He’s Baaaack!!
Apparently the current Administration’s goings on have had an . . . unusual side effect. They’ve apparently caused at least one former political figure long thought dead to return from the grave.
No? Well, how else do you explain the return of “Tricky Dick” on Twitter?
Hell, I may have to break down and actually follow this guy. He’s got Nixon down to a “T” – and many of the tweets are freaking hilarious. (smile)
Oh, and in case anyone is wondering about what “goings on” of the current Administration I’m talking about: I’m talking about this obvious pattern of “stonewalling”.
“Most transparent administration in history” my ass. Even the Nixon and LBJ administrations were more open and transparent.
(Hat tip to a TAH regular who forwarded me this article on the matter.)
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
Oh lord-this one got me: “The fellow currently pitching for the Phillies just left his shift tending bar at 31st and Tasker.
The gang over at reason.com/blog have been calling O “Chocolate Nixon” for some time now. It really sets their lefty trolls off.
Just remember, only Nixon can go to China.
Maybe we could vote Tricky Dick back into office. After all, dead people vote all the time. 😉
And there’s nothing in the term limits about dead presidents having to meet that requirement.
Ex-PH2…I remember Landslide Lyndon being famous for voting the Texas graveyards.
Why do the lefties still hate Nixon so much? Because he did all the same crap as Obama, but he was actually good at it!
Hondo, I think I know what happened to those missing 18 minutes on the Nixon tapes. The Nixon library has released all of them and that one was put to the test by a sound engineer using current equipment. Couldn’t get a sound out of it.
So either the microphone was turned off while the tape continued to run,or Nixon blocked it with his hand while he was talking to someone, because apparently, there is nothing there, not even background noise. Whatever was said never made it to the tape.
No one ever said Nixon was a fool, Ex-PH2.
A liar and a bastard at times? Yes. But he was no fool. (smile)
No, he was definitely not a fool.
But he was also definitely a crook.
Depends on what you mean by “crook”, Ex-PH2.
If by crook you mean “someone who broke a law”, yes – as is the vast majority of the US population. If by crook you mean “cheated people for personal gain”, IMO no.
Up until the Watergate cover-up, I don’t think Nixon was significantly worse (if at all), ethically speaking, than either of his two immediate predecessors. He certainly never stole an election – while LBJ certainly appears to have done exactly that in 1948, and JFK reputedly did the same 12 years later. Further, LBJ wasn’t above using the Federal government’s bureaucracy to screw with domestic political enemies. Best I can tell, neither was JFK.
Where Nixon IMO stepped over the unforgivable line was in trying to use the machinery of the Federal government to pervert the US legal system. In doing that, he tried to make himself above the law – and then tried to use the assets of the Executive branch to cover up his wrongdoing. In effect, he tried to be king. He failed.
Both of his predecessors did very similar things. However, they were lucky enough (or had compliant enough and/or fawning press coverage) to avoid being put on the spot as was Nixon. In contrast, the press hated Nixon – and vice versa.
There’s a point to my ramblings here. Take a good hard look at what’s been going on re: Fast & Furious, Holder’s perjury about same, the IRS scandal, missing EPA documents, and the latest now-missing documents from HHS regarding ObamaCare. Then ask yourself whether it’s today 2014 – or 1974. And since it’s the 2014, ask yourself why there’s such a huge damn difference in the way things are being handled today.
Nixon committed the unpardonable sin of knowing that Alger Hiss was guilty and proceeding accordingly-that alone made him a bete noir to the left.
‘In effect, he tried to be king. He failed.’
Frankly, I’ve not seen much difference between then and now, other than the perception by the media of the person in the Oval Office.
The only real difference between then and now is that Nixon wasn’t a puppet.
There’s another, Ex-PH2.
Nixon was also competent. A bastard, yes – but a competent bastard.
I recall a quote attributed to LBJ, I can’t verify it, I don’t even remember where I read it. LBJ was asked what he thought about the Watergate scandal. He supposedly replied “that’s what Dick gets for hiring amateurs”.
I doubt it was him. LBJ died barely six months after the break in.
SFC D: that being a quote from LBJ is possible, but probably not very likely. Watergate happened in June 1972, but didn’t get all that much press until late summer/early fall 1972. By then, LBJ was in terrible shape physically (he’d had a massive heart attack in Apr 1972 that nearly killed him; he was in such bad shape that one of the leading heart specialists of the day, Michael DeBakey, determined LBJ’s condition made him too high a risk to consider the then relatively-new technique of coronary bypass surgery).
The Watergate scandal didn’t really “break open” until Mar 1973, when Sirica received allegations of perjured testimony during the original Watergate trial. By then, LBJ was dead – he died in Jan 1973.