Posted on 11/01/2019 5:41:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
I recall reading; in a very old book, that there is nothing new under the sun.
Yep...Nixon was setup just like they’re trying to set Trump up! Fortunately for us, Trump is much more resourceful and wasn’t a product of DC!
Warren = McGovern
The left had the four major networks locked up with their propaganda. And Nixon didn’t really fight back.
Times have changed. That playbook won’t work anymore.
Many differences from the early 70’s till today.
- Three channel TV universe with no talk radio, right-leaning cable channels or conservative internet.
- NYT and WaPo dictated 90% of the print news coverage at a time when most people still read a daily paper.
- Nixon did not have Twitter or any other viable way of going around a biased media that was out to get him.
- Media drumbeat managed to drive Nixon’s approval numbers among REPUBLICANS down into the 20’s. Trump’s are holding firm in the 90’s.
- Nixon really DID involve himself in some sleazy and unethical things. Trump has not.
I learned something.
Good article.
If Warren gets the nomination, I hope she picks an Eagleton as her running mate. So many crazies to choose from, it will be a tough decision.
Hillary who should have been jailed working behind the scenes in both to impeach an elected President:
Nixon didn’t okay the Watergate break in but his covering up for the people that planned it, and his stonewalling did him in. He should have faced down the congress and said...go ahead impeach me and see where it gets you! Nixon was not accused of planning the break in at Watergate, he was implicated in trying to cover for those who planned it(which is a crime).
He should not have covered up for the burglars and their handlers and took a little heat for awhile. He was in his second term after all and would have had time to have recovered politically and ended his political life at the end of the Bicentennial year in heroic fashion.
We could have avoided 4 years of Mr. Peanut’s recession by electing another Republican in 1976. The distractions made the energy crisis worse and he was playing with a weakened hand in trying to deal with the Soviets and the Chinese.
Sargent Shriver is in the mix, I hear.
His skeletal daughter Maria would be a better fit.
No Islamic Republic of Iran if a Republican had won in ‘76, no ayatollahs, the Shah remains in power.
But maybe no Reagan either and with no Cold War II the Soviet Union survives.
Conservatives in Nixon’s day were the TOO silent majority. They have seen a lot of evil done to our country by the Left since then. Progressive Communists will not have a free ride in the next upheaval, because younger, stronger Conservatives will not roll over and play dead.
Ford might not have run in 1976 as he would have been vice president and not president. Reagan was already coming on strong in 1976. Still...these are just what ifs....
Without Watergate; there would have been no Gerald Ford incumbency to block Ronald Reagan from getting the nomination in ‘76.
Yes, but then you would have the historical precedent of it being nearly impossible for a candidate from the same party to follow a two-term president into office. Bush Sr. was able to do that only because Reagan was so popular.
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It was very well-delivered and it's easy to see why it would have influenced public opinion. But Nixon did not know the future and that South Vietnam would eventually fall to the Communists, after thousands of additional Americans had died trying to prevent that from happening.
Would it have made a difference if Nixon rather than Ford had been President in the spring of 1975 when South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to the Communists? The Democrats were determined to prevent anything being done to help the Saigon government. Could any American action at that point prevented the fall?
bkmk
Of yes that again sticky little inconvenient truth....liberal northeastern GOPe opposed Nixon as well as liberal Dems I’d point out
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