There was something grand about him with his deep voice and great intellect. Listening to him here I can't help but like him. He made mistakes - but never got credit for his accomplishments. Improved relations with China / the Soviet Union, ended the Vietnam war with honor, and the peaceful desegregation of Southern schools to name a few. Maybe our most underrated president.
When Nixon became president 90 percent of Southern schools were segregated. When he left office 10 percent of Southern schools were segregated. He didn't talk about it. In 1970 his Attorney General said "Don't listen to what we say. Watch what we do."
Nixon was - by far - the smartest President in contemporary history with an excellent understanding of how the world works - no one ever came close since.
My earliest political memory was Watergate. I was 7. Didnt understand it all, just that the president lied. Since then I have studied Nixon and believe he was mostly great, especially foreign policy. He was wrong about covering up and lying of course. But i am sure other presidents did same or worse just not caught. Love these interviews, he was always fascinating to me. ✌✌
He made many many mistakes as president but it’s nice to hear someone who can string sentences together with deep thought. Something lacking in this country at the presidential level
Nixon has been a part of my life on earth from the year I was born (1954) right up to the time he resigned and became a private citizen. My generation--at least the people I was surrounded by (I'm from NYC), reviled the man, not really knowing why, but for how he was presented by the media. I'm older now, and my perspective on things has changed, to say the least. I am reading his memoirs, and listening to the interviews, and I have come to appreciate how utterly underrated Nixon became and how my generation did not see the larger picture (how could we with so much media bias and vitriol). I have come to believe that Nixon is perhaps one of the best, brightest, and most effective presidents we've ever had, or will have. What happened to him was tragic. I do believe he was set up, by the *** and other rogue agents who wanted to destroy him, for whatever reason, because he was not of the Eastern establishment, because he was not going to kowtow to the media, and was going to do what he believed to be the right thing for the country, as he saw it. He didn't become rich, he didn't fight to stay in power and he did not say things like, "it was rigged", or, "they stole it from me", as a recent personage has been claiming, shameful behavior. History will remember Nixon kindly, and I am so sorry that my generation, blinded by hatred and ignorance, did not give this man a chance to prove himself and diminished so much of what he accomplished.
For anyone wanting to know, if you exclude the atrocities visited by the vietcong and North-Vietnamese the Cambodian terror they fostered and supported was equal and more. Let alone the Boat people who died leaving or the camps they set up.
his analogy about not viewing things as binary “all goods” or “all bads” can be applied to people and absolutely to himself I don’t think he was rotten to the core, and I don’t think he was a good president either. I know he was intelligent and a charismatic person
A brilliant man, in the wrong business. What a tragedy. There is a lot to admire in him and a lot to despise. Tragic, inspiring and fascinating all at once.
Yes, this is a most interesting/insightful blog & speaks the truth 100% re: The late former President Nixon, a most interesting, global thinking president yet w/human flaws & paranoia that was his downfall eventually. Frankly I have a feeling within 5 years from now, the late former President Nixon will be viewed as (Re: Watergate scandal) legally innocent yet morally culpable. One of the best recent books about the man & his era is: The Nixon Conspiracy by: Geoff Shepard. I highly recommend this book. Just an opinion.
This man must be judged in the round. His observations about leadership involving changing the polls rather than following them is a lesson of which many modern western leaders should take note.
Nixon is a great man and President. This interview is a much watch. Spanning over his decades in politics. Seeing and hearing his excellent memory of the flow of history is rich with details. He’s humble, open and clearly a God fearing family man with natural political instincts particularly Geo-Politics. He’s a strong man, a fighter who has learned from his loses. He’s fought against defeat and won too! A true American we can all be proud to say he was our President. For the millionth time, Nixon is asked about Watergate and he gives a candid view of what he and his family went through. There’s so much more to Nixon than Watergate. It’s sad that people only think of Watergate and don’t know about his amazing history.
Frank Gannon has a slippery way he asks questions. He doesn’t balance nor hide his distaste for Nixon. Nixon should have a forum of objectivity. Throughout the interviews he prefaces his question with…”Your critics say….”. Common Gannon, have some balls and treat him fair. 51:34 is a great example. It’s like a psychological attack.
As I have said before,Nixon did have some good insights and was not a full supporter of the deep state,before we knew there was such a thing but here he shows again his blind spots on policy that along with his personal failures,would lead to his downfall and why his administration failed in so many ways. His overriding hatred of communism made him blind to the realties in real life facing the people's of the world. For instance,yes Cuba under Castro made huge mistakes,but yes it was better under him,for most of the everyday people then under Batista. And our support of Batista all under the name of fighting communism,led directly to Castro and to our situation with Cuba to this very day. The same with Chile,that Nixon had a direct hand in overthrowing a democratic system we did not like leading to the Pinochet nightmare. And to Iran which led to the tyany we are still seeing in Iran to the present day. The great failure of Nixon as so many in our political,economic and military and media elites,was and still is today,putting money interests and geopolitical goals ahead of what is just right for the people's of the world including our own. That failure,that has damaged and destroyed so much in the world,now has grown so dangerous,that it has now come home to our own shores,threatening even our own nations survival. Our nation was not founded as a money making business,to use people for profit others or our own. But as the very symbol of freedom,liberty and justice if the words ever match reality of actions. That is why despite all we have always served as the torch of liberty leading the people's of the world back to the light of freedom in an all tomoften blackened evil world. Our turning away from the soul of our nation,expressed in that immortal legacy our founding fathers gave to us,has led to the loss of trust if most Americans in our national institutions,first from the right and now rapidly from the left. A failure that the Putin's of the world are exploiting to beat us both in world opinion and on the actual battlefields of competition as well. But our enemies can only be defeated,trust by the right and left restored in our nation,when our elites at last recognize before it is too late,that as long as the people truly are put first,both economically and spiritually it doesn't matter if a government over there or here,is capitalist,socialist. Only when everyday people come first,will America or for that matter the world under USA leadership ever truly make the world great again.
My God. Will your TDS ever end? Look at who is using the White House as an old folks home right now. If you like your inflation at 200 percent then you must be thrilled
And what do you have to say about your boy, Biden? Biden is a national disgrace and the worst president in modern history. At least Jimmy Carter was a decent man and a patriot. Biden is a corrupt, cheap politician who has gotten every policy decision dead wrong in his entire political career. But, he did manage to enrich himself, his crackhead son, and the rest of his loser, coat-tail riding family. Just disgusting. But I get it - the orange man sends out mean tweets. Grow up, loser.
This Is Classic Nixon,The Holier Than Thou Attitude That He Knows What Is Good For The USA,And Is Willing To Throw Out The Constitution And All The Guard Rails In Order To Achieve His Own Personnel Objective,Which Only Serves His Ego,And To Fill The Emptinesses Of His Dark Soul!With All His Intelligence,He Could Have Been Remembered As A Great Mind And President If He Truly Decided To Serve The American People,Instead Of His Own Personal Ambition.May His God Have Mercy On His Soul!
Let me guess ... you are a staunch liberal democrat and Biden supporter. Richard Nixon's mis-deeds with respect to Watergate make him look like a choir boy next to that corrupt (now senile) piece of trash Biden. Biden couldn't shine Nixon's shoes.
There was something grand about him with his deep voice and great intellect. Listening to him here I can't help but like him. He made mistakes - but never got credit for his accomplishments. Improved relations with China / the Soviet Union, ended the Vietnam war with honor, and the peaceful desegregation of Southern schools to name a few. Maybe our most underrated president.
53:45 Trump should listen and learn.
57:00
No doubt if Nixon had been a Democrat and had acted in exactly the same manner, there wouldn’t have been a Watergate.
Nixon had nothing to do with the desegregation of schools. At least not to a significant degree at all.
When Nixon became president 90 percent of Southern schools were segregated. When he left office 10 percent of Southern schools were segregated. He didn't talk about it. In 1970 his Attorney General said "Don't listen to what we say. Watch what we do."
Nixon was - by far - the smartest President in contemporary history with an excellent understanding of how the world works - no one ever came close since.
My earliest political memory was Watergate. I was 7. Didnt understand it all, just that the president lied. Since then I have studied Nixon and believe he was mostly great, especially foreign policy. He was wrong about covering up and lying of course. But i am sure other presidents did same or worse just not caught. Love these interviews, he was always fascinating to me. ✌✌
a totally under rated leader ,he knew all about the world ,a very sharp and well educateted man ,much respect for the man
He made many many mistakes as president but it’s nice to hear someone who can string sentences together with deep thought. Something lacking in this country at the presidential level
Ehh Reagan had dementia in his second term dude it was well known
And has been lacking for decades.
Yea the bar keeps getting lowered it seems 😏
@@jrwntctv8091 - To whom are you referring?
@@sirkayda7205 America has not had a good president for decades.
Where are the real Republicans! I miss them! Nixon would not believe. What happened to the GOP! Rip.😎😆😤
Yes, the modern day GOP is a disgusting cult of personality.
Nixon has been a part of my life on earth from the year I was born (1954) right up to the time he resigned and became a private citizen. My generation--at least the people I was surrounded by (I'm from NYC), reviled the man, not really knowing why, but for how he was presented by the media. I'm older now, and my perspective on things has changed, to say the least. I am reading his memoirs, and listening to the interviews, and I have come to appreciate how utterly underrated Nixon became and how my generation did not see the larger picture (how could we with so much media bias and vitriol). I have come to believe that Nixon is perhaps one of the best, brightest, and most effective presidents we've ever had, or will have. What happened to him was tragic. I do believe he was set up, by the *** and other rogue agents who wanted to destroy him, for whatever reason, because he was not of the Eastern establishment, because he was not going to kowtow to the media, and was going to do what he believed to be the right thing for the country, as he saw it. He didn't become rich, he didn't fight to stay in power and he did not say things like, "it was rigged", or, "they stole it from me", as a recent personage has been claiming, shameful behavior. History will remember Nixon kindly, and I am so sorry that my generation, blinded by hatred and ignorance, did not give this man a chance to prove himself and diminished so much of what he accomplished.
Bravo!!!
Well said!
The best and the brightest are not in the universities and congress. That has been established a long time ago
For anyone wanting to know, if you exclude the atrocities visited by the vietcong and North-Vietnamese the Cambodian terror they fostered and supported was equal and more. Let alone the Boat people who died leaving or the camps they set up.
his analogy about not viewing things as binary “all goods” or “all bads” can be applied to people and absolutely to himself
I don’t think he was rotten to the core, and I don’t think he was a good president either.
I know he was intelligent and a charismatic person
A brilliant man, in the wrong business. What a tragedy. There is a lot to admire in him and a lot to despise. Tragic, inspiring and fascinating all at once.
Yes, this is a most interesting/insightful blog & speaks the truth 100% re: The late former President Nixon, a most interesting, global thinking president yet w/human flaws & paranoia that was his downfall eventually. Frankly I have a feeling within 5 years from now, the late former President Nixon will be viewed as (Re: Watergate scandal) legally innocent yet morally culpable. One of the best recent books about the man & his era is: The Nixon Conspiracy by: Geoff Shepard. I highly recommend this book. Just an opinion.
This man has been vilified by history and it’s much more complicated than that
Brilliant post....thank you youtube and the person responsible for sharing...it's important history
This man must be judged in the round. His observations about leadership involving changing the polls rather than following them is a lesson of which many modern western leaders should take note.
You can learn a lot from Nixon. He wrote a number of good books.
Whatever they try to say , I must say nothing because it is like silence that speaks volumes
This generation knew what was coming
Nixon is a great man and President. This interview is a much watch. Spanning over his decades in politics. Seeing and hearing his excellent memory of the flow of history is rich with details. He’s humble, open and clearly a God fearing family man with natural political instincts particularly Geo-Politics. He’s a strong man, a fighter who has learned from his loses. He’s fought against defeat and won too! A true American we can all be proud to say he was our President. For the millionth time, Nixon is asked about Watergate and he gives a candid view of what he and his family went through. There’s so much more to Nixon than Watergate. It’s sad that people only think of Watergate and don’t know about his amazing history.
Frank Gannon has a slippery way he asks questions. He doesn’t balance nor hide his distaste for Nixon. Nixon should have a forum of objectivity.
Throughout the interviews he prefaces his question with…”Your critics say….”. Common Gannon, have some balls and treat him fair.
51:34 is a great example. It’s like a psychological attack.
long live sir richard nixon s legacy 🙏 ❤ 😢
As I have said before,Nixon did have some good insights and was not a full supporter of the deep state,before we knew there was such a thing but here he shows again his blind spots on policy that along with his personal failures,would lead to his downfall and why his administration failed in so many ways.
His overriding hatred of communism made him blind to the realties in real life facing the people's of the world.
For instance,yes Cuba under Castro made huge mistakes,but yes it was better under him,for most of the everyday people then under Batista.
And our support of Batista all under the name of fighting communism,led directly to Castro and to our situation with Cuba to this very day.
The same with Chile,that Nixon had a direct hand in overthrowing a democratic system we did not like leading to the Pinochet nightmare.
And to Iran which led to the tyany we are still seeing in Iran to the present day.
The great failure of Nixon as so many in our political,economic and military and media elites,was and still is today,putting money interests and geopolitical goals ahead of what is just right for the people's of the world including our own.
That failure,that has damaged and destroyed so much in the world,now has grown so dangerous,that it has now come home to our own shores,threatening even our own nations survival.
Our nation was not founded as a money making business,to use people for profit others or our own.
But as the very symbol of freedom,liberty and justice if the words ever match reality of actions.
That is why despite all we have always served as the torch of liberty leading the people's of the world back to the light of freedom in an all tomoften blackened evil world.
Our turning away from the soul of our nation,expressed in that immortal legacy our founding fathers gave to us,has led to the loss of trust if most Americans in our national institutions,first from the right and now rapidly from the left.
A failure that the Putin's of the world are exploiting to beat us both in world opinion and on the actual battlefields of competition as well.
But our enemies can only be defeated,trust by the right and left restored in our nation,when our elites at last recognize before it is too late,that as long as the people truly are put first,both economically and spiritually it doesn't matter if a government over there or here,is capitalist,socialist.
Only when everyday people come first,will America or for that matter the world under USA leadership ever truly make the world great again.
The nicest thing I can say about Trump is that he makes me miss Nixon.
My God. Will your TDS ever end? Look at who is using the White House as an old folks home right now. If you like your inflation at 200 percent then you must be thrilled
Based & true
And what do you have to say about your boy, Biden? Biden is a national disgrace and the worst president in modern history. At least Jimmy Carter was a decent man and a patriot. Biden is a corrupt, cheap politician who has gotten every policy decision dead wrong in his entire political career. But, he did manage to enrich himself, his crackhead son, and the rest of his loser, coat-tail riding family. Just disgusting. But I get it - the orange man sends out mean tweets. Grow up, loser.
I would listen to him for days and days
algorithm.
Are you kidding Me? Nix on Nixon!
This Is Classic Nixon,The Holier Than Thou Attitude That He Knows What Is Good For The USA,And Is Willing To Throw Out The Constitution And All The Guard Rails In Order To Achieve His Own Personnel Objective,Which Only Serves His Ego,And To Fill The Emptinesses Of His Dark Soul!With All His Intelligence,He Could Have Been Remembered As A Great Mind And President If He Truly Decided To Serve The American People,Instead Of His Own Personal Ambition.May His God Have Mercy On His Soul!
Im with Schizophrenic.... ⬆️
Let me guess ... you are a staunch liberal democrat and Biden supporter. Richard Nixon's mis-deeds with respect to Watergate make him look like a choir boy next to that corrupt (now senile) piece of trash Biden. Biden couldn't shine Nixon's shoes.
@@JeffSkilling69🎤 drop....😅