Posted on 11/19/2013 9:12:32 AM PST by Kaslin
well lemme see, a believer in smaller government. managed to crush a strike.espoused supply side economics. big favorite of the super rich....geez. am i talking about kennedy or reagan?
There is a reason dictators hate a free press.
Nixon also came up with Affirmative Action and, in doing so, managed to give the Democrats more power than they could have imagined.
Over the years, I have both celebrated and reviled Pat Buchanan. I supported him in the 1996 primaries and worked in his campaign in Louisiana. I was furious with him for his non-support when we had troops in harm’s way in the Second Gulf War.
But when he gets his pencil good and sharp, no one can turn a phrase any better.
I remember my 9h grade civics teacher telling me that Goldwater was more popular than Kennedy. That had to be shortly before the assassination of Kennedy, followed by the character assassination of Goldwater by LBJ.
I never bought it. Not even close.
Kennedy would not be welcomed in the Democrat Party of Reid-Pelousy-ohBummer.
especially for his “ask not...” speech. the dems got 180 degrees turned around with that one, eh?
C'mon Pat...your bragging about these????
What is the consensus on FR, I wonder.
Did LBJ have JFK murdered?
Was LBJ about to be dropped from the ticket in 1964, then prosecuted for his massive corruption?
Was the shooter Oswald, or Malcolm Wallace and/or others?
Did LBJ dive to the floor of his car as it entered Dealey Plaza, before the first shot was fired?
LBJ was a vile human being and I think he could have had a role in the assassination.
LBJ coined the term affirmative action at his speech at Howard University in 1965, but Nixon made it a reality. Julie Nixon Eisenhower in time took it to mean she had to endorse Obama.
I read recently that LBJ is believed to have ordered ten to seventeen murders.
My first taste of politics came in the Nixon/Kennedy campaign. I was in 1st grade. We walked to school in those days (unsupervised!). The big kids (3rd graders?) were guarding the entrywalk to the school and asking us all who our parents were going to vote for. “What are the choices?” says I. “Nixon or Kennedy” says they. I chose Nixon and received my introduction to the way Kennedy Democrats play politics in Massachusetts. Helping ‘Rats to fail has been a lifelong obsession ever since.
“Did LBJ dive to the floor of his car as it entered Dealey Plaza, before the first shot was fired?”
I say no, because too many people would have seen it. Somebody would have talked.
“LBJ was a vile human being and I think he could have had a role in the assassination.”
Sure he could, but there was such a long line of people who wanted JFwadK dead, that one guess is as good as another.
did you ever hear/see this interview? It might remove any doubt.
A very strange statement. He seems to have forgotten the video of the last helicopters leaving the embassy, all the boat people in the harbor, the mass killings, and the takeover of the South by the North, all in less than a year.
To suggest this was a Nixonian triumph is a bit much.
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