I agree completely with all parts of your comment. In my opinion, Nixon is very underappreciated.

⁠@@braniganblue3460 Under appreciated, indeed. He was a lot smarter than most people gave him credit for

history now shows nixon being a much better man than johnson yet even back then fake news destroyed nixon and covered for johnson,,evil

@Cadence733 You want people to lie to not hurt anyone's feelings, typical of the weak minds of today.

@@michaelhasenstein721 wow that's quite the accusation. No being charitable and gracious is not lying. It's seeking to see the best in people and give them the benefit of the doubt without being naive. Even Nixon in the video says that that was his experience of LBJ others may have been different. He can only speak for himself.

Warm? Seriously? Read H.R. Haldeman's White House diaries. On his last day at the White House, Haldeman, a man who had spent thousands of hours in Nixon's company, notes that during his farewell interview with Nixon, it became clear that Nixon had no idea how many children Haldeman had.

@@markkozlowski3674 I read it when it came out. Haldermam had books to sell. The tapes demonstrate that Nixon called him and said he lived Haldermam and "loved him like a brother.".

No. Nixon was not warm. I'm not saying that's a fault, but show me anyone who spent any significant amount of time with him that used that description. Cold and aloof are not unknown terms used for Nixon by those who knew him well.

@@jeffreyreid I was addressing more his style of conversation.

Boy have you been drinking the Nixon Cool Aid!

I agree.

Me too. Nixon is simply the best when being interviewed about any subject!

The Watergate tapes are online courtesy of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Amen!

Same here! Intelligent, articulate, thoughts always on target, deep voice, and so on. He is simply mesmerizing to me. Despite his failings, he was a wonderful president, in foreign and domestic ploicy and his command of the issues, but the Dems hated him and through him out.

It didn't help that, having won the election of 1964 by a landslide, his term was so disastrous he chose not to run for reelection in 1968.

Teddy Roosevelt is another POTUS who aged prematurely and died of a coronary condition. He was only 60.

The booze and cigarettes did him in along with the stress of Vietnam.

@@TomCat05tHaving won what election? He became President after Kennedy was assassinated.

​@@bobanderson6656 We never should have been in that war

Reject trump

Listen to the Watergate tapes. They are online at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

@@gregtennessee8249 Trump is not as articulate as Nixon but was a wonderful president. Biden is even less articulate than Trump and is a God aweful president in every way imagineable! I think the choice is clear.

​@@gregtennessee8249TDS rears its ugly head. It is ironically hilarious how all conversations lead to Trump among the indoctrinated

​@@gregtennessee8249Wrong person, wrong century doofus.

Gracious by contradiction ? "He was ruthless... but he had a big heart"

Heart had nothing to do with it. He was, despite the Watergate faux pas, pretty intelligent.

The crooked president

Gentleman? Listen to the Watergate tapes. They are online at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia. They prove that Nixon was something less than a gentleman.

He kept me out of Vietnam.

He was not as nice as Nixon says he was. But then did you ever trust Tricky Dickie

Well he’s also the dude that dragged America into the quagmire that was the Vietnam war

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@@_Fulgur_And created the modern day welfare plantation.

I agree and would add that he was also like that with his own party. By 1968 his personal style should be included among the things that had made him a tough sell in the Democratic primaries. He wisely bowed out early.

He was always like that. They said one of the reasons he lost to Kennedy was mainly because Kennedy was younger and charming. But their debate the lights were hot and it made him look sweaty. They said the polls favor nixon but after the debates , everything changed, also Kennedy and Nixon debates was the first Televised Debates. Which changed dramatically how americans voted. Looks and apperance was on the ballot from that day on forward and hasnt came down since.

Nixon was a great intellect who was uncomfortable with people. Many consider him the most intelligent of US Presidents. He carried much resentment from his poor childhood to missing his chance to a scolarship at Harvard because his brother developed TB. His desire for wealth, popularity and a place in history ruined him.

He was a smart man, smarter than any of the Kennedy brothers.

That is why he could deal with the likes of Khruschev and other world leaders unlike today.

😂😅😂

Laugh all you want to; the man was genuine.

Listen to the Watergate tapes. They are online at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Nixon was a thug.

I can see now why LBJ rubbed Goldwater the wrong way. Two entirely different personalities.

Have you seen this clip where Nixon referenced Caro's book? Gold. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8eToLFiqtqtgIU.html

​@@bobanderson6656LBJ was an absolute monster.

@@jimmycricket5366 but BOTH Nixon and JFK said he was a "master of Congress who could get things done."

​@@jimmycricket5366Don't forget about mobster and conspirator. Might aswell throw in Bigot for good measure too...Up until about 8 years ago there were some revealing youtube videos with the ninja word he liked throwing around. They scrubbed that one good...However, you can still hear "Lbj orders pants"...

That's why they sent The Plumbers out to set him up.

Check out “the Chennault Affair”. Nixon sabotaged peace talks with Vietnam so that he’d get elected. Reagan did the same type of thing with Iran and the hostages. Never was a Nixon fan but in retrospect I have thought more of him for the good choices he made overall.

The plumbers were his own creation, and did their shenanigans at his command, or on orders from Kissinger, Haldeman, Colson, and others. Nixon was one of the creatures of the swamp. I read one of his books in college, and no one denies that he was smart, especially in foreign policy. But he was paranoid and spiteful. Held a grudge...just like LBJ. Won a landslide victory in 72 against anti-war Sen. McGovern, and resign 18 months later in disgrace. That says it all. He would look upon Trump as a buffoon, and rightfully so.

@@bradfordeaton6558 Seriously? Seriously?

Exactly right. Those who through his out were morally and politically worse than he was in every respect. And they're trying to do the same with Donald Trump. Hopefully, they won't succeed

I concur…

Agreed!

President Nixon confirms at 0:55 what I have believed for more than 50 years. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the greatest legislator of the 20th century.

@@frederickrapp5396And the damage of that legislation is insurmountable to this day. The very worst president, ever (Johnson).

He certainly understood that deposing leaders of countries in the Middle East was to be avoided and more likely to be a recipe for disaster (as has proved to be the case in Iraq, Libya etc.)

the worst one since Truman. 😏👆

Him and Bush Sr betrayed Kennedy

He was pure evil

Yep!

What absolute twaddle

@rivaridge7211 and lbj did help kell for it.

Yep! In a very positive light.

All good said Nixon was good not truth about he has to resigned because he knew is going to found guilty in his own impeachment for the Watergate scandal

I believe and hope so.

If historians that aren't so biased can actually be found. Leftist historians will only bring up Watergate.

Krulak feared no one!

Trump Arrested on RICO and Racketeering Charges

President Johnson may have thought instead of the intimidation, make a deal with RN. Come to an agreement. Because you never know when you may need a friend.

You may prefer Nixon but come on..LBJ would win that comfortably

You’d make an awful historian with conclusions like that. One of the dumbest things I’ve read in years

Johnson knew it wouldn't work. Nixon was VP when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader. Lyndon used the Johnson Treatment on others when he wanted votes to get legislation passed. He was a political genius.

If any lights were getting tapped out by anyone it was Johnson tapping some lights on the permanent type of basis. Nixon was smart enough to know that Johnson was like a child he liked his ego stroked , the only thing Johnson ever achieved was getting as many women on welfare as possible.

@saxon6 This is after his career in politics. While in office, or seeking office, he was a very nasty campaigner. In office, while his admin did some very good things and so did his foreign policy, he seemed very corrupt. An example is shaking down ITT with an antitrust suit and then ordering the suit to stop after ITT promises to sponsor his convention. As Nixon said on tape, "its all routine."

You think that doesn’t happen today? FDR did the same thing to Ford Motor Company when Henry the First refused to cut his employees salaries in accordance with the NRA (National Recovery Act) guidelines. FDR issued an ILLEGAL executive order banning Ford from winning government contracts for vehicles even when Ford was the lowest bidder.

Are you really commenting this on a video of Nixon being interviewed…

@@owentillthey both were. Along with many other presidents.

@@owentillCheck out “Forgotten History” and its review of LBJ’s nefarious actions. If you’re not convinced he was an evil man there’s something wrong with you.

@@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953 I know what he did, I’m not saying Lyndon B. Johnson wasn’t a crook, but to omit Nixon from the same sentence when the topic is literally “Nixon and Lyndon Johnson” is an obvious whitewashing in favour of the former.

I think calling him an evil man is a bit hyperbolic considering his legislative accomplishments - which helped and continues to help millions of Americans. Stalin was an evil man. LBJ? Maybe an a**hole, a bully etc but an evil man? No.

LBJ was a CIA studge

I had issues with Nixon too, but lbj will always be one of the worst p.o.s. ever to be president.

Lbj did deep and lasting damage to this country.

Yep!

Yeah, people would buy expensive adverts that were never aired! Ladybird owned a 'laundromat'.

... And that's an understatement!!!

Lol. You forget watergate?

Lol. U forget watergate?

@@tbessy1963 Watergate has been proven to have been overblown and not much more than a smear campaign.

@@tbessy1963 I think Watergate was a little more complex than we have realized. Perhaps we have been cultivated to have certain ideas about Nixon and Watergate. Perhaps it's time for us to reevaluate our indoctrination.

You think!

A tremendous amount of blood on his hands ... What a dirty prick

Yes he does and Nixon has even more. Nixon campaigned on ending the Vietnam war and then did the opposite and escalated it to unheard of levels, dropping endless bombs on Vietnamese civilians who just wanted to rule their own nation the way the US didn’t want to be ruled by the British. He also illegally dropped bombs on Cambodia and supported regimes of torturers in South America and elsewhere. Nixon also illegally used CIA assets to spy on his political enemies and considered assassinating Daniel Ellsberg. If you want to hear the real Nixon, listen to the tapes. Nixon is still better than just about any current Republican but that’s a very low bar.

With the exception of Reagan and Bush I, it has been very much downhill since Nixon. History will be kind to this man and show him to be the best post-WWII President. But for Watergate, the US might have had Republican Presidents ever since Nixon. Without the Clinton Presidencies we would not have had Bush II. Without Bush II we would not have had Obama etc.

Forgot trump

There are more sociopaths in Government service than you can shake a stick at.

Funny!

Or trumps liberal pathological lies,Big Lies and conspiracy theories.

@gregtennessee8249: You do realize, your TDS makes you the comic relief, right? Quick, come back with something about me and Trump...so predictable 🤣🤣🤣

@@wtsane5449 Yet you are showing symptoms of something far worse: HODS (Hillary-Obama Derangement Syndrome). Symptoms were first reported in the very early 1990s and have only worsened since then ...

@@wtsane5449 watch, she's gonna call you a far right wing insurrectionist racist bigot 🤣

but how did he do it and would it be effective nowadays

But he also said "We lost South for the next fifty years", and he was absolutely right about that. Votes of AAs can not compensate the South.

I disagree, LBJ was the personification of Texas, he was loud, obnoxious, overbearing and a never-ending inferiority complex. Texas is Alabama with Oil.

@@tw5139 I agree, Texas has an abundance of redneck types, but equally as damaging is the Leftist element arriving here from other states, who want to recreate the miserable life they had “back home”.

Yep! In my opinion, one of the main reasons JFK was assassinated was his intent of pulling out of Vietnam.

Why would he he was involved too lol

LBJ probably knew he was being designated to take Kennedy's place, but hard to believe he had an actual hand in the assassination, even indirectly so. Why? When all required of him was to pack his bags

The U.S. was already involved in South Vietnam and had been since the mid 1950s.

The press hated Nixon because of the "checkers speech" he gave in 1952. It was a masterful performance and the press hated him for it.

Absolutely. To include spearheading the Warren commission. The man with the most to gain was never investigated. We are where we are today because a new form of govt. was instituted back in 63. Spearheaded by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Look at the parallels of the most recent event and the chicanery of the 48 election conducted by"Landslide Lyndon." Old Trick, new methods.

I know a thing or two about him. He was in over his head. He was a leader. He wasn't as smart as he thought he was. He's the one that got us into Vietnam, then screwed it up because he insisted on being the commander. It's like anything else. If you want to be a good surgeon, study for years. Good carpenter, do it for years. Good stock trader, do it for years. If you want to conduct a war, use the people that have years of experience. Dunning Kruger effect. A lot of lives were lost because of him. There's also no doubt he was a racist. He single handedly stopped the Civil Rights Act from going through under Eisenhower. Eisenhower, the guy that sent in the army into Jim Crowe democrat south. Johnson was deep into being a racist. What he said when he signed the Civil Rights Act was - "I'll have those N-words voting for democrats for 100 years." Really, you can look that up. Yet they vote for democrats anyway. There's a reason why he was only a one-term President. He knew he couldn't get re-elected. I have to give him credit. He had enough brains to know to get out. Joe Biden doesn't. Worst of the worst.

Correction: LBJ deepen the commitment of the U.S. to the quagmire in South Vietnam. U.S. troops had been in South Vietnam since the mid 1950s