Nixon had _style_! I keep thinking about him all the time. He has almost replaced Geoffrey Baker as my Personal Savior. Nixon, Agnew, Haldeman, Ehrlichman. And George Gordon Battle Liddy. The _style_!

Nixon vs. McGovern. What a fascinating dualism. 1972. What an interesting year that was, I was first getting into spectrums then. The only election I liked better was 1964, Goldwater vs. Johnson. Too bad Goldwater lost. In my heart I know he was right. The _style_ of it all....

Oh, and by the way: FORD!!!!

I'm new to the site and can't tell if your question is meant to be sarcastic or not, but I'd say it's obviously in the Democrats' interest to draw, however tenuous, a parallel between Nixon keeping troops in Vietnam and Bush supposedly doing the same in Iraq.
I don't think it will change anyone's mind, however, because the underlying assumption is that going to Iraq was wrong and getting out as fast as possible is the only goal. Supporters of the war in Iraq (and Bush) don't believe this, regardless of how they felt or now feel about Nixon. As to whether this was the case in Vietnam, I remember the TV and feeling bad as Saigon slipped away day by day after the pullout, but I was really too young to understand the big picture. I also don't care whether Kerry was in Cambodia or not. But if he lied as a Senator to prop himself up or protect himself from his anti-war past, it's a continuation of a pattern of lying that's not going to end even if he does manage to get elected.

After all, Nixon's race against Geoge McGovern was such a close-run thing. I'm sure Tricky Dick was pulling out all the stops to try to win 50 states instead of 49.

It's not just you. Check out this blurb from the notoriously anti-Bush, anti-war Sydney Morning Herald. Even before I opened up the link, I wondered how (or if) they'd try to tie Nixon's crimes to Bush. Sure enough ...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/06/1091732078344.html

As It Happened: Watergate Plus 30 Pt 2
SBS, 7.30pm

Who doesn't love a Senate inquiry into dubious government behaviour? In 1974, after more than a year of such investigations, the US president, Richard Nixon, resigned from office on August 8.

At the time, the televised Senate inquiry fascinated the American nation. Three decades on, it is still riveting to see the evidence that condemned a corrupt government unfurl.

This concluding episode to a two-part documentary shows lengthy footage of the evidence of, among others, White House counsel John Dean, Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman and the deputy campaign director of the Committee to Re-elect the President, Jeb Magruder.

Laced with the original footage are recent interviews with the main players. We also hear snippets of President Nixon's incriminating conversations taken from the White House tapes, whose existence had been discovered during the inquiry and the confiscation of which were subsequently the object of a law suit against the president.

In comparison to last week's program exposing the insidious machinations of President George W. Bush and Co., Nixon's deeds almost pale in comparison.

Thirty years has given the world great perspective on the sins of Richard Nixon. How long will it take to recognise those of the incumbent president?

What better way to rally the base than by reviving the 30 year old loathing of Nixon for ending the war that JFK began and LBJ continued? "Nixon's war" is what Kerry called it in the primary.

Maybe it's because the whole "Kerry the war heroe" message is starting to feel like an unwinnable quagmire.

"After all, Nixon's race against Geoge McGovern was such a close-run thing. I'm sure Tricky Dick was pulling out all the stops to try to win 50 states instead of 49."

ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ahhh, yes, Jeb Stuart Magruder. We had an old friend of our family named Jeb Stuart when I was a boy, a very interesting man. Like my brother Dave, he collected stamps and coins. He also acted with my parents in the Pentacle Theater. Those were the days....

And -- Magruder. I always think of that old textbook "Magruder's American Government". It had a chart showing the differences between our American system vs. the Communist system. A number of other textbooks had similar charts. I used to hang around in the library reading those books. I have a copy of Kenneth Colegrove's "Democracy vs. Communism" with Jeff McGrath's cartoons in it showing the differences between Communism vs. freedom. The _style_ of it all! Those were the days....

I sure loved watching those Watergate hearings with my family and with mt friend David Smith. Those were the days....

I keep thinking of that fascinating thread on religion in Dean's World where Arnold Harris of Mt. Horeb, WI., called Joe Gandelman "Joe Handleman". ha! ha! ha! ha! Reminds me of when an interesting kid in good old Central High called Haldeman "Hadleman". ha! ha! ha! ha! I keep thinking about that. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Those were the days....

The idea behind this has its roots in how well it worked against Nixon. There are things quoted about Nixon that simply aren't true, after researching, but are still quoted in the history books today. A better idea would be to compare and contrast Nixon's behavior in the close election againt Kennedy. There were clear indications of voter fraud. Eisenhower urged Nixon to request a recount. But old power hungry Nixon chose not to, for the sake of the country. Gore would keep recounting till he could figure a way to get the results he wants.

Richard Nixon was one of the most liberal Presidents in American history. A proposal for a guaranteed income, affirmative action, wage and price controls, detente with the Communists. But the Left still hates him and will always hate him for one reason:

It has been 52 years since Whittaker Chambers wrote his "Witness". The Left can never forgive Richard Nixon for helping Whittaker Chambers expose Alger Hiss. The Left cannot bear to breathe the name of Whittaker Chambers, they hate him so much, so they curse Richard Nixon instead and curse him forever, as the shadow of Whittaker Chambers.

Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss still symbolize the great fissure in the West. Chambers named it: "God or Man? Soul or Mind? Freedom or Communism?" He predicted that the 20th century would be known either as the century of "the Great Social Wars" (as the Communists would call it) or as the century of "the Great Wars of Faith". He knew that the War he was fighting was a spiritual War, and we are still fighting it today. It is a crisis of the soul.

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