You left out the part about how he's lying. He KNEW the student left wasn't working for the CCCP. He knew that but for a few nutz like the Weather Underground, this was peaceful protest against an unpopular war. He knew that most of the violent student groups had been pushed into violence by gov't agents provacateur (look up COINTELPRO) led by Mark Felt (yes, Deep Throat was in charge of the illegal crushing of Nixon's political enemies, and almost went to jail for it)*. And then Nixon stands there and does this shit. * Ain't history grand.

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For all of his flaws, Nixon was a genius politician and one of America's greatest presidents.

@@Shah-of-the-Shinebox Most of the 80K telegrams sent to the WH were concocted “astroturf” by Nixon’s politcal hatchet men. Go look it up. Peace With Honor - In 1973, this liar forced down the throat of the SVN gov't the same peace protocols that had been on the table since 1968. He fled VN so fast the US didn’t even bother to translate the treaty into Vietnamese for the SVN gov't. NVN gov’t didn’t care what piece of toilet paper they signed because they knew they weren’t going to stop fighting. Winning the Peace - from 71 to 75, Nixon proved you cannot win a proxy way by more proxy. You cannot expect a weak and corrupt puppet gov’t (SVN) to stand up all by itself and it didn’t. All that propped that house of garbage up from 71 - 75 was massive US air power. Nixon derides the reason of those who were CORRECT about the war’s idiot underpinnings, corrupt execution (in the US and in SVN), and domestic economic devastation. Most of the US 60s-early 70s inflation came from massive deficit spending on a war for which they didn’t want to raise taxes. That's why we've had copper-centered silver quarters since 1965. Look that up, too.

Someone Tell Our Disaster Of A President Biden, THIS IS A LEADER

They all did this until an actual actor as President changed what people expect from the role. All downhill from there.

Vietnam tells you a different story but impressive presence nixon

The story of Viet Nam was a big win for us, US as Nixon got us out! What happened later was a shame, but beyond our control ultimately. @@Eric-kn4yn

Did he call them "the enemy of the people"?

AMEN

Biden walks like he has a full diaper vulgar even if true 🤣

Impressive leader but vietnam was a horror show a debarcle of historic proportions

Revolution 1970. 🤣 2024 🤔

Nixon's stature has only grown since his resignation. Would Biden's grow following resignation over Hunter's dealings?

I too was 10 years old during this News Conference, and didn't really comprehend political issues. But he was a person who I respected at the time!

Really. Even though he disgraced the office and got tens of thousands of American soldiers killed solely for his own personal glory?

Turns out he was. But the lefties couldn't' see it then and some still don't... Bernie..,

Or say anything positive about opposition.

What we have today should only be on SNL. I wonder what Nixon would think about the politics today.

Questions like these are still being asked, but the respectfulness and understanding of both modern presidents and a certain population have dwindled. Instead applying their politics, bias, and rhetoric to the media/their questions/received answers.

There’s no way this comment was made by a real person.

@@ucfqb Actually, out is a real person who lived through the 60s and 70s. Compared to the idiots we have to endure today, Nixon was amazing.

So are you just stupid then? The fact that he got tens of thousands of American soldiers killed just to help his chances of winning election doesn't bother you? Watergate? Ellesburg break-in? The war on drugs? @@thebl00per

The majority disagrees w/ you here, it would seem. @@ucfqb

On a page dedicated to Richard Nixon's legacy? I'm shocked. @@jaybee8748

I’m sure the fact that Nixon prolonged the Vietnam war (solely for his personal gain )has nothing to do with how tumultuous the country was when he took office.

@@ucfqb no he did not keep it going for his personal gain...that makes it sound like he's some twisted and sadistic person which he was not

Explain how RMN personally gained from our Viet Nam experience. @@ucfqb

True. Where is the quality leadership in either party to help us, US, find our way?

Don't forget to include Trump this also. Nether one of them could come close to the statesman that Nixon was, or Kennedy.

I think Nixon was incredibly smart and had a lot of amazing qualities but nobody but himself removed himself from office.

“ Plotting to remove him from office” such a strange way to describe the prosecution of a felon for only some of his many criminal acts.

Now you know. Not many people really understood him. He was a great president!

He was a horrible president that hurt this country deeply. It's quite apparent that your dementia has taken a serious toll on your mental faculties. @@PatsyNunez-dv6tb

Maybe I'm tooting my own delusions here. But I attended Buchanan's signing in 2008 for his excellent book "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War." I'd noticed he did not mention Nixon in the book and gave all the credit to Reagan for avoiding the mistakes that led to the world wars. He seemed shy about Nixon, as if Nixon's name was dirt. In the signing, I told Buchanan that I was a liberal Democrat who considered Nixon one of our greatest Presidents and that I owed him my life. He seemed surprised and gave me a thumbs up. I'm probably delusional to think that exchange made any impression on Buchanan. But shortly after, he did become more publicly vocal about Nixon. In my fantasies, I make believe he started work on "the Greatest Comeback" that very night.

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Nixon was completely innocent of the Watergate scandal just like Trump was falsely accused of Russian collusion in 2016

Ted Bundy was also articulate, compassionate, and informed. Does that make the accusations against him a lie? That’s a bad standard. You need to consider someone’s own actions when judging people.

Educators had their own axes to grind in Nixon's case. Read his writings for greater understanding and appreciation of the man. Go to the source, not the interpreters.

And women.

Including prior to Biden as well. It is embarrassing.

@@TitaniumTurbine no doubt about it

We are all on the clock. Of what importance is that?

Yeah, it was so unnecessary given he won by an enormous landslide. Perhaps the paranoia was the flaw that undid him. He’s a Boy Scout compared to Trump

Yes John, I knew him as president n I fell in love with his decent mannerisms. He was so so smart n he was set up. The FBI was one culprit but he had a close acquaintance that was really not who we were told about him, Kissenger. Kissenger was not so nice a guy. Nixon looked over this aspect. He had a lot of experience; eight years vice president! He absorbed it all. He brought our boys home from Vietnam 🇻🇳!

You worked for Nixon as a 12-year-old? Putting campaign posters up on telephone poles ?😂

@@jamesmack3314 occasionally - you really needed to be with someone in a car for that. I worked on precinct maps, dealt with people wanting info who came into the office, leafleted, protested at a Humphrey rally (I hung out with the McCarthy people - I supported Nixon as the only antiwar candidate at the time), rode along with other volunteers taking absentee ballots to older folks, and on Election Day I was a poll watcher. For many years I thought poll watching was just a dumb job I was given as a kid. Now I realize how important it can be. By the time 1972 rolled around & I was 16, I was in a position to train precinct walkers.

@@ashlarblocks an interesting time to live through. I was seven years old in 68 living in New Jersey. I really had no recollection except for the actual election night in November. I remember my father watching it and getting progressively more worked up with every drink he had.😩

@@jamesmack3314 was your dad getting worked up because it was close or because Humphrey was losing? Some of my younger friends associate LBJ with his Great Society reforms. I associated him with the nightly body bag counts on the news. It made a big impression on me. I supported Nixon because he was the closest thing to an antiwar candidate. If RFK hadn’t been shot, I quite possibly might have ended up a Democrat.

@@ashlarblocks I forgot what he was all worked up about. I believe he was a Nixon guy anyway the RFK murder was just horrendous. I get choked up seeing anything about it these days especially the funeral train ride. I think he would’ve been the next president and maybe a very good one talk about a real tragedy.

I’m not sure the media/journalists are the problem these days.

Dan rather asking the hard questions

Rather became a Nixon baiter at these "pressies" as was Donaldson to Reagan later. @@SRW_

@@jaybee8748 Donaldson was a huge fan of carter so i think he was bitter toward reagen

Dan "rather" Biased

In stark contrast to Joe Biden

Portrayed? He was a villain. Are you kidding?

No I am not, enjoy Biden and suck it down!

Aah, Google AI is protecting your feelings, do you feel protected?

Apparently Google feelings AI is protecting the feelings, so sad.

@@ucfqb He was a statesman, as opposed to Biden.

Nixon would have been all over LBJ if he "lost Vietnam" by not going in.

💯 percent right.

Bologna

There still would have been a Vietnam Civil War after 1954 even if it hadn't already become a cold war proxy war.

Can't blame the Viets for wanting foreign occupiers out. First the French then US. Ho Chi Ming was seen as a nationalist hero, their George Washington. Except he was also communist.@@Thunderchild-gz4gc

Can you imagine Trump? You're a better man than me.

​@@chrismoller4272We wouldn't be where we are under Trump. We would have peace.

Also, tell Trump 😵‍💫

Biden can barely stand before an audience without having a bowel movement.

@@sdkfz2519Trump told everything he was asked. Biden was instructed to answer questions coached by his handlers

@@jooei2810 Did you hear Nixon tell the media they are the enemy of the people? Did you hear him evade a question? Did he call the questions "unfair, horrible, terrible". Did he talk about how wonderful he is? Please.

Ask Nixon what he would think of Donald J Trump if he coujld hear one of Trump's recent speeches. The two are from different planets.

Yes,he could not come close to handling this level of questioning

And Trump cannot speak proper English.....

Trump is better than 46 any day of the week.​@@uzeela

They still are. Now they're running (destroying) the country.

In 1970, Boomers made up the majority of the 500,000+ troops in Vietnam.

@@jamesanthony5681 And the hippies and the anti-war protestors , the college students.

@@Durahan82 And by 1970, the protesters against Vietnam included a large number of people born < 1946. It wasn't just college students, as more of the American people were sick of the lies coming out of the White House. Cronkite came out against Vietnam in Feb/68, often cited as a reason why LBJ decided not to seek a 2nd term.

They hated Nixon but love Trump. Shows you the decline from the Greatest Generation to the Boomer Generation.

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I bet you never served in the military?

@@williamadams5472 My dad was in the Army during the Korean War but thankfully wasn’t deployed into combat. I was never in the military and if I had been drafted back then they would have discovered the Lyme disease I got around 1983 that a Doctor didn’t diagnose until 2013. From what I read a Lyme disease diagnosis would get that person released from the military.

@@williamadams5472 No. The reply by Boyd Walker 161 is me from my other channel.

@@MustangsTrainsMowers The Vietnam was product of the cold war

lol.... I remember hearing that as a kid🥴

Yeah compared with the Clintons , Obama and Biden there is absolute corruption!

Nixon was a great president, Biden is a idiot

Wrong. His legacy grows in stature as his faults fade. Who could have led the US as effectively in that era as effectively as RMN did? Anyone? Humphrey? McGovern?

You mean 46. Trump is far better than 46. He talks fine.

Absolutely!😩😩😩

LOL 😂 you think the Democratic Party hasn’t declined even far moreso? Senile old Joe Biden’s braindead rambling attacking anyone who disagrees with his regime as a domestic terrorist… And Donald Trump is probably the closest there has ever been to Richard Nixon in personal character and attitudes-no matter how much money or power accrued, even after reaching the highest office in the land, Nixon and Trump were considered too uncouth for the cocktail party circuit, shut out of elite society, both preferred being outsiders appealing to the “silent majority” of ordinary folk. Both men were also relatively non-ideological ‘realists’ in terms of policy as well.

Or Biden.

Takes a personality like his to stay on top of global politics.

@@Thorscauldron I agree. Every crisis has its own priorities and the crises are, well, _legion._

​@@HamCubesHe even had a bad reputation among his peers as a smooth and tricky guy.

Of course, he was prepared for the questions which shows how careful and prepared he was when appearing in front of the public. But are you saying statemen are professional liars? Don't you know for a president to govern he should keep secret and have some white lies? Nixon was just another victim of subsequent lies ever since President Kenedy threw the first salvo on Vietnam.

Not professional enough in comparison with the Clintons and the Bidens.

There is no "we" if you didn't learn anything that's on you,wtf are doing in a Nixon video anyway making comments? get lost pissant.

Nixon wasn't paranoid, only idiots think he was

Outside of Watergate Nixon is remembered positively.

The US was 87% white in 1970, 11% Black, and only had 1.4% other races at that time. A room of mainly or mostly white peoples wasn’t unrepresentative of the at the time overwhelming majority of the nation

What’s your point?

Not in 1970! Also unusual would be violent record crime, illegal 7.1 million immigrants, record high inflation, wars in the middle east, Ukraine, Crimea, China aggression, Yemeni rebels threatening world trade, Irani sponsored terrorist attacks, political weponising of the judiciary , a president getting millions of dollars from influence peddling through his drug addict corrupt son from foreign adversaries, money laundering, etc etc. No times are very different and not for the better!

Future history will be kinder to Richard Nixon than it will be to the politicians of today who are making no effort to restore peace in Israel and Ukraine, and so are allowing the world to spiral steadily toward a nuclear war. America desperately needs a Richard Nixon today?

What’s your point?

Only a idiot thinks Nixon was a liar

You Biden worshipers are sick

Whose facts? He was a talented administrator. None in the last 50 years measure comparably.

What facts? Don't listen to him then.