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.
@Retsler543 жыл бұрын
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-ic4hq2 жыл бұрын
I remember Eisenhower saying, when asked to say something good about Nixon, "give me a couple of weeks".
@brucekuehn40316 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
He was every bit the evil bogeyman -- and more.
@jamesanthony5681 Жыл бұрын
Didn't Duke kiss Nixon twice on each cheek, and when asked afterwards, Ellington replied, 'One for each cheek.'
@lhart992 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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_GiantStack4 жыл бұрын
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.)
@trajan753 жыл бұрын
Nixon was more intelligent than any of his successors. He did have personality.
@trajan753 жыл бұрын
I meant ot say personality problems.
@jamesanthony5681 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@trajan75 Yes, I'd say psychopath is a bit of a personality problem.
@tony84. Жыл бұрын
2:40, Mike Wallace is one of the greatest reporters of all time. No one out there like him today.
@unclejoe74663 жыл бұрын
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-ic4hq3 жыл бұрын
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.
@franknberry63972 жыл бұрын
@@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?
@jorgejohnson4512 жыл бұрын
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.
@phillipleconte37156 жыл бұрын
thank you Charles Lewis
@jerrybobteasdale3 жыл бұрын
Nixon was an earlier example of a President that the Press didn't like, and attempted to remove from office.
@tacoheadmakenzie93113 жыл бұрын
He, by his own admission in the end, gave them lots of help with that.
@shackdaddy71063 жыл бұрын
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-f7t6 ай бұрын
Lo que puedo recordar el watergate en aquel entonces?
@LUKEY_D_FRESH2 жыл бұрын
mike was a grand guy... he had dementia at the end.
@LdGunn3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the people in Vietnam and Cambodia would share the sentiments.
@frank27783 жыл бұрын
If we could exhume the bodies. Someone should have played the tapes for Wallace. Racism....homophobia...every kind of hatred.
@bob1964utube3 жыл бұрын
@@frank2778 snowflake
@keithfitzgerald35362 жыл бұрын
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.
@jamesmilligan45923 жыл бұрын
Wallace means Hubris in some other language, pretty sure of that🤔
@davidmoser35353 жыл бұрын
Nixon- I am not a crook Wallace-Oh yes you are
@smacdiesel3 жыл бұрын
That's not what he said.
@MarVelJones-n2n Жыл бұрын
Bad judgement on Wallace's part. My father went to college with Nixon. Nixon was always a major crook. Even back in college.
@MrUndersolo2 жыл бұрын
Strange... Nixon had friends?
@williamkelly802610 ай бұрын
Wallace was an obnoxious bully
@williamboynton333510 жыл бұрын
First Post!! Do I win a toaster?? Thanks for posting.
@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq3 жыл бұрын
Wallace sounded like Neville Chamberlain telling the world that Hitler was a reasonable reasonable dictator
@RichardMNixon-zh6uz3 жыл бұрын
...and here's another product of the liberal education establishment. ^
@WilliamJohnson-ic4hq2 жыл бұрын
@@RaughweI was talking about Wallace not Nixon.
@michaeljohndadd5454 жыл бұрын
15th comnent
@veanwhitcher78673 жыл бұрын
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.
@jorgejohnson4512 жыл бұрын
How is that? China became a superpower thanks to Nixon’s double dealing.
@karenjones51204 жыл бұрын
Nixon hated Myron Wallic and he would despise his son Chris today too.