Mike Wallace - A Friendship with Nixon

[@charlescanterbury9762]

I'm a lifelong Republican, but a staunch Conservative who never like Nixon, Loved Reagan, but in recent years after doing a lot of research and watching a lot of videos of Nixon, I have changed my opinion somewhat, he was very intelligent, really understood foreign affairs as few others did. Still are some thing's that can't be overlooked, but maybe not the monster that he has been portrayed as.

[@Retsler54]

I am a foreigner, European. Trump and Reagan fan. Yes Nixon was sure great on the issues. I also beleive Carter and Mondale was quite ok.

[@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq]

I remember Eisenhower saying, when asked to say something good about Nixon, "give me a couple of weeks".

[@brucekuehn4031]

I remember David Letterman talking about meeting Nixon. He said he was incredibly charming. They talked about baseball. Nixon was not the evil boogeyman people make him out to be. Take a look at Ellington at the White House (and hear some great music!). Nixon plays Happy Birthday to Duke from the piano.

[@jamesanthony5681]

I heard the story that when Duke kissed Nixon on his cheeks four times, Ellington was asked, "Why *four* times?" Replied Duke, "One for each cheek."

[@MarVelJones-n2n]

He was every bit the evil bogeyman -- and more.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Didn't Duke kiss Nixon twice on each cheek, and when asked afterwards, Ellington replied, 'One for each cheek.'

[@lhart99]

Like I've always said, love Nixon or hate him, 99.99% of the time he was the smartest man in the room. His political mind was rarely matched. For all his downfalls, which are many, he was still a savage president. Had Nixon not had Watergate, he'd be considered one of the greats just like FDR, Lincoln, and Washington. 🙂

[@MarVelJones-n2n]

Watergate was who he was. It was the truth of his soul. My father knew him in college. Watergate was the through line. Long before that ever happened, I heard 1st hand stories about what a complete crook he was. Way back in the 1950's, my dad called it, right on the money.

[@ConcernedResident_GiantStack]

I feel very sorry for Nixon. He wasn't anymore evil than JFK, and yet the press loved Jack and hated Nixon. Not that I think Nixon was a super great president, but it was still unfair what the press did to him purely out of elitism. (I don't think they really hated him due to any political differences, but that it had more to do with who were the "cool" kids and who weren't: Nixon was in the latter category. So superficial.)

[@trajan75]

Nixon was more intelligent than any of his successors. He did have personality.

[@trajan75]

I meant ot say personality problems.

[@jamesanthony5681]

He obviously didn't have JFK's easy grace, looks or wit. I often though Nixon should have had a close, public relations advisor to counsel him on matters like not being photographed walking on the beach at Santa Monica wearing black shoes. But Nixon brought on a lot of that antipathy from the press with his enemies list, and his attempts to destroy the careers of certain members in the media.

[@MarVelJones-n2n]

He was a total crook. All the way back to his college days. Probably before. He was a traitor to this country by deliberately sabotaging LBJ's peace talks. A real savage, in truth. Feel sorry for all the people who died in Vietnam because of him.

[@MarVelJones-n2n]

@@trajan75 Yes, I'd say psychopath is a bit of a personality problem.

[@tony84.]

2:40, Mike Wallace is one of the greatest reporters of all time. No one out there like him today.

[@unclejoe7466]

I just watched interviews of Ted Koppel and David Brinkley on their impressions of Nixon -- interesting contrasts to Wallace's impression. While Nixon had serious flaws (listen to taped conversations between him and Kissinger), he also created the EPA and the Endangered Species Act of 1973, not the kind of behavior expected of most contemporary conservatives.

[@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq]

He also ended the Vietnam war poorly, open the door to trade with China (how is that working out?), he was not a conservative, he impose wage and price control, created an oil crisis caused by the Yon Kipper War, and as best stated by president Eisenhower, when asked to say something good about him, give a week.

[@franknberry6397]

@@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq Prolonged the Vietnam War by 6 years. By committing treason. Having Kissinger spy for him during peace talks in Paris. Then fed the information to South Vietnamese woman who then gave it to South Vietnamese Junta. Wallace makes a serious error as Koppel did by getting friendly with people you are covering. Koppel stated on Phil Donahue show that Kissinger was his friend. Yet he covered the State Department. How can you be an unbiased reporter?

[@jorgejohnson451]

Wallace fancies Nixon because he thinks he knew him “when” and that Nixon had some intersection insights. It’s the trap that most biographers and novices fall into. Wallace really isn’t much different than Monica Lewinsky, when you think of it. Nixon charmed Wallace like Clinton charmed Lewinsky. I wonder if Wallace has a blue dress, too.

[@phillipleconte3715]

thank you Charles Lewis

[@jerrybobteasdale]

Nixon was an earlier example of a President that the Press didn't like, and attempted to remove from office.

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

He, by his own admission in the end, gave them lots of help with that.

[@shackdaddy7106]

I miss Mike Wallace. It would’ve been interesting to see an interview with Mike Wallace and the Donald Trump of 2020. I think he would’ve stood up to Trump more than his son did.

[@RobertBrown-f7t]

Lo que puedo recordar el watergate en aquel entonces?

[@LUKEY_D_FRESH]

mike was a grand guy... he had dementia at the end.

[@LdGunn]

I'm sure the people in Vietnam and Cambodia would share the sentiments.

[@frank2778]

If we could exhume the bodies. Someone should have played the tapes for Wallace. Racism....homophobia...every kind of hatred.

[@bob1964utube]

@@frank2778 snowflake

[@keithfitzgerald3536]

It's a boring "interview" in which Wallace, at semi-deity status, basks in the role of reminiscing about his glorious career and his "friendship" with the criminal, Nixon.

[@jamesmilligan4592]

Wallace means Hubris in some other language, pretty sure of that🤔

[@davidmoser3535]

Nixon- I am not a crook Wallace-Oh yes you are

[@smacdiesel]

That's not what he said.

[@MarVelJones-n2n]

Bad judgement on Wallace's part. My father went to college with Nixon. Nixon was always a major crook. Even back in college.

[@MrUndersolo]

Strange... Nixon had friends?

[@williamkelly8026]

Wallace was an obnoxious bully

[@williamboynton3335]

First Post!! Do I win a toaster?? Thanks for posting.

[@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq]

Wallace sounded like Neville Chamberlain telling the world that Hitler was a reasonable reasonable dictator

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

...and here's another product of the liberal education establishment. ^

[@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq]

@@RaughweI was talking about Wallace not Nixon.

[@michaeljohndadd545]

15th comnent

[@veanwhitcher7867]

For all of his human faults, which by the way none of is succumb to, The Nation was in very good hands as far as Global Politics.

[@jorgejohnson451]

How is that? China became a superpower thanks to Nixon’s double dealing.

[@karenjones5120]

Nixon hated Myron Wallic and he would despise his son Chris today too.