There’s no question of his ability to handle affairs of state. He just had a very, very vulnerable sense of himself and had great power to wield at a time when the country was fervently divided.

Blame him for Cambodia. But blame us all for the kind of free world we have set in our heads and the kind of global adversaries, worse than us, that we had then. Nothing is too small to crush in the name of our ideals.

You would not have seen him ‘do Iraq’ as is this present ‘Prez’, the one-sided incompetent still in office. Nixon would know how properly to play off forces and co-opt who he would have to. And use ‘limited’ force or simply the threat of force to make the most of our power. Not wad our National Guardsmen — the backup guys — into an unworkable mess that simply shows our weakness.

Nixon’s main mistake — the Watergate carte-blanche and coverup — was a mistake because it led to his legitimate removal that in turn caused a lathered-up rightwing to blame ‘liberals’ and come back with ruthless vengeance.

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that “one china” policy, oft sited as one of RMN’s great legacies..hmm, did we really need it after all? hard to say, but it is a complex row to hoe to this day and beyond.

also, is it just possible that one reason the US is so resistant to the court at the hague is because of possible indictments directed at people like kissinger?

“And in the film, I peg a certain date when the HMOs really got their start. And I got very lucky. I had a twenty-three-year-old researcher in my office who worked on the film, who was actually someone I believe that was recommended by Jeremy Scahill, so there’s a Democracy Now! connection to this moment in the movie. But he found this Watergate tape — has nothing to do with Watergate, it’s one of the Nixon tapes — at the Archives, National Archives, where Nixon and Ehrlichman are discussing whether or not to support this HMO concept. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, “You’re going to love this, because this is private enterprise. This isn’t like some freebie thing.” Nixon goes, “Oh, I like that. Tell me about it.” And then Ehrlichman says, “Well, this is how it’s going to work, these HMOs. They’re going to make more money by providing less care. The less care they give them, the patients, the more money the company makes.” Nixon goes, “Ooh, not bad!” And it’s all there on tape.”

Michael Moore

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: I still think we ought to take the dikes out now. Will that drown people?

HENRY KISSINGER: That would drown about 200,000 people.

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: Well, no, no, no. I’d rather use the nuclear bomb.

HENRY KISSINGER: That, I think, would just be too much.

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: The nuclear bomb? Does that bother you?

HENRY KISSINGER: [inaudible]

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ’s sake.

They could start with the book, “The Historian”. I got a laugh out of that book’s attempt to humanize Vlad. And, surely, he must have had a tragic story that drove him to what he became. But, so what? He was still one of the most horrifying people to step on terra firma. Certainly, we can hope to learn how not to create more Vlad’s, but let’s not whitewash the horror.

I’m interested to see where this Nixon conversation is going. Is it simply, “Well, maybe he wasn’t as bad as Bush?” My response would be, “Yeah, so, what of it? Losing my arm isn’t as bad as losing my head, either, but I’m not going to ask the guy who cut off my arm out for a date. He’s still repulsive.”

Whittaker Chambers

Richard Nixon reviewing the “Pumpkin Papers”

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Then perhaps I was misled by Chris’s “Everybody loves Nixon now” last night. That is what I am responding to.

The guests that we have scehduled for the hour: James Reston, jr., Frank Rich and Alan Barra, will hardly say Nixon is a saint. They will, however, make this a very complex and nuanced converstaion.

Quotes from the film The U.S. vrs John Lennon…

Reporter: Mr. Lennon, do you feel any antagonism toward the people who have attempted to have you deported?

John Lennon: Absolutely not. I believe time wounds all heels.

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“We’re going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family—let people like [New York Sen.] Pat Moynihan … believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, work—throw ‘em off the rolls. That’s the key … I have the greatest affection for [blacks], but I know they’re not going to make it for 500 years. They aren’t. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they’re dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don’t live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.”
—Nixon in May 1971

“You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.”
—Nixon to H. R. (Bob) Haldeman in May 1971

“You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates. [...] Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. [...] You know what happened to the popes? It’s all right that popes were laying the nuns. That’s been going on for years—centuries.”
—Nixon in May 1971

“We want to decimate that god—-ed place … North Vietnam is going to get reordered … It’s about time. It’s what should have been done years ago.”
Nixon to aide Charles Colson in June 1972.

“I’d rather use the nuclear bomb.”
—Nixon to Kissinger, a few weeks before he ordered a major escalation of the Vietnam War in 1972

Pointing to environmental policy as a counter to other dastardly Dickish actions or inactions completely ignores the power of left-wing social movements at that time.

The revisionist ROS show on Reagan was almost too much to take without an airline sickness bag nearby. I’m holding out some hope that this show will avoid a nostalgic buffing and polishing.

I was a kid at the time. My parents through their hate for Nixon helped mold me into a leftist of the highest order. It took me almost 35 years to realize that although Nixon was corrupt and wrong. The GOP was by far the better party when it came to ideas, and staying close to what America was originally envisioned to be by our founders.