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   jaxcat said, 4 months ago

   Gosh, Nixon’s venality seems kinda mild after exposure to the present-day moral corruption of the Republican party.
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   Who would have EVER thought that we would look back at the days of Nixon with nostalgia?
   He was just incredibly stupid, not actually evil like a lot of Politicians today!
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   D-squared said, 4 months ago

   Liddy will be there in due time
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   ARodney said, 4 months ago

   Nixon was plenty evil enough for me. Read his comments on what to do about Native American protests if you need a refresher. People like to give him credit for a lot of very liberal reforms that really helped America, like the EPA, OSHA, and the Clean Water Act; but it should be recognized that those were all Democratic ideas put forward by a Democratic congress. It was great of him to sign them. But they weren’t his priorities.
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   Omnius said, 4 months ago

   Don’t blame me I voted for McGovern in 1972, my first election and I was in the Army. I knew that Tricky Dick was behind the Watergate crime because of the chain of command system.
   We can never forget the shame of his Plumber’s Union, I still have an old cartoon showing the presidential seal on the bottom of a toilet plunger – his sorry contribution to the legacy of the White House.
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   Dycel said, 4 months ago

   There’s one person missing, the one who turned and got off by throwing the rest under the bus. Where’s Gordon hiding these days?
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   Joe said, 4 months ago

   No Nixon-defenders on the far right today? Well, it’s still early…
   Here’s one from the left, however: he was not 100% bad, and he even seemed to mellow later on. Most important, he didn’t pretend China was irrelevant. And he did well in the kitchen debate with Krushchev.
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   jcmckain said, 4 months ago

   Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And I thought Liddy died last year — I maybe misremembering . . .
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   I remember the unofficial slogan we had for Tricky Dick’s re-election back when I was in High School; “Don’t change Dicks in the Middle of a Screw, Vote for Nixon in 72!”
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    inevattable said, 4 months ago

    Given the abysmal flaws of his Republican descendants, I would say that this cartoon is a bit mean-spirited in itself.
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    fritzoid said, 4 months ago

    @masterskrain

    “He was just incredibly stupid, not actually evil like a lot of Politicians today!”
    

    
    I was a child in the Nixon era, so all I know of him is in retrospect, but from what I’ve heard he was actually really intelligent. In fact, I once read something along the lines of “In the modern era, in every presidential election the Democratic nominee has been smarter than the Republican nominee, with the exception of Nixon” (I don’t recall whether that was in comparison with Kennedy, Humphrey, McGovern, or all three).
    

    
    You may prefer to call it “native cunning” rather than “intelligence,” and by all accounts Nixon was by no means “sophisticated,” but if he’s known in retrospect for having made some dumb decisions they were probably the result of the fact that he was ALSO extremely paranoid and vindictive.
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    JT Vagabond said, 4 months ago

    @masterskrain

    Right after the ’72 election I started my first B-52 tour in Southeast Asia. Our crew came from a (since closed) air force base in Massachusetts. Somewhere I have an old photo with our copilot leaning out his window during preflight, holding a bumper sticker (distributed, probably, only in MA) which read: “One right, Forty-Nine wrong.” I stand by that sentiment today.
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    From what I’ve read Nixon broke into his high school office when he was a student to go through the files. Nixon planted the pumpkin papers as I recall he cheated on his exam to become a lawyer. As president he was a mean drug addicted drunk and sold out Tibet to make a trade deal with China who gave him a girl friend for his effort. The drug panel he set up said drugs should be legalized so Nixon declared a war on drugs and supported the no knock bill. He made a deal to have mafia union members beat up hippie protesters and ordered the break in at Watergate. Watergate had been in the underground press for a year before Nixon was reelected and then after the election the national press began to pay attention to the Watergate story. Nixon profited the most from the JFK, RFK murders. Nixons “secret plan to end the Viet Nam war” was to nuke Hanoi but there were so many protesters against the war he decided not to do it. The Nixon tapes in the Nixon library show him to be a foul mouthed racist, there is a conversation between Nixon and Kissinger where Nixon talks about how he hates the jews. A corrupt individual from start to finish filled with republican hypocracy.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    You go to Heaven for the weather, to heck for the company!
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    Man we surely did hate on Richard Milhouse, didn’t we? He deserved to be tossed from office, and he hated on others much more than they hated on him (no easy feat!) (The expanded “Enemies List”) It became a source of shame to have been left off the list, I don’t see Jeff, and this might be some payback for that. Actually I’m surprised not to see Art Buchwald or Herblock (Herbert Block) on the list!
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    And the people whoes blood are on his hands! Oy! “I have a secret plan to get us out of South East Asia” he’d say while running for election in 1968. Little did we know that the first part of the plan was for us to Re-elect him in 1972!
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    I remember the jokes about “Oh he’s standing on Ehrlichmann’s shoulders” and the stories about Margaret Mitchell and the gap in the tapes! And I remember the righties saying “My president, right or wrong!” and the Union Construction workers beating up on hippies (really beating the crap out of them, not like that clown in Michigan!)
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    And 4 dead in Ohio!
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    Thanks Jeff! It’s good to remember what a real rogue president was like! It’s the sort of stuff that when I listen to the Right today I say to my self “You guys will say ANYTHING that they tell you to say!”
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    @JT Vagabond

    “…from a (since closed) air force base in Massachusetts.”
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    They’re ALL closed.
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    After 9/11, AFTER 9/11! Bush and Cheney decided to close all the AFBs on the East coast and ship all that business to Florida (where his brother worked!). There was one in Brunswick Maine (near Portland, where the planes that hit the Twin Towers originated!) Closed!
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    Real partiots those guys, and real interested in keeping the nation safe!
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