Say what you want about Nixon, but here he shows how sharp and smart he really was. No politician of today could do this type of town hall meeting without rehearsing their answers. Nixon had to think and answer on the fly.
I agree. Not to mention, he was intensely private and shy, and for him to give this performance was amazing in itself. You would never guess he was a recluse here.
Nixon pioneered novel uses of media in politics. His "Checker's Speech" was the first live speech by a national candidate. Once in the White House, they initiated the "daily visual," where the media could capture television footage of the President each working day.
Yes! People back then were MUCH better than they are today. People overall were so much more respectful, they didn’t chant foul things around children at sporting events, they didn’t normalize publicly using expletives to describe opposition party leaders, they would shrug off an election loss and not storm government buildings, they would question supporting a candidate who is accused of committing multiple criminal acts (let alone contributing their own hard-earned money towards paying a millionaire candidate’s legal fees), they would care about themselves/their fellow humans during a pandemic and take proper precautions without politicizing it, they didn’t think every negative event that happened in society was some kind of “deep state” conspiracy, they (a much greater majority) didn’t gaslight people or bury their head in the sand - instead considering all elements when deciding who to support, they realized America never stopped being great, and most importantly… millions fewer allowed their emotions to be triggered by factually unchecked rhetoric and charisma - instead keeping an open mind/avoided clouding their judgment.
In light of his intellect, knowledge and ability to articulate his views, Nixon's faults seem much less now than in his own day. He was superior to almost everyone on the current political scene.
The liberal media and the campus pinks bad mouthed him 24/7. Nixon was light years ahead of them in his intellect. That's why they hated him. Look at how the media fawns over Biden today, Biden couldn't do 4th grade fractions without help.
@jameswatt8001 I'm realistic show me something any of the Morons of present day have accomplished. Just like Sgt Friday might say " just the facts please"
Nixon had above average raw talent intelligence, but his vast work ethic in the library, alone, is what made him one of the smartest, most intellectual presidents ever.
Where's the smart if you lack total sense of sign and times the youth are presenting years and years under your nose? Reagan was just as bad but few cared in the swinging, MTV roaring and borders crumbling 80's...
@@p1b1harper He was so smart that he finished his agenda and Kennedy's agenda before his time was up. He flipped Egypt from foe to friend, laying the groundwork for Camp David. And he made North Vietnam surrender, which famously made Dan Rather "turn green." His proving his critics wrong over and over and over again is why people like you are still salty to this day. Alger Hiss is a communist.
For those looking for an estimated date, I'm guessing this took place on either 10/4 or 10/5 of 1968. He referenced the World Series being split 1-1 at the time. Games 1 and 2 were played on 10/2 and 10/3, and Game 3 wasn't played until 10/5.
+kyerkes98 ...It could be the evening of 10/3 since the '68 World Series games were day games. Also, and for that reason, I highly doubt that this was 10/5 as Game 3 would have already been played by the time this forum took place. (Nixon had the locations wrong, by the way. The series started in St. Louis and moved to Detroit for Game 3.)
I think that is about right. He did these to utize television in a way that eluded him in 1960 ( at least in part as Nixon already understood the power of television i.e. the "Checkers" speech). They, of course, were a little more staged than people thought. That is according to Joe McGinnis' " The Selling of the President". Notwithstanding, Nixon had solutions for 20th century issues, both international and domestic. His political instincts were uncanny even during Watergate.
What a fascinating bundle of contradictions this was man was. Intellectually adept but personally awkward, he was able to see the big picture in world affairs with a grand vision but was dragged down by a tendency to get mired in small-minded pettiness. This series of programs was genius in that it allowed Nixon to control the narrative in a medium that had been his undoing in 1960. Keep in mind that these Town Halls were produced by Roger Ailes, who later helped to create Fox News, his vision for a Conservative TV network that could bypass mainstream media and its supposedly unfair treatment of Republican candidates. This is a remarkable piece of history and a gift. Thank you for posting.
I asked my dad about Nixon's image and reputation before Watergate. How was he perceived? In all the media I've seen he is portrayed as a screw up and never-do-well. My dad replied that Nixon was generally regarded as smart and highly competant. After watching some of these old clips I can see that coming through.
@@geraldocartier9083 Nope. He was in the political wilderness for years, too toxic, and then he started another PR campaign to put himself forward as some "eminence grise" for the GOP. They listened, but you notice Nixon never held another political position, not even when the GOP was in charge.
@@geraldocartier9083 He humbled himself after he left office, he was very gracious and didn't want to be perceived as a victim. The American people respect that attitude in their leaders, that's why Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were almost more respected after they left office than when they were in office.
@@marekjujaj639 Boy, I'm a grown-assed man who was around when this clown was caught ordering his henchmen to break in Democratic headquarters. If you don't know anything about this crooked idiot, then STFU. There is a reason he was known as "Tricky Dick". Be my guest to admire him, but his own party signed off on him getting virtually 'thrown out of office'. If you didn't know about that from your country of origin, you have been informed. You can thank me later. "Triggered". I don't even know what the f that means.
@@marekjujaj639 Why? He was a lying thug who set the gov't on his enemies and lied about a war that killed 58K Americans (20K+ his watch) and several million Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, and Cambodians. Read REAL history, not the bs hagiography put out by the GOP and their shills.
I would guess 145 IQ but what really made him special was his work ethic and dedication to education. Bill Clinton might have had a higher IQ than Nixon, but Nixon read more. Way more.
I don't know anyone that has the verbal freedom, let alone ability, to speak like president Nixon does. He doesn't flip or flop, he never second guesses his stance and admits when his idea changes trajectory.
@@ColonelFredPuntridge Not on policy, no way. Smooth talking is too easy to spot these days, you can look up anything on anybody and in the instance of JFK and Nixon during the first TV debate. Smooth talking is a hedge against lame duck governments and incumbent parties. Politics are just like the stock market, when things are going well, you can start up as many companies as you can finance (like the dreams of flying cars back in the '50s and underwater hotels), but when push comes to shove and people don't see return, their zealous hopes and dreams are blamed.
@ColonelFredPuntridge Baloney. That's your opinion, and I couldn't disagree more. Clinton was intelligent, and had his flaws, too. Nixon could hold his own, too - He just didn't have women and the liberal media swooning over his every word and move, unlike Clinton. Clinton sought Nixon's advice several times before Nixon's death.
@@retiredusvet4396 Nixon had special knowledge and clinton was wise to seek his advice. When I say Clinton is smarter, I'm talking about raw computing power.
@@glenbentley5020 To be a "criminal," he must have been convicted of a crime, after a trial in which sworn testimony and admissible evidence PROVED, beyond all reasonable doubt, to a fair jury, that he committed a crime......Please tell us just what crime he was duly convicted of in that manner.....
An imperfect, flawed man with a lot of demons. But a political genius, and a man of conviction and great learning. To come from such humble beginnings and rise to the White House? I mean, that shows the measure of the man, doesn't it?
The greatest. Read about what he was accomplishing before he screwed up. Intellectually a genius and always prepared. Every president who followed him sought his counsel.
No doubt that RN was an intellectual, however he didn't like being called that. Back in those days, intellectual sometimes had an egghead, or leftist connotation. In an interview when asked if he thought of himself as an intellectual, Nixon said "no, however he did like to read books". Nixon was one the smartest presidents ever. But even that couldn't save him from his overreaching the power of the presidency and thus his downfall.
I'm turning 54 in a month, and RN was my first president I remember. When the three networks interrupted programming for a presidential speech, this was the man I will always associate that with. This is a terrific video!
Nixon was way ahead of his time in terms of his forward thinking ideas and solutions to our social problems. It's a shame that the Media chose to malign him non-stop, for decades, preventing him from obtaining popularity that he so needed and that we so needed.
That was so informative. I was a child at that time and I didn't realize there were some of the problems then that we have now. I was glad to see that President Nixon was not a warmonger.
lol Nixon convinced the South Vietnamese to reject Johnson’s peace plan because Nixon thought it might give Humphrey the election. Which is actually treason, and led to millions of deaths and disabilities in. Vietnam.
I’m happy to see that history has been kind to President Nixon. The more I learned the more I’m convinced he was abandoned by his party. Just like the Republicans did in his first two years.
Don't feel TOO bad for Nixon. This was a guy who secretly got the South Vietnamese leaders to delay the peace talks until after the election, in order to help him win. LBJ got word of this and relay this info to Hubert Humphrey, who chose NOT to go public with it, because he felt it would damage the country.
A fine man indeed, I don't know why I'm watching this, not American and I wasn't even born, but the caliber and sharpness of this guy is impressive. He must have had a high IQ
He’s really outstanding compared to what we have now. Biden cannot handle an unscripted press conference - his inept press secretary handles nearly all of his press conferences. Nixon had ideas that he was eager to share and had a command of the issues - Biden pales in comparison.
As a Brit I guess my views are pretty irrelevant, but ('there's always a 'but' with Nixon' as one of his biographers, Evan Thomas, says), I'm reminded of a British politician from many years ago - I'm very old - called Ian MacLeod, who rose to be chancellor of the exchequer before his premature death. It was said of MacLeod, a highly intelligent man, that he was 'too clever by half'. Richard Nixon was a very intelligent man, no question, but it seems to me and many others, that he tried to be too clever, trying to out-flank and outwit his opponents, behind the scenes. He had some tough times on the way to the summit, and was probably cheated out of the 1960 presidential election. He decided that he would no longer be the victim, that he would play tough - tougher than his opponents. He saw them more as enemies than opponents. He saw enemies everywhere. As he suggested in his emotional and moving farewell speech, 'Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. Then you destroy yourself.' And he had. And it was tragic. He had some great achievements in office. He could have gone down as a darn fine president. But he had to play hardball. Great sadness. And as many have said in these comments, intellectually he stands head and shoulders above today's politicians.
What would have happened if Macleod lived is one of the great “what ifs?” of British politics. But it’s likely we would never have had Margaret Thatcher as Tory leader, let alone PM.
@@jameswebb8273He was Heath’s chancellor. But he died after about a month in the job and the very weak Tony Barber took over, who could not stand up to Heath
@@sithersproductions As someone who is a person of color and is extensively connected with people of color, it's offensive to us and tokenism to dismiss the inequality and oppression and systemic racism we all experience and are frustrated by and talk about, often out of earshot of white people who don't understand, would get the wrong idea and think we hate them or are accusing them of a conspiracy, or who don't understand the concept and are angry because they have legitimately struggled to, but don't get the difference of the cause being a systemic and structural issue and unconscious bias in the American system. It's not something a lot of say conservatives understand so they get offended. Often you learn it if you're in a city since those have lots of people of color and you see the systemic issues that are in rural and suburban areas too, just you see it on the bigger scale instead of isolation, or if you're around a lot of people of color and observe their issues. That doesn't guarantee you'll get it, as not everyone in the cities see it too. Blindness, Ignorance whether intentional or my, and yes privilege, causes that. Privilege doesn't mean your life wasn't hard or hell, it simply means your color and thus birth was not part of the deciding factor as it was for many people of color. If that sounds like a Feudal caste society, it's because it is a soft version of it, where mobility is allowed and possible but there are handicaps depending on your birth, your race, and culture even. It's not the fault of most people who have no desire to perpetuate such a system, it's simply caused by the issues and economic inequality that's been perpetuated ever since black people were enslaved and robbed of any starting income, and other groups of color were discriminated against economically until the civil rights act. But that act simply stopped inequality from being allowed, it didn't get rid of the inequality that existed. Many people of color, like MLK, wanted a economic civil rights act to have a level playing field, but moderates including Nixon opposed giving them that equality, thus robbing them of equal opportunity because the racial wealth and equality gap remained, despite huge improvements from before. And thus people of color are still struggling to overcome those obstacles about seventy years later. Economists and Historians agree it'll take about two hundred years total for the gap to be completely erased. Now hopefully you understand why representation is so important from a economic point of view, and keeping hope for a better future, and why we hate being treated as tokens like having one of us around means there aren't issues which there clearly is.
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Nixon deserves credit for how he ran his '68 campaign. You notice the difference when you look at clips from his '60 & '68 campaigns. When you lose you have to make changes. He did, and pulled of the greatest political comeback in history.
@@fredcollins8919 He seems more at ease in '68. He is sharp with the issues in both campaigns, but in '68 he seems looser and more relaxed to me in the clips I have watched.
@@fredcollins8919 well, he would have won except for the Chicago Machine...but unlike some other Presidents, he had the dignity to spare the country the trauma of contesting an election and trying to overthrow the country. Nixon arguably should have legitimately won but he still bowed out with grace. TFG clearly lost, but Ego was greater than love of the nation and he who shall not be named was willing to try to rip it apart for his own selfish needs.
@@Steven_Edwards The Chicago theory is immaterial the real fraud took place in Duvall county Texas after Johnson and Abe Fortis sprang the local fixer out of prison just in time for the 1960 election.
President Nixon was not paranoid. They really were out to get him. Look what they're doing to President Trump. They did the same thing to Nixon - only in a sneaky backhanded way.
@@deb310red Excuse you, Nixon was an imperfect legitimate great president&Intellectual Depraved old pig Trump ,is an illegitimate president,Garbage and a traitor crook dunce Please don't do false comparisons, Trump isn't fit to wipe Nixon's ass at his Watergate Vietnam worse and you know it and the 73yr old fake potus knows it to
Nixon certainly did posses the power of the intellect. No matter where one stands politically, who can with a straight face say the same about the current president?
Makes me kind of emotional to see how deeply this man felt about these policies and what they could do for our country. Wish we saw this kind of passion and love today in politics.
Thank you for posting this amazing video. Great clarity by the way. Nixon deserves credit for having a very adroit mind, especially in the political arena. He was at his best in situations like this, even if it was clearly staged. He had some admirable qualities, however, let's not forget that a few weeks after this Q&A, agents of Nixon's campaign (see Chennault Affair) sought to, and were successful in sabotaging the trilateral peace talks in Paris that would have led to a cease fire in Vietnam.
Johnson's ceasefire was a fake-like all of his deluded peace plans. Hanoi hated him most-like the Iranians hated Jimmy Carter. The peace talks were never successful in any administration---only temp ceasefires that fell apart.
And still debating them. America is worse now in 2024 then in the end of the sixties. Nixon was right on in 1968. Sounds like a recent former President who said the same things.
notes: 1:57 Nixon enters 5:27 first panel question nuclear weapons should not be used in Vietnam. The person in the white house should recognize that one needs civilian control over the military. mil. solutions not always serve peace. 7:30 tax credit for private enterprise to train the unemployed, and to build housing that people can own. not government. also rural America should not be forgotten. 13:08 'it has been suggested that law and order is a code word for racism, I don't buy that at all.' 'law and order is what everybody want, but it has to be just, it must apply justly to everybody.' 'need to move on problems of poverty, hopelessness.' 'courts have gone too far in decisions against the peace forces in favor of criminal forces.' 'national council for law enforcement.' ±19:00 accepts two men debate. equal times provisions. 21:28
Despite how he exited office, this is the kind of statesman we need today. He had such a grasp on foriegn policy and world affairs. I miss a candidate actually answering a question vs. attacking their opponent constantly.
It was a clever use of terminology to refer to the forces of law and order as being on the side of 'peace' versus the 'criminal' elements. Of course, the word, 'peace' had become a fashionable term in the public discourse amongst the youth and hippy sections of the electorate.
Regardless of my being center-left, like many others commenting here am very impressed by Nixon's intelligence and command of the issues. He appears to be on top of his game here. Nothing else to add, as other commenters with better insights have weighed in.
Where was this southern strategy we hear so much about? I would think rising crime, drug use, and urban riots would have been hot button issues everywhere in '68, not just in the south. Did people think he was invoking "states' rights" when he said he was in favor of more state and local control, or are those just basic Republican talking points? At 44:25, he mentions that he supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If his objective was to dog whistle to white southerners, there's no way he would have brought that up while campaigning in the deep south. I don't see how anything he said here would have won over southern racists who had a far more demagogic alternative in George Wallace.
Yes, and the reason he wouldn't debate Humphrey was because by law he would have to debate Wallace too. He refused because he didn't want to give Wallace a national platform. Southern strategy is a myth.
Besides the intelligence and delivery Nixon is outstanding value to the audience. Also Bud Wilkinson a gentleman - Minnesota national champ player, great OU coach… refined gentleman. What a difference to today’s coarse, noisy media agitators… both sides of the political spectrum.
But at least he didn't try to rule by decree, instituting executive actions in place of laws passed by Congress and diverting billions of dollars from their stated purpose under law to fund the president's pet projects. Nixon was a piker compared to those who followed him, especially those with a D after their name.
hckyplyr9285 Huh? OF COURSE he ruled by decree. All the shit I just told you was patently illegal and he said to do it anyway because he's the president. Every president for the last 100 years has issued hundreds of executive orders. Nixon was no exception. I'm not interested in debating the legacy of Democratic presidents, but to say that Nixon -- who sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to help his own candidacy -- was somehow a good president... that's just stupid.
Of course by that comment you are talking about the morons who ran for the "democrap" nomination -crooked Hilarious Clinton and insane weirdo socialist, Bernie Madoff - ahh mean - Bernie Sanders of course.
This format is much better than the debate format of today. Wouldn’t it be nice to allow a candidate more than 2 minutes to answer a question?
Actually yeah, it prevents mindless tit-for-tat soundbite-chasing as well as forcing them to try answering for more than 2 minutes.
@@johnnotrealname8168 a tiny minority would watch it, and politicians wouldn't show up because they couldn't make sound bites.
@@RonJohn63 Good, because the short attention span people should not show, and politicians shouldn't be looking for sound bites
@@jhovaj9497 for example: CSAPN has been around since (I think) 1979, and has never been anything approaching popular.
Say what you want about Nixon, but here he shows how sharp and smart he really was. No politician of today could do this type of town hall meeting without rehearsing their answers. Nixon had to think and answer on the fly.
Certainly Barack Hussein couldn't - without knowing the questions in advance and having his teleprompter do the talking for him. TRUMP OR BUST!!!
@@91dodgespiritrt Nor could Rudy Guiliani.
nonsense15 call it what you want but Nixon was a saint compared to this mentally unstable moron in the White House.
I agree. Not to mention, he was intensely private and shy, and for him to give this performance was amazing in itself. You would never guess he was a recluse here.
MICHAEL SOWELL Nobody is talking about Rudy Guiliani, JERK OFF.
What an intelligent and well spoken president in this town hall and the right leader during this volatile time.
He took control of the show immediately.
because it was completely staged
The beginning is kinda funny because it's like a little slice of a Richard Nixon stand-up set.
Nixon pioneered novel uses of media in politics. His "Checker's Speech" was the first live speech by a national candidate. Once in the White House, they initiated the "daily visual," where the media could capture television footage of the President each working day.
So refreshing. Reasoned, intellectual, calm, professional, courteous. Both Nixon, the host, the panel, and the guests.
Yes! People back then were MUCH better than they are today. People overall were so much more respectful, they didn’t chant foul things around children at sporting events, they didn’t normalize publicly using expletives to describe opposition party leaders, they would shrug off an election loss and not storm government buildings, they would question supporting a candidate who is accused of committing multiple criminal acts (let alone contributing their own hard-earned money towards paying a millionaire candidate’s legal fees), they would care about themselves/their fellow humans during a pandemic and take proper precautions without politicizing it, they didn’t think every negative event that happened in society was some kind of “deep state” conspiracy, they (a much greater majority) didn’t gaslight people or bury their head in the sand - instead considering all elements when deciding who to support, they realized America never stopped being great, and most importantly… millions fewer allowed their emotions to be triggered by factually unchecked rhetoric and charisma - instead keeping an open mind/avoided clouding their judgment.
President Richard M. Nixon truly is one of the great American Presidents.
In light of his intellect, knowledge and ability to articulate his views, Nixon's faults seem much less now than in his own day. He was superior to almost everyone on the current political scene.
A saint compared to politicians of today. With the passage of time we now see how well he and Kissinger handled US foreign policy.
The liberal media and the campus pinks bad mouthed him 24/7. Nixon was light years ahead of them in his intellect. That's why they hated him. Look at how the media fawns over Biden today, Biden couldn't do 4th grade fractions without help.
The things that Nixon did in 1973 and 74 people wouldn’t even bat an eyelash today. Trump has done far worse things than Nixon ever did.
LOL! How long have you been a Nixon foundation employee?
@jameswatt8001 I'm realistic show me something any of the Morons of present day have accomplished. Just like Sgt Friday might say " just the facts please"
Richard M. Nixon was SUPER Intelligent!
Look what he said about Donald John Trump that he would be president someday
Excellent
Intelligent and crook with the Watergate scandal and resigned the worst president with Trump and bush
Nixon had an exemplary speaking voice.
Yes, very exemplary
Yes he did
Gravelly baritone
He said he worked on his voice so he could talk concisely and clearly.
Not in JFK's league though.
Perhaps the most well informed President about the issues ever! And if you look at his real accomplishments - an excellent President!
Certainly one of the most successful politicians in American history in terms of playing the system well.
he's probably 4th behind Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln
Absolutely 💯 !!!
@MrAtlfan21 the system ended up playing him unfortunately
Nixon had above average raw talent intelligence, but his vast work ethic in the library, alone, is what made him one of the smartest, most intellectual presidents ever.
Where's the smart if you lack total sense of sign and times the youth are presenting years and years under your nose? Reagan was just as bad but few cared in the swinging, MTV roaring and borders crumbling 80's...
If he was so smart he wouldn't have been run out of town on a rail.
@@tylsimys67
The youth?
He ended the draft, ended the war, and lowered the voting age to 18.
You must be thinking of LBJ.
@@p1b1harper
He was so smart that he finished his agenda and Kennedy's agenda before his time was up. He flipped Egypt from foe to friend, laying the groundwork for Camp David. And he made North Vietnam surrender, which famously made Dan Rather "turn green."
His proving his critics wrong over and over and over again is why people like you are still salty to this day.
Alger Hiss is a communist.
@@tylsimys67 just stop. stop acting like Nixon wasn't intellectually brilliant. it makes YOU stupid.
Nixon was a great man!
OMG, I am mesmerized by this gentleman’s intellect. And, his personality was a delightful surprise.
For those looking for an estimated date, I'm guessing this took place on either 10/4 or 10/5 of 1968. He referenced the World Series being split 1-1 at the time. Games 1 and 2 were played on 10/2 and 10/3, and Game 3 wasn't played until 10/5.
+kyerkes98 ...It could be the evening of 10/3 since the '68 World Series games were day games. Also, and for that reason, I highly doubt that this was 10/5 as Game 3 would have already been played by the time this forum took place. (Nixon had the locations wrong, by the way. The series started in St. Louis and moved to Detroit for Game 3.)
I think that is about right. He did these to utize television in a way that eluded him in 1960 ( at least in part as Nixon already understood the power of television i.e. the "Checkers" speech). They, of course, were a little more staged than people thought. That is according to Joe McGinnis' " The Selling of the President". Notwithstanding, Nixon had solutions for 20th century issues, both international and domestic. His political instincts were uncanny even during Watergate.
As a baseball historian, and Nixon admirer, i appreciate your comments. I was about 11 months old at this time so my memory is a little fuzzy! 🤔😁
What a fascinating bundle of contradictions this was man was. Intellectually adept but personally awkward, he was able to see the big picture in world affairs with a grand vision but was dragged down by a tendency to get mired in small-minded pettiness. This series of programs was genius in that it allowed Nixon to control the narrative in a medium that had been his undoing in 1960. Keep in mind that these Town Halls were produced by Roger Ailes, who later helped to create Fox News, his vision for a Conservative TV network that could bypass mainstream media and its supposedly unfair treatment of Republican candidates. This is a remarkable piece of history and a gift. Thank you for posting.
Your first sentence is a literal quotation from Henry Kissinger.
@@mobilegamereviewer.1936 Well to be fair to the OP, there’s only so many words you can put together that are original.
Damn...can I have this guy for President again? Nixon with warts and all is HEAD AND SHOULDERS above ALL 2016 candidates from all the parties!
+cbl1984 Agree completely. But a lot of mumbo jumbo passes for questions these days. He was being asked real questions.
You know Nixon was fantastic compared to the jackasses now. Seriously.
Yes "Hilarity" Clinton is a jackass as are most "Democraps". Be smart vote for Donald Trump!
cbl1984 he sabotaged peace talks to keep a war going on just to campaign
Strongly Agreed!
So underestimated as a campaigner ,wow this is great work ,thanks for sharing
Man he was sharp as a tac
One smart bloke.
Until the last breath of his life
Too bad you never graduated from grammar school. You might have learned how to spell "tack."
Maybe that is the shortened version?@@jameswatt8001
@@snakebite2529 Evil to the core
I asked my dad about Nixon's image and reputation before Watergate. How was he perceived? In all the media I've seen he is portrayed as a screw up and never-do-well. My dad replied that Nixon was generally regarded as smart and highly competant. After watching some of these old clips I can see that coming through.
Nasty Hardcore At what point has the media ever portrayed a Republican other than a stooge or a moron?
Even after watergate, Nixon was highly respected.
@@geraldocartier9083 Nope. He was in the political wilderness for years, too toxic, and then he started another PR campaign to put himself forward as some "eminence grise" for the GOP. They listened, but you notice Nixon never held another political position, not even when the GOP was in charge.
@@geraldocartier9083 He humbled himself after he left office, he was very gracious and didn't want to be perceived as a victim. The American people respect that attitude in their leaders, that's why Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were almost more respected after they left office than when they were in office.
After Tucker Carlson exposed the Watergate Nonsense I think this nation owes Richard Nixon an Apology!!! He was a Damn Good President imo!!!
Such a different time. How articulate and intelligent.
Hmm, who knew he would "articulate" his crooked desires to his crooked-assed underlings. Thankfully he was found out and THROWN OUT OF OFFICE.
@@fostermac7170 You are highly emotional and triggered. Good. As for the rest of us, we will continue to respect and admire Mr. Nixon
@@marekjujaj639 Boy, I'm a grown-assed man who was around when this clown was caught ordering his henchmen to break in Democratic headquarters. If you don't know anything about this crooked idiot, then STFU.
There is a reason he was known as "Tricky Dick". Be my guest to admire him, but his own party signed off on him getting virtually 'thrown out of office'. If you didn't know about that from your country of origin, you have been informed.
You can thank me later.
"Triggered". I don't even know what the f that means.
@@marekjujaj639 Why? He was a lying thug who set the gov't on his enemies and lied about a war that killed 58K Americans (20K+ his watch) and several million Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, and Cambodians.
Read REAL history, not the bs hagiography put out by the GOP and their shills.
Nixon was a genius. He had an IQ of over 150.
tubularbill he was a brilliant guy, but I doubt any online IQ is accurate.
I would guess 145 IQ but what really made him special was his work ethic and dedication to education. Bill Clinton might have had a higher IQ than Nixon, but Nixon read more. Way more.
No President in my lifetime had the command of the issues like Nixon, and he could also rattle off the politics of any country you questioned him on.
Heidi Kleindienst yeah my guess is ~140
Best President this country had in contemporary history - too bad the majority of people only believed what they passively absorbed from TV.
GOD BLESS RICHARD NIXON!
GOD DAMN NIXON.
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@@davidjosephine9796 WTF.
@@BobBlackiston Evil and now live in Hell
President nixon was a great man. knew much of the US and of the world
I don't know anyone that has the verbal freedom, let alone ability, to speak like president Nixon does. He doesn't flip or flop, he never second guesses his stance and admits when his idea changes trajectory.
Bill Clinton could talk rings around anybody, including Nixon
@@ColonelFredPuntridge Not on policy, no way. Smooth talking is too easy to spot these days, you can look up anything on anybody and in the instance of JFK and Nixon during the first TV debate. Smooth talking is a hedge against lame duck governments and incumbent parties. Politics are just like the stock market, when things are going well, you can start up as many companies as you can finance (like the dreams of flying cars back in the '50s and underwater hotels), but when push comes to shove and people don't see return, their zealous hopes and dreams are blamed.
@ColonelFredPuntridge Baloney. That's your opinion, and I couldn't disagree more. Clinton was intelligent, and had his flaws, too. Nixon could hold his own, too - He just didn't have women and the liberal media swooning over his every word and move, unlike Clinton.
Clinton sought Nixon's advice several times before Nixon's death.
@@retiredusvet4396 I think Clinton may have been a better Campaign speaker, where Nixon took every opportunity to speak directly to the people.
@@retiredusvet4396 Nixon had special knowledge and clinton was wise to seek his advice. When I say Clinton is smarter, I'm talking about raw computing power.
BOY was he definitive or what? .. .like him or not.. and he was smart as a whip!
obviously he was a genius level intellect
He was a criminal
@@glenbentley5020 To be a "criminal," he must have been convicted of a crime, after a trial in which sworn testimony and admissible evidence PROVED, beyond all reasonable doubt, to a fair jury, that he committed a crime......Please tell us just what crime he was duly convicted of in that manner.....
Both Nixon & JFK were super smart, & super brave highly informed decisive leaders & much more. Extremely gifted individuals & Americans....
@Lyles music thats ok
One smart dude!
An imperfect, flawed man with a lot of demons. But a political genius, and a man of conviction and great learning. To come from such humble beginnings and rise to the White House? I mean, that shows the measure of the man, doesn't it?
President Nixon was a genius and a GREAT President.
The greatest. Read about what he was accomplishing before he screwed up. Intellectually a genius and always prepared. Every president who followed him sought his counsel.
Nicholas The Brovian He lied. Not great.
No doubt that RN was an intellectual, however he didn't like being called that. Back in those days, intellectual sometimes had an egghead, or leftist connotation. In an interview when asked if he thought of himself as an intellectual, Nixon said "no, however he did like to read books".
Nixon was one the smartest presidents ever. But even that couldn't save him from his overreaching the power of the presidency and thus his downfall.
Yeah, that's true, but Trump's illegitimate old garbage
Sure was
Brilliant, sharp, concise.. a real leader deeply needed now.
This is really impressive. Some of the same issues today. Nixon's answers then would work today as well. Nixon's The One!
I'm turning 54 in a month, and RN was my first president I remember. When the three networks interrupted programming for a presidential speech, this was the man I will always associate that with. This is a terrific video!
Can you imagine Biden confronting a barrage of questions and giving cogent and coherent answers . Because I cant .
And what a gracious wife and such beautiful daughters.
Nixon was way ahead of his time in terms of his forward thinking ideas and solutions to our social problems. It's a shame that the Media chose to malign him non-stop, for decades, preventing him from obtaining popularity that he so needed and that we so needed.
متشکراز شما از این پرسش و پاسخ کم نظیر و در پاسخ دادن بطور قاطع نشان ذابطه از شما در گفتار و کردار و قاون خود و کشوری میباشید . ❤❤
President Nixon was brilliant and brave-he exuded strong leadership.
He was a f'n crook, fool.
Yup Nixon was awesome and also very inteligent
This os why I still maintain President Nixon was a great President ❤!
That was so informative. I was a child at that time and I didn't realize there were some of the problems then that we have now. I was glad to see that President Nixon was not a warmonger.
lol Nixon convinced the South Vietnamese to reject Johnson’s peace plan because Nixon thought it might give Humphrey the election. Which is actually treason, and led to millions of deaths and disabilities in. Vietnam.
Live and in color! I've got to watch that!
I’m happy to see that history has been kind to President Nixon. The more I learned the more I’m convinced he was abandoned by his party. Just like the Republicans did in his first two years.
They did abandon him when it became convenient for them to do so
Don't feel TOO bad for Nixon. This was a guy who secretly got the South Vietnamese leaders to delay the peace talks until after the election, in order to help him win. LBJ got word of this and relay this info to Hubert Humphrey, who chose NOT to go public with it, because he felt it would damage the country.
@@toddsmitts It was even a contest between the two. Btw it’s called politics.
A fine man indeed, I don't know why I'm watching this, not American and I wasn't even born, but the caliber and sharpness of this guy is impressive. He must have had a high IQ
He’s really outstanding compared to what we have now. Biden cannot handle an unscripted press conference - his inept press secretary handles nearly all of his press conferences. Nixon had ideas that he was eager to share and had a command of the issues - Biden pales in comparison.
As a Brit I guess my views are pretty irrelevant, but ('there's always a 'but' with Nixon' as one of his biographers, Evan Thomas, says), I'm reminded of a British politician from many years ago - I'm very old - called Ian MacLeod, who rose to be chancellor of the exchequer before his premature death. It was said of MacLeod, a highly intelligent man, that he was 'too clever by half'. Richard Nixon was a very intelligent man, no question, but it seems to me and many others, that he tried to be too clever, trying to out-flank and outwit his opponents, behind the scenes. He had some tough times on the way to the summit, and was probably cheated out of the 1960 presidential election. He decided that he would no longer be the victim, that he would play tough - tougher than his opponents. He saw them more as enemies than opponents. He saw enemies everywhere. As he suggested in his emotional and moving farewell speech, 'Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. Then you destroy yourself.' And he had. And it was tragic. He had some great achievements in office. He could have gone down as a darn fine president. But he had to play hardball. Great sadness. And as many have said in these comments, intellectually he stands head and shoulders above today's politicians.
Very well put, grandpa.
@@San_Deep2501 thanks 😏
I remember Ian Macleod. His untimely death led us, within a few years, to that numbskull Ted 'Hello Sailor😉' Heath.
What would have happened if Macleod lived is one of the great “what ifs?” of British politics.
But it’s likely we would never have had Margaret Thatcher as Tory leader, let alone PM.
@@jameswebb8273He was Heath’s chancellor. But he died after about a month in the job and the very weak Tony Barber took over, who could not stand up to Heath
Back when diversity meant diversity of occupation, of class and economic experience rather than just what race you were boxed into when you were born.
Back when diversity meant diversity of occupations or class within the white race.
@@Accomplished_Loans do you not see the black guy you racist
@@sithersproductions Ah yes the ONE black guy. That's like saying you can't be racist because you have ONE black friend.
@@deiansalazar140 why not dude, why is one not enough, you are discounting the value of the individual when your make these generalized statements
@@sithersproductions As someone who is a person of color and is extensively connected with people of color, it's offensive to us and tokenism to dismiss the inequality and oppression and systemic racism we all experience and are frustrated by and talk about, often out of earshot of white people who don't understand, would get the wrong idea and think we hate them or are accusing them of a conspiracy, or who don't understand the concept and are angry because they have legitimately struggled to, but don't get the difference of the cause being a systemic and structural issue and unconscious bias in the American system.
It's not something a lot of say conservatives understand so they get offended. Often you learn it if you're in a city since those have lots of people of color and you see the systemic issues that are in rural and suburban areas too, just you see it on the bigger scale instead of isolation, or if you're around a lot of people of color and observe their issues. That doesn't guarantee you'll get it, as not everyone in the cities see it too. Blindness, Ignorance whether intentional or my, and yes privilege, causes that. Privilege doesn't mean your life wasn't hard or hell, it simply means your color and thus birth was not part of the deciding factor as it was for many people of color. If that sounds like a Feudal caste society, it's because it is a soft version of it, where mobility is allowed and possible but there are handicaps depending on your birth, your race, and culture even. It's not the fault of most people who have no desire to perpetuate such a system, it's simply caused by the issues and economic inequality that's been perpetuated ever since black people were enslaved and robbed of any starting income, and other groups of color were discriminated against economically until the civil rights act. But that act simply stopped inequality from being allowed, it didn't get rid of the inequality that existed. Many people of color, like MLK, wanted a economic civil rights act to have a level playing field, but moderates including Nixon opposed giving them that equality, thus robbing them of equal opportunity because the racial wealth and equality gap remained, despite huge improvements from before. And thus people of color are still struggling to overcome those obstacles about seventy years later. Economists and Historians agree it'll take about two hundred years total for the gap to be completely erased.
Now hopefully you understand why representation is so important from a economic point of view, and keeping hope for a better future, and why we hate being treated as tokens like having one of us around means there aren't issues which there clearly is.
Smart man.quick.on top of his game
I ❤ Nixon.
Richard Nixon highly intelligent, highly articulate
I think this is the most lively I've ever seen the former President.
Thank you for uploading this in RUclips. I came here in America in June 1971 Permanent immigrant Resedent .He is the Presedent of America My sister a U S cetizen vote for him twice as a President of United states Today April 30 , 2022 I wacth this in the RUclips .I admire him because he do a lot thing good to the country .I thing he is good in speaking nerver use teleprompter not like now the present Presedent thank you for uploading this All of us sister are retired back them there was no discrimination We work nerver join any Demonstration after 5 year I apply for US citizen 1975 registered voter every Election we vote all of us .We are registered Republicans even my parents conservative type. Work here in America my sister retire US Federal government 38 year .my sister retire US military and one brother retired US military and Federal government civilian .My opinion he do a lot of thing good to our country what he saying here is good.I think now the media and lot of people are to liberals. Especially the media is different back them they are fair no favoritism party not like now .too radical liberals
The more Nixon I watch the more I really like him!
LeMay was named as Wallace's running mate on October 2, so this video is about a month before the election.
You're right..
he was brilliant
Excellent format! I'd love to be there myself
Nixon deserves credit for how he ran his '68 campaign. You notice the difference when you look at clips from his '60 & '68 campaigns. When you lose you have to make changes. He did, and pulled of the greatest political comeback in history.
Almost won 1960. Razor thin. Equally good both in 1960 & 1968
@@fredcollins8919 He seems more at ease in '68. He is sharp with the issues in both campaigns, but in '68 he seems looser and more relaxed to me in the clips I have watched.
@@fredcollins8919 well, he would have won except for the Chicago Machine...but unlike some other Presidents, he had the dignity to spare the country the trauma of contesting an election and trying to overthrow the country.
Nixon arguably should have legitimately won but he still bowed out with grace. TFG clearly lost, but Ego was greater than love of the nation and he who shall not be named was willing to try to rip it apart for his own selfish needs.
@@Steven_Edwards Agreed
@@Steven_Edwards The Chicago theory is immaterial the real fraud took place in Duvall county Texas after Johnson and Abe Fortis sprang the local fixer out of prison just in time for the 1960 election.
I love Nixon's bling style microphone. Got it around his neck there.
Too bad Nixon was so paranoid because he was brilliant.
Dow Par he really was
I’ll second that.
Agreed.
President Nixon was not paranoid. They really were out to get him. Look what they're doing to President Trump. They did the same thing to Nixon - only in a sneaky backhanded way.
@@deb310red Excuse you, Nixon was an imperfect legitimate great president&Intellectual
Depraved old pig Trump ,is an illegitimate president,Garbage and a traitor crook dunce
Please don't do false comparisons, Trump isn't fit to wipe Nixon's ass at his Watergate Vietnam worse and you know it and the 73yr old fake potus knows it to
Brilliant!
Could have gave him a chair. George Costanza would be appalled.
Brilliant
lol
Go Nixon Go Go!
nixons monologue is hilarious! THE GOD NIXON!!!
I struck by how much of this feels like it refers to things which happened yesterday.
My all time favorite president
He was brilliant!!
Wow wow wow IN COLOR ! Just like Mod Squad ! Gotta watch this.... 🤭
If only we could have a Nixon in 2024 ..
I love Reagan but he would have fainted here. NIXON=ALWAYS THE ONE!
+Rock “King” Westfall
That is right!!!
Nixon certainly did posses the power of the intellect. No matter where one stands politically, who can with a straight face say the same about the current president?
Reagan was no intellectual slouch... google Reagan Robert Kennedy debates.
Why are you bringing Reagan into it? Presidents Nixon and Reagan were friends BTW.
Faint? How many shots to the lung did Nixon survive?
These are the same issues today, 2017.
Makes me kind of emotional to see how deeply this man felt about these policies and what they could do for our country. Wish we saw this kind of passion and love today in politics.
There is no doubt in my mind that he was too smart compared to other leaders in US history.
Instead of going out and trying to help the old and needy they or listening to this crook
As of today June 8 2022 it’s all over for the US
God bless Richard Nixon. Great man, great President.
Thank you for posting this amazing video. Great clarity by the way. Nixon deserves credit for having a very adroit mind, especially in the political arena. He was at his best in situations like this, even if it was clearly staged. He had some admirable qualities, however, let's not forget that a few weeks after this Q&A, agents of Nixon's campaign (see Chennault Affair) sought to, and were successful in sabotaging the trilateral peace talks in Paris that would have led to a cease fire in Vietnam.
The guy clearly emphasises at the beginning that the whole program is live and unscripted.... 1:04
Johnson's ceasefire was a fake-like all of his deluded peace plans. Hanoi hated him most-like the Iranians hated Jimmy Carter. The peace talks were never successful in any administration---only temp ceasefires that fell apart.
I’ve now learned today that we’ve been debating the same issues for over 50 years
Except that now we don’t debate but yell at each other behind a keyboard.
And still debating them. America is worse now in 2024 then in the end of the sixties. Nixon was right on in 1968. Sounds like a recent former President who said the same things.
notes:
1:57 Nixon enters
5:27 first panel question
nuclear weapons should not be used in Vietnam. The person in the white house should recognize that one needs civilian control over the military. mil. solutions not always serve peace.
7:30 tax credit for private enterprise to train the unemployed, and to build housing that people can own. not government. also rural America should not be forgotten.
13:08 'it has been suggested that law and order is a code word for racism, I don't buy that at all.' 'law and order is what everybody want, but it has to be just, it must apply justly to everybody.' 'need to move on problems of poverty, hopelessness.' 'courts have gone too far in decisions against the peace forces in favor of criminal forces.' 'national council for law enforcement.'
±19:00 accepts two men debate. equal times provisions.
21:28
hes my favourite president from a kiwi spoke so well
Despite how he exited office, this is the kind of statesman we need today. He had such a grasp on foriegn policy and world affairs. I miss a candidate actually answering a question vs. attacking their opponent constantly.
Smart not using the Bomb in Vietnam! That would have been a disaster !
President Nixon ,I wish you were President in 2022 .
It was a clever use of terminology to refer to the forces of law and order as being on the side of 'peace' versus the 'criminal' elements. Of course, the word, 'peace' had become a fashionable term in the public discourse amongst the youth and hippy sections of the electorate.
Nixon is amazing here.. Such a shame Watergate had to happen
Yes, such a shame he was a criminal who committed all manner of high crimes in his abuse of the power of his office.
I see that sentiment a lot on these Nixon videos but have yet to see anyone actually provide any concrete examples, or even form a coherent argument.
Examples of what?
the Media blew it all out of all proportion
Watergate didn't have to happen. President Nixon was set up. Because the MSM hated him.
How long has it been since you have seen a politician speak clearly things of substance?❤
Regardless of my being center-left, like many others commenting here am very impressed by Nixon's intelligence and command of the issues. He appears to be on top of his game here. Nothing else to add, as other commenters with better insights have weighed in.
Best presidential stand up ever.
Nixon would be head and shoulders better than the candidates now.
You betcha. Crime has tripled in 2024
Nixon was Our best policy maker and peace broker we’ve ever seen. Trump took on 6 debaters though.
Nixon is articulate and intelligent. Trump has the vocabulary of a 3rd grader.
Where was this southern strategy we hear so much about? I would think rising crime, drug use, and urban riots would have been hot button issues everywhere in '68, not just in the south. Did people think he was invoking "states' rights" when he said he was in favor of more state and local control, or are those just basic Republican talking points? At 44:25, he mentions that he supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If his objective was to dog whistle to white southerners, there's no way he would have brought that up while campaigning in the deep south. I don't see how anything he said here would have won over southern racists who had a far more demagogic alternative in George Wallace.
Yes, and the reason he wouldn't debate Humphrey was because by law he would have to debate Wallace too. He refused because he didn't want to give Wallace a national platform.
Southern strategy is a myth.
Southern racists voted Democrat in the 60s
Nixon was great. Kennedy was great.
Besides the intelligence and delivery Nixon is outstanding value to the audience. Also Bud Wilkinson a gentleman - Minnesota national champ player, great OU coach… refined gentleman. What a difference to today’s coarse, noisy media agitators… both sides of the political spectrum.
Richard Nixon the boss ❤
If only we still had candidates of this caliber.
Compare this "crook" to the presidential nominees of 2016. We live in dire times.
This "crook" tried to use the CIA to disrupt FBI investigations into his direct ordering of multiple break-ins.
But at least he didn't try to rule by decree, instituting executive actions in place of laws passed by Congress and diverting billions of dollars from their stated purpose under law to fund the president's pet projects.
Nixon was a piker compared to those who followed him, especially those with a D after their name.
hckyplyr9285 Huh? OF COURSE he ruled by decree. All the shit I just told you was patently illegal and he said to do it anyway because he's the president.
Every president for the last 100 years has issued hundreds of executive orders. Nixon was no exception.
I'm not interested in debating the legacy of Democratic presidents, but to say that Nixon -- who sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to help his own candidacy -- was somehow a good president... that's just stupid.
Of course by that comment you are talking about the morons who ran for the "democrap" nomination -crooked Hilarious Clinton and insane weirdo socialist, Bernie Madoff - ahh mean - Bernie Sanders of course.
@@suejak1 I believe the Democrats and Hillary did the same thing to President Elect Trump.
He was incredibly smart
Please upload The Richard Nixon Answer in California and Pennsylvania. Thank you.
I have lots of respect for President Nixon. He is a role model!
Nixon, now more than ever!
I was only 9-15 when Nixon was President. Never really studied him. My impressions have changed to Nixon being decent.
This is gold. Thanks
At 40:01, he mentions setting up listening centers for youths right after the election. I wonder if he actually did that. Anyone know?
He can talk the talk
Nixon was a great president may he RIP