Richard Mondale Loc: Montana

Quiz: What happened the day before Nixon resigned?
I remember Peter Jennings reported that the final draft of Nixon’s Four Phase Economic Analysis of the Economy was printed and delivered to him. He put his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office and read the report. He signed it and then wrote out his resignation which he delivered the next day.
It was pointed out to me that if he had left office before that report was finalized and printed, it would have been k**led. He considered it the most important thing he did during his Presidency.
Nixon’s effort was brilliant. He did 16 tests. Each test implemented a recommended solution to the inflation problem. They all failed. Inflation always went right back to what it would have been if nothing at all had been done. He gored everybody’s ox. All the famous economists were proven wrong and they h**ed him for it. It is probably the cause of the protests and h**e in the street.

Liberty Tree

Nixon, like most people, was neither all good nor all bad. It is a fact of life that he is only remembered for the bad.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

And what did Nixon do that was really that wrong? There has never been evidence that he was involved in the planning of the Watergate break in. He did direct the coverup. So?

Years later, France & Italy were still confused as to why he was forced to reign. One French politico said they had Watergates every day in France. An Italian attorney asked why did your President Nixon have to resign because he lied. "In Italy, everybody lies. It's a form of art."

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

I think it wasn’t the break in but the cover up,today it’s a daily occurrence.

Richard Mondale Loc: Montana

I had the pleasure of meeting G Gordon Liddy, and asked him if Nixon did anything. He said, no, there are multiple layers of deniability surrounding the President. That was our job, to protect the President.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Nixon also took us off the gold and silver standards in 1971. No longer would paper money be redeemable in precious metal. There were a couple of times we had the North Vietnamese on the verge of quitting, and each time, Nixon suspended military operations and gave them time to catch their breath. This was admitted by the C*******ts some years later. A lot of American and South Vietnamese lives were lost because of Nixon's screwups.

Richard Mondale Loc: Montana

Thank you. Your input is always interesting. You are a skewer.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Nixon was a strong anti-C*******t prior to becoming POTUS a which motivated Democrats in Congress and the MSM from the beginning to exaggerate his sins.

Liberty Tree

Nixon had to resign because we are not France or Italy and should expect more of our leaders. Remember, the final straw for Nixon was when Republican Congressional leaders visited him and told him they could not protect him and he would have to resign.

Loki Loc: Georgia

I'm a conservative who realizes that the things Nixon was castigated for were nothing. It's the stuff that never made headlines. He made some BIG mistakes.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

In his defense, he really had no choice. By 1971, so much paper money had been printed that the Federal Reserve was unable to meet its redemption obligations. Had he not 'closed the gold window', the Federal Reserve would have defaulted on its obligation to redeem in specie and would have unmasked the whole 'central banking' lie. What continues to perplex to this day is how the American people didn't even notice. By the way, that's the catalyst that brought Ron Paul to Capitol Hill.



He didn't screw up. The Vietnam war was supposed to be a long, drawn out conflict. Without constant war, there is no profit and without profit, there is no work. Think about it. All through the Vietnam war years the US economy bobbed along just fine. At the end of the conflict the US economy tanked and it took several years to pick up again. That was no coincidence.

Richard Nixon was a career politician who saddled the country with some pretty awful policies. This disastrous 'war on drugs' springs to mind. And yes, that was Nixon's doing; nothing more than a political calculation to harass his enemies, but look at the devastation it has wrought. Many people point to Watergate as his 'claim to fame' but his only involvement was to attempt the cover-up to protect his friends. No, his real 'claim to fame' is the millions of lives ruined by his tyrannical 'war on drugs'.

samtheyank

Nixon was a brilliant man. He was as smart as Kennedy if not more so. Nixon had to earn what he got in life. It was never given to him. Nixon was a political brawler like Rocky Marciano was in the ring. He just kept coming until he won the match. You could cut him, burst his mouth open and hit him anywhere on his body, but he kept coming at you until he got you. Nixon wasn’t as well polished as Kennedy, but he was a good speaker and what he said was usually right on the mark. He was somewhat paranoid, he kind of rubbed people the wrong way and his relationship with the press was antagonistic. In my opinion this is what hurt him the most. If he had been a little bit more charming and conciliatory, I think Watergate would have never happened. Bernstein and Woodward were relentless in their effort to bring this President down and they were successful in their efforts. Today! The people who oppose Trump have so much dirt under their rug, an Abhrams tank couldn’t roll over it. This Russian investigation is a joke. I wish they would bring it to an end. Trump should release that memo and let the chips fall where they may.

fidelis

Restore your memory or reboot, it was Johnson and Macnamara that plotted and schemed. The picture of the two of them standing staring at a map of Nam plotting air strikes and troop movements in Washington that lost that action. They would allow bombing until the NVN would back off then they would plot some more fool mission and the vc would move back in. Should have left the Haiphong harbor mines in place and cut the rail line from China and we could have walked away victorious. But politicians always think they are the brightest bulb and us grunts were left to bleed.

samtheyank

LOKI,

If you don’t mind sir, would give me two or three examples that you are making reference to in your comment. I would appreciate it.

Loki Loc: Georgia

For one, Nixon finalized taking us off the gold and silver standard. Paper money was no longer printed that could be redeemed in specie. Nixon continued the LBJ mistake of bombing North Vietnam and then giving them time to catch their breath and regroup. Nixon also instituted wage and price controls in peacetime.
For a better understanding of the wage and price controls here is a link.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/economics-terms-and-concepts/