly Trumpian. That is, he negotiated an end to the long running Vietnam war which Biden closely emulated in Afg. IMHO we’d won that war by ‘69.
(after Tet and the battle of Hue the NVA had shot their wad. They were wiped out. The uprising they sought in South Vietnam didn’t happen. We’d won. Until, that is, Walter Fucking Cronkite surrendered for us on national television. That broadcast convinced Ho Chi Minh, or so he said, to continue diplomatically after he’d lost militarily.)
We could/should have finished off Uncle Ho. Nixon also relied a little too heavily on Kissinger. They micromanaged the war. He also cultivated Maoist China, based on faulty assumptions, leading to our current problems. Thanks Hank.
Well I was curious about if you recall if Nixon actually explicitly admitted to ordering the Watergate spying. My teachers insisted he did and tried to shut me down for questioning it, though I couldn't really find any concrete evidence of this.