@@FomorViceroy quality of tape varied wildly from that time span. While a lot of tape was at the same quality, durability has become an issue with certain non-metallic based tapes.
@@drjimbomac You mean courage for not letting politics interfere with their duty to uphold the Constitution? The GOP Senators are the cowards now for not being able to stand up to Trump, who has broken more laws the Nixon ever did.
Marty Jackson And what laws would those be that President Trump broke? Let’s see some specific examples and the irrefutable evidence to go along with it.
@@martyjackson4166 a statement made by you that has been proven 100% false. However if you wish to see some crimes like attempting a coup of the United States of America and overthrowing a duly elected government then check out what the Obama Administration along with the FBI and CIA attempted to do. What they attempted to do was actually pull a coup of the United States of America and you know that crime generally gets you executed which is what Obama Joe Biden and Jim Comey, McCabe, both Clintons, Pelosi, and quite a few others richly deserve...
Incidentally, the mansion that served as Nixon's Western White House and his "Elba" for the first 5 years following his forced resignation, was put on the market last year. The asking price is, get this, a whopping $75 million.
It's a much smaller estate now than when Nixon had it. The guy Nixon sold it to sold off parcels of land that surround it before selling off the Nixon house itself.
Tonyo1221 True. When Nixon bought the property back in 1969, there were no houses that surrounded it. It was an open field and he had an 8-foot wall built around the property for security reasons, and the helipad for Marine One was located just outside that wall, I believe.
@@shikat2371 That's what amazed me! There is an aerial photo from when Nixon was president and there was literally NOTHING surrounding the property and La Casa Pacifica looked almost like an oasis in the desert (except for some big warehouse type building off to the right of it). New aerial photos show all these huge mansions surrounding it and the warehouse type building is gone. And that 75 million price is mind blowing if you consider Nixon paid only 1.4 million for it.
@@josephweiss1559Opened relations with china, created the EPA, Clean Air/Water acts. You’re none-too-bright if you think he actually did zero good for the nation.
Such a video does exist. (Don't know where to find it). I saw it once in a documentary about Nixon. Nixon made a brief speech after getting off the plane. IIRC he talked about how the plane had taken him to China, Russia and the Middle East and now was bringing him home.
I have seen a video of the Nixon's arriving back in California...with about 25,000 supporters waiting for them and other stuck in traffic trying to get there on Orange County freeways. Both the former First Lady & President were very touched by such an outpouring of support as noted in their later writings and interviews.
There HAS to be a recording of it SOMEWHERE. I remember watching it with my mother when it happened even though I was really little so if it was broadcast on a major network I find it hard to believe it wouldn't have been recorded for history.
@@martyjackson4166 he made a stupid decision and let paranoia lead him to do a stupid thing. He is by no means innocent of that, but his foreign and domestic accomplishments were something to truly be envious of.
@@iipixel8607 Breaking the law is more than just a stupid decision. But sure, I’ll also take his accomplishments into account. He oversaw rampant stagflation, the worst economy at that point since WW2, he bombed Cambodia secretly then tried to end the First Amendment when it was leaked to the press, the Vietnam War dragged on and on despite his promises to end it, and he actually just made things worse, he committed treason during his campaign by undermining the peace efforts with the Viet Cong when he told them to not negotiate with Johnson since he’d “give them a better deal” if he got elected (and no better deal ever came). Our opening to China probably contributed to China becoming a global power that is one of the biggest threats to the US today. He began the horrid War on Drugs that resulted in mass incarceration, ruined thousand of lives, failed to reduce crime or drug use, and cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. So, um... how was he great? He did start the EPA and signed the Clear Air Act. So that’s cool.
Well, you used to talk to the portraits of the dead presidents. Didn't Lincoln or JFK tell you what color it was? They were your 2 favorites to talk to, weren't they?
I guess we will have to wait till the Ark is found Bearing false witness against thy neighbor. Like framing someone or falsely accusing on the witness stand
Interesting that on Marine One, that a U.S. Army crew member would come out the helicopter. I was 11 or so during that time but spent 20+ years in USAF airlift and a number of years at Andrews.
who cares who left gracefully or not. The fact is that historry repeated itself in a way. Btw enjoy your inflation good for nothig pres the likes of Carter
Nixon took responsibility (or his own version of it) for his actions and bailed before Congress had to deal with an impeachment trial that would have hurt America's morale.
I've always been fascinated by Watergate...think the 60s and 70s are the most fascinating period of U.S. History, along with the civil rights movement. All The President's Men' is one of my favorite films. Now my reason for watching this footage for the first time is Louis CK's masterful joke about how young people nowadays complain 'the president is kinda disappointing' while older people watched Nixon cry and then 'quit being the President and flew away!!'
McKinley is the best-his death ushered in the presidency of a man whose visage will appear for the next 2 million years on a big rock in South Dakota,-sacred land to the displaced natives-embedded with three other illustrious national heroes. I was almost afraid to look it up, but there is an apparently life-size bust in the Capitol rotunda {hopefully not vandalized during the attempted putsch January 6} of the plodding dutiful apparatchik that succeeded and pardoned Nixon, flailed ineffectually for 2+ years and was defeated by a virtually unknown, phony centrist.
No faster than when a president leaves office when his term is up. As soon as the new president is sworn in, the former one gets on Marine One escorted by the new president (as Ford did with Nixon), goes to Andrews and immediately flys home on Air Force One.
Nixon had too many insecurities which caused him to go after his real and perceived enemies. He was responsible for his own downfall and he admitted as such. He could have gone down as one of the greatest presidents.
Nixon's presidency's was one of those what could have been moments in America. He was actually really good until Watergate, and that's coming from a strong Democrat.
I’ll never forget those 2 days. I used to stay at my grandparents house every weekend because my grandfather was ill. Nixon resigned on a Friday evening. My grandmother was livid. Screaming at the television. She hated him so much. Saturday morning, I watched this scene by myself. I was 12 years old. I wasn’t really aware of how bad things were. I knew it wasn’t good. Then I recall my parents and I out shopping another Saturday several weeks later. It was announced over the car radio president Ford’s pardon of Nixon. My parents were not happy. The last few years, I’ve fully understood how my family felt then. I never thought something worse could happen. It was a nightmare 4 years. I don’t know when this country will recover. Who knew Nixon would be not as bad as trump? You’d think the country would have learned something, over 500,000 dead might remind people that our democracy is a fragile thing. I think we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the damage that was done in such a short time.
The majority of those deaths would have happened anyway. The deaths are primarily among older people and people with pre-existing illnesses. Not younger healthy people. We’ve got to stop hyping up COVID out of proportion
so your family was basically liberal and non Christains. Must have been a very hippy kind of upbringing where much was accepted and everything goes. If they were that liberal in those times, I can only imagine. Did you turn out str8 btw
So? What part of Nixon’s pardon effected your life? What part of Trump effects your life? Everybody gets away with crimes from the top of the pyramid, and in many cases at the bottom with these looters and arsonists, and nobody bats an eye. We don’t have a justice system anymore because nobody cares to demand action regardless of political party. That’s why Obama/Clinton got away with so much.
How did it set a precedent? Just because one president pardoned another who was never actually indicted, how does that set the stage for future presidents to follow the same? Each situation would stand on its own merits. Additionally, we live in a MUCH different society today. In 1974 the was much more patriotism and less divide than today. Back then, it was about "the president." Today its more about the person and not the office. There is far more hatred today in politics. Do you know that when the House committee voted to approve the articles of impeachment, immediately after the vote many of them went and called their wives and some of them even cried? Why? Because they were able to separate the man from the office and to them, it was horrible what they HAD to do, based on evidence, to the President, NOT to Richard Nixon.
No one had to pardon the Clintons because our system is so corrupt nowadays. Ford did the right thing by not putting the country through it. Everyone knows it.
you just want to ask the people of that era. "How could you all be so stupid?" To force out the greatest statesman of the age. What didn't you like the peace or the prosperity he brought. The equal rights or the environmental protection....mind boggling.
By that logic we should pardon every single criminal who’s done good things. Because why should a president be excused for his crimes but not them? This country’s legal system was set up to prevent monarchy and dictatorship yet idiots like you want to throw that all away and turn (hateful) presidents into gods. You all talk about “freedom”, “equality” and “independence” yet here your words say we are not all equal.
How could the American people be so stupid? He covered up a scandal. Regardless of how great of statesman he was he was not above the law or above the Constitution. He did it to himself.
I was 19 and thrilled to see Nixon get on that helicopter. I was disgusted at his initial election in 1968, pretty sure he was unfit to be President. It took awhile to play out, but I was gratified to see him go out in disgrace. Ironically, I grew up in Ford's Congressional District.
I would have much rather preferred to see Rockefeller get the nomination. But lets face it. By '68 groups like the Religious Right and the Christian Coalition had a stronghold on the part and Nixon pandered to them.
@@shahrulamar5358 Oh please dude there is no mystery about it whatever. Rocky died at age 70 of a heart attack on top of some 25 year old staffer he was doing in his townhouse in NYC. She simply wore the old boy out! LOL! Sure, in the beginning they tried to cover it up saying he died in his office in Rockefeller Center while working on a book, but the truth eventually came out!
TR ran after taking over and was elected. He’d leave office, started the Bull Moose party, and finished second to Wilson two more times. His nephew FDR won four terms.
William Jennings Bryant was the Democratic nominee three times (1896, 1900, 1908). Thomas Dewey was the Republican Nominee twice (1944, 1948). Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic nominee twice (1952, 1956). These guys, of course, all lost. Grover Cleveland obviously ran for President at least twice as he was elected to two non-consecutive terms. Thomas Jefferson lost to John Adams then beat him four years later. That's the ones I know off the top of my head. There are probably others. There are also many candidates who have "run" for President several times but never secured a major party nomination.
He ran for President 3 times: 1960 (lost to Kennedy), 1968 (defeated Humphrey & Wallace), 1972 (defeated McGovern). He is the only American, along with Franklin D. Roosevelt, to appear on a Presidential Ticket (as Presidential or Vice- Presidential candidate 5 times). These took place in: 1920, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972.
You guys forget than Ronald Reagan ran four times. 1968, 1976, 1980 and 1984. Also, Nelson Rockefeller ran three times. 1960, 1964 and 1968 (when he was ironically enough defeated by Nixon). As a Rockefeller Republican myself, I would have liked to have seen what would have happened had he gotten the nod in '64 instead of that nut Goldwater or had he beaten Nixon in '68.
@@DanStrayer Actually you're wrong. TR was in fact renominated by the Progressive "bull moose" party in 1916 but he refused the nomination. This led to a riff between party members and no one was nominated as a presidential candidate although they DID nominate someone for vice president. He ran on the ticket, but supported Wilson for president.
@@swami1 You just took the words right out of my mouth. All the SOCIALISM of the Left, and Nixon was a crook. Nixon WAS criminally wrong, and it was his own fault. What does this make the left? I'd like to see this today with PELOSI!
Really? Salt treaty, Cancer act, Affirmative Action, Clean air and water acts, creation of EPA, mammal protection acts, visiting China. Nearly creating universal healthcare with CHIP proposal?
@@rockyracoon3233 Too bad the current occupant of the White House wants to do away with all of those things. Except for visiting China. He likes to visit China. And North Korea. And Russia.
He didn't really do more harm. He DID give us, as Rocky Racoon pointed out, the EPA, the Salt Treaty, the clean air and water acts, etc. Nixon's problem was that he was BRILLIANT at foreign policy. That was his thing. But he really had no interest in domestic affairs and we needed that at the time. Also, he disenfranchised a lot of American's by only pandering to white, middle class hawkish Americans who he called "the great silent majority." Then, when it came time for re-election, he angered many republicans by not supporting them for re-election and taking all the money and resources for himself. He even dropped the party label and campaigned simply as "the president." As a result, a LOT of republicans lost the election that year in both federal AND state government.
Some commenters here erroneously believe that it is never okay to lie. They should ask themselves if a flight attendant should lie to a hijacker and say he has no key to the cockpit door when, in fact, he does? Some don't see a difference between lying to cover up a crime that could alter an election outcome verses lying about a damn blowjob! Seriously?
What you say actually gets very complicated. In this instance, the act of lying goes back to the Ten Commandments. The ninth commandment states that "you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." Without going into a books worth of detail, this was interpreted by the Jews at the time to mean "perjury" in any type of court or legal issue. In other words, one should not give false testimony nor conspire with an evil person who does. However, in Christianity, depending on one's faith, it takes on a broader meaning because Jesus basically tied the commandment as breaking away from His commandment of "love your neighbor as yourself." Now, as a Catholic, I can tell you that he Catholic Church interprets the commandment as as a prohibition against misrepresenting the truth in ones relation with others, even with the dead (which is where we get the expression 'don't speak ill of the dead'). It prohibits true faults, false faults, gossip, rash judgement, LYING, and the violation of secrets. Now, given YOUR example, the fact that he flight attendant has a key to the cockpit would most certainly be a secret. So for her/him to say they did would be a violation OF that secret and therefore against the commandment, even though it technically would be a lie to say they did not which is also against the commandment. But if keeping that secret, although technically lying at the same time , helps save lives which is loving your neighbor as yourself, I would think it would be in keeping with the commandment.
@@boobyhatch7897 Since when did YOU rewrite the Ten Commandments? And who gave you the authority? If you want to keep your business to yourself and you feel people don't need to know answers, why don't you just politely TELL them so? That's what I do! About a year or two ago one of the major universities did a study that said something like 80% of Americans lie on a regular basis, even when they don't have to lie.
Gets flown home first class when he should have been in hand cuffs for what he did an average American committed the same crimes Nixon they would have been singing in prison. Dick should have done time in a federal prison, that would have healed the country. President Ford had a kinder gentler personality, Nixon was like the 2nd George Bush in the White house he just did things and did not care what citzens wanted
Nixon was NOTHING like the 2nd Bush. Nixon was, in reality, a BRILLIANT man who had his hands on everything and was always working. That's why no one believed him when he said he knew nothing about the break in and cover up. Bush was stupid and was always running to Texas or Camp David and let Cheney run the country!
Waikan Wakan LOL 😂 How old are you? You can’t be no more than 27 years old if you think President Obama was a great President. Hahaha that was hilarious
Yeah Lincoln, Washington, and FDR never existed? They they had to deal with 10 times as much as Nixon did. Most presidents wouldn't have lasted a day in Lincoln's, Washington's, or FDR's shoes.
Let's remember millions of Americans felt President Nixon was hounded out of office by the left-wing national media...doing far less than the two Presidents who preceded him: John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson.
Some people are blinded and never see the truth. My own late grandmother for instance was a STAUNCH Nixon supporter. She used to say "they all do it; its just that he got caught." There is actually a story that used to go around in my family that my grandmother didn't like Ford and she actually wrote in Nixon in 1976.
My mother was in the living room ironing & crying as this occurred.
Same here My mum told me that she and my grandma was crying.
Is she still alive
He did do some good things as president
i was doin her doin the makeup thingy later that evening
We Democrats were laughing 😆 and smiling 😆 good riddance to bad rubbish.
What really surprises me is just how good the camera quality is for 1974. This literally looks like it was filmed yesterday.
Well, maybe 10 years ago... but yeah, pretty good for 1974.
@@martyjackson4166 Yes it was good for that time. I remember watching it on my Zentih and it was clear.
Its because of the networks using higher grade film for such a monumental event
News networks at this time were using tape regularly.
@@FomorViceroy quality of tape varied wildly from that time span. While a lot of tape was at the same quality, durability has become an issue with certain non-metallic based tapes.
President Nixon did the right thing by resigning.
Chris Mc Evoy He really had no choice, given the cowardice of GOP Senators
@@drjimbomac You mean courage for not letting politics interfere with their duty to uphold the Constitution? The GOP Senators are the cowards now for not being able to stand up to Trump, who has broken more laws the Nixon ever did.
Marty Jackson And what laws would those be that President Trump broke? Let’s see some specific examples and the irrefutable evidence to go along with it.
@@drjimbomac Are you suggesting the Senate GOP should have stood by him in spite of his obvious guilt? That's clearly what they did for Trump.
@@martyjackson4166 a statement made by you that has been proven 100% false. However if you wish to see some crimes like attempting a coup of the United States of America and overthrowing a duly elected government then check out what the Obama Administration along with the FBI and CIA attempted to do. What they attempted to do was actually pull a coup of the United States of America and you know that crime generally gets you executed which is what Obama Joe Biden and Jim Comey, McCabe, both Clintons, Pelosi, and quite a few others richly deserve...
Sad, he was he's own worst enemy. i have always been fascinated by RN ever since I saw all this as a 9 year old back in 1974.
Compared to all politicians of today this man was a saint, a walk through the park on a sunny day.
As historian Stephen Ambrose said, and this is a paraphrase, "WE LOST FAR MORE WHEN RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED THAN WE GAINED." So true.
that is what democrats love. THey doing a similar thing as we speak with Trump and the Jan 6 commission
Ambrose never penned anything of his own, it was all plagerized.
I disagree. Richard Nixon nearly destroyed democracy. Donald Trump however was much, much worse.
Incidentally, the mansion that served as Nixon's Western White House and his "Elba" for the first 5 years following his forced resignation, was put on the market last year. The asking price is, get this, a whopping $75 million.
It's a much smaller estate now than when Nixon had it. The guy Nixon sold it to sold off parcels of land that surround it before selling off the Nixon house itself.
Tonyo1221
True. When Nixon bought the property back in 1969, there were no houses that surrounded it.
It was an open field and he had an 8-foot wall built around the property for security reasons, and the helipad for Marine One was located just outside that wall, I believe.
@@shikat2371 That's what amazed me! There is an aerial photo from when Nixon was president and there was literally NOTHING surrounding the property and La Casa Pacifica looked almost like an oasis in the desert (except for some big warehouse type building off to the right of it). New aerial photos show all these huge mansions surrounding it and the warehouse type building is gone. And that 75 million price is mind blowing if you consider Nixon paid only 1.4 million for it.
You could see Marine 1 from the 5-freeway out in front of the grounds.
I will remember him for his dedication making decisions for the good of the country
So will I!!
Nixons deciscions didnt help the country, they helped tricky Dicky. Trump is even worse.
Watergate? Hidden Tapes? Sunday Night "Massacre"? Impeachment? What good did he do?😮😮😮
@@josephweiss1559 not to mention the war on drugs
@@josephweiss1559Opened relations with china, created the EPA, Clean Air/Water acts. You’re none-too-bright if you think he actually did zero good for the nation.
“I gotta go, but you can stay”
- Elton John
God Bless President Nixon!
I was 4 years old, we had just moved to Santa Monica California,we moved back to Long Island a year later.
I am a better person for knowing that andre
He was a good man!!!
The only good thing he did was resign.
Until his lies and cover ups caught up with him
I wonder if there's another video featuring the plane carrying Richard Nixon landing at California?
Such a video does exist. (Don't know where to find it). I saw it once in a documentary about Nixon. Nixon made a brief speech after getting off the plane. IIRC he talked about how the plane had taken him to China, Russia and the Middle East and now was bringing him home.
The more I think about it, I may have seen that video in a documentary about Air Force One rather than one specifically about Mr. Nixon. Not sure.
I have seen a video of the Nixon's arriving back in California...with about 25,000 supporters waiting for them and other stuck in traffic trying to get there on Orange County freeways. Both the former First Lady & President were very touched by such an outpouring of support as noted in their later writings and interviews.
There HAS to be a recording of it SOMEWHERE. I remember watching it with my mother when it happened even though I was really little so if it was broadcast on a major network I find it hard to believe it wouldn't have been recorded for history.
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Air Force done.
The 135 is gorgeous.
sad day even though i was only a few months old when this was happening, fine man
Except for, you know, breaking the law and abusing his power and defiling the Constitution of the United States of America.
@@martyjackson4166 he made a stupid decision and let paranoia lead him to do a stupid thing. He is by no means innocent of that, but his foreign and domestic accomplishments were something to truly be envious of.
@@iipixel8607 Breaking the law is more than just a stupid decision. But sure, I’ll also take his accomplishments into account. He oversaw rampant stagflation, the worst economy at that point since WW2, he bombed Cambodia secretly then tried to end the First Amendment when it was leaked to the press, the Vietnam War dragged on and on despite his promises to end it, and he actually just made things worse, he committed treason during his campaign by undermining the peace efforts with the Viet Cong when he told them to not negotiate with Johnson since he’d “give them a better deal” if he got elected (and no better deal ever came). Our opening to China probably contributed to China becoming a global power that is one of the biggest threats to the US today. He began the horrid War on Drugs that resulted in mass incarceration, ruined thousand of lives, failed to reduce crime or drug use, and cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. So, um... how was he great? He did start the EPA and signed the Clear Air Act. So that’s cool.
@@iipixel8607 He’s better than 45, I will grant you that.
@@iipixel8607 He paved the way for China to become a world superpower several decades later. 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
Makes me mad how they call him Mr. Nixon that is President Nixon
Technically the plane is not Airforce One when a resigned president is on board ... its probably fair to confer a title of Airforce Two ...
Cronkite is eating this up.
I thought that stairway was pink. Damn liars said it was white and blamed it on me being hungover....which I was.
what up nix
Well, you used to talk to the portraits of the dead presidents. Didn't Lincoln or JFK tell you what color it was? They were your 2 favorites to talk to, weren't they?
I guess we will have to wait till the Ark is found
Bearing false witness against thy neighbor.
Like framing someone or falsely accusing on the witness stand
im not a crook
Interesting that on Marine One, that a U.S. Army crew member would come out the helicopter. I was 11 or so during that time but spent 20+ years in USAF airlift and a number of years at Andrews.
Morty Seinfeld anyone??
I love Presidente Nixon and his family. He was a exelent president and person
You are literally 1 in a million annie
Excellent until Watergate. And they say he was a habitual liar.
@@randomtraveler9854 I've heard that randomly while traveling
@@randomtraveler9854 and who is "they"?
name your author.
No red carpet. No gun salute. Classy.
Richar Nixon✌️✌️
Nixon left more gracefully than Trump and that is saying something
who cares who left gracefully or not. The fact is that historry repeated itself in a way. Btw enjoy your inflation good for nothig pres the likes of Carter
Nixon took responsibility (or his own version of it) for his actions and bailed before Congress had to deal with an impeachment trial that would have hurt America's morale.
Bob from cbsnews, dumbing down
I've always been fascinated by Watergate...think the 60s and 70s are the most fascinating period of U.S. History, along with the civil rights movement. All The President's Men' is one of my favorite films. Now my reason for watching this footage for the first time is Louis CK's masterful joke about how young people nowadays complain 'the president is kinda disappointing' while older people watched Nixon cry and then 'quit being the President and flew away!!'
God bless this day because it is what keeps me going on earth and in life God bless!
A lovely real American republican family. Not what what we have to deal with now
Except for, you know, the enemies list and Watergate.
This is no defense of Trump, by the way. He's even worse than Nixon was.
Please:(
In 75 or 76 Nixon physically assaulted his wife, bad enough she ended up in the ER at San Clemente Hospital. He skated on that one, too.
@@davidmoser3535 wow.i always felt sorry for Mrs Nixon.she seemed like a sweet lady.
50 years ago. 🇺🇸📺
NIXON ! The best president that didn't complete his second term .
McKinley is the best-his death ushered in the presidency of a man whose visage will appear for the next 2 million years on a big rock in South Dakota,-sacred land to the displaced natives-embedded with three other illustrious national heroes. I was almost afraid to look it up, but there is an apparently life-size bust in the Capitol rotunda {hopefully not vandalized during the attempted putsch January 6} of the plodding dutiful apparatchik that succeeded and pardoned Nixon, flailed ineffectually for 2+ years and was defeated by a virtually unknown, phony centrist.
Because of his own stupidity.
The president is riding with his seal. Once the president is on the aircraft, he's on Air Force one.
He was still President at this point. I believe the aircraft was over Missouri somewhere when the resignation actually took effect.
These presidents never go to jail everybody else does but they never do
Their skin is white ,that's why.Ores Obama could never gotten away with half of the things they done.
like clinton. and Genocide
Joe.
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a great man with a good heart.#1 president of usa.
He was a criminal.
History and medical evidence now has shown that although he was in fact a brilliant man, he also suffered from a mental illness.
Its weird how fast they got Nixon out of Washington
It deliberately took place at like 7am so the whole west coast was asleep and missed it
No faster than when a president leaves office when his term is up. As soon as the new president is sworn in, the former one gets on Marine One escorted by the new president (as Ford did with Nixon), goes to Andrews and immediately flys home on Air Force One.
I had not been born yet on this day. I was born in 1976.
Cool
I FOUND THE HELICOPTER VIDEO!!!
I was almost six, birthday 8/17, when this took place.
Nixon had too many insecurities which caused him to go after his real and perceived enemies. He was responsible for his own downfall and he admitted as such. He could have gone down as one of the greatest presidents.
he was much better than Carter or Ford but leave it to the democrats to ruin everything
yeah, if he didnt have all those enemies.
Rotor brake???
Nixon's presidency's was one of those what could have been moments in America. He was actually really good until Watergate, and that's coming from a strong Democrat.
I’ll never forget those 2 days. I used to stay at my grandparents house every weekend because my grandfather was ill. Nixon resigned on a Friday evening. My grandmother was livid. Screaming at the television. She hated him so much. Saturday morning, I watched this scene by myself. I was 12 years old. I wasn’t really aware of how bad things were. I knew it wasn’t good. Then I recall my parents and I out shopping another Saturday several weeks later. It was announced over the car radio president Ford’s pardon of Nixon. My parents were not happy. The last few years, I’ve fully understood how my family felt then. I never thought something worse could happen. It was a nightmare 4 years. I don’t know when this country will recover. Who knew Nixon would be not as bad as trump? You’d think the country would have learned something, over 500,000 dead might remind people that our democracy is a fragile thing. I think we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the damage that was done in such a short time.
The majority of those deaths would have happened anyway. The deaths are primarily among older people and people with pre-existing illnesses. Not younger healthy people. We’ve got to stop hyping up COVID out of proportion
so your family was basically liberal and non Christains. Must have been a very hippy kind of upbringing where much was accepted and everything goes. If they were that liberal in those times, I can only imagine. Did you turn out str8 btw
oh and those 500k were cause of Covid not Trump- get your facts straignt im becil
Notice Pat always has her purse on the side where he is so he won’t reach for her hand.
Melania sometimes used that trick, too.
Louis C.K. brought me here. Wept and flew away and people complain about trump, it' just sad Mr. Nixon
I wonder how many times Conan has watched this.
It shouldn't have been! F Watergate!
This incredible criminal...
When going up those steps he was thinking of knew then what I know now
Ford should never have pardoned him. This has set a bad precident for the creature we contend with today.
So? What part of Nixon’s pardon effected your life? What part of Trump effects your life? Everybody gets away with crimes from the top of the pyramid, and in many cases at the bottom with these looters and arsonists, and nobody bats an eye. We don’t have a justice system anymore because nobody cares to demand action regardless of political party. That’s why Obama/Clinton got away with so much.
How did it set a precedent? Just because one president pardoned another who was never actually indicted, how does that set the stage for future presidents to follow the same? Each situation would stand on its own merits. Additionally, we live in a MUCH different society today. In 1974 the was much more patriotism and less divide than today. Back then, it was about "the president." Today its more about the person and not the office. There is far more hatred today in politics. Do you know that when the House committee voted to approve the articles of impeachment, immediately after the vote many of them went and called their wives and some of them even cried? Why? Because they were able to separate the man from the office and to them, it was horrible what they HAD to do, based on evidence, to the President, NOT to Richard Nixon.
No one had to pardon the Clintons because our system is so corrupt nowadays. Ford did the right thing by not putting the country through it. Everyone knows it.
GHW Bush pardoned all the people involved in Iran Contra. And then those same people got in GWB administration and profiteered off more wars.
you just want to ask the people of that era. "How could you all be so stupid?" To force out the greatest statesman of the age. What didn't you like the peace or the prosperity he brought. The equal rights or the environmental protection....mind boggling.
By that logic we should pardon every single criminal who’s done good things. Because why should a president be excused for his crimes but not them? This country’s legal system was set up to prevent monarchy and dictatorship yet idiots like you want to throw that all away and turn (hateful) presidents into gods. You all talk about “freedom”, “equality” and “independence” yet here your words say we are not all equal.
@@BlueBirdMasquerade9 i do not recall nor shall i ever think of a president as a God.
Lousy choice of words. where did you come up with that?
Democrats will do anything and everything to prevent Rep from having power. History repeats itself w Trump and it's stupid jan 6 commision
How could the American people be so stupid? He covered up a scandal. Regardless of how great of statesman he was he was not above the law or above the Constitution. He did it to himself.
I was 19 and thrilled to see Nixon get on that helicopter. I was disgusted at his initial election in 1968, pretty sure he was unfit to be President. It took awhile to play out, but I was gratified to see him go out in disgrace. Ironically, I grew up in Ford's Congressional District.
I would have much rather preferred to see Rockefeller get the nomination. But lets face it. By '68 groups like the Religious Right and the Christian Coalition had a stronghold on the part and Nixon pandered to them.
@Matt Beeman Andrew or Lyndon? LOL
@@retroguy9494 Rockfeller died mysteriously in 1979.
@@shahrulamar5358 Oh please dude there is no mystery about it whatever. Rocky died at age 70 of a heart attack on top of some 25 year old staffer he was doing in his townhouse in NYC. She simply wore the old boy out! LOL! Sure, in the beginning they tried to cover it up saying he died in his office in Rockefeller Center while working on a book, but the truth eventually came out!
@@retroguy9494 Nelson brother, David had a long life He died at 101 years old in 2017.
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This man is an altar boy compared to #45.
I guess you mean # 45 is an even bigger crook? I agree.
Nixon should have gone to jail
was nixon the only man who ran for President twice?
TR ran after taking over and was elected. He’d leave office, started the Bull Moose party, and finished second to Wilson two more times. His nephew FDR won four terms.
William Jennings Bryant was the Democratic nominee three times (1896, 1900, 1908). Thomas Dewey was the Republican Nominee twice (1944, 1948). Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic nominee twice (1952, 1956). These guys, of course, all lost. Grover Cleveland obviously ran for President at least twice as he was elected to two non-consecutive terms. Thomas Jefferson lost to John Adams then beat him four years later. That's the ones I know off the top of my head. There are probably others. There are also many candidates who have "run" for President several times but never secured a major party nomination.
He ran for President 3 times: 1960 (lost to Kennedy), 1968 (defeated Humphrey & Wallace), 1972 (defeated McGovern). He is the only American, along with Franklin D. Roosevelt, to appear on a Presidential Ticket (as Presidential or Vice-
Presidential candidate 5 times). These took place in: 1920, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972.
You guys forget than Ronald Reagan ran four times. 1968, 1976, 1980 and 1984. Also, Nelson Rockefeller ran three times. 1960, 1964 and 1968 (when he was ironically enough defeated by Nixon). As a Rockefeller Republican myself, I would have liked to have seen what would have happened had he gotten the nod in '64 instead of that nut Goldwater or had he beaten Nixon in '68.
@@DanStrayer Actually you're wrong. TR was in fact renominated by the Progressive "bull moose" party in 1916 but he refused the nomination. This led to a riff between party members and no one was nominated as a presidential candidate although they DID nominate someone for vice president. He ran on the ticket, but supported Wilson for president.
This was the 1st time
God I wish there would be a 2nd time. Like today. Or tommorow.
Zoomer30 Hah. In your dreams.
@@swami1 You just took the words right out of my mouth. All the SOCIALISM of the Left, and Nixon was a crook. Nixon WAS criminally wrong, and it was his own fault. What does this make the left?
I'd like to see this today with PELOSI!
When will Biden be leaving???
Soon
2028
They'll carry him out when the drugs finally do enough damage.
More honest the Hillary
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He did more harm than good, as President?
Really? Salt treaty, Cancer act, Affirmative Action, Clean air and water acts, creation of EPA, mammal protection acts, visiting China. Nearly creating universal healthcare with CHIP proposal?
@@rockyracoon3233 Too bad the current occupant of the White House wants to do away with all of those things. Except for visiting China. He likes to visit China. And North Korea. And Russia.
He didn't really do more harm. He DID give us, as Rocky Racoon pointed out, the EPA, the Salt Treaty, the clean air and water acts, etc. Nixon's problem was that he was BRILLIANT at foreign policy. That was his thing. But he really had no interest in domestic affairs and we needed that at the time. Also, he disenfranchised a lot of American's by only pandering to white, middle class hawkish Americans who he called "the great silent majority." Then, when it came time for re-election, he angered many republicans by not supporting them for re-election and taking all the money and resources for himself. He even dropped the party label and campaigned simply as "the president." As a result, a LOT of republicans lost the election that year in both federal AND state government.
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I’m not a Crook
but trump is
Some commenters here erroneously believe that it is never okay to lie. They should ask themselves if a flight attendant should lie to a hijacker and say he has no key to the cockpit door when, in fact, he does?
Some don't see a difference between lying to cover up a crime that could alter an election outcome verses lying about a damn blowjob! Seriously?
What you say actually gets very complicated. In this instance, the act of lying goes back to the Ten Commandments. The ninth commandment states that "you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." Without going into a books worth of detail, this was interpreted by the Jews at the time to mean "perjury" in any type of court or legal issue. In other words, one should not give false testimony nor conspire with an evil person who does. However, in Christianity, depending on one's faith, it takes on a broader meaning because Jesus basically tied the commandment as breaking away from His commandment of "love your neighbor as yourself." Now, as a Catholic, I can tell you that he Catholic Church interprets the commandment as as a prohibition against misrepresenting the truth in ones relation with others, even with the dead (which is where we get the expression 'don't speak ill of the dead'). It prohibits true faults, false faults, gossip, rash judgement, LYING, and the violation of secrets. Now, given YOUR example, the fact that he flight attendant has a key to the cockpit would most certainly be a secret. So for her/him to say they did would be a violation OF that secret and therefore against the commandment, even though it technically would be a lie to say they did not which is also against the commandment. But if keeping that secret, although technically lying at the same time , helps save lives which is loving your neighbor as yourself, I would think it would be in keeping with the commandment.
I lie when asked questions no one needs the answer to.
Baring false witness ,like framing someone for a crime ,is the bad.
@@boobyhatch7897 Since when did YOU rewrite the Ten Commandments? And who gave you the authority? If you want to keep your business to yourself and you feel people don't need to know answers, why don't you just politely TELL them so? That's what I do! About a year or two ago one of the major universities did a study that said something like 80% of Americans lie on a regular basis, even when they don't have to lie.
Quit your bs quibbling. LYING IS LYING.
I bet Trump will leave kicking and screaming and not with relative dignity like Nixon did.
Øyvind Næss very true
i bet your very wrong. when it's time for President Trump to leave he'll be out of there so fast his shorts will have to catch the next flight.
@@baerhomburg6447 "His shorts will have to catch the next flight" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! 🤣
That’s exactly what happened
Gets flown home first class when he should have been in hand cuffs for what he did an average American committed the same crimes Nixon they would have been singing in prison. Dick should have done time in a federal prison, that would have healed the country. President Ford had a kinder gentler personality, Nixon was like the 2nd George Bush in the White house he just did things and did not care what citzens wanted
Ford healed the country by pardoning him.
Kinda like Hillary, huh?
Nixon was NOTHING like the 2nd Bush. Nixon was, in reality, a BRILLIANT man who had his hands on everything and was always working. That's why no one believed him when he said he knew nothing about the break in and cover up. Bush was stupid and was always running to Texas or Camp David and let Cheney run the country!
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Richard Nixon was damn guy like Trump. I think the only great president America had ever was Barack hussein Obama.
Waikan Wakan LOL 😂 How old are you? You can’t be no more than 27 years old if you think President Obama was a great President. Hahaha that was hilarious
FDR, Lincoln, Washington, Teddy, Jefferson, Grant, Eishenhower
never had a good president... it's always some sociopath elected by a bunch of beta primates
oh you have to be kidding. He liberalized America. He was not good at all
Yeah Lincoln, Washington, and FDR never existed? They they had to deal with 10 times as much as Nixon did. Most presidents wouldn't have lasted a day in Lincoln's, Washington's, or FDR's shoes.
Good riddance
Amazing that so many citizens would be standing at the fence to wave goodbye to a president so disgraced by his own deeds.
John L those were TruMp voter's before they were any.
Let's remember millions of Americans felt President Nixon was hounded out of office by the left-wing national media...doing far less than the two Presidents who preceded him: John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson.
Some people are blinded and never see the truth. My own late grandmother for instance was a STAUNCH Nixon supporter. She used to say "they all do it; its just that he got caught." There is actually a story that used to go around in my family that my grandmother didn't like Ford and she actually wrote in Nixon in 1976.
disgraced by liberals is hardly something important.
Embarrassing
Old crook he was RIP though lol
all politicians are crooks
Nixon is a great president 👏