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greatauntoftriplets

(175,735 posts)
4. Dick "I have a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam" Nixon.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:26 PM
Jan 2013

Damn you, Sirhan Sirhan! I always thought that RFK would have won in 1968 had he lived.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
5. Never confuse some of Nixon's actions with his inclinations
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:27 PM
Jan 2013

Nixon's "liberal" actions were a product of the times he was president in, where liberalism still had a lot of political power, and he needed to maneuver in some areas to better cover his ass in others.

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
6. Fuck Nixon...a right-wing criminal, and a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-union,
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:27 PM
Jan 2013

warmongering nut job.

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.

You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags.

Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They're trying to destroy us.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court.

Nixon: I still think we ought to take the North Vietnamese dikes out now. Will that drown people?
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
Nixon: No, no, no, I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too much.
Nixon: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?...I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.

I have the greatest affection for them [Negroes] but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.


Oh that liberal Dick Nixon!

yardwork

(61,608 posts)
10. Hunter S. Thompson also said that he thought that Clinton was worse than Nixon.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:54 PM
Jan 2013

I'm not saying I agree. I just couldn't resist pointing this out!

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
9. Nixon was the scum of the earth and if I read one more Democrat tout the EPA thing
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:51 PM
Jan 2013

grrrrrrr. He only did that because he was afraid of what he thought might be even more radical environmental laws being passed by Congress. He just did it to pacify not because he really cared that much.

leftstreet

(36,108 posts)
12. He was a politician
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:57 PM
Jan 2013

Just like all the rest

FDR didn't champion safety net programs because he 'cared,' he used it as a way to defeat the huge and growing Left, Labor and the Communist Party

 

banned from Kos

(4,017 posts)
11. Fuck that POS Nixon for the Controlled Substances Act alone.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:54 PM
Jan 2013

and his Law and Order racist campaign.

And wage and price controls.

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