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Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of President Nixon’s Passing
nixonfoundation ^ | Apr 22, 2024 | Nixonfoundation

Posted on 04/23/2024 12:45:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Today, April 22, 2024, marks the 30th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s passing. The 37th President died in New York City in 1994 after suffering a stroke and was buried five days later on the grounds of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda at the side of his First Lady.

The Nixon Foundation commemorated the anniversary with members of the United States Army lowering the flag to half staff over his birth house, the playing of Taps and a ceremonial wreath laying.

A commemorative display is currently available for visitors to view in Annenberg Court featuring items from President Nixon’s funeral that was held at the Presidential Library on April 27, 1994, with all five living U.S. presidents in attendance. Displayed items include condolence books from foreign dignitaries, a program from the memorial service and a framed proclamation issued by President Clinton.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amtrak; anniversary; biggovernment; chat; commemorating; epa; nixon; passing
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May he RIP
1 posted on 04/23/2024 12:45:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wish Nixon’s EPA would die.


2 posted on 04/23/2024 12:47:30 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s the biggest and worst of Nixon’s government expansions. The rest have to go as well.


3 posted on 04/23/2024 12:49:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clinton and Nixon became best buddies at the end.


4 posted on 04/23/2024 12:49:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I will be visiting his museum and library in mid May.


5 posted on 04/23/2024 12:51:10 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: dfwgator

Nixon, ex-President.

Clinton, sex-President.

Nixon sought peace with honor.

Clinton sought a piece while on her.

(Classic Jay Leno).


6 posted on 04/23/2024 12:54:42 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Red Pilled American had a ten part series on Nixon. They make a strong case that he was railroaded.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 1:06:32 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In the minds of fair-minded people, there's no question the 1960 presidential election was stolen from Richard Nixon.

Nixon chose not to fight the steal, out of concern it would further divide the nation.

Since then, many students of history have respected Nixon's decision not to challenge the results of the 1960 election.

In thinking about what has happened since then, most notably in 2020, it was probably a mistake for Nixon to remain quiet. The steal in 1960 emboldened Democrats to commit vote fraud repeatedly from that time onward, to the point where we, the American people, are on the verge of losing our constitutional republic.

Perhaps had Nixon chosen differently back then, we'd not be in the pickle we're in now. Just a thought.
8 posted on 04/23/2024 1:14:20 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Nateman

Warren Burger and Roe? The EPA? Clean Water Act? Wage and price controls? Kissinger? Stagflation?

As the Wall Street Joirnal said (when they were good), Getting Nixon for Watergate was like getting Capone for tax evasion.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 1:18:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I will always be grateful to Nixon for Linebacker II.

We should have done that in 1966.

As I heard someone say recently: The penalty in the public opinion sphere when waging war is the same whether you do it efficiently and thoroughly, or half-assed. So you might as well do it efficiently and thoroughly.


10 posted on 04/23/2024 1:18:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I remember that time. NYT columnist Anna Quindlen danced on Nixon's grave, rejoicing in his death.

But her joy was short-lived. When Clinton ordered flags at Federal facilities lowered half-staff, an honor that has been shown since the beginning of the Republic to EVERY SINGLE EX-PRESIDENT when they die, she lost her marbles. She was spitting mad, and loudly castigated Beelzebubba .... how DARE he keep with centuries-old, unbroken tradition, when it's the hated Tricky Dick we're talking about? How dare he?

11 posted on 04/23/2024 1:24:19 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: Dan in Wichita
it was probably a mistake for Nixon to remain quiet. The steal in 1960 emboldened Democrats to commit vote fraud repeatedly from that time onward, to the point where we, the American people, are on the verge of losing our constitutional republic.

Yep, he allowed them to make election fraud "normal".

12 posted on 04/23/2024 1:27:36 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: OttawaFreeper

Great place to visit but also if you can, take in the Reagan Library..It has Air Force One there now - it was placed there after we had visited and we moved from CA so we never got to see it. The grounds at the Nixon library are beautiful but I didn’t find that so at the Reagan library - more wild environment there, hills/fields burned from the sun etc.

This is worth watching - 40 year reunion - 1973-2013 - when Nixon welcomed POW’s at the library and museum in Yorba Linda, CA..

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LemllfcAY8A?sns=em


13 posted on 04/23/2024 2:13:46 PM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: OttawaFreeper
I will be visiting his museum and library in mid May.

I visited it a few days before Christmas in 2016. It's well worth making a stop at.

If anyone wonders how Watergate is handled, there's an entire gallery devoted to it. Rather than hiding it or trying to water it down, the museum practically assaults visitors with Watergate.

I thought that said a lot about Nixon. That he could own up to the biggest mistake of his long and otherwise respected political career like that.

I certainly felt it was time well spend, to have visited there.

After going to the Nixon Library I drove a little further out and visited the Reagan Library. Now that is DEFINITELY worth your while by any measure. Be sure to budget about three or four hours if you go there. When I visited they had a great exhibit about Eighties pop culture going on. Among other things there were some of the props from the Back to the Future movies.

14 posted on 04/23/2024 2:25:29 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: Tell It Right
I wish Nixon’s EPA would die.

Nixon's? Seriously?

https://www.rbf.org/about/about-us/conservation-and-environment

Concern for the environment has shaped the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's grantmaking throughout its 75-year history, and it offers a good example of how a foundation must not only be clear about its own values and institutional strengths, but must also respond to major intellectual and social changes. The Fund’s approaches have evolved as new aspects of environmental degradation have become evident, as scientific understanding has increased, and as the international environmental movement has gained momentum...

That most Americans connect front man Nixon with the EPA is evidence of the Rockefeller ability to manipulate any project they see fit to use for their advantage without ever being on point.

How about when they share their warm and fuzzies about their intent to https://familybusiness.org/content/investing-for-a-better-world-a-conversation-with ? Those who stop at the headline won't find out...

So in September of 2014 we announced that we had begun the divesting of fossil fuels from the endowment. The whole Rockefeller family wasn’t pulling out of fossil fuels -- just this particular foundation with eight family members on its board.

I do not envy anyone their wealth but when anyone is actively working to turn US into a third world serfdom using phony platforms like global warming and their commitment to the cause is factually based on keeping "the same requirements for returns and risk, but with an added layer of an impact focus for a certain percentage of the endowment. Working with our outsourced chief investment office, Perella Weinberg Partners, our investment committee confirmed that we could do this in a way that does not compromise returns or increase risk. Then there wasn’t much resistance."

That does not resonate well with me and I cannot ignore that kind of characterless leadership; and leading US they've been since the early part of the 20th century, them and their globe trotting friends. They are destroying US.

15 posted on 04/23/2024 4:08:22 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Plan to be there all day. It’s big, complex, and covers decades.

The Reagan library takes less time.


16 posted on 04/23/2024 4:11:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Stealing elections never work out well for we citizens.

After 1960 things got progressively worse.


17 posted on 04/23/2024 4:13:26 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Tell It Right

Funny the Nixon EPA and George H.W. Bush’s Americans With Disabilities Act were both from Republicans.

Living on after them.

And as Spock said in the film “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991):
“Only Nixon could go to China.”


18 posted on 04/23/2024 4:51:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Agree.

I still liked him for his enemies list (Norman Mailer kept one, too, with a space for “retribution act taken” to be filled in with a date).

Hope nobody today dusts off the wage and price controls of that era. Sounds tempting to politicians during inflation.
Danger.....


19 posted on 04/23/2024 4:54:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Dan in Wichita

In one interview Nixon was asked what if the Mayor Daley dumping of sealed boxes of Nixon votes into the river wouldn’t have happened and Nixon would have won Illinois and become President.

He said he had come to terms with the idea and “If I had won in 1960 it is quite possible I would have been the one assassinated.”


20 posted on 04/23/2024 4:56:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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