I never shouldn't have eaten that pizza before bed.

"Damn that was one HELL of a fondue party"

Sounds like a great night.

Since he's been dead 30 years, it would come as quite a surprise.

Agreed, he's perfect. I knew he was a massive football fan. Didn't know he was a baseball fan too

He kinda sounds like the Sports Talk Baseball Sega announcer 😂

😂😂

If I remember correctly, Richard Nixon had at least one bowling lane constructed in the White House.

@@captaincarl8230Yes there is! Eisenhower had the bowling alley installed in 1953 (Nixon was VP then). I bowled a couple games in that alley a few years ago.

He used to show up at Giants games in East Rutherford too!

Perfectly said

Should've called him Mr. Crook.

​@@joeybaseball7352Watergate was horrible, no doubt, and showed Nixon's greatest character flaw: a lack of trust that at the very least bordered on, and some would say crossed over into pathological paranoia. But if we could isolate all the other things that defined Richard Nixon, the things he did as president, the way he led the US to conduct itself on the international stage, his political reform agenda in his second term, his commitment to a conservatism of principles rather than cheap populism, he may well rank among the greatest presidents the United States had over the course of the 20th century, and in my estimation would easily be the greatest president of the post-WWII era of the 20th century. If you had asked me about him a year ago I would have said the same thing you said: he was a crook who was undeserving of the office of the president. But after REALLY studying the man and his accomplishments while in the Oval Office as well as before that, and the flawless way in which he continued to analyze international politics during his post-presidency right until he died, I have had to conclude the man was brilliant and easily one of the greatest intellects to ever occupy the White House. Deeply flawed? Yes, absolutely. But also absolutely brilliant. All the best and God bless!

​@@joeybaseball7352 Be my guest to throw the 1st stone, Mr. EFF-ing Perfect.👎🏻👎🏻

@@joeybaseball7352 Oh wow I haven't heard that one before! Hey did you guys know about Watergate too??

First President utterly destroyed the media. Orchestrated hit job just to test and see / prove they could.

Hunter S. Thompson *hated* Nixon like no one else on the planet, but deeply respected his football acumen.

Oh I can think of one big big big reason

@@5LbSquirrelChild’s play. He took the fall like a real man. He had his flaws like everyone but was undeniably a great and intelligent statesman. Top 10.

@@timprescott4634 no lol

Nownwe get a past their prime old hairpiece wearing shock jocks talking to a propt up incoherent Alzheimer patient

Esp now that he’s dead

😂

St. Louis too.

Epic series.

AND THE WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC

I appeared on sports channel in December of 1987 and appeared on the air with Harvey Pack from the studio in Aqueduct racetrack. Were you involved?

@@rstefanie2622 I didn't work at the track studios, I worked at the Master Control studios in Floral Park, NY. I went to college with the Producer of that show Mitch Levites. Great times, fun days.

@@fastbobby504 Yes, you are 100% it was Mitch who called me to appear on the show. You had to mail Sportschannel a letter about wanting to appear on-air. I believe he still works for NYRA.

@@rstefanie2622 Geez, I haven't seen Mitch now in about 30 years. Lots of fun memories associated with him. Thanks for the memory!

killed a million Vietnamese in a war for profit, lefty.

He was railroaded by the cia because he knew it was them who killed jfk. He also was a prosecutor that brought charges and got a guilty conviction against a hero of the establishment back then.

He was a war criminal. But I could talk baseball with him all afternoon.

Watch his kitchen debate with Khrushchev. He made him look like a brain-dead thug effortlessly.

@@va3svd Which Khruschev was.....

@@jaybee8748 I take a slightly more charitable view of Khrushchev. Firstly, he knew he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but actively tried to educate himself throughout his life. He read a lot and took a whole bunch of university and trades courses to improve his education. He never finished them because there was always some political task or crisis he had to attend to. But he tried. And, during the Great Patriotic War (what the Russians call WW2), he showed great courage. During the Battle of Stalingrad, he was a General in the NKVD, he kept his command post on the west side of the river, at the front at all times. Most other senior NKVD leaders kept their commands way further back, but Khrushchev didn’t. When he became General Secretary of the Communist Party and therefore Premier, the USSR had lived for almost 30 years under the most intensive political repression imaginable under Stalin. His campaigns of terror against his own people had filled everyone with dread, almost like they thought Stalin would come back to life and recommence his terror campaigns. Khrushchev ended that. At a Party congress in 1955, he denounced Stalin to the entire Party in what is called the “Secret Speech”, shaming the entire Party for complicity with Stalin’s crimes, and to drive the point home, had guys remove Stalin’s body from the Kremlin during the speech and had it buried outside the walls. He then led a multi-year campaign of destalinization of the USSR including restoring freedom of expression - or, some of it, anyway - to arts and media and academia. He tried to de-escalate the Cold War in several ways, including his visits to the USA and invitations for reciprocal visits to the USSR. This period is known as The Thaw, and in Soviet history was basically the best things would ever get. Was he an evil Commie? Sure. Was he hypocritical for denouncing Stalin only after his death, when he dutifully participated in the Purges himself? Sure. Did he have a maniacal commitment to collectivization of farming despite the repeated failures and famines? Sure. But despite the evil he perpetuated, he did try to change the course in some key regards. I don’t have the same animus for him that I do for Lenin or Stalin or Beria or Yezhov or a host of others.

A crook.

​@@joeybaseball7352we got plenty of them.

Boomers didn't respect him. 😮

wtf are you on about?

Sadly, the only thing the history books taught me about Nixon was Watergate, acting as if this defined his Presidency. After watching this clip, and others with Nixon discussing foreign policy, he would be a saving grace and breath of fresh in today's political scene.

Nixon was incredibly intelligent. His personality did him in.

@@GFYM_Finance Well said.

I mean, Obama gets pretty high marks for eloquence as well. However, appearing clearly more intelligent than your voters is no longer a winning quality in American politics, especially for a Republican. GWB is, by all insider accounts, a smart man who played a rube in public; Donald Trump is a genuine braying moron. Both defeated better-spoken rivals within their parties and in the general election.

@@GFYM_Financethe crazy thing is Watergate was child’s play compared to the crap that today’s politicians are involved in

LOVE that quote!! lmao!

Nixon was more of a Scotch guy. Only at night, & only few drinks. LBJ was a Scotch guy too, only he was hardcore , finishing 2 full bottles of Cutty SarK every night.

I also want to express my fondness, for this particular beer LOL

@@teddelguercio2173 hilarious!

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Obama was very eloquent. But you undermine him because he's black.

Why did his eloquence enact special homosexual rights ? He was no illegal mexican !

I would take Rich over Biden 8 days a week.

A regular guy? He was the president

@@subg8858 Exactly ... he was a President, Vice president and US Senator. He stopped being a "regular guy" decades before this interview was filmed. I suppose the guy who made the comment meant to say "Baseball Fan"

a crook

To bad the leadership today only cares about social media clicks and likes and hardly governs anymore and don’t care about the people they serve.

Watergate was a set up. Presidents after Nixon committed far worse crimes and none of them had to deal with the persecution or humiliation he did, save maybe Trump but Nixon was a giant compared to Trump.

All presidents have done worse than Watergate. Woodward wad a CIA plant.

@@TheeRobertPhoenix Watergate was one of many scandals directed by Nixon and his associates - the worst were carpet-bombing Cambodia, bombing the dikes of North Vietnam, the coup in Chile, subverting the Vietnam peace talks in 1968, and "rat f**king" the 1972 Democrats primaries. Read "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein for footnotes.

He was going to drain the swamp and end wars, so they had to get rid of him. Sound familiar?

Boomers thought he was a crook?

He knew what the cia was doing and was going to expose them. He also knew the cia killed Kennedy.

The CIA ruined him because he knew they killed Kennedy,

If he was that great he'd have been on Kiner's Korner instead of the B show with Fran Healy.

Still a crook.

I shouldn’t be surprised to see you here, JJ, but I am.

True. Ford a utility infielder? Designated hitter? He did the job when the entire country was down in the mouth.

He liked hockey too. I remember seeing him & Yogi Berra sharing a box at Devils games in NJ. They'd show it on TV.

Watergate aside, whats that supposed to mean?

@homecomp6850 Despite the grave damage caused to his reputation by Watergate, it remains true that President Nixon was very smart and eloquent.

@@Milordvega​​⁠ Watergate was one of many scandals directed by Nixon and his associates - the worst were carpet-bombing Cambodia, bombing the dikes of North Vietnam, the coup in Chile, subverting the Vietnam peace talks in 1968, and "rat f**king" the 1972 Democrats primaries. Read "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein for footnotes.

Yep the golden age of America. The decline started slowly in the 90’s under Clinton, then 9/11 happened and Obama got elected - game over for this country.

Lets not go crazy. He was a big baseball fan and he could be charming but he was terribly dishonest. He was bombing the hell out of the North Vietnamese, writing memos expressing his fury at the failure to achieve his goals in the war - and simultaneously giving television interviews and saying the exact opposite. This would be funny and charming; except that real people were getting killed.

as a fan of both Nixon and the World Baseball Classic, I think he sounds almost prescient regarding international adoption of the game. Workable SST is still pending, but the Classic has turned a lot of folks into fans of global play, and it is good for the sport. People who criticize the Classic have never watched it. It is baseball pride and national pride wrapped up together in its best possible form. Better than the Olympics to some of us.

THATS FRAN HEALY LOL

I used to finish my homework quicky so that I could watch the games on WWOR Ch 9. I used to get afternoon Cubs games too on cable so I was always watching baseball then going outside to try and replicate the plays and players lol.

@@HelloooThere I honestly don't remember him. I remember Ralph Kiner and Tim MacCarver. Loved Kiner! I looked up Fran and it sounds like he was mostly radio.

@@anthonyriche552 Anthony I was in heaven watching free baseball. I didn't know life could be so good. I hated school it was like a prison sentence. I just wanted to watch baseball.

He knew more about everything than virtually everyone.

@orbyfan Why is it that seems the like the Senators, after guys like Sam Rice, Joe Cronin, Walter Johnson, Buddy Myer, Goose Goslin, during the team’s later years, including after they took the original team out of Washington, put them in Minnesota, and then added the Senators back as an expansion team, were the team with some of the most overlooked players of their era: Mickey Vernon (two time batting title), Frank Howard (237 home runs for the club), George Case (who was a maniac on the base paths), Roy Sievers (as you mentioned), Eddie Yost (who was a walk machine for seven years), amongst others?

True ...But So Far Russia has Not been in it ...Czech Republic is Close

He had many interests. Sports, yes --- mainly as a fan but he also played golf and bowled. (He was the one who put an alley in the WH basement.) He was quite good on piano. And of course he read voraciously on all sorts of subjects.

@@marilena7848Eisenhower built the bowling alley in 1953 (Nixon was his VP then). Beautiful two lane alley with all kinds of presidential mementos.

The existence of the Montreal Expos made baseball a foreign affair.

Nixon derangement syndrome

That's what they like to peddle!

@@NixonFoundation It's true.

Compared to FDR & Woodrow Wilson? Learn some history.

@@RRaquello Wilson is up there for sure. FDR would be if he didn't get results. What did Nixon's nefariousness do for anyone but himself?

@@thehaughtcorner Not even close. But don't stop playing.

But for Watergate, historians would likely rate him in the top fifteen (the top third) of US Presidents.

@@AB-ct3kj​​⁠ Watergate was one of many scandals directed by Nixon and his associates - the worst were carpet-bombing Cambodia, bombing the dikes of North Vietnam, the coup in Chile, subverting the Vietnam peace talks in 1968, and "rat f**king" the 1972 Democrats primaries. Read "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein for footnotes.