40 years ago today: Nixon (R) resigns in disgrace

[AvgGuyIA]

Richard Nixon's great success that liberals forget:
1.) put on a path of peace with honor in Vietnam until liberals in Congress wanted to cut off funds and let Vietnam fall under yoke of communism.
2.) brought our POW's home from Vietnam.
3.) used Vietnam and triangulation to have detente with Soviets and signed SALT 1.
4.) established OSHA.
5.) established EPA.
6.) lowered voting age to 18
7.) signed off on Title 9.
8.) signed Persons With Disabilities Act

No one is perfect.

 

[Statistikhengst]

If only we could get Obama to resign for the good of the nation.

The morons think he is innocent of everything.

You ever see a conservative even attempt to claim the blacked out sections of Nixon on tape proves nothing?

Of course the morons on the left try and claim 7 computer crashes sounds "perfectly reasonable."

So, let me sum up the left wing pathetic hypocrisy with this subject. The left yell, scream, build statues for Woodward and Bernstein, make movies and still cockle doodle doo about it. Nixon spied on what, FIVE DEMOCRATS?

Obama has been caught spying on everyone, caught illegally targeting conservative civilians, Illegally changes obamacare however he wants, illegally implements the Dream Act, negotiates with terrorists by trading 5 taliban generals for a deserter, and the fucking hypocrites on the left?

Someone please give me one reason any of these demented sacks of smelly shit should be dealt with, with any respect whatsoever?

I will be waiting for that list.

And that is why you never get a response: because you call people from the "other side" things like this. You completely lost what little credibility you had to begin with. Poor you.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

You love the dramatic added, resigned in DISGRACE

to me it's more disgraceful to be Impeached and not resign..

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

And that's the problem. Nixon made a lot of enemies in his own party over the years, who were happy to kick him when he was down.

I've got mixed feelings about Nixon. Watergate was bad, but not as bad as what a lot of his successors have done with blind partisan loyalty.

Other things he did (expanding the war into Cambodia, the SOuthern Strategy of the GOP welcoming Southern Racists after the Democrats had purged them) had far worse consequences than Watergate in human costs.

He also did a lot of good things.

Maybe it's time for a lot of us go get over it.

You lie! Racist democrats (ie Dixiecrats) never left the democrat party.

 

[Peach]

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

And that's the problem. Nixon made a lot of enemies in his own party over the years, who were happy to kick him when he was down.

I've got mixed feelings about Nixon. Watergate was bad, but not as bad as what a lot of his successors have done with blind partisan loyalty.

Other things he did (expanding the war into Cambodia, the SOuthern Strategy of the GOP welcoming Southern Racists after the Democrats had purged them) had far worse consequences than Watergate in human costs.

He also did a lot of good things.

Maybe it's time for a lot of us go get over it.

You lie! Racist democrats (ie Dixiecrats) never left the democrat party.

A few, like Thurmond did, most just faded away.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

40 Years ago I was stationed at Fort Hood, when the news of Nixon's resignation came, it was party city.
Seems that everyone was happy to be rid of that crook.

There will be party country when Obozo is gone for good.

 

[Kosh]

And that's the problem. Nixon made a lot of enemies in his own party over the years, who were happy to kick him when he was down.

I've got mixed feelings about Nixon. Watergate was bad, but not as bad as what a lot of his successors have done with blind partisan loyalty.

Other things he did (expanding the war into Cambodia, the SOuthern Strategy of the GOP welcoming Southern Racists after the Democrats had purged them) had far worse consequences than Watergate in human costs.

He also did a lot of good things.

Maybe it's time for a lot of us go get over it.

You lie! Racist democrats (ie Dixiecrats) never left the democrat party.

A few, like Thurmond did, most just faded away.

The Democrats did not purge these people they left on their own in protest. Many like Byrd stayed in the (D) party.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

You love the dramatic added, resigned in DISGRACE

to me it's more disgraceful to be Impeached and not resign..

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

They told him he had to go only because the media convinced the general public he was a crook. GOP figured its best to cut your losses. This was nothing but a coup with uber liberal Jimmy Carter waiting in the wings. His job was to discourage Americans and disrupt the economy and create gas shortages.

It's telling and interesting to see republicans, conservatives, and others on the partisan right contrive, lie, and otherwise attempt to defend the likes of Richard Nixon while at the same time listening to his White House tapes, where as president Nixon instructed his staff to deny NYT reporters access to the WH, order the IRS to investigate his political enemies, and conspire to obstruct justice by authorizing paying millions of dollars to buy the silence of fellow criminal conspirators.

 

[Yarddog]

Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The announcement was on the evening of August 8th, 1974, the actual resignation took effect on August 9th, 1974, at noon EST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGHo9lb4_M

(3:15)



Gerald Ford swearing in:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5qExW0HFCI

(August 9, 1974, 12:00 EST)



Moving moments in US-American history.

I think the left will like to Kick Nixon around forever because he was the opponent to Kennedy. That was the era when a President would actually resign for something. Today , not really so much..... politicians learned from that. They learned how to build their spin machines and how to Lawyer up. Kind of how a super virus protects itself from anti-biotics

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Nixon can be defended without these obsessed idiots trying to compare him to Obama or anyone else. I call these people idiots because they do a great disservice to Nixon. The are to stupid to realize that by attacking Obama as a defense for Nixon they are admitting they don't have the knowledge to defend Nixon. That makes it look like he can't be defended. I don't defend Nixon. I got problems with lots of what he did, but a respect for lots of what he accomplished. It's just a shame that the stupids have to interfere with every thread and make academic discussions so distorted and difficult.

"to stupid"?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Nixon put the country ahead of his personal legacy----------too bad we no longer have anyone in DC who feels that way.

His legacy was that he was going to be impeached. More like he put himself ahead.

 

[Kosh]

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

They told him he had to go only because the media convinced the general public he was a crook. GOP figured its best to cut your losses. This was nothing but a coup with uber liberal Jimmy Carter waiting in the wings. His job was to discourage Americans and disrupt the economy and create gas shortages.

It's telling and interesting to see republicans, conservatives, and others on the partisan right contrive, lie, and otherwise attempt to defend the likes of Richard Nixon while at the same time listening to his White House tapes, where as president Nixon instructed his staff to deny NYT reporters access to the WH, order the IRS to investigate his political enemies, and conspire to obstruct justice by authorizing paying millions of dollars to buy the silence of fellow criminal conspirators.

Much like all the far left on this board that defend Obama no matter what he does that was worse than Nixon and worse than Bush?

Many look at Nixon for what he did like end the Vietnam war, but I guess to the far left that was a bad thing!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

They told him he had to go only because the media convinced the general public he was a crook. GOP figured its best to cut your losses. This was nothing but a coup with uber liberal Jimmy Carter waiting in the wings. His job was to discourage Americans and disrupt the economy and create gas shortages.

It was Nixon who created the gas shortages with his price controls, not Carter.

 

[Kosh]

The reason they say he resigned in disgrace was because he was going to be impeached for sure, no doubt. The hearing had been held and there were was great embarrassment to not just to Nixon and his Administration, but to the country. We learned from the TV broadcast hearings that our President had a crude and criminal side that overwhelmed his positive attributes. He made our democracy look weak, illegitimate, corrupt, vulnerable and appear to be on the same level as some banana republic. The feeling were bi-partisan. After the hearings, it was Republicans who went to the Nixon and told him he had to go. There was no question that he would be impeached and convicted in the Senate.

They told him he had to go only because the media convinced the general public he was a crook. GOP figured its best to cut your losses. This was nothing but a coup with uber liberal Jimmy Carter waiting in the wings. His job was to discourage Americans and disrupt the economy and create gas shortages.

It was Nixon who created the gas shortages with his price controls, not Carter.

Incorrect! Nixon froze all prices and wages for 90 days based on controlling inflation as we switched over to the gold standard. The war in the Middle East and the Oil embargo caused the problem directly.

In response to the US aid to Israel, on October 16, 1973, OPEC announced a decision to raise the posted price of oil by 70%, to $5.11 a barrel.[14] The following day, oil ministers agreed to the embargo, a cut in production by five percent from September's output, and to continue to cut production over time in five percent increments until their economic and political objectives were met.[15] October 19, U.S. President Richard Nixon requested Congress to appropriate $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel, including $1.5 billion in outright grants. George Lenczowski notes, "Military supplies did not exhaust Nixon's eagerness to prevent Israel's collapse...This [$2.2 billion] decision triggered a collective OPEC response".[16] Libya immediately announced it would embargo all oil shipments to the United States.[17] Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil-producing states quickly followed suit, joining the embargo on October 20, 1973.[18] At their meeting in Kuwait the OPEC oil-producing countries, proclaimed the oil boycott that provided for curbs on their oil exports to various consumer countries and a total embargo on oil deliveries to the United States as a "principal hostile country".[19] The embargo was thus variously extended to Western Europe and Japan.

1973 oil crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[kaz]

40 years ago today: Nixon (R) resigns in disgrace

And now the media is a disgrace as Obama covers up his administrations crimes over and over and they not only don't care but circle the wagons around him.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

A great all-time campaign poster:

I'm going to go ahead and assume that was someone who had no idea how awful that sounded.

People's minds were not in the gutter as they are today. Coming up with terms like teabag to mean something dirty.

 

[kaz]

People's minds were not in the gutter as they are today

Yes, it was horrible. I'm glad we've evolved past those dark days

 

[Jroc]

We need a Deep Throat today. Just sayin'.

Are you volunteering?




Seriously, Deepthroat for what, pray tell?

You see, this is part of the ultimate RW butthurt meme that somehow, under the surface, Barack Obama is far more criminal that Nixon ever was.

But that is a lie. A bold-faced lie. There is not even one shred of even one scandal to pin on this president.

Benghazi was a tragedy, not a scandal.

The IRS flap is just that: a flap. And there is not even one piece of evidence to connect the president with anything the Lois Lerner did that upsets Righties. Not even one shred.

Righties destroy their own credibility when they automatically spew "scandal" and "criminal" every time they see something they don't like. Boy - Wolf. Remember that children's story.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-BCbKuJGA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-BCbKuJGA[/ame]

 

[Statistikhengst]

They told him he had to go only because the media convinced the general public he was a crook. GOP figured its best to cut your losses. This was nothing but a coup with uber liberal Jimmy Carter waiting in the wings. His job was to discourage Americans and disrupt the economy and create gas shortages.

It was Nixon who created the gas shortages with his price controls, not Carter.

Incorrect! Nixon froze all prices and wages for 90 days based on controlling inflation as we switched over to the gold standard. The war in the Middle East and the Oil embargo caused the problem directly.

In response to the US aid to Israel, on October 16, 1973, OPEC announced a decision to raise the posted price of oil by 70%, to $5.11 a barrel.[14] The following day, oil ministers agreed to the embargo, a cut in production by five percent from September's output, and to continue to cut production over time in five percent increments until their economic and political objectives were met.[15] October 19, U.S. President Richard Nixon requested Congress to appropriate $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel, including $1.5 billion in outright grants. George Lenczowski notes, "Military supplies did not exhaust Nixon's eagerness to prevent Israel's collapse...This [$2.2 billion] decision triggered a collective OPEC response".[16] Libya immediately announced it would embargo all oil shipments to the United States.[17] Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil-producing states quickly followed suit, joining the embargo on October 20, 1973.[18] At their meeting in Kuwait the OPEC oil-producing countries, proclaimed the oil boycott that provided for curbs on their oil exports to various consumer countries and a total embargo on oil deliveries to the United States as a "principal hostile country".[19] The embargo was thus variously extended to Western Europe and Japan.

1973 oil crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wrong. Nixon decoupled the US dollar from any hard elements (gold, silver, diamonds) and turned our currency into a free-floating currency.

 

[Peach]

It was Nixon who created the gas shortages with his price controls, not Carter.

Incorrect! Nixon froze all prices and wages for 90 days based on controlling inflation as we switched over to the gold standard. The war in the Middle East and the Oil embargo caused the problem directly.

In response to the US aid to Israel, on October 16, 1973, OPEC announced a decision to raise the posted price of oil by 70%, to $5.11 a barrel.[14] The following day, oil ministers agreed to the embargo, a cut in production by five percent from September's output, and to continue to cut production over time in five percent increments until their economic and political objectives were met.[15] October 19, U.S. President Richard Nixon requested Congress to appropriate $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel, including $1.5 billion in outright grants. George Lenczowski notes, "Military supplies did not exhaust Nixon's eagerness to prevent Israel's collapse...This [$2.2 billion] decision triggered a collective OPEC response".[16] Libya immediately announced it would embargo all oil shipments to the United States.[17] Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil-producing states quickly followed suit, joining the embargo on October 20, 1973.[18] At their meeting in Kuwait the OPEC oil-producing countries, proclaimed the oil boycott that provided for curbs on their oil exports to various consumer countries and a total embargo on oil deliveries to the United States as a "principal hostile country".[19] The embargo was thus variously extended to Western Europe and Japan.

1973 oil crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wrong. Nixon decoupled the US dollar from any hard elements (gold, silver, diamonds) and turned our currency into a free-floating currency.

Schools don't teach US history any longer? A lot happened between Bryan's Cross of Gold speech & FDR's removing currency from the gold standard.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

We need a Deep Throat today. Just sayin'.

Are you volunteering?




Seriously, Deepthroat for what, pray tell?

You see, this is part of the ultimate RW butthurt meme that somehow, under the surface, Barack Obama is far more criminal that Nixon ever was.

But that is a lie. A bold-faced lie. There is not even one shred of even one scandal to pin on this president.

Benghazi was a tragedy, not a scandal.

The IRS flap is just that: a flap. And there is not even one piece of evidence to connect the president with anything the Lois Lerner did that upsets Righties. Not even one shred.

Righties destroy their own credibility when they automatically spew "scandal" and "criminal" every time they see something they don't like. Boy - Wolf. Remember that children's story.

You're blinded by your partisanship. When is Obama going to have the IRS investigated? We know why. And so do you.