Posted on 05/20/2013 9:24:23 AM PDT by Nachum
He’s compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, (belatedly) praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard M. Nixon.
My father, Lou Cannon, covered the White House with distinction for the Washington Post for many years, beginning in the Nixon administration. He employed an easy rule of thumb when fielding phone calls from anonymous tipsters:
If the caller said, “I have a story that will make Watergate look like a picnic,” Dad would hang up on him.
In the past week, Nixon’s name has been invoked often, and not in a way that pleases the current president or his loyalists. Unless it’s a reference to his dramatic 1972 visit to China, Nixon is not the president any of his successors enjoy being likened to -- especially when the suffix “gate” is attached to it.
Barack Obama was only 13 years old when Nixon resigned from office one step ahead of the posse. This is old enough to know that correlations between himself and the 37th president should be contested, which Obama has done.
“I’ll let you guys engage in those comparisons,” he replied when asked at a rainy Rose Garden appearance Thursday how he felt about the Nixon parallel. “You can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.”
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My pleasure, spread it around!
President Nixon probably said those things, but the Clintons adopted them with a vengence.
President Nixon probably said those things, but the Clintons adopted them with a vengence.
Give credit where it is due. The Great One started using the term “Barak Milhous Obama” soon after the clown car media decided that any referrence to his real middle name was racist.
Nixon never ate a dog.
Unless the Chicoms slipped him some when he was over there.
Sneaky commies...
I do not doubt that at all.
Well said! Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy were two of the most maligned men ever to serve the American People. History has not been as kind as it should have been to these men, as a closer scrutiny shows that they were both right more often then they were wrong. The Left will never forgive them which speaks volumes about their moral character, having excoriated two good men, they will never recant.
Regards,
GtG
I thought that was FDR, or maybe his Treasury Sec. FDR certainly confiscated all privately held Gold in the United States on April 5, 1933, under Presidential Executive Order number 6102. Another Democratic Saint (ego-manic) who governed by EO.
Regards,
GtG
It was both. :)
How Roosevelt and Nixon Ended the Gold Standard - Harley
http://www.harley.com/money/the-end-of-the-gold-standard.html
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