Barbara Walters Interviews Richard Nixon | 1985 (Full Interview) 

He did, but they were for the most part “unintentional humor”, he couldn’t be himself around people he didn’t know.

Nixon had a brilliant sense of humor. His IQ must have been pretty high.

Yeah a Real barrel of Laughs.

@@randyhanson4973 Yes, Nixon's IQ was VERY high. He graduated first in his class at Duke University Law School. However, he was also mentally ill. Or so say modern psychiatrists who have studied him in depth.

He had no emotional intelligence but a huge IQ.

He had one. Ronald Reagan.

How were his instincts on China proven correct? China had little to no impact on the Soviet Union's collapse, and the US's courting of Chinese business has made it into the monster it is today. The US would have been much better off leaving its China policy the way it was, and its regime very well could have collapsed along with the Eastern Bloc.

Great comment!

@JohnAsmith-rw6uo Sooo, Reagan, whose brain was already mush by 1987 (and almost certainly even earlier, even though the public only found out in '94), was Nixon's "equal" when it came to foreign policy viz USSR and China, you say? Allllrighty, then.

Opening China was one of the worst foreign policy decisions Nixon ever made. He gave China legitimacy and more power by opening them to the world. Look at China now and how they're a threat to U.S. interests and free trade.

You mean compared to Trump who attempted a coup, stole classified documents, and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere?

@pewterpirate4560 and yet Nixon got off scot free...thats why we have worse (trump) crimes today

​@@Exposing_Mark_NiemczykTrump superficially started no war and Nixon continued throwing Agent Orange on Vietnamese! Tf are you guys taking?

@@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk Nixon didn't get off, he had to resign.

On both sides crimes… and election interference.

DC is a soul stealing horror show

@@RJ1999xpolitics typically are you don’t get to make that much money and have that much power without making a couple deals with the devil

Yea because he wasn't sitting in jail,he quit in disgrace.

@@johnjaco5544 Just proves you have no clue

@@johnjaco5544 Please list his crimes.

Agreed!

Opposite of trump or biden

He exceptional on foreign affairs.

Yeah thank you for fucking things up in the 70s and helping lead to the detioration of the country's general distrust of the government and of our elected leaders. Man was lucky not to be thrown in jail, and he will remain as a how not to be for us. Nixon, Harding, Reagan, Bush 2, and Trump- any coincidence they're all stupid and Republican??

@@danH_1999You sound vaccinated and ret - ard - ed

yea.. he opened up trade with China..y'know China?... the ones that keep cyberattacking us and stealing our ideas. Amazing how you can call somebody a hero in America and dupe the people into thinking its true, cause they are just to lazy to educate themselves on facts. Because of what Nixon did... We gave China all our manufacturing . Please tell me how brilliant is that?

he means real writing, not trashy tweets with bad english.

@@matthewalkman386 thats exactly the POINT!!.. you missed it. They talk too much because they cant write worth a damn.

​@@tasibhothen he wouldnt be shocked. He would likely presume bc they talk too much they arent disciplined writers. Again not shocked

@@arewestilldoingphrasing6490 i say he would be. You say not. I guess we will never know. Deal with it!

Any honest politician should love the format. I’m going to be one and I love the ability to convey yourself fully. If you have an ideology, podcasts should be a positive.

Yes, he really is an instructive bridge to how far society has fallen

Oh PLEASE! You really need to read up on the man! He didn't earn the nickname 'tricky Dick' for nothing you know! Were you even alive when he was president? Because I was and let me tell you, he was one shady character.

​@@herecomesforego1787 That is so very true.

He was back then.

Well, one out of two ain't bad!

And he suspected LBJ being behind JFK’s demise. LBJ even had his own sister killed

​@@phildynerphotography5049😮

@@phildynerphotography5049what about his sister????

No, he wasn't willing to do that. Just some breaking and entering, investigating people, targeting people for tax audits, slandering people by calling them communists, etc. Just things like that.

@@phildynerphotography5049You got any proof to back up such an accusation?

Well Barbara was a republican I think. She was not liberal. Her ex boyfriend was a republican. And on and on.

If Republicans were not the brainwashed and maniacally MAGA crowd they are today, they might not have to face probing journalists.

Expanded Social Security in a way that would get Bernie Sanders h@rd!

You mean in spite of his obstruction of justice, cover up, and authorizing the payments of hush money to Watergate burglars? You know nothing about Nixon.

He was f the haters!

He was outstanding in foreign policy and diplomacy but horrible with domestic affairs.

Absolutely let’s go dig him up😂😂😂 because we already got a dead president in office

More time????? The guy was in politics for 27 years! Granted, it wasn't 50 years like Biden. But how much more time did you want him to have?

I can. I'm 63 and I was 13 and visiting my grandparents. My grandma had it on TV and recorded it on a tape recorder ( before VCR). She told me it was history.

@@debbiemullen2574 you’re grandma was right

Yea so do I. I was in our living room watching him with my mother. My father, who couldn't stand Nixon, was in the kitchen doing dishes and I'll never forget the way my mother yelled for him 'get in here..get in here..he's going to resign!' It sure made my father happy!

🙏

The media during Nixon's political career was extremely biased. And largely unchallenged in that hegemony. So yes, in Richard Nixon, the media constructed a strawman to a great extent.

You phrased that very well. An incredibly insightful and important comment that is so often missed.

Unfortunately, humanity often remembers the bad more so than the good. Public opinion has shifted more in favor of Nixon. Thanks to RU-vid, we can educate ourselves in listening to Mr. Nixon and realize that he has more good than bad in him. He is very articulate and well-spoken. I think it's imperative that today's generation become familiar with great thinkers like President Nixon. Today, the young are often exposed to absent-minded material that voids critical thinking.

"dark side" How so?

Reagan visited a Nazi cemetery....big deal

Well, I was in college when that happened and it really wasn't as bad as people made it out. What basically happened was that Reagan was in Germany and the Chancellor had invited him to a German cemetery where over 2,000 soldiers from the regular German Army were buried. This was to commemorate the end of World War II 40 year prior and they were to lay a wreath. However, unbeknownst to Reagan and apparently his advance team, there were also around 44 Waffen SS soldiers buried there was well. Unlike the regular army, the Waffen SS was a special unit which were directly involved in the worst atrocities committed by the Nazi's like the Holocaust, human experimentation, torture and mass murder. For these and other reasons, they were declared a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials instead of as part of the military. THAT is why Reagan caught so much heat. Because many people who suffered or who's family had suffered under the Waffen SS saw it NOT as a visit to a cemetery where thousands of regular solders were buried, but rather as a trip to the graves of 44 thugs. Which, I think, was blown way out of proportion.

I was 13 , what he did with China was historical. Great man.

It's not faults. He broke the law. Plain and simple. It doesnt matter how intelligent he was, and he was, he was paronoid vindictive petty. We see him today in these interviews and he is charming and engaged. And people dont see why he had to resign. And the arguments that other presidents did wrongs doesnt hold water. It never justifies things

@@richardpape5546 Who died and left you judge and jury?? I love judgmental people. 😂😂

@@richardpape5546THANK YOU! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments. It’s terrifying. Nixon was demonstrably an awful man who did evil things and was anti democracy at by so many means. 50 years after the fact seeing these people rehabilitating his image is ludicrous

@@richardpape5546now do the hildabeast. Then do biden.

No we could NOT. He also suffered from mental illness and was on any number of drugs. I think the dementia of the guy who is in there NOW is bad enough. We don't need to trade that for a crazy man!

Intelligent, yes. But hardly the MOST intelligent. Jefferson, J.Q. Adams, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and even Clinton were all smarter than Nixon.

There was a chance to journalism to make it not partisan, they chose wrong.

I don’t think it’s a sign per se, I think it’s a sad state of affairs that were made worse by repealing the fairness doctrine, people not paying attention, and the popularity of lying/pushing conspiracy theories.

You bet!

Anyone could have guessed that. Basically: oh hey, if the economy is good, his VP will be elected.

@@VideoAmericanStyle its not that simple. Economy's have been great with incumbents, yet they still lost. But it's not just this. It's with everything else, too.

@@starter47990 it IS that simple. Barring exceptional circumstances, the economy is everything to voters. Same thing sunk Bush Sr in ‘92. This was not some long shot prediction on Nixon’s part by any stretch; he doesn’t deserve special credit for the obvious turning out to be reality.

@@VideoAmericanStyle its not everything. The economy was good under Trump, but he still lost for other reasons. But again, you have to look at all of Nixons predictions. He nailed the situations in China, Ukraine, Iran, etc. Nixon foresaw a lot of circumstances that hold true today

Brilliant at world affairs. No need to say more.

Sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks so he could get elected into to office. Hired that skunk Kissinger. Secretly bombed Cambodia. The CIA involvement in Allende’s overthrow. Catering to Communist China. One deplorable move after another.

Absolutely correct

If you're 57, I think you might wanna get tested for alzheimer's.

@@moviola12 Hahaha, you are probably right. But who was smarter? These last 50 some years? Let me guess you think Obama was or maybe Clinton

So, father-in-law was called Cox, and his daughter married someone also called Cox? Hmm

Fax, if he was so smart, why did he get impeached?

OverHyped

Propaganda: Intellectual Junk Food

@@JamesDoe-ie1sb Re read my post. I believe he was impeached because of his paranoia. Intelligent people can be paranoid . His foreign was brilliant.

OMG. Really? It took him over 4 years. Our world would have been so different so mich more kinder if Bobby Kennedy had not been killed. Listen to Bobby Kennedy's speeches and interviews during the 1968 campaign. He was intelligent well spoken understood foreign policy just as much as Nixon. The only difference was the compassion and the huge understanding for the human element. It's something lacking in Nixon and most politicians before and after. Even his brother, John ,was more of an aloof. All you have to do is listen to his speech in indianapolis the night Martin Luther King was killed. Rioting occured in all of our big cities, Indianapolis stayed quiet. Thats the impact he had. Nixon perpetiated the Viet Nam war. He used the timing, just before the the 1972 election to declare "peace is at hand".

No. He didn't. Many thousands of GIs died on Nixon's watch fighting a worthless war. The last American to leave Vietnam was in May 1975. Nixon had resigned by then.

He was fond of BW actually. She did quite a few interviews over the years starting when he was in the White House.

They like eachother, She went with him to China in 72, he landed for her a interview with kissinger and with prince Philip of Britain, was quite a relationship. She tells all this in her memoir Audition. So good read.

Yes, he’s on my list for this along with George Washington, JFK, George Carlin, and Bill Hicks.

There was fierro but she wasn't a Republican

That was an incredibly obvious ‘prediction’ to make: oh hey, if the economy is good, the president’s VP will be elected! What a remarkable insight. 😂

Can you list trumps non existent crimes

Well said

What did Trump do? He kept food and gas prices down. We were energy independent. Taxes were down. No new wars. Peace around the World. Stopped illegal immigration.

And he knows this how?

Nixon is an intellectual and he understands our enemy.

You do that, instead of voting for Trump

Great Idea, go ahead.

@@jooei2810 I think Nixon would say a Putin Loving Traitor with 91 counts is our enemy.

I was born in 1944, so I remember Nixon quite well.

I was a freshman in high school in 1969. A junior in 1972. I remember Watergate and his resignation.

What a dignified man.

Haha Donald Trump lowered the bar. Barack Obama and John McCain were dignified politicians. I miss John McCain. A real class act.

@@richardpape5546So you like being lied to? Makes sense coming from a brainwashed git

You obviously, "like," don't understand obstruction of justice, cover up, and authorizing hush money for Watergate burglars.