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Library Throws Book at Nixon (Nixon Haters Now Run Nixon Library)
The Orange County Register ^ | September 4, 2011 | Brian Calle

Posted on 09/04/2011 7:00:48 PM PDT by Rufii

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To: SunkenCiv
When I visited the Reagan Library in 2008, I was surprised to find that it was being run by leftists. The docents and other support staff are pretty blatant about their political leanings.

There were children on school trips, and I heard one teacher ask her class, "Who is running for president?" The children answered, "Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama," not even aware of the Republican candidates in the slightest.

The left makes a point of infiltrating and destroying all Conservative icons and institutions. Would that we were so dedicated to our ideology and cause.

61 posted on 09/05/2011 3:43:22 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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62 posted on 09/05/2011 3:58:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Fresh Wind

Funny you should post that. I was thinking Sunday how positively Nixonian in corruption Obama’s regime is. Perhaps it’s time we start comparing him to Tricky Dick?


63 posted on 09/05/2011 4:20:31 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
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To: TheOldLady

Those aren’t teachers, and they don’t work in schools. :’)

The thing about institutions and non-profits is, the people who work in them don’t like jobs in the competitive workplace, and don’t even want other people to like them. They want their checks, and don’t want to be told what to do. Sound like welfare? Not a coincidence.


64 posted on 09/05/2011 5:36:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Indeed.


65 posted on 09/05/2011 5:57:06 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes. One needs only think of public librarians, meter maids and DMV clerks to see the pattern.


66 posted on 09/05/2011 6:40:29 AM PDT by Mmmike
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To: ReformationFan

Actually, it’s appalling. I KNOW Dems who despise Nixon more than any other R. Maybe more than any other person in history. You can bet your bottom dollar Kerry and Obama are among them.

Ike, of course, gets a total pass on that hatred. A little scorn maybe, but not the loathing. If the D is younger, W ranks right up there with Nixon. I don’t anticipate that Barbara or Jenna will be endorsing the Dem/Socialist of 2040.

But I haven’t seen anything yet that rivals the way Dems loathe and despise Nixon, to the point where they have seriously anti-Nixon memorabilia in their homes ... 3-4 decades later!


67 posted on 09/05/2011 8:16:57 AM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: ReformationFan

OH, I forgot .. on the Kerry endorsement ... didn’t he (JFnK) spend Christmas in Cambodia on Nixon’s order? Like before he was inaugurated? And an Eisenhower endorsed him. Just amazing.


68 posted on 09/05/2011 8:18:47 AM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: EDINVA

Indeed. Just because someone is related to someone famous doesn’t mean they’re smart or have discernment skills. So they’ve decided to support the party that loves Alger Hiss and considers him a saint? :?


69 posted on 09/05/2011 8:23:26 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: EDINVA
Actually, it’s appalling. I KNOW Dems who despise Nixon more than any other R. Maybe more than any other person in history. You can bet your bottom dollar Kerry and Obama are among them.

Ike, of course, gets a total pass on that hatred. A little scorn maybe, but not the loathing. If the D is younger, W ranks right up there with Nixon. I don’t anticipate that Barbara or Jenna will be endorsing the Dem/Socialist of 2040.

But I haven’t seen anything yet that rivals the way Dems loathe and despise Nixon, to the point where they have seriously anti-Nixon memorabilia in their homes ... 3-4 decades later!

The hatred felt by the liberals and leftists toward Richard Nixon is, indeed, irrational. After all, this is the man who as vice president denounced and opposed Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.), their all-time bête noire. As president, Nixon started affirmative action--completed the desegregation of Southern schools, got us out of Vietnam, ended the draft, imposed wage and price controls, appointed Harry Blackmun--who wrote Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court, visited Communist China, and signed the SALT I agreement. He should be a liberal hero.

70 posted on 09/05/2011 8:48:16 AM PDT by Rufii
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To: Rufii

You left out his starting the EPA !!!

It was a different world then, a totally different world.


71 posted on 09/05/2011 9:26:23 AM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: ZULU
"Nixon = Wage and Price Controls + Environmental Protection Agency + Federal Affirmative Action Plan (Philadelphia Plan) + Recognition of Red China + Support of the “Equal Rights Amendment” + Lowering Voting Age to 18 + elimination of the draft.

Nixon was a poor President and HARDLY a conservative."


You're not giving him nearly enough credit. He also debauched our currency, lost a war that he broke the nation's economy to fund, took most of his policy advice from partially rehabilitated Mensheviks, and ushered-in nearly a decade of walkover victories nation-wide for the Democratic party thereby blowing any chance for rolling-back the Great Society. All of which doesn't necessarily make him any worse than LBJ, but was he really any better?
72 posted on 09/05/2011 9:49:23 AM PDT by CowboyJay ("Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day parade." - fieldmarshalj)
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To: Rufii

“He should be a liberal hero.”

Exactly. However, nailing Alger Hiss was unforgivable to them. Ann Coulter’s excellent book “Treason” goes into detail about this.

Let Mr. Nixon’s legacy be a lesson: the left is far more unforgiving than the right ever tries to be.


73 posted on 09/05/2011 9:50:25 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: CowboyJay

Actually, Nixon never lost Vietnam, he if anything WON that war, as you can watch here, by Prager U, no less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqYGHZCJwk

What actually happened there was that the leftists in the media and the anti-war crowd blew up Watergate to be an impeachment trial, forced him to resign, and then sabotaged the agreement WE made to help the South Vietnamese.

As far as the complaints about whether Nixon was hardly a conservative by you and the guy you’re responding to, maybe I should remind you that Eisenhower deliberately allowed the Soviets to launch Sputnik into space before us, and also expanded education to the extent that it arguably accelerated the leftist infestation, pretty much shut down McCarthy’s heroic attempts to expose and try Communists within our government, and put in two very left-wing supreme court justices (something which even HE admitted was a mistake). And even Ronald Reagan nonetheless brought in NAFTA and played a role in the border crisis.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all fond of Nixon’s deal with China, either, and in fact, I viewed it as a mistake myself (then again, I also didn’t see the wisdom in allowing the USSR to launch Sputnik into space other than placating Soviet-orchestrated international protests), and there’s plenty of mistakes Nixon made, but if we’re going to denounce Nixon as hardly a conservative for those mistakes, we might as well denounce Eisenhower and even Ronald Reagan as RINOs as well. And as far as the EPA, last I checked, at the time it was created, the EPA was actually necessary (let’s just say there was a reason the term “crud” was coined, and it dealt with polluted toxic sediment within a river).


74 posted on 01/07/2020 7:47:40 PM PST by otness_e
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