George Washington A great foreign policy mind. He understood the complexities of international relations. Complexities are generally not appreciated nor are they understood by extremists on both the left and the right who look for simple solutions for everything.
In hindsight, he should be considered one of the top ten greatest presidents - for his role in bringing America out of the 60s turmoil and almost winning the Cold War. He definitely set the stage for Reagan and Bush to finish the war.
How you can hate someone who speaks so passionately about Americans standing united and strong is beyond me, yet so many people hate Nixon. It doesn't make sense.
It was the lies. And corruption, cover-ups, obsession with enemies, dirty tricks, the Southern Strategy, needlessly drawing out and escalating the Vietnam War when he said he had a 'secret plan' to end it. Of course, he did open China, got his detante with the USSR, did a lot for desegregation - he was a complicated individual. Great vision with corrupted qualities.
@ianschulz1 Not sure how far he went on that but it is categorically false that there was any Southern Strategy as you are purporting. He desegregated Southern Schools but somehow he is Edit: "appealing" to the racists? Vietnam was already there.
Wrong. We need the 1800s people back in the 21st century. We need to get rid of liberals, hippies, foreigners, colored people, satanists. We need 1800s leaders back in washington and drain the swamp
@@marcchevalier3750 whats wrong with colored people, im 100% republican but really? You taint everyone's opinion of all of us when u say bull like that.
Actually, here is what was really said: In a letter to donald, Former President Richard "Dick" Nixon wrote that his wife, Patricia "Pat" Nixon commented on watching donald on The Phil Donahue Show. She said that donald did "great." Former President Richard "Dick" Nixon went on to write this: "As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!”
18:58 Interesting, given he got forced to take the USD off the gold standard. Not that I believe he had no choice, since it already was inflated and it was impossible to actually back it by gold.
Was it really that great a speech? (Watches the masterful, in on the joke manipulation of the audience applause in citing Eisenhower, his failed campaign, and his current acceptance of the nomination.) I'm already wowed and it's not even a minute. (Skips to the end that I heard so much about. Cries.) That was... brutal realpolitik. I would vote for any politician who voiced it in a heartbeat, knowing their vileness, for the promise that he would appoint people to power who know the truth of a country that reaches its heights with great suffering, that it might be given meaning.
The rise (52) and fall (60) and rise (68) and fall (74) of Nixon is truly one of the greatest stories of 20th century American politics. In the end though, it was bad for the country. Not sure if we ever truly recovered from his duplicity.
@@BigBadTubaDudeCRA The American Revolution was very organized. We had a Congress, and an official continental army, and an official General of that army to boot. A disorderly revolution was the French, which had several unstable governments, mass executions, mass rioting, and in the end they went from a king to a dictator, and then back to a king.
“I am not a crook!” - Nixon at a 1974 press conference shortly before resigning from the White House for being a crook. “Our long national nightmare is over.”- Duly sworn in Pres. Gerald Ford after lifelong crook Richard Nixon resigned.
Wow, sounds like Trump with a different mask and worse hair. How ironic that at 12:13 he gleefully talks about a new Attorney General, clearly a dig at Bobby Kennedy. And how he'd bring respect back to America. We all know how that tuned out.
LBJ was the same way. He wanted to be remembered for his social programs and civil rights that did a lot for the country, but Vietnam overwhelmed him and it became part of legacy
