And he also created OSHA, the EPA and the 55mph speed limit.
Burn in hell.
Posted on 06/06/2016 11:44:04 AM PDT by jroehl22
One of the great American speeches. A forgotten speech.
I was 8 whats that 3rd grade?
I wasn’t alive in the Nixon era. But I get to live in all it’s glory with the powerful government regulatory agencies he signed off on. Thanks Nixon!
Spiro Agnew attacks news coverage November 13, 1969, Des Moines [speech excerpt]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQpQyJQm2Mk
Wow!
That was very refreshing. Haven’t seen a real Chief Executive in quite some time.
Same here. The summer before KG.
The first campaign I remember was '72.
Yeah, he was a crappy president - wage and price controls, taking US off the gold standard, and the EPA, which is intent on destroying our economy and saddling us with 3rd world living standards.
If only Nixon had been as right-wing as his detractors claimed he was, he’d have been an excellent President.
I was kind of busy on the other side of the world. No one paid any attention to any of this stuff.
I wasn’t able to hear the speech live because I was staying in the Kaiserburg, the Imperial Castle in Nürnberg, Germany, but we did get news that Nixon won the nomination from the local Armed Forces Network station.
Second only to Lyndon Johnson, Nixon was the most liberal President in history... until Zero. Now he is #3.
And he also created OSHA, the EPA and the 55mph speed limit.
Burn in hell.
The day after Bobby Kennedy was shot. Kennedy would probably been President had he not been shot.
I am still proud that in my first Presidential election I voted for Richard M. Nixon against the ultra-socialist Senator George McGovern.
Richard Nixon was the first president I remember contemporaneously. He dominated the news when I was moving through elementary school, sadly, mostly over Watergate.
I'm not excusing the Watergate burglary and Nixon obviously made a big blunder when he decided (initially) to back up his people and participate in the cover-up. But Watergate seems so Mickey Mouse considering the high crimes and misdemeanors that occurred during the Clinton years.
The same media that destroyed Nixon looked the other way when it came to the Clintons.
A few years ago, I read the Nixon biography below and it was a great read. A real sympathetic portrait of Nixon in my opinion. Nixon was truly a man of humble beginnings and he endured all manner of slights and indignities on the way to the top - usually at the hands of snobby elitists who never considered Nixon "part of the club." It makes you understand why Nixon acted the way that he did with regard to compiling enemy lists and whatnot.
Not to add to a bash Nixon mood but calling discrimination against white Christian males ‘affirmative’ and ‘action’ comes from his administration, if I recall, as does Title IX. Placating the revolting leftists and their seemingly moderate contemporary mouthpieces was shortsighted, in hindsight.
Yeah, I’m with you. Nixon was one of the original Establishment elitists.
I wonder how many today are thinking, “If I knew Nixon was this liberal, I would have let Watergate slide.”
Democrats and the leftist establishment had been hacked off at him for three things: #1, beating New Dealer moonbat Rep. Jerry Voorhis in 1946. #2, beating Hollyweird Marxist moonbat Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas in ‘50 (ironically, with the help of Joseph Kennedy, Sr.), and #3, the coup de grace, exposing and taking down Communist Alger Hiss.
The latter one was unforgiveable and Watergate was partly the revenge they couldn’t exact on Joe McCarthy. Nixon always knew he had a big target painted on his back. It’s a shame he couldn’t have used his intelligence and tenure in office to have been something more than just a run of the mill liberal Republican in policies, which were mostly failures.
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