President Nixon's Press Conference After Kent State Shooting | May 8, 1970
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A President speaking respectfully and generously about his most outspoken critics! My, how far we’ve fallen in levels of respect.
Did he call them "the enemy of the people"?
AMEN
Biden walks like he has a full diaper vulgar even if true 🤣
Impressive leader but vietnam was a horror show a debarcle of historic proportions
Revolution 1970. 🤣 2024 🤔
So this is what a President sounds like
It's amazing seeing an important politician, much less a president, call a press conference and stand there, taking questions without pre-approving them, and to do it without notes or a teleprompter.
For half an hour.
Four days after the Kent State shootings, Nixon made an impulsive and unplanned early morning trip to speak for an hour to student protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial.
Best wishes from Vermont ❄️
You left out the part about how he's lying.
He KNEW the student left wasn't working for the CCCP. He knew that but for a few nutz like the Weather Underground, this was peaceful protest against an unpopular war. He knew that most of the violent student groups had been pushed into violence by gov't agents provacateur (look up COINTELPRO) led by Mark Felt (yes, Deep Throat was in charge of the illegal crushing of Nixon's political enemies, and almost went to jail for it)*.
And then Nixon stands there and does this shit.
* Ain't history grand.
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For all of his flaws, Nixon was a genius politician and one of America's greatest presidents.
@@Shah-of-the-Shinebox
Most of the 80K telegrams sent to the WH were concocted “astroturf” by Nixon’s politcal hatchet men. Go look it up.
Peace With Honor - In 1973, this liar forced down the throat of the SVN gov't the same peace protocols that had been on the table since 1968. He fled VN so fast the US didn’t even bother to translate the treaty into Vietnamese for the SVN gov't. NVN gov’t didn’t care what piece of toilet paper they signed because they knew they weren’t going to stop fighting.
Winning the Peace - from 71 to 75, Nixon proved you cannot win a proxy way by more proxy. You cannot expect a weak and corrupt puppet gov’t (SVN) to stand up all by itself and it didn’t. All that propped that house of garbage up from 71 - 75 was massive US air power.
Nixon derides the reason of those who were CORRECT about the war’s idiot underpinnings, corrupt execution (in the US and in SVN), and domestic economic devastation. Most of the US 60s-early 70s inflation came from massive deficit spending on a war for which they didn’t want to raise taxes. That's why we've had copper-centered silver quarters since 1965. Look that up, too.
Someone Tell Our Disaster Of A President Biden, THIS IS A LEADER
It is surreal watching this. He is actually taking questions and actually answering them. I am 44 and I don't think I have seen a politician do this in my life.
Nixon's stature has only grown since his resignation. Would Biden's grow following resignation over Hunter's dealings?
No teleprompter and owning the questions with direct answers. Agree or disagree with him, this is a leader. This is how a President communicates.
They all did this until an actual actor as President changed what people expect from the role. All downhill from there.
Vietnam tells you a different story but impressive presence nixon
The story of Viet Nam was a big win for us, US as Nixon got us out! What happened later was a shame, but beyond our control ultimately. @@Eric-kn4yn
I'm 64, And President Nixon Was Ever Present On TV When I Was A Young Boy. As An Adult, I Have A Great Affection For This Great Statesman
I too was 10 years old during this News Conference, and didn't really comprehend political issues. But he was a person who I respected at the time!
Really. Even though he disgraced the office and got tens of thousands of American soldiers killed solely for his own personal glory?
Considering what we have today, it’s impressive to watch a president give extended remarks without notes on national tv
Or say anything positive about opposition.
What we have today should only be on SNL. I wonder what Nixon would think about the politics today.
I’d really like to thank the Nixon Library for providing these views into history. Nixon was the one!
Turns out he was. But the lefties couldn't' see it then and some still don't... Bernie..,
With all his flaws, President Nixon was a very polite, intelligent, and forward-looking president. If one sees the presidential debate between Mr Nixon and Mr. Keneedy, we can see how much they respect each other, and how articulate and substance they wish to deliver for their people. Those good days will not come again.
What strikes me is that I can understand every question and every response with crystal clarity. The journalists used to maintain composure then. When I watch a press conference today, it’s a clown show and I don’t understand anything.
This guy is smart, we have been bamboozled by the main stream media.
Nixon was on his game here.
This man is a prime example of a Statesman .
Calling every reporter by names 👍
President Nixon's book "No More Vietnams" is a very interesting read. I first read it a number of years ago, and got so much out of it, that I began reading more of his books. My God, he is a genius. I have since visited his presidential library. Most impressive.
Could you imagine if the media asking the questions like this?? These are real & tough questions.
Questions like these are still being asked, but the respectfulness and understanding of both modern presidents and a certain population have dwindled. Instead applying their politics, bias, and rhetoric to the media/their questions/received answers.
I've always admired Nixon (and have a vice presidenial letter signed by him on my wall!), but this press conference just underlines what a smart and capable guy he was. Along with all the other Nixon clips that the RUclips algorithm has been punting my way of late -and for which I'm very grateful!!
Now that, is a presidential press conference!
WOW. It almost brings one to tears to hear his thoughtful, eloquent, and compassionate voice clearly articulating his views and taking responsibility for his words and actions.
One of our greatest Presidents, for sure.
There’s no way this comment was made by a real person.
@@ucfqb Actually, out is a real person who lived through the 60s and 70s. Compared to the idiots we have to endure today, Nixon was amazing.
So are you just stupid then? The fact that he got tens of thousands of American soldiers killed just to help his chances of winning election doesn't bother you? Watergate? Ellesburg break-in? The war on drugs? @@thebl00per
The majority disagrees w/ you here, it would seem. @@ucfqb
On a page dedicated to Richard Nixon's legacy? I'm shocked. @@jaybee8748
He handled himself well
He was a brilliant man and excellent President who inherited a country in the midst of its most tumultuous era. His command of the facts here and understanding of the situation is uncanny
I’m sure the fact that Nixon prolonged the Vietnam war (solely for his personal gain )has nothing to do with how tumultuous the country was when he took office.
@@ucfqb no he did not keep it going for his personal gain...that makes it sound like he's some twisted and sadistic person which he was not
Explain how RMN personally gained from our Viet Nam experience. @@ucfqb
What a well educated and eloquent speaker ! President Nixon was truly ahead of his time and knew his foreign policy too well. The world is different if they were not plotting to remove him from office.
I think Nixon was incredibly smart and had a lot of amazing qualities but nobody but himself removed himself from office.
“ Plotting to remove him from office” such a strange way to describe the prosecution of a felon for only some of his many criminal acts.
Now you know. Not many people really understood him. He was a great president!
He was a horrible president that hurt this country deeply. It's quite apparent that your dementia has taken a serious toll on your mental faculties. @@PatsyNunez-dv6tb
Can anyone imagine Biden taking questions for this long, giving cogent, intelligent, and intelligible answers like this, taking clear responsibility for his actions like this? Nixon has clearly thought about the issues, is not trying to blame others, gave credit to his predecessor, and did his best to unify rather than inflame and divide. My god, I wish the 2024 WH incumbent would do these things.
True. Where is the quality leadership in either party to help us, US, find our way?
Don't forget to include Trump this also. Nether one of them could come close to the statesman that Nixon was, or Kennedy.
Like him or not on second look, Nixon faced accusers face to face. I can see that he did try to connect with the youth. Seemed very genuine.
I’m a few years behind in my reading, but I’m making my way through Patrick Buchanan’s “Nixon’s White House Wars” book from 2017. To be able to-concurrently-quickly find related historic pieces like this video makes reading the book all the more interesting. Coincidentally, I’m presently up to Chapter 9, which focuses on Cambodia/Kent State. Thank you for the upload!
He has a great voice for TV or radio.
He is articulated, have courtesy and answers questions on point.
Richard Nixon was far from perfect but was a breath of fresh air compared to the Gombeen Men today
And women.
So what you're saying is that presidents could be presidential; articulate, compassionate, and informed? ...and that my entire education both formal and indirect (via media) about Richard Nixon has been more or less 100% complete lie??
75%
Nixon was completely innocent of the Watergate scandal just like Trump was falsely accused of Russian collusion in 2016
Ted Bundy was also articulate, compassionate, and informed. Does that make the accusations against him a lie? That’s a bad standard.
You need to consider someone’s own actions when judging people.
Educators had their own axes to grind in Nixon's case. Read his writings for greater understanding and appreciation of the man. Go to the source, not the interpreters.
As a college kid, comparing this to Biden’s press conferences is insane. So embarrassing where we are at right now!
Including prior to Biden as well. It is embarrassing.
@@TitaniumTurbine no doubt about it
Courage…..
Interesting. Whether you agree with his politics or not, his press conference is respectful, and he answers the questions with clarity. There is something refreshing when the journalist/reporters can ask a question and the recipient is given time to answer it.
I’m not sure the media/journalists are the problem these days.
On this day in 1970, 57 year old President Nixon’s life is 70% over, but yet, he does not know that.
We are all on the clock. Of what importance is that?
I appreciate these videos as I was young and not interested in politics. What an impressive press conference.
It's amazing to see Nixon attempt to empathize with his opponents. Now the debate has degenerated into name calling and cheap tactics. No statesman left anymore.
I worked for Nixon in 1968 when I was 12 & again in 1972, when I got to also attend his inauguration. It’s been many years (up until yesterday) since I listened to him speak again. When I compare him to the clownishness of Trump & some members of Congress, I think, my God, how well spoken & polite he was & what gibberish they speak today. As we used to say: Now More Than Ever
You worked for Nixon as a 12-year-old? Putting campaign posters up on telephone poles ?😂
@@jamesmack3314 occasionally - you really needed to be with someone in a car for that. I worked on precinct maps, dealt with people wanting info who came into the office, leafleted, protested at a Humphrey rally (I hung out with the McCarthy people - I supported Nixon as the only antiwar candidate at the time), rode along with other volunteers taking absentee ballots to older folks, and on Election Day I was a poll watcher. For many years I thought poll watching was just a dumb job I was given as a kid. Now I realize how important it can be. By the time 1972 rolled around & I was 16, I was in a position to train precinct walkers.
@@ashlarblocks an interesting time to live through. I was seven years old in 68 living in New Jersey. I really had no recollection except for the actual election night in November. I remember my father watching it and getting progressively more worked up with every drink he had.😩
@@jamesmack3314 was your dad getting worked up because it was close or because Humphrey was losing? Some of my younger friends associate LBJ with his Great Society reforms. I associated him with the nightly body bag counts on the news. It made a big impression on me. I supported Nixon because he was the closest thing to an antiwar candidate. If RFK hadn’t been shot, I quite possibly might have ended up a Democrat.
@@ashlarblocks I forgot what he was all worked up about. I believe he was a Nixon guy anyway the RFK murder was just horrendous. I get choked up seeing anything about it these days especially the funeral train ride. I think he would’ve been the next president and maybe a very good one talk about a real tragedy.
“When the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool.”
Interesting questions and answers. Some timeless ones. History, it is worth reviewing.
I remember somewhat of this when I was 10. Kent State was everywhere. Growing up in Memphis TN, I was used to violence and hate. Nixon made some mistakes, but I believe he was intelligent and sincere.
Nixon was a great president. I’m just sorry he got caught up in Watergate, but we all make mistakes.
Yeah, it was so unnecessary given he won by an enormous landslide. Perhaps the paranoia was the flaw that undid him. He’s a Boy Scout compared to Trump
12:49 A young Mr. Rather: a treasure of a journalist we continue to be blessed with hearing from!
I’m an Australian and I know this guy was set up
Yes John, I knew him as president n I fell in love with his decent mannerisms. He was so so smart n he was set up. The FBI was one culprit but he had a close acquaintance that was really not who we were told about him, Kissenger. Kissenger was not so nice a guy. Nixon looked over this aspect. He had a lot of experience; eight years vice president! He absorbed it all. He brought our boys home from Vietnam 🇻🇳!
Today's polotician has fallen from true decourm.
Amazing to see Dan Rather posing a question here 12:51 at 39 and he’s still alive in 2024 at 92
Dan rather asking the hard questions
Rather became a Nixon baiter at these "pressies" as was Donaldson to Reagan later. @@SRW_
@@jaybee8748
Donaldson was a huge fan of carter so i think he was bitter toward reagen
Dan "rather" Biased
9:54 addressing tough questions and mentioning respect for others who don’t agree with us. Stately behavior and thoughtful coolheaded responses are welcome behavior in politicians.
Richard milhous Nixon was one of the most intelligent presidents this Nation has ever had ! Salate to your memorey president Nixion !
12:56 - Dan Rather questions President Nixon on the Cambodia strategy in the Vietnam War.
Well-spoken, has regard for Americans passions…..
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Still have my Nixon Now campaign button!
If only the world had this most humble , respectful and intellectual world leader today .......Winston would have appaulded this great, ridiculed ,by the few , world leader .
Say what you will about Nixon but he could speak well and as well as answer the questions. He also has no teleprompter or podium
In stark contrast to Joe Biden
Precious man with humble, humble Gerald Ford whom l loved alike! 2 servants for the people!
Notice he addresses the Press as Yes sir. Or Next. Or Maam. How pleasant he is. He addressed Dan Rather as Mr Rather. I was in my 30s when he was president.
I didn't like the Vietnam War either. But it was escalated under Kennedy and Johnson. Nixon was left to clean up the Dems messes. As usual.
Nixon would have been all over LBJ if he "lost Vietnam" by not going in.
💯 percent right.
Bologna
There still would have been a Vietnam Civil War after 1954 even if it hadn't already become a cold war proxy war.
Can't blame the Viets for wanting foreign occupiers out. First the French then US.
Ho Chi Ming was seen as a nationalist hero, their George Washington. Except he was also communist.@@Thunderchild-gz4gc
Nixon was portrayed as a villain, he might have been the greatest leader USA ever had.
Portrayed? He was a villain. Are you kidding?
No I am not, enjoy Biden and suck it down!
Aah, Google AI is protecting your feelings, do you feel protected?
Apparently Google feelings AI is protecting the feelings, so sad.
@@ucfqb He was a statesman, as opposed to Biden.
Agree with him or not but President Nixon was a good president he hasn't been given enough credit
Could you imagine Biden doing this , no way could he handle the questions
Yes,he could not come close to handling this level of questioning
Say whatever you want, but this guy (in his mind) thought he was doing what was best for America
Highly highly intelligent man
Tell Biden This Is What An Eloquent Brilliant Statesman Looks Like And Sounds Like
Also, tell Trump 😵💫
Biden can barely stand before an audience without having a bowel movement.
@@sdkfz2519Trump told everything he was asked.
Biden was instructed to answer questions coached by his handlers
@@jooei2810 Did you hear Nixon tell the media they are the enemy of the people? Did you hear him evade a question? Did he call the questions "unfair, horrible, terrible". Did he talk about how wonderful he is? Please.
Ask Nixon what he would think of Donald J Trump if he coujld hear one of Trump's recent speeches. The two are from different planets.
If only the press were this respectful today. Regardless of Biden or Trump there’s no reporting anymore it’s all just opinions and gotchas
Summary:
- President Nixon addressed the press conference on May 8, 1970, following the Kent State shooting and intense protests against sending troops into Cambodia.
- Nixon acknowledged the protests but defended his decision, emphasizing it was made to shorten the war, reduce American casualties, and advance withdrawal plans.
- He expressed a desire to open meaningful communication with the college-age generation despite challenges in being heard over loud protests.
- Nixon agreed with the protesters' goals for peace, ending the draft, and withdrawing from Vietnam but believed his decisions would achieve those goals more effectively.
- He discussed progress in the Paris peace talks, defended his administration's stance on dissent, and expressed openness to dialogue with demonstrators at the White House if arrangements were made.
Could you imagine Sleepy Joe handling this situation?
Can you imagine Trump? You're a better man than me.
@@chrismoller4272We wouldn't be where we are under Trump. We would have peace.
Nixon was, as this press conference demonstrated, masterfully in command of his subject and intellectually adept. 54 years his party is led by Donald Trump. So much for progress over time.
How did we go from the intelligence and quick thinking of Richard Nixon to Dementia Joe? Tragic.
And Trump cannot speak proper English.....
Trump is better than 46 any day of the week.@@uzeela
Our boys today our boys and girls 🤣
Long life to king of kings Reza Shah the second
Nixons secret plan he kept bring up during his election campaign was so smart and simple that I couldn’t believe Johnson didn’t try it in 66 when the war looked like it was winnable. Than when the North beat the South Vietnamese army it could have been blamed on lack of leadership in the south , the corruption which was rampant and so out in the public that my neighbor who did two tours over their told me that the North Vietnamese and the VC had a headquarters set up in every city town and village throughout the south and actually flew the North Vietnamese flag everyday and the South Vietnamese government was given the responsibility to close these buildings down because they were really intelligence safe houses that were paying off the South Vietnamese military officers for information on where and when the Americans were going to use the b52’s to bomb the large North Vietnamese troop build up just above the DMZ.
I was young teenage watching this live. I remember the media steam new was fair and polite. Now it's a terrible disgusting personal i stop watching them. We need respect even if your views don't agree with mine or others. Cilvery
For the 58,000+ dead American soldiers and 303,000+ wounded what really did we accomplish being there? The French warned us to stay out of a war that wasn’t winnable.
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I bet you never served in the military?
@@williamadams5472
My dad was in the Army during the Korean War but thankfully wasn’t deployed into combat.
I was never in the military and if I had been drafted back then they would have discovered the Lyme disease I got around 1983 that a Doctor didn’t diagnose until 2013. From what I read a Lyme disease diagnosis would get that person released from the military.
@@williamadams5472
No. The reply by Boyd Walker 161 is me from my other channel.
@@MustangsTrainsMowers The Vietnam was product of the cold war
Mr. Rather, are you running for something? No sir, are You?
lol.... I remember hearing that as a kid🥴
Nixon knew Boomers were spoiled brats
They still are. Now they're running (destroying) the country.
In 1970, Boomers made up the majority of the 500,000+ troops in Vietnam.
@@jamesanthony5681 And the hippies and the anti-war protestors , the college students.
@@Durahan82 And by 1970, the protesters against Vietnam included a large number of people born < 1946. It wasn't just college students, as more of the American people were sick of the lies coming out of the White House. Cronkite came out against Vietnam in Feb/68, often cited as a reason why LBJ decided not to seek a 2nd term.
They hated Nixon but love Trump. Shows you the decline from the Greatest Generation to the Boomer Generation.
Every thing he said that the other side was protesting about and were opposed to him about came to pass.
Nixon was a very flawed man,who had some correct and positive insights on both foreign and domestic issues,and he by coming up from nothing and having to earn it all,was no friend of the deep state,but on this and dome other critical issues of his time,he was wrong.
And in the end,his personal flaws,his errors in judgement and being wrong on those critical issues of his times and his partial opposition to the deep state,before we knew there was one,all led eventually to his downfall,his resignation from the presidency and his mostly tarnished legacy he shall forever hold in American history.
Yeah compared with the Clintons , Obama and Biden there is absolute corruption!
Nixon was a great president, Biden is a idiot
Wrong. His legacy grows in stature as his faults fade. Who could have led the US as effectively in that era as effectively as RMN did? Anyone? Humphrey? McGovern?
Joe doesn't do press conferences because he is too old . Trump didnt because 5 year olds don't do press conferences. 😢😢😢😢
You mean 46. Trump is far better than 46. He talks fine.
Juxtapose the well considered responses of President Nixon, with the scatter brained idiocy of Trump, and you can see to what extent the Republican party has declined.
Absolutely!😩😩😩
LOL 😂 you think the Democratic Party hasn’t declined even far moreso? Senile old Joe Biden’s braindead rambling attacking anyone who disagrees with his regime as a domestic terrorist… And Donald Trump is probably the closest there has ever been to Richard Nixon in personal character and attitudes-no matter how much money or power accrued, even after reaching the highest office in the land, Nixon and Trump were considered too uncouth for the cocktail party circuit, shut out of elite society, both preferred being outsiders appealing to the “silent majority” of ordinary folk. Both men were also relatively non-ideological ‘realists’ in terms of policy as well.
Or Biden.
An articulate man.
Of course he was prepared for the question, but he was not a bad rhetorician.
He looks and sounds like a statesman, which is to say a professional liar. 🤣
Takes a personality like his to stay on top of global politics.
@@Thorscauldron I agree.
Every crisis has its own priorities and the crises are, well, _legion._
@@HamCubesHe even had a bad reputation among his peers as a smooth and tricky guy.
Of course, he was prepared for the questions which shows how careful and prepared he was when appearing in front of the public. But are you saying statemen are professional liars? Don't you know for a president to govern he should keep secret and have some white lies? Nixon was just another victim of subsequent lies ever since President Kenedy threw the first salvo on Vietnam.
Not professional enough in comparison with the Clintons and the Bidens.
We learned nothing .
Also, if Nixon weren't paranoid, he would have avoided Watergate and have been remembered positively
There is no "we" if you didn't learn anything that's on you,wtf are doing in a Nixon video anyway making comments? get lost pissant.
Nixon wasn't paranoid, only idiots think he was
Outside of Watergate Nixon is remembered positively.
The only women I saw in the press pool were Helen Thomas and Nancy Dickerson. Otherwise, there is a sea of white males, and nobody saw this as unusual.
The US was 87% white in 1970, 11% Black, and only had 1.4% other races at that time. A room of mainly or mostly white peoples wasn’t unrepresentative of the at the time overwhelming majority of the nation
What’s your point?
Not in 1970! Also unusual would be violent record crime, illegal 7.1 million immigrants, record high inflation, wars in the middle east, Ukraine, Crimea, China aggression, Yemeni rebels threatening world trade, Irani sponsored terrorist attacks, political weponising of the judiciary , a president getting millions of dollars from influence peddling through his drug addict corrupt son from foreign adversaries, money laundering, etc etc. No times are very different and not for the better!
Future history will be kinder to Richard Nixon than it will be to the politicians of today who are making no effort to restore peace in Israel and Ukraine, and so are allowing the world to spiral steadily toward a nuclear war. America desperately needs a Richard Nixon today?
What’s your point?
Natural born liar. The facts speak for themselves. 😊
Only a idiot thinks Nixon was a liar
You Biden worshipers are sick
Whose facts? He was a talented administrator. None in the last 50 years measure comparably.
What facts? Don't listen to him then.
this is how the governmentand and media should interact with each other ! we no longer have politicians or media like this we have a circus !
2024 living in a police state !