Posted on 09/04/2011 7:00:48 PM PDT by Rufii
Library Throws Book at Nixon
by Brian Calle
Some controversy over the recently revised Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda has provoked some questions over presidential libraries, their value, purpose for public consumption and their role in the remembrance of past presidents.One docent at the Nixon library, my Register colleague Will Alexander, opted to resign in protest of the new exhibit after 10 years of volunteer service. And friends and former colleagues of Richard Nixon have been critical of the museum's new director, Timothy Naftali. Some critics have even suggested that the Nixon library is becoming an anti-Nixon monument.
On March 31, the library opened a new exhibit on the Watergate scandal that forced Nixon to resign the presidency in 1974. It replaced the original Watergate exhibit, which dated back 15 years and in which Nixon was involved in curating. The new exhibit offers a much harsher depiction of Watergate.
The visual imagery and titles reflect a strongly critical vibe, if not a completely anti-Nixon tone to the presentation. The start of the gallery features big, bold, red and black letters spelling out “Road to Resignation.” Other parts of the exhibit are labeled “Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage” and “The Cover-Up, Break-In and Evidence,” just to give a few examples. After walking through the gallery, one would be hard pressed to feel warm and fuzzy about the former president, who died in 1994 and is buried on the library grounds.
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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.
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?
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.
Indeed.
Yes. One needs only think of public librarians, meter maids and DMV clerks to see the pattern.
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!
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.
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? :?
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.
You left out his starting the EPA !!!
It was a different world then, a totally different world.
“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.
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).
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