Isn't it crazy how politicians used to be able to string words together into sentences without needing a Teleprompter?

"Education can strengthen the brain but weaken the backbone" Good one 🇺🇸

I really enjoy these Nixon clips and listen to how wise he really was.

Truman was the last Democrat President that Reagan voted for, and supported enthusiastically

My favorite Truman saying If you want a friend in Washington get a dog 🐕😀😀😀

Four more minutes of gold from Nixon. Truman, in my opinion, was a solid and highly underrated president. He was president during an extraordinarily difficult time, not just in the war, but the aftermath and during his second term. He is one of the major reasons why communism did not engulf the Korean peninsula and Western Europe, and his projection of American power through our business (Marshall Plan) was brilliant. Thanks for the clip.

I read Harry Truman's biography not too long ago; he was a damned impressive man. I think he was the most perfectly suited man for the job, ever. He grew up on a farm in the midwest, taking great responsibility; he studied hard and read the Great Books in school and thereafter, he ran a successful business (which eventually failed), and he was tested by war as Captain of an artillery company - and never lost a man, despite participating in major battles. He was a successful politician from the beginning, and he gave a crap, never shirked his responsibility. Christ, we need men like him now...

In one sense, I can see how Nixon could appreciate Truman, despite their political differences. Both came from fairly humble backgrounds to be elected to the highest office in the land.

Truman was the best of us. He never compromised himself.

After every one of these videos, I respect President Nixon more and the media less.

If Nixon hadn't gone down the Watergate path he would have gone down as one of America's greatest President's. So damn bright yet so damn unsure of himself. I was still a very young boy but was captivated with him.

Truman was a great man whose greatness wasn’t truly realized until years later. Same with Nixon.

Jesus Christ, imagine a president nowadays speaking like this.

RMN was very gracious with his comments on HST - especially given the absolute scathing things Truman would (later, on record) say about Nixon. Richard Nixon was not nearly as thin-skinned as "historians" today say he was.

Anyone who can speak as well as this deserves respect

There was a time I could not stand Nixon when I was younger- We used to call him “Tricky Dicky” in 1968 when he ran for president- I was 18 years old then same year I went into the Navy- I am 74 now- When I was a kid I was wrong about him- This guy was one of the better presidents that we had in the 20th century- His knowledge of foreign policy was superior- His domestic policy did not run the country into the ground- I am an old fart 74 years old now like I said though when I was young I was wrong about President Nixon so I have no problem admitting that

A very smart man.

My IQ is raised every minute I listen to Nixon speak. I think I need a Nixon audio book.

Listening to this great man speak is cathartic for me. The antidote to the bizarre times in which we live today.

Nixon got what he deserved but these interviews showed he was a very bright man who could communicate his ideas very well

What I find most great about President Nixon was his class, dignity and the ability to find the positive. If you watch these interviews of how he spoke about presidents like Kennedy, Johnson, and Truman it is apparent he did not agree with the decisions they made, but he respected the office of the presidency enough to not degrade them. He knew what a tough job it was.

Nixon to me was not a politician by historical standards. He was a true Statesman, in many areas, in spite of his human frailties. Listen to his vocabulary & choice of words, his eloquence & dignified style. Observe his composure, & demeanor & self confidence. I saw him in person when on active duty, at Homestead AFB, Florida in the late sixties. He looked great! It's a pity the U. S. now is an Empire in (irreversible) decline. Its political class is but a vestige, of what it was decades ago. No Empire is eternal, Rome collapsed on 431 A. D.

I am British, and I was only eight years old at the time of Nixon's resignation. When I turned to politics in my student years, I became an ardent Thatcherite and strongly supported Ronald Reagan's approach to the Cold War. I opposed the detente approach to the Soviet Union and getting into bed with Communist China. Odd then, that over the years, I have read most of the published biographies of Richard Nixon. I now think his life story was one of the greatest political odysseys of the twentieth century. Like Churchill's career, it was filled with triumph and tragedy. I have to say that whilst I still count myself as being to the Right of Nixon, I very much came to like the man. I believe that he was a person of good intentions, and I think that it would have been fascinating to spend time in his company, particularly listening to his anecdotes. He was always quite gracious in interviews to his political opponents, certainly more than they were to him. Sadly, he suffered throughout his career from some pretty dreadful setbacks. The attempt to bounce him off the ticket in 1956, the stuffed election in 1960, the smear campaign in California in 1962, and the tiny margin of victory in 1968. Nixon overcame all of these challenges in the end, but it left him with certain insecurities. The results were disastrous and tragic. However, he redeemed himself in part before he died. Thank you for posting these insightful interviews. Please keep them coming.

These are outstanding historical clips.

It's time to stop judging President Nixon for one part of his life,and look at his overall body of work. He should have come clean about Watergate. Americans are a very forgiving people.

I was not expecting Nixon to be such an intelligent and thoughtful and a humble man, and I think that history has really been unkind to him and his presidency because of Vietnam and watergate. He was a World War Two hero and veteran who came from very humble beginnings and worked hard his whole life to get where he did and he made some really great strides in his diplomatic endeavors both during and after his presidency. I think he was one of our greatest presidents and leaders and he is totally underrated

I have always been impressed by Nixon's intellect.

Nixon is the most under rated President ever

RMN’s International Brinkmanship was second to none. A great leader, and most important, a Patriot

"Education can strengthen the brain, but weaken the backbone." Great quote.

"Any kind of a system they want just as long as they dont try to impose it on us." In retrospect that is exactly what happened.

He had a great knowledge. People weren't saying that 50 years ago, but it's true.

Richard Nixon will go down in our history as one of the greatest presidents of the last century. No one else even comes close. His words here -- about a man who was in many respects his political enemy -- are both perceptive and wise.

I couldn’t have been more anti-Nixon when he was POTUS, but I had limited perspective of all that mattered back then. We all have our flaws but, now, hearing the elegant words of a most intelligent, thoughtful and moral man has opened my eyes.

Even Nixon could display at least the facade of respect and civility towards a political rival. Something current GOP leadership wouldn't do even if they could.

He is talking about a President who I had the great honor to be at his funeral. I was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. and we were assigned tasks to work on his funeral. He was a very humble man who was born in the county of Barton County, MO. I still remember being called a my mothers home and got ready to leave. I told her that President Truman had died and she didn't believe me because it had not been released to the news. She saw it on the news about 30 minutes after I left. Great man for Missouri and for all mankind.

You really don't appreciate what a Great President Richard Nixon was until he's gone. In retrospect; he's one of our Greatest Presidents ever. Truly remarkable individual.

He’s a lot kinder to Truman than Truman was to him. That’s for damn sure.

I have never clicked on a video so fast!

I am 59 years old Conservative and have voted Republican my whole Life. Truman in my opinion and I don't give a damn what anybody else thinks is in the top ten of Greatest Presidents ! Give'm hell Harry !

The most underrated president ever is still Harry Truman. He steered the world into the longest peace period, as patriotic as Washington and Lincoln and never bowed to powerful quarters that existed back then due to expediency. He was also super smart.

Very revealing clips. Nixon will be reinstated as a great president. He is so observant and thoughtful.

If Nixon hadn't approved Watergate, and stepped back from mass bombing Cambodia, he would have walked out as one of the very best presidents. His diplomatic negotiations with China and the USSR helped end the Cold War in two decades. He is given little credit for that leap because, in the end, a tree falling makes more noise than a growing forest.

Intriguing.

History is proving how great a President Nixon was.

Imagine if we could vote for someone as intelligent as Nixon in 2024. I am saddened on what our presidential options are these days compared to what we had in the past….

The 1970s one-man play ‘Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!’ Is fantastic.

I could listen to him talk all day. He's got a nice voice and a lot of wisdom.

Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate just how far American education has fallen until you listen to men from a bye gone generation having a somewhat ordinary conversation. And it wasn’t all that long ago. Mr. Nixon was president when I was born.

I wasn't alive when Harry Truman was president but I admire a lot about him, his personal integrity, decisiveness, intuition, and his willingness to do what he thought was right even if he knew he would take grief from the press and people in his own party. Of course, his decisiveness was a bit of a double edge sword in that he didn't always think matters through that should have been pondered a bit more closely. He could also hold a grudge like few others and he did have a habit of surrounding himself with people who had no real qualifications and for placing them into positions they had business being in, Louis Johnson and Fred Vinson being classic examples. It was a habit of machine politics he picked up from his days with Tom Pendergast. He also had a bit of an authoritative streak in him but that was typical of New Deal politicians, a habit they picked up from FDR. But he read Stalin better than FDR did and the country dodged a major bullet when the democrat leaders selected him over Henry Wallace as VP. They knew FDR was dying and Wallace wouldn't have sold the farm to the Soviets, he would have just given it to them. Of all the democrat presidents Truman is by far my favorite, the only one in the 20th Century worth a damn. As for Nixon's recollections, that was classic Nixon having selective memory. Nixon went hard after Truman in 1950 and 1952. It's to be expected, it's politics, but Nixon was an up and comer and he knew the best way to get ahead was to display a willingness to be an attack dog, especially when it came to communism. He was the one who exposed Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson, Truman's secretary of state was one Hiss's best friends, someone who wouldn't denounce him. That put a big bullseye on his back and by extension, Truman. Truman took it personal too. In 1960 Joe Kennedy called Truman in order to get him to endorse JFK. Truman didn't like Joe Kennedy and the feeling was mutual. Initially he was lukewarm about JFK and said as much publicly but after Acheson met with him Truman got on board. He said "Kennedy is young and inexperienced, but that SOB Nixon went around the country calling me a communist." Acheson appealed to Harry's grudge tendency to get him to back Kennedy and it worked. He didn't like any of them, but he liked Nixon the least. And Nixon wasn't too fond of Harry while Harry was alive. Like I say, this is typical Nixon revisionism. He was trying to get people to like him again after Watergate. He became quite gracious at that stage of his life.

What a gracious well spoken gentleman..

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I’m really enjoying these videos. Richard Nixon was much more impressive than I had been led to believe.

the way they talked about the structure of government was a great deal more definitively than today. not as dumbed down.

Truman is unique in our history. He was a farmer and a failed businessman. He served in WW1 as in the artillery. Harry was a voracious reader even though he had no academic credentials. A 'common man,' he was known for his very direct honesty. "Give 'em hell Harry." He told it like he saw it....."The Buck Stops Here." If only Harry was alive today. I'd love to see/hear him debate any present-day presidential candidate.

Even as a youngster in those days, it seemed to me that President Nixon and his postwar predecessors in the office -- although not perfect -- by and large carried themselves in that position of authority with judiciousness, dignity and wisdom.

Truman, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford were all congressional veterans when they became president, and the country was better off for it. They knew how the constitution was written, and they understood the balance of power. Biden and Obama also had similar congressional backgrounds. For a period, former Governors occupied the presidency; Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 43.

Would anyone care to bet on the average age of people following this Nixon series? The Millenials and Gen Z probably are not in the mix. These Nixon tapes should be required viewing in American History classes. Oh - I forgot - there’s not much American History being taught in our schools these days. When I graduated from high school, most of the male teachers were WWII veterans. They may not have spoken much about their time in Service but there was something in their manner that demanded respect.

I really enjoy these videos and they have survived the test of time!

Truman was an artillery man in WW1 and was our only combat vet of the Great War who became President of the US as Ike was in during WW1, but wasn’t deployed.

I respect someone who respects others, especially opponents, and this I see more and more from Richard Nixon in these clips!!!

Extraordinary memory, eloquent speaker and very intelligent man.

Best comment on Nixon when he ran against Kennedy came from Ike when asked what great ability Nixon had to qualify him to be president - "Give me several weeks to possibly think of one" !

I must admit, even though I was a kid, and too young to vote, I would have voted for Nixon back then. I think history gave him a very narrow view. There was a lot more to the "Nixon years" than Watergate.

Listen to him anytime he speaks.

Harry Truman was said to be a particularly avid reader. I remember reading that he devoured every book in his hometown library.

People say good things about people when they die. I was a kid when President Nixon was in office. He was the fist person I heard use the word “pragmatic.” Fifty years later I learned a new word from him again, “ temerity.”

It’s unfortunate Truman didn’t return the respect Nixon had for him.

Say what you will about Nixon, but you can never say he was stupid. The only difference between Nixon and the rest of the presidents in the past is that he got caught.red handed and the others didn't

Peoples who hate you will only win if you hate them back. And then you destroyed yourself.

“Education can strengthen the brain but weaken the backbone” What a quote

Great interview....Nixon was an excellent interview....

The first time I voted was for him! Great man

These clips of Nixon are fantastic. Thank you !

Captivating.

I'd be more interested in what Truman thought of Nixon but you probably couldn't print it.

Truman IMO was a humble man.

Listing to Nixon in the 2020's in my 30's is so refreshing, the man had met just about every notable political person since the 50's, from all around the world, and even if they did not see eye to eye, he always had something nice, positive, and commending to say about them, if they were a decent person and had good character. Makes me hold everything up to the light that happened in the late 60's and early 70's to him and his presidential choices, with all the backlash and hate from the hippies... as someone deep within the counter culture movement said, after he realized what they had worked so hard to fight and change, they were the ones in the wrong, they had fought to turn everything into an abyss

Thanks enjoyed

Trunks generally despised Nixon…interesting how respectfully he speaks about Truman and Kennedy. After leaving office Truman and his wife Bess drove by themselves across the country on a 2500 mile road trip. Until congress eventually gave presidents a pension and franking privileges, he was largely broke partly by answering everyone who wrote him and paying the postage himself.. great man on policy and principles.

Truman understood how important Manchuria was, but he never caught on to the fact that his state department was sabotaging his policy in every possible way

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Probably the very best thing FDR did was to have Truman as his last VP.

Great man. He was genius in foreign policy.

Nixon was gracious considering how harshly Truman treated him in Plain Speaking.

The story later ccame to light that Truman reluctantly ran as FDR's VP with the understanding that FDR did not expect to live out his last term.

He was an individual with strong character and a goal of serving the American Public. He had to make very hard decisions and strived to do the right thing. Education means having acquring knowleedge. You do not have to go to college to become educated. I once discussed education with an English professor. I asked her who she considered the most knowledgeable local person on philsophy. In an area that abounded with college graduates, she said it was an individual who operated a piece of moving equipment. She said he was constantly reading about the subject, and sought opportunities to discuss it with knowledgeable people. He had no formal education on the subject. In upstate New York, and lady spent her life around Beavers. Wildlife Specialists visited her to obtain information about these animals social characteristics.

I wonder. Nixon had lived to see the results of his diplomacy with Beijing. I wonder if his opinion in his late life changed, and if he ever regretted extending an olive branch to the Communists.

See what Truman thought of Nixon….oh boy!

Amen to that

I really think that Nixon and Truman took the reins of power and rose from humble beginnings in such a remarkable fashion as to make me truly agog that we are now in such a leadership vacuum. Nixon’s paranoid demeanor tarnished his legacy but he did many great things as President. Truman as even more remarkable because he never lost sight of what was in the best interest of our Nation whereas as Nixon ultimately did not.

He was very smart especially in foreign affairs. Though some of his domestic programs were visionary too. He initiated the “war on cancer” program in 1970

A class act!

Nixon was an intelligent, well spoken man-and as clips like this show, he was often able to camouflage his ugly side under a veneer of sophistication. The malicious, petty, vengeful, paranoid, morally bankrupt side of Nixon was always there, but like many extremely complex people, Nixon also had a real desire to bring America to a better place during his time in government, but his deep flaws ended up consuming him.

I think I would be more interested in what Truman thought about Nixon.

I was in the Army during Wwtergate. I had a great deal of respect for President Nixon as did every nation except the US. He was hated unjustly and railroaded. He stepped aside when he saw the affect that Watergate had. He was truly a great statesman. He has never gotten his due for his service to the country.

I was just a kid when he resigned. I knew he had been railroaded and I was saddened to see him leave office. Oddly, my parents were FDR liberal democrats but I was a hard core conservative from the moment I began to understand politics.

One of my favorite presidents on one of my favorite presidents !

Nixon describes Truman's decision to drop the bomb as vexing and perhaps heartwrenching for Truman. Yet, Truman in the film Oppenheimer considered Oppenheimer a cry baby for regrets at his own complicity. "Don't let him in here again." Strange inconsistency?

He was insightful intelligent man too!