You people with your derangement syndromes. Whenever a bad president gets criticized you think it’s a syndrome. Can’t you accept that bad people get criticized without trying to gaslight the criticizer?
He did a nationwide telethon the night before the election on NBC. And Hubert Humphrey did one on ABC. I have seen Humphrey's which is posted on RUclips but not Nixon's. The 1968 election is fascinating and one of the most underrated campaigns in American history.
@tony84. I was intending to watch Richard Milhous Nixon's, hopefully someone posts it, but in any case please give me a title for Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.'s.
No, he didn't. Not one day. He was convicted of taking bribes, including when he was Vice President of The United States, but he never spent one second in jail. You could look it up.
@@johnnotrealname8168 this guy thinks that Nixon effed everything up with the chennault affair, but most people who claim that don't even know what happened
Huh? I'm not close to being a Trump jock-sniffer, but that comment makes no sense. Did Vladimir tell you to post that, to try to troll the comments and stir up discontent ?
Ford’s pardon of Nixon was a many faceted act. I think he did it more for his own benefit in the sense that it was consuming his new presidency. He was in a unique position since he hadn’t even been elected VP and had no mandate of any kind. He was facing some monumental problems and deeply wanted to give them his full attention. Nixon’s shadow made that impossible. The only way he could clear the decks was to pardon Nixon. It was a very unique situation. Unfortunately, it has generated a mindset in some quarters that a former president is god like and should live under special rules. It is a dangerous and foolish and completely contrary to our system of justice.
@@johnnotrealname8168You are way off base concerning Nixon’s legal problems. While the Watergate break in itself was relatively minor, it tore the scab off of a whole host of illegal acts ordered by Nixon even though they were carried out by others. That is why there had to be a cover up in the Watergate matter. The same people had been involved in the prior activities and they were now threatening to blow the whistle. The nail in the coffin for Nixon was the Smoking Gun tape, where he ordered the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation into the matter. The House Judiciary Committee voted 3 articles of impeachment against him in a bipartisan vote. After the release of the Smoking Gun tape, the House was ready to overwhelmingly impeach him and conviction in the Senate was assured. Senator Goldwater told Nixon that there were no more than 10 votes for acquittal in the Senate. Nixon realized it was over and resigned a few days later. Revisionist history can’t change the significance of Watergate. Teri
Love him or hate him. He was an awesome politician!
I wish we had politicians now who could speak as well as he does.
@@johnzdanowicz2233 Speaking well does not equal honesty. Nixon was both enormously intelligent and personally corrupt
He ended the war the liberals got us in and then they turned on him.
55 years ago today. Happy 55th Anniversary of 1968.
A lot of Nixon Derangement Syndrome in the comments.
You people with your derangement syndromes. Whenever a bad president gets criticized you think it’s a syndrome. Can’t you accept that bad people get criticized without trying to gaslight the criticizer?
Roger Forster was the opening and closing voiceover.
The Washington Post reporter looks at him as if saying "I don't trust this
Face The Nation failed here, just like they still do.
Nixon has some long hair here.
3:44, Oh that bombing halt in 1968. That almost cost Nixon the election.
True, according to Richard Milhous Nixon it was the call-ins he did the day before that saved him.
He did a nationwide telethon the night before the election on NBC. And Hubert Humphrey did one on ABC. I have seen Humphrey's which is posted on RUclips but not Nixon's. The 1968 election is fascinating and one of the most underrated campaigns in American history.
@tony84. I was intending to watch Richard Milhous Nixon's, hopefully someone posts it, but in any case please give me a title for Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.'s.
Just type in Hubert Humphrey 1968 telethon. It will pop up.
@@tony84. A tad late but I shall.
LBJ was nefarious….
Trump 2024
In COLOR...LOL!
Agnew went to Jail
He did not!
No, he didn't. Not one day. He was convicted of taking bribes, including when he was Vice President of The United States, but he never spent one second in jail. You could look it up.
"' I will not resign if indicted, I will not resign if indicted'". -- Spiro Agnew Sure, pal, mkay, right!
Given the communication he himself did to South and North Vietnam, he should have been tried for treason.
South-Vietnam. What is actually wrong with what he did though?
@@johnnotrealname8168 this guy thinks that Nixon effed everything up with the chennault affair, but most people who claim that don't even know what happened
@JeffSkilling69 Please explain, I agree by the way.
And Nixon should have gone to jail too we wouldn't have the problems with Trump if he had
What?
Huh? I'm not close to being a Trump jock-sniffer, but that comment makes no sense. Did Vladimir tell you to post that, to try to troll the comments and stir up discontent ?
Ford’s pardon of Nixon was a many faceted act. I think he did it more for his own benefit in the sense that it was consuming his new presidency. He was in a unique position since he hadn’t even been elected VP and had no mandate of any kind. He was facing some monumental problems and deeply wanted to give them his full attention. Nixon’s shadow made that impossible. The only way he could clear the decks was to pardon Nixon. It was a very unique situation. Unfortunately, it has generated a mindset in some quarters that a former president is god like and should live under special rules. It is a dangerous and foolish and completely contrary to our system of justice.
He should have gone to jail. He escaped justice because he had at least enough sense to resign.
I do not think so. His act was fairly minor and did not affect the election.
Totally agreed 👍
@@johnnotrealname8168You are way off base concerning Nixon’s legal problems. While the Watergate break in itself was relatively minor, it tore the scab off of a whole host of illegal acts ordered by Nixon even though they were carried out by others. That is why there had to be a cover up in the Watergate matter. The same people had been involved in the prior activities and they were now threatening to blow the whistle. The nail in the coffin for Nixon was the Smoking Gun tape, where he ordered the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation into the matter. The House Judiciary Committee voted 3 articles of impeachment against him in a bipartisan vote. After the release of the Smoking Gun tape, the House was ready to overwhelmingly impeach him and conviction in the Senate was assured. Senator Goldwater told Nixon that there were no more than 10 votes for acquittal in the Senate. Nixon realized it was over and resigned a few days later. Revisionist history can’t change the significance of Watergate.
Teri