Ok Sam

So true Nixon had an amazing voice. If you close your eyes and listen to President Nixon it's super soothing and educational plus interesting. There will never be another like President Nixon.

He definitely didn't give up despite losing to Kennedy in 1960 and to Ronald Reagan for California Governor in 1966 (despite having served as Vice-President of the United States for all eight years of the Eisenhower Administration). If Robert Kennedy hadn't have been assassinated in 1968, he would have defeated Nixon in the General Election that year and Nixon never would have been President.

I totally agree 100%!!

But doesn't it seem crazy looking back now that he was going to increase US forces to 500,000?

@Robert Klugh You're the young (I'm guessing) jackass who has no command of the issue whatsoever.

@@stevebbuk Had Nixon promised to end the Vietnam War, he would have been a real hero.

No one said the man was stupid. He just had demons as we all do.

@@stevebbuk- You might want to recheck that, there were over 500,000 US troops in Vietnam by 1967 (Johnson). During his first year in office 1969, Nixon started withdrawing troops from Vietnam.

That really is true. For a lot of us on both sides, it was the 2016 that really hammered home the fact that the other side did not have at all the same goals as whichever side we were on. It was rather shocking at the time, no? It still is sometimes, although we have grown accustomed to the situation. It is hard for both sides to avoid viewing the other side as literal enemies, not just political opponents, because both sides believe the goals of the other side are immoral. I certainly think that about those on the other side, and I know they think it about me.

@@briteness Yes that is the great issue for America as a whole to answer - what is the moral path for us?

I agree, but l but the blame on the democrats, in general and snotty schmucky Schumer in particular, he is such a slimy disgrace!!!-- and I'm fron NY

What, you mean we should ban children taking hormones and castrating themselves? How unreasonable!

That’s right. Nixon was gifted a good economy from Lyndon B. Johnson.

@@jasonarokiaraj9817 gifted? Um no he wasn’t lol

@@RetiredVet2020 Nixon was selected to carry on big government programs and liberalizing the southern Republicans. Reagan continued that by making liberal corporations more powerful. It worked great!

@@jasonarokiaraj9817 He was also "gifted" a war overseas.

Professionally is another.

Nixon was VP for IKE - Joe Kennedy, the Klanocrats & their anti-American mob ured their organized crime money to buy & control the meda; as Joe Kennedy had done with FDR. Note: Kennedy was appointed as ambassadoq to U.K. in 1938 FDR - Kennedy had to vacate in 1941 due to his appeasement of HITLER. Kennedy predicted, " democracy was finished in Britain. " Kennedy wanted to strike a deal with HITLER & was furious when the Royal Air Force victory in the Battle of Britain prolonged their " inevitable defeat. " < > sotrce, THE PATRIARCH by David Nasaw

he was an outsider. he didn't go to an ivy league. he pushed conservative policies. that's why.

Well for one thing, he could have brought an end to the Vietnam War a lot quicker than he did. America had no business being over there to begin with (no disrespect to the American soldiers who fought and sacrificed in Vietnam) and gained absolutely NOTHING from the battle!

Closing the gold window. It's led to the enormous national debt, which will ultimately collapse the economy to a state worse than that of the Great Depression.

30 years now

As well as he was..

used to really look forward to Sunday : FIRING LINE, McLAUGHLIN GROUP etc

I know this is late, but in hindsight LBJ was right. Nixon was always running for office. Chronic campaigner is an accurate description. But you gotta love him. Smart as a whip.

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Oh my god! You are right!!! Jesus.

@@jonchaney There is no comparison of Nixon to Jesus 😵, are you trying to get Jesus angry 😡 !

@@gargould7186 FYI. Jesus does not get angry.

@@riff2072 Psalms 2:12 Kiss 💋 his son or he will be ANGRY 😡, and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 🤔 ( Is that ANGER or something else? 😒 .

@@gargould7186 Jesus loves you, even if you do not adopt his ways ( which that passable means) he will still love you. And I shall not get in a bible debate with you because of the picture next to their name.

He goes on to say "6,000 of them dead and the rest wounded and missing."

Casualties, not deaths

@@stevenledbetter9997 please explain the difference between casualties and deaths. As far I'm aware casualties is but another word/term for deaths.

True enough, but LBJ in the coming year-and-a-half would lose much of his spunk and very influence due to the morass of Vietnam. He'd be shown-up as the bag of hot Texas air he really was; an "accidental President" (JFK assassination) who rose beyond his level of competency, in true "Peter Principle" fashion! The LBJ who announced he wouldn't run in 1968 was a "whipped pup" himself. In 1968 Candidate Nixon flayed Lyndon alive... you'd of thought Dick was running against LBJ and not HHH! And, like him or not, Nixon could think rings around old Lyndon -- he had an innate grasp of geo-politics that the myoptic Texas could never achieve. [BTW, Barry Goldwater was one man who LBJ could NEVER brow-beat. Goldwater simply wouldn't take LBJ's attempts at threats or intimidation -- he was just as strong (if far more quiet) a person.]

MKIVWWI You're a poli-sci professor; brilliant commentary. My only caveat is this.: Goldwasser ("Water") was the GOP high priest, not Nixon, and Eisenhower knew that for all of Nixon's grasp of geo-politics and savvy on domestic issues, he was a radioactive isotope, one, by the way, owned by the syndicate. Duke Law was a front.

Well he was. Johnson was quite the narcissist, egomaniac, and hypocrite. If it weren't for his southern dwelling in Texas in order to help his candidate achieve votes in 1960, JFK would have never nominated Johnson as his running mate in the first place.

been under that DEMOCRAT KLAN DONKEY too long again ?

LBJ, like all klanocrats was anti- American

Nixon wasn't President in 1968. Last American combat troops left Vietnam in in 1973 during Nixon's first term.

Sometimes extremely intelligent people are paranoid! And dishonesty can often take the form of manipulation.

But Bobby Mac was a liar and scoundrel -- read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster. Bobby Mac and LBJ deserved every "brickbat" thrown at them, and them some!

Dennis Rivenburg on this it was LBJ who took the low road. Eventually Nixon bought the right of way rights to taking the low road, but not this time

No President was LOWER than Lyndon Johnson. Corrupt to the bone.

There are some historians who believe Johnson's announcement in 1968 that he would not seek an additional term as President was more disgraceful than Watergate and Nixon's resignation.