November 7, 1962 - Richard Nixon following his loss in the 1962 California gubernatorial election
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- The so-called "last press conference" of Richard Nixon took place on November 7, 1962, following his loss to Democratic incumbent Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. Appearing before 100 reporters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an embittered Nixon lashed out at the media, proclaiming that "you don't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
1962: You don't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore
1968: Guess who's back
The context of this statement reflects a much calmer demeanor than what is usually portrayed in when the media reflects on that speech.
Exactly. In parodies of this speech, he is often depicted as screaming and crying.
That's dramatisation for you
The media? Crapping on Richard Nixon? No, say it ain’t so!
I think it’s one of those moments that has taken on a life of its own in the decades after, especially after Nixon came back to win the presidency. If Nixon had indeed retired for good at this point or had lost in ‘68, this would not be remembered at all except by historians and political buffs.
I always thought, having only read about this speech, that Nixon had said that famous line in an angry / hostile manner, but quite the opposite, he seems here to be very cordial and in good spirits
The media lies.
And in 1968, he would pull off the greatest political comeback in history. Winning the presidency and the 1968 election over Hubert Humphrey.
Do you think he would have beaten Bobby?
@@jimmy2k4o I don't believe he would have. Bobby would have won Illinois and probably Ohio too.
tony84 not Illinois not after he betrayed giancana lol
They’re not gonna get bamboozeled twice
@@jimmy2k4o But Mayor Daley wanted to win. He supported Bobby and he controlled the state.
tony84 he supported Humphrey. He despised Bobby
Wow! That's the most footage I've ever seen from the "last press conference". I've heard it but only seen snippets of it from time to time. Thank you for the upload.
Indeed-thank you for the upload.
As it would turn out, it would NOT, in fact, be his last press conference.
The We Didn't Start the Fire podcast brought me here. They insinuated that he was angry and hostile and maybe even drunk. I didn't get any sense of that watching it for myself.
He was bitter and this was highly unusual, especially from a politician of Nixon’s caliber at that time. However, this was the morning after the election and Nixon hadn’t slept much the night before. He had his press guy Herb Klein read a statement of concession and then became infuriated when they started asking Klein why Nixon wouldn’t appear personally to concede and that’s why Nixon decided to drop in unexpectedly.
I see the press hasn't changed since then
@Kenneth Sloan My guess is that, much like the press, you think the ones of a certain party do not need to be called out.
@Kenneth Sloan I'm not sure you understood my comment. If you want to call out Trump, fine. But why does the other side gets a pass? Is it because the media overwhelmingly backs them. All you have to do is look at the last time the NY Times endorsed a Republican for the presidency (1956) and the last time the Washington Post did so (never) to see how neutral and objective these people are. No wonder most normal people disdain them.
@Kenneth Sloan No, it isn't because of that. It's because they are leftists. Plain and simple. And it would be better if they stopped pretending that they were not.
@@GugaGDFABC The media still needs to be called out when they're wrong, especially when there is obvious favoritism towards one candidate or one party, or when there is obvious bias against one candidate or one party. When Nixon was in the political limelight, he dealt with 3 major networks and a handful of newspapers and radio stations. It was much easier for the media to "conspire", such as in hiding a Presidential disability or sex scandal. Today, with a 24/7 news cycle and with a cell phone as a recording device, it's harder for the media to conspire, yet it's also more important that the media gets it right, especially the major outlets.
Fox News (which favors Republicans) gave far better treatment to Andrew Yang in 2020 than MS-NBC. MS-NBC messed up his name, gave him the least amount of time in Speaking during debates, and even "forgot" to mention him in polls. He could be in fourth place, but the people in fifth, sixth, seventh, etc... might be there.
This man is only a midnight dig and a new set of clothes from becoming President again.
Turns out he kinda did become President.
And at least four assassinations. But sure.
@@cm1701a If you think Nixon is anything like Trump, you’re a complete idiot.
@@JohnDoe-mv6go He was being facetious, seeing as Nixon became president after this after all. Just a joke that went right over you head.
Also, as dirty as Nixon was, he's a saint compared to how crooked and corrupt Trump is.
NIXON´S THE ONE!
Or was until watergate
Ah yes. We say he's the best president until one scandal. When he resigns from office when people tell him to do so, we use this as an excuse to discredit his entire presidency. Just like a real "American" would do. 👍
In high school in the mid-1970s, I had an English teacher (very "lefty", graduate of UC Berkeley) who had been allowed to travel for a day on the '62 campaign with Nixon and had very close contact with him that day. She always said that, while she disagreed with many of his policies, she found him to be exceedingly nice and gracious toward her - and she always felt he wasn't treated objectively by the media.
It would be his last press conference before he became President
He wasn't wrong about the media.
Nixon could not understand that they were envious of him.
Much calmer and more humorous in the complete context! Yeah Tricky Dick!
Timely. Thank you!
Kathi Papaleo
Hillary is Nixon on steroids...
drumpf is 100 x worse than Hillary and 1,000,000 worse than Nixon.
@@CRA5759 that orange evil drumpfler!! Literally Hitler!!!😡😡
Everyone here is remarking on how composed he is, but honestly the point they are missing is the deep victimhood complex and self-pity on display here that Nixon would have throughout his career in politics. Always thought he was being unjustly persecuted. Amusing in hindsight.
I don't find it amusing, considering Richard Nixon's beginnings and how he overcame so much adversity to reach the highest office in the land. He was "unjustly persecuted" by his critics, especially AFTER he and others exposed Alger Hiss. Nixon overturned a lot of conventional wisdom about challenging the press for its coverage of him and press coverage in general. By no means am I advocating for press censorship. Just a recognition that they are being judged, just like Nixon. Personally, I would have been better humored by the press. The man did himself in by allowing and enabling people to appeal to his dark side. Instead, Richard Nixon needed people like Dwight Eisenhower to give him positive reinforcement and yes, even constructive criticism to do better. Again, all in hindsight. I don't believe for a second Nixon was inherently evil. When he had the chance either in his resignation speech or the interviews with David Frost, my only wish was that he took responsibility for creating a toxic climate that led to the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office and the Watergate scandal.
But Nixon was right about how they treated him. Now, in regard to watergate that was his own making and he did own it.
However, in the 50s and early 60s it was very clear that the National media really did hate him and attempted to undermine him at every interval. I actually agree with how he handled it. It isn’t victim hood when it’s true. You want victim hood? Go listen to Trump.
Trump has taken that victim complex to a whole new level of pathetic self pity. Nixon had class, intelligence and could articulate a point, with skillful mastery. Trump is the exact opposite, on all those counts.
If you read the text of the entire speech (it was printed in The New York Times and/or Los Angeles Times on Nov. 8, 1962), he makes a lot of sense.
As President, Nixon cancelled The Washington Post & New York Times.
How, exactly?
@@AB-ct3kj This is common knowledge. He cancelled his subscription to both of these papers.
Classy and a true fighter
Great to see that famous line in context. He was a brilliant man gone bad. But I'd take him in heartbeat over any president we've had in the 21st century--especially the last two.
Man i was there
It was-INDEED-a devastating defeat for Republican Richard Nixon-losing the 1962 Gubernatorial election to the Democrat incumbent, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown! However-Nixon was vindicated on election night 1966 with the Democrat incumbent Pat Brown being SOUNDLY defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in November, 1966; Reagan WENT ON to defeat Democrat Jesse Unruh in 1970.
Jim Hanold : But then in 1974 Edmund G. "Pat" Brown himself was also in a way vindicated when his own son Edmund G. "Jerry " Brown, Jr. was elected to succeed Reagan as Governor of California. He served from 1975 to 1983 then later from 2011 to 2019. Longest serving California Governor in state history.
@@herondelatorre4023 Brown Jr was a very different Governor than Brown the elder though. Brown Senior was much more of a big slender
Nixon’s career could’ve been over like that!!! 😳😳😳
If not for that stupid political obituary of Richard Nixon a week later, it would have been. ABC News did more to resurrect Nixon than he himself ever could have done
It's odd to think that in 1962 this was considered a very bitter and angry speech, compared to the stuff you get today.
I still heavily dislike Nixon and think he was a pretty terrible person, but you get my point.
He honestly wasn't a terrible person. He had a wife and two daughters he cared deeply for. He was good friends with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Served as a Naval Officer during World War II. Even got accepted to Harvard but he had to turn down Harvard's acceptance letter because he couldn't afford the costs. He had good foreign intentions, he created the EPA, Amtrak and was a leading figure in the end of the Vietnam War and Communism. Yet the only thing anyone ever talks about is Watergate as if that one scandal makes him the devil.
Yes. Watergate was bad and embarrassing but if people are going to use that one event to discredit his entire presidency, because he had to reign from office when people told him to do so, I'd tell people to do more research...
@@mikemancini313 Yes... there was all the other dodgy stuff he did. The Southern strategy to appeal to the Wallace voter etc.
@@MrThorfan64 I'm pretty sure FDR did similar stuff to please southern voters to get them to vote for him by not congratulating Jesse Owen's 1936 Olympic win.
@@mikemancini313 Doesn't change the fact Nixon was awful.
@@MrThorfan64 Again, kinda hard to discredit everything else Nixon has done and call him "awful" as a person based on "Southern Strategy." Did you want people in the South not to vote for Nixon so he wouldn't be "awful" ?
…and so we write the political obituary of Richard M. Nixon.
only Ted Cruz,Marco Rubio was representing republican not Donald Trump
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Hated the media. Endorsed by more newspapers than any candidate in history. Go figure.
Nixon couldn't take an insult. He would be wounded by each dig at him and he become increasingly bitter. I was struck by the fact that during the 1972 election, this was Nixon's big moment of revenge against all those who spoke out against him. But when Nixon and his staff were watching the results come in, with him carrying 49 states, there was no celebration. Everyone in the room felt hollow, and empty.
the jewish press hated this man more than any other
Any source on this? And do you refer to 60, 62, 64, 68, or 72, because this was after he lost the CA governor's race in 62 and I'd like to see a list of endorsements backing your statement.
@@Edax_Royeaux He could take an insult but he would not abide slander and libel. Not too fine a line between those two positions.
@@Edax_Royeaux ruclips.net/video/x71wUTELcXY/видео.html
Video of Nixon's victory speech in 72, as in actual documentary evidence. Doesn't seem hollow or empty. Maybe you're just full of shit.
Nixon’s career could’ve been over like that!!! 😢😢😢
Yes. Nixon was both lucky and smart. He was lucky that the Republican Party had no viable alternatives to him, and the Democratic Party was plagued by Vietnam and antiwar protests.
LOL. What will the press do now that they don't have Trump to kick around anymore?
Looks like all they have right now is Joe Rogan.
I say this to the wife and kid, everytime I leave house.
See gentlemen, he said he says this to THE wife and kid, not HIS wife and kid. So we can assume this man just casualy breaks into some widow's home every night and terrifies her kids with Richard Nixon Quotes before leaving
Yiddish word Goniff means thief. That’s Nixon.
His word was his bond. Sound familiar?
55 years before Trump...
Your arithmetic makes you a modern day Nostradamus.
Centrist Philosopher:Sad hoe the republicans went from Nixon to drumpf.
At least Nixon accepted defeat with dignity, against both Kennedy and Brown
Trump knows not to bother with this speech
Sorry to be so obtuse, but what do you mean exactly? Thanks for your help.
1:23
Stable like jello on a trampoline....
A stable genius.
It's really too bad he didn't win. Millions of people in SE Asia might still be alive.
GuyCybershy an extremely interesting point, but go on
are you kidding he took office Jan 1969 the bloodshed continued for 4+years so much for his secret plan to end the war thats what DICK did for you
I think Kennedy winning in 1960 was worth it due to the Cuban missile crisis alone. I honestly can’t see Nixon handling that as calmly as JFK did.
Something else here;If he wins,Reagan stays on TV and the like.
He was running for governor of California here, not President, so it wouldn't have made any difference
Make that Piss Poor Winners
Watching this footage I am struck by Mr. Nixon's physiognomy. He really looks like he has a Pinnochio nose. As he famously said: "I am not a crook" How we could have used Mr. Nixon as our president from January 2017 to January 2021! Whatever else he was, he was a patriotic American and his heart was in the right place and he resigned for the good of his country when that was what his country needed.
This should be Trump's concession speech if he ever gets around to making one.
Trump will come back and win in 24 if he runs.
@@SN2903 I doubt he would win, but he’ll definitely try to run again and has chance at the nomination. I would like to see him run as a third party to split the Republican vote
Sounds drunk?
According to inside sources, he was.
unfortunately that was not the end of DICK
He lied about that, too.
Heh..you won't have Obama to kick around anymore...
We can't. He's blocked and protected by Soros-controlled teleprompters.
Yeah,cause drumpf NEVER uses a TelePrompTer...Maybe if he did he would sound like crazy old fool.
Congratulations, you have managed to get the cringiest of both the left and the right to reply to you
Pretty cringe!
Think about it, at that early date (jeez, I was 7!) Tricky Dick actually gave today's DemonicRats a tutorial for being...
Poor WINNERS
What a psychopath
Traitor
As corrupt as they come...if not more so.