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makingdonalddrumpfagain · 9 months

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#richard m. nixon #the 'new' republican party #seditious domestic terrorism #tre45on

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 3 months

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HAPPY B-DAY, "TRICKY DICK" -- WHO SENT 21,000+ U.S. SOLDIERS TO THEIR DEATHS IN HIS FIRST TERM.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an original 1972 President Richard Nixon "Peace with Honor" parody poster.

"I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam."

-- RICHARD M. "Tricky Dick" NIXON (January 9, 1913 -- April 22, 1994)

NIXON'S DEATH TOLL: "Nixon’s decision to time military withdrawal from Vietnam to his reelection campaign cost thousands of lives. More than 20,000 American soldiers died during Nixon’s first term. The Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian death toll was many times higher. This is by far Nixon’s worst abuse of presidential power."

NIXON/VIETNAM OVERVIEW: "In the 1968 election, Republican Richard Nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in Vietnam, but, in fact, it took him five years to disengage the United States from Vietnam. Indeed, Richard Nixon presided over as many years of war in Indochina as did Johnson. About a third of the Americans who died in combat were killed during the Nixon presidency. More than 21,200 Americans died in Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia in Nixon's first term alone.

-- DIGITAL HISTORY, "Nixon and Vietnam"

Sources: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3464 & eBay.

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spaceintruderdetector · 2 years

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Americans Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid Dream

Nothing much seems to have changed in the fifty years since the hysterical beginning of the final act of the Nixon melodrama—the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC’s Watergate hotel. And so it’s no coincidence that we’ve attached “gate” to every public scandal since Nixon’s downfall. Rather than a break-in, Watergate offers a glimpse into the Nixonian paranoid style that has infected much of the rest of America over the last half century.

No, nothing much has changed in the fifty years since Watergate. ...fashion, music and taste hasn’t changed much in America over the last fifty years. The one thing that’s changed is the internet and the iPhone. And that’s mostly only compounded American paranoia and isolation from the real world.

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And, then of course, there’s the classic American way of ignoring history: by denying it exists. The premise of the American self-help industry, of promising a dream-life, is the seduction of a clean slate, of standing outside history, of mastering oneself independently of everything else.

This is now a post-gendered dream-life, I’m afraid, that is being sold equally to women as men. But the self-help industry—for men and women as well as whites and blacks and browns—feeds on Nixonian paranoia. It may sell books and speeches, but it only imprisons us more deeply in history.

read full article here-

. https://lithub.com/we-are-still-living-in-nixons-paranoid-america-and-its-killing-us/

‘‘Do you remember, your President Nixon? (ooh) Do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday?’’

Oh boy. beam me up Scotty.

#richard m. nixon #america #damn

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filosofablogger · 9 months

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♫ Leaving On A Jet Plane (Redux) ♫

This is a repeat of a song that I played in October of 2018 and again in October 2019 to mark the death of singer John Denver in a plane crash on October 12th, 1997. Listen to what Mama Cass has to say at the beginning, for I think that her words back when they did this song are every bit as relevant today as they were when they sang this song in 1972. Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of…

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#Burt Sugarman #IMDB #John Denver #Mama Cass Elliot #Peter Paul and Mary #plane crash October 12 1997 #Richard M. Nixon #The Midnight Special #Wolfman Jack

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hezigler · 1 year

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Watch "Presidents Who Were Traitors - You Won’t Believe Number Three" on YouTube

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History you probably wasn't taught

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kultureklash · 1 year

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Do #Donald and #Hillary Have Dogs?

Hardly anyone will disagree with the assertion that this presidential election is one of the most heart wrenching, mind boggling, soul sickening, of all time. Both candidates of the two major parties have unfavorable ratings higher than any other presidential candidate in the modern era. And perhaps worst of all, both candidates of the two major parties have a difficult time with truth. I am not…

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#Clinton #Checkers #Donald Trump #Hilary Clinton #presidential election #Richard M. Nixon #Trump

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oskarlevant · 2 years

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The Dick Nixons - “Paint The White House Black”

Greatest tribute to our greatest president from America’s greatest band.

#Richard Nixon #Richard M. Nixon #Richard Milhous Nixon #Dick Nixon #Dick Nixons #The Dick Nixons

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irregularincidents · 5 days

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As the 1960s rolled to a close and with the Vietnam War proving itself to be increasingly unpopular amongst the American public, in 1968 President Lyndon B Johnson began secret talks with the North Vietnamese to begin the process of ending the conflict.

Unfortunately for the people of Vietnam and... pretty much everyone directly involved, Richard M Nixon was running on a platform of ending the war as well at the time and the Vietnam War ending too soon under a Democratic president wouldn't do his campaign any good... So naturally, the staff in Nixon's election team were instructed to sabotage the proceedings.

In a telephone conversation with H. R. Haldeman, an aide who would go on to become White House chief of staff, Nixon gave instructions that a friendly intermediary should keep “working on” South Vietnamese leaders to persuade them not to agree to a deal before the election, according to the notes, taken by Mr. Haldeman.

Additionally, it was discovered via the FBI bugging the phone calls between the South Vietnamese ambassador and of Anna Chennault, one of Nixon’s aides, that she had been advised to do the same things ahead of prospective peace talks that were planned to take place in Paris.

Johnson, who habitually recorded his own telephone conversations, is on tape as having been aware of what Nixon and his people were up to, and needless to say he wasn't exactly happy.

In the recently released tapes, we can hear Johnson being told about Nixon’s interference by Defence Secretary Clark Clifford. The FBI had bugged the South Vietnamese ambassadors phone. They had Chennault lobbying the ambassador on tape. Johnson was justifiably furious — he ordered Nixon’s campaign be placed under FBI surveillance. Johnson passed along a note to Nixon that he knew about the move. Nixon played like he had no idea why the South backed out, and offered to travel to Saigon to get them back to the negotiating table.

Despite it being a matter of record that Nixon's presential campaign was trying to prolong the very war he was promising to end, Johnson unfortunately chose not to make said evidence public. Partly because this would mean he'd have to admit to spying on the South Vietnamese ambassador, partly because he thought that his vice president Hubert Humphrey was a lock to win the next election so Nixon wouldn't be a problem anymore, and allegedly because Johnson believed that revealing Nixon's actions would cause the public to loose faith in the government...

Unfortunately, by the time the election finally rolled around, Nixon won the popular vote against Humphrey by just 1%. At that point, despite/due to placing Henry Kissinger in charge of the peace talks to end the war on Nixon's terms, the fighting continued for an additional five years with bombing spreading into neighbouring Laos and Cambodia, resulting in thousands more deaths.

As Robert Evans of the Behind the Bastards podcast put it on their series of episodes about Kissinger, the issue was basically that while Nixon wanted to get out of Vietnam, Vietnam wanted America out of Vietname, and the American public wanted America out of Vietnam, both Nixon and Kissinger didn't want to leave in a manner that made it look like they'd lost. Hence the escalation in fighting and bombing, because they'd gotten themselves stuck in a situation they had no easy solution to escape.

AND YET, it could have gotten worse.

In some tapes released by America's National Archives from 1972, between his complaining about Jews and liberals to Kissinger (yes, he was aware Kissinger was Jewish, yes he called him antisemitic stuff to his face), Nixon brought up a new suggestion...

Nixon is heard discussing an extension of bombing raids over North Vietnam with Henry Kissinger, the national security adviser. Then, rather abruptly, he says: "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb." Whether Nixon was serious or trying to provoke Mr Kissinger is not clear. In his baritone voice, his adviser replies: "That, I think, would just be too much." But Nixon then goes on: "The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you? I just want you to think big."

The Vietnam War eventually came to a close on 30th April 1975, seven years after Nixon sabotaged an attempt to begin ending the war sooner.

#irregular incidents #history #american history #spying #the vietnam war #richard m nixon

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juicedrop · 1 year

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tally hall probably could've written abbey road but the beatles couldn't've written marvin's marvelous mechanical museum

#the beatles #tally hall #i love both bands this is a joke #weezer #what the hell is weezer doing here #37th US President Richard M. Nixon

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makingdonalddrumpfagain · 1 year

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 3 months

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THE BOMB AS "BLOODY DAGGER" GIVES THE PIECE AN ESPECIALLY BRUTAL TOUCH.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an anti-Richard Nixon Vietnam War-era propaganda poster that translates as "Nixon the Murderer," c. 1972.

OVERVIEW: "In the 1968 election, Republican Richard Nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in Vietnam, but, in fact, it took him five years to disengage the United States from Vietnam.

Nixon provided the South Vietnamese army with new training and improved weapons and tried to frighten the North Vietnamese to the peace table by demonstrating his willingness to bomb urban areas and mine harbors. He also hoped to orchestrate Soviet and Chinese pressure on North Vietnam.

The most controversial aspect of his strategy was an effort to cut the Ho Chi Minh supply trail by secretly bombing North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia and invading that country and Laos. The U.S. and South Vietnamese incursion into Cambodia in April 1970 helped destabilize the country, provoking a bloody civil war and bringing to power the murderous Khmer Rouge."

-- VIETNAM PROPAGANDA (Vietnamese Propaganda Art Poster Shop from Hanoi, Vietnam)

Source: www.vietnampropaganda.com/product/nixon-the-assassin.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Republicans co-opting Martin Luther King Jr.’s quotes while pushing policy and supporting legislation directly in opposition to the Civil Rights leader’s wishes is just one example of the party attempting to rewrite history.

In fact, there are so many examples of revisionist history happening these days, particularly among conservatives, that historian and University of Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse felt the need to publish a book alongside fellow historians, and join this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast, to set the record straight.

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He talks about his book Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, which is a compilation of historian-written chapters that crush those myths, and shares proof that contrary to Republicans’ denials, the party actively engages in “Southern Strategy,” which is, as New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy explains, the “idea that as the Democratic Party moved away from being the party of slavery and segregation, the GOP sort of consciously moved to fill that void and to become the champion of white Southerners.”

From speaking in coded racial language to antagonizing white voters through fear and taking starkly pro-police stances, they’re absolutely following the knowingly racist playbook of conservatives past, says Kruse.

“This is not some wishful thinking theory that we’ve imposed in the past. The people we’re talking about in documents at the time, in interviews at the time, in books, talk about this,” says Kruse. “[Richard] Nixon talks about this in his memoirs. Harry Dent, his adviser, talks about it in his memoirs. Lee Atwater gives an interview where he talks about the old coded racism of the Nixon-era Southern Strategy. This has long been conventional wisdom. Heads of the Republican National Committee apologized for this. The thought that suddenly people are saying, ‘Oh, this never happened. This is all a myth,’ was just kind of insane and frustrating.”

He also explains Nixon’s role in solidifying this strategy for the GOP and also why we still are taught basic historical lies, including one that Andy is particularly invested in: George Washington never telling a lie.

Also on this episode: TNA co-host Danielle Moodie interviews Jim Freeman, a civil rights lawyer and author of the book, Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice, to talk about the Defund the Police movement and the role police unions are playing in stopping it from happening.