Nixon's ADVICE On Dealing With Chinese Leaders

[@tidursini]

I was reading my ex Prime Minister’s Lee Kuan Yew’s autobigraphy many years ago (he is the founding father of Singapore). He met every US President from Lyndon B Johnson to Barack Obama, and he died in 2015. When asked who is the greatest US President that he has met, he said it was Nixon. I was a little shocked because all I knew about Nixon at that time was Watergate. Having seen his video interviews, I now know why Lee had that impression. Nixon was far ahead of his time.

[@polemopoleno7104]

Wow!

[@polemopoleno7104]

Also LKY was a very wise man! So much respect for him as a leader and person. I remember his interview about death penalties for drug traficing. Such an eloquent speaker!

[@marky1974]

He pardoned the perpetrators of Mai Lai and supported Pinochet..

[@kaniel_outis1]

Of course he’d say that. Harry is super pro Chinese

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Mai Lai I don't know quite enough, but Pinochet like Trujillo, the Shah of Iran and Franco were great for their countries. There's times when only a dictator can keep the barbarians at bay. I lived under both Fidel Castro and Franco iny youth. Waaaaaay better under Franco and my son who lived in the DR for 11 years tells me the average person mostly has positive views of Trujillo. The intelligentsia, as Thomas Sowel and others points, are usually the most idiotic and disconnected from reality.

[@PatrickCrossfire.]

He retired in our beach town. Used to see him on the local golf course once in a while with his secret sevice. He also liked the resturant I worked at during my High School years and would come in once in a while with his family. He always left big tips.😊

[@johnryman1366]

San Clemente's most famous citizen...ever. Nixon gets better with age .

[@PatrickCrossfire.]

@@johnryman1366 Yes he was. We all liked him.

[@mkogrady6078]

We used to see him at shorecliffs golf club.

[@PatrickCrossfire.]

@@mkogrady6078 Yes exactly. When I was going to Shore Cliffs Jr. High fom 1977-1978 when it was brand new. We used to see him on the fairway down at the bottom of the hill.

[@PatrickCrossfire.]

@@mkogrady6078 mkogrady? Are you one of the O'Grady brothers from San Clemente? I knew Rich and Danny.

[@malcolmmutambanengwe3453]

President Nixon sounds really intelligent and his words are coherent. This is not the image which I was expecting based on what the media fed me. Love and respect from Zimbabwe, Africa.

[@danko1058]

intelligence is not the same as morality/ethics

[@Antonocon]

This guy is a thousand times more intelligent than I'd been led to believe previously.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

Intelligent? Certainly, and I didn't like the guy. Effective? Totally different question

[@The_Scouts_Code]

Becker always threw shade.

[@neemapaxima6116]

He was intelligent enough to resign

[@tnbspotter5360]

You were led to believe wrong because you were led by the left.

[@johntomlinson6849]

Agreed. We both need to look at the true motives of the people denigrating him.

[@bluemoon67-f9c]

Nixon is way more intelligent than current leaders. Far more coherent.

[@danielpascoe9638]

The man was an idiot for opening the door to China.

[@mrwizard2089]

Nixon ruined the us economy by taking America off the gold standard. He was a tool.

[@fuckgoogle6010]

And just as corrupt.

[@unacceptablefringe7508]

@@jasoncullen8430 ah, you can always count on TDS to strike somewhere lol

[@dankamp2872]

@@jasoncullen8430 So a Congress trying to impeach a POTUS starting a year before he's even in office is "looking the other way"?

[@buckyoung4578]

This is the record and it is indisputable. Under President Nixon, the national budget was balanced every year, the volunteer army was realized, China was opened which neutralized to a large degree the homogeneity of a Soviet/China power block, the Vietnam War was ended with as much dignity as one could hope for after the political mess LBJ made of the war. A truly great president.

[@forgottenman8629]

you nailed it on every count, well done...

[@partofeverything2147]

He threw the report on marijuana in a waste bin and forged ahead in the war in drugs. That destroyed lots of lives. It was done to control minorities. Mexico was destroyed. What a balanced budget. He is so great.

[@samuelthompson8080]

Well when you have 100 years of history economically, politically, and historically oppressing a group of people that you annexed literally 1/4 of the United States from. The last thing you want is your closet neighbor gaining economic and military power and then spreading that hatred to other South America countries. You may ask what evidence I have to support this assumption .........Look at China. Imagine what would happen instead of China being the manufacturer capital of the world we made Mexico. Would you feel comfortable with an economic and military rival sharing a boarder with you lmao lol

[@whyshouldwecare3267]

Hey, hes already complimented Nixon enough, controlling minorities is just the cherry on top!

[@randomcommenter3189]

@@partofeverything2147 It's a good thing that marijuana is illegal, recent research has permanently discredited the "harmless plant, mannn!" narrative. And if minorities don't want to get thrown in jail for doing drugs, they simply shouldn't do drugs, it's very easy actually! With regard to Mexico, one can hardly blame the War on Drugs for its current state. Mexico, since its independence, has alternated between periods of dictatorship and instability. The land controlled by the major cartels of note, at this point, are the same lands that are almost always spitting out rebels and revolutionaries. With or without the War on Drugs, the PRI Dictatorship was always going to end and the country was ALWAYS going to go up in flames. You should stop regurgitating these braindead points to advance your shallow pro-legalization narrative, when it's blatantly clear you've never read a single book on the history of Mexico.

[@failtolawl]

Nixon is definitely taking a realist approach here. Truly a student of international politics.

[@hoilst265]

Not bad for the second Western leader to make it into China!

[@EnupemeAnendethekaurinth]

lol his name was fraud implying usage of puns via nihonya japaan not giving affiliative credit to the superior by punning the suffix vocally

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

Less a student and more a figure of international politics

[@hiddendragon415]

@@QuietlyContemplating l don't think you are giving affilative credit to his post.

[@seriouscat2231]

@@QuietlyContemplating, that is how Chinese students always write English.

[@pedrob3953]

Nixon was one of the few US presidents who deeply understood foreign politics. He actually cared about knowing how others thought, not just imposing his will on them.

[@sorellman]

Indeed, he cared about knowing how others thought. That was why he was forced to resign. He wanted to know how other thought and he ordered the illegal recording of their conversations. (Are you going to delete this, or you care to know how others think.)

[@frankburklin1116]

​@sorellman man what did he do to deserve that.are you still in college.

[@user-1rg9f2-g3l6d]

@@sorellman Nixon gave this interview when he was old, in hindsight. Back when he was a young POTUS, he and Kissinger wanted to forge close ties and cooperation with a "Third World" China as a counterweight against the then greater evil --- the Soviet Union.

[@juliangrant9718]

​@@sorellmanObama did the same thing to Trump. I can't imagine any President is not clean in spying and secret recordings on their political opponents.

[@MatthewC137]

He deeply understood that his masters wanted Chinese style rule in the US.

[@dmpi483]

Not only is this guy incredibly knowledgeable, the way this guy can articulate so clearly and precisely is just plain amazing.

[@genxer74]

even average folks from back then were so much better then the average folks of today. It's a lost art since we're all wrapped up in tech and emotions.

[@moranplano]

Bill Clinton called him all the time on foreign policy matters, particularly when it came to the communists. His praise of Nixon at Nixon's funeral was very complimentary and sincere. When faced with a foreign policy crisis later, Clinton commented.."Don't you wish we had someone like Nixon to call, right about now?" He sure did. Historians owe Nixon an apology.

[@patrickbateman1660]

Crook to crook communication. Both impeached lmao

[@jabadoodle]

You had me until the last sentence. Nixon was brilliant. He was also a "crook" that was making enemies lists and breaking the law to subvert democracy. Historians don't own him anything other than the truth.

[@markeaston4942]

MAGA!

[@ThePaulv12]

So it's the historians' fault? lol Now I've heard everything...

[@codybaker1150]

​​@@ThePaulv12.... It's always partially been the historian's fault. That isn't a new concept. It's what 1984 is about, Winston is on a team that literally rewrites history. Historians write the entire Nixon presidency as Watergate and Vietnam. Most kids don't even know about the oil crisis and the national campaign to save fuel

[@johnkelley9877]

He was a very wise man. I really did not realize how intelligent he was until he gave interviews on talk shows after leaving the White House and he was able to talk about a lot of issues openly like this. He is one of the few Presidents the Chinese liked.

[@slewone4905]

He is the most intelligent President we had for a iong time. He qualified to get into Havard, but couldn't afford it.

[@atomsk1972]

Most presidents and prime ministers sound more reasonable and eloquent once they leave office - they are no longer tied to the party-line in the same way.

[@scottb4579]

@@atomsk1972 Biden will, and always has, sounded the same - stupid. It won't matter when he leaves office. He might not even know he's no longer in office. Nixon always talked like this.

[@tabo01]

@@scottb4579 Biden actually took office during Nixon's term, and has been a hack pol the entire time.

[@skyler114]

just wait til you learn a few days before watergate there are audio recordings of him telling the deputy director of the CIA "I know who shot John"

[@Chris-oj2jr]

The most intelligent take on relations with China. I’ve always felt that the business partnership with the U.S. is a huge stabilizing force for world peace.

[@fakshen1973]

I disagree. Feeding dragons and bears was more of a pacification as they grew stronger from our money through trade.

[@aaronp2542]

@@fakshen1973 Then take it up with the people running the US. They on average gained 90% of profits for every item sold made in China. Don't make it out like it was a one way transaction. It was opted into willingly on both sides.

[@superfantastichappymedia4617]

Nixon was Eisenhower's VP. This man was very knowledgeable. The Apollo moon missions all occurred during his Presidency. Making of the world's reserve currency tied in with the Petrol dollar. The man loved his country and had a deep understanding of how international politics worked. I will take Nixon any day over the current corruption there is on a daily basis in American politics today.

[@texasbtc]

Getting off the gold standard to print aka devalue our currency at their free will is the definition of corruption. How can someone support someone who kicked our demise off the mountain? Still on the gold standard - can't afford endless wars. Still on the gold standard - no such thing as zombie corporations Still on the gold standard - no real estate crashes after sub prime lending went haywire I could on and on. Now, I would prefer we back our currency by something trackable like bitcoin for accountability but I'd take the gold standard back as well because it limits corrupt governments/politicians. Every society in history, every single one, failed once they moved to true fiat. The romans clipped coins. The french imported beads to Africa. That list unfortunately goes on for a while too.

[@drmachinewerke1]

And he brought my brother home

[@userwsyz]

Apollo Moon mission was under his admin? No wonder people say it was fake. Nevertheless, Nixon is much less a crook than any we have now.

[@Louis-w3v]

​@@drmachinewerke1John Lennon helped with that also.

[@lambastepirate]

@@Louis-w3v Walter Cronkite did the most I would say.

[@geo525252]

How far have we fallen. Nixon would be the most honest politician among the entire bunch we have serving now. He certainly wasn't perfect, but a damn sight better than the current slugs.

[@whaddyathink949]

Bernie Sanders is cool. Ron Paul as well. Guys like that never get close to the presidency, though.

[@drmachinewerke1]

Bernie has no chance. He is not a democrat or a republican.

[@IdealUser]

@@whaddyathink949 Nah, they're just as corrupt up as the rest of the lot.

[@whaddyathink949]

@@IdealUser You'll learn a lot more listening to those two than any other politicians i can think of; both about history & current events. One example is look at how much they each have spoken with clarity on how Israel operates.

[@Wagner-c5m]

Who You Calling a slug? Biden? Eye'll Have You Know that Sleepy Joe's mama wouldn't say that¡!

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

I was a little guy when I saw President Nixon and the 1st lady, they were getting ready for a parade down Main st in New Rochelle. Mrs Nixon waved and I looked around, she then pointed at me, smiled and waved again. I got so excited, I hoped on my bike and rode away. : )

[@steve53LY]

Nixon was brilliant !

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

Brilliant at making China one of the most powerful nations on the planet.

[@Drewbinsky69]

Very underrated president...

[@billedifier8584]

The correct spelling is overrated. Especially on this channel.

[@moncorp1]

@@billedifier8584 ~ nice try. The sad thing is that crooked Biden makes Nixon look like a choirboy.

[@yoshiko-kawashima]

@@billedifier8584nobody’s buying your commie bs here

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

@@moncorp1 Biden is Nixon 2.0

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

Nixon is the reason almost everything sold in the USA is made in China. He opened up trade with the communists and sold the majority of our manufacturing jobs overseas. He should have been tried for treason.

[@Guardian__Angel]

Out of all post-WWII US Presidents, Nixon was unquestionably the most knowledgeable and most competent in foreign affairs.

[@bobbyjones7756]

My father was a staunch Democrat his entire life (b. 1928), but made the remark one time that Nixon was/could have been our best President at foreign affairs if he hadn't been such a paranoid sob (referencing Watergate, probably).

[@MrBlack-wt5er]

He was the best president and that's why they had to get him involved in a scandal that he took the fall for and had nothing to do with it.

[@depaola63]

Absolutely 💯

[@jogendron6320]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You guys are funny.

[@superbirden57]

Agreed

[@jeffreysokal7264]

Richard Nixon was a very astute and knowledgable statesman who succumbed to to his lesser angels. A very human thing to do.

[@stevetaylor8298]

Successive others have done worse and gotten away with it.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

Holding him accountable is also very human

[@kenklein9228]

@@stevetaylor8298 I wonder if the most powerful of his lesser angels was his ego. The fact that he had all conversations in the Oval Office taped is what did him in. Other presidents haven't done that, which makes getting away with illegal activity easier.

[@RCorvinus]

At least he fell on his sword when he got caught out.

[@Shinobubu]

And now every Democrat is doing everything he did wrong and proud of it. They're now wire tapping all of their political enemies and damn proud of it.

[@zhoubaidinh403]

It's a matter of keeping your friend close, your enemy closer....for both sides.

[@georgewhitehead8185]

The best way to keep your enemy closer is with SPIES. It has been said that one (1) good spy is worth more that 10,000 well trained soldiers. Doctor George Whitehead

its not about enemy china is not a enemy china is about security aka security of the coast aka security of when they get attacked against by 9 nation they can defend themselves yall act like they gon come and invade US lmfao

[@joeanderson4508]

Congratulations to the Nixon Foundation for curating this incredible series of clips applying Nixon's foreign policy views to current issues. This clip and others are concise and digestible. The clips draw upon President Nixon's insights to help unpack some of the more complex problems we are currently facing abroad. This is a productive and helpful use of an important archival asset.

[@troyzieman7177]

It was said of Nixon , that he was one of the few US Presidents to practice foreign policy by design . That is he anticipated events and proactively lead the US to be where others were going . Today US policy is more reactionary and not anticipatory

[@hackman669]

Eisenhower tried to warn us 🇺🇸

[@seancidy6008]

He had to extricate the US from disastrous overreach in Vietnam and act on long term goals. I don't think anyone could have managed those things better.

[@troyzieman7177]

@seancidy6008 yes , and he did so with forethought and a plan . He could see where China was going , 30 years before they got there . That is insight we don't see anymore

[@Mdebacle]

Soon after the Iran hostage crisis, my brother said "Tricky Dick Nixon would have known what to do."

[@loyalfilm]

The brilliant mind of a skilled attorney. President Nixon was a true statesman.

[@qwanathomas735]

His vision was vast.

[@johnryman1366]

He gets better with age. Received more votes than any president to date.

[@adamyami2902]

And a crook 🤣

[@illomens2766]

@@adamyami2902 Big whoop bud, so are all our current politicians. I'd take a coherent crook that knows politics over Joe Biden any day of the week.

[@jonbaker3728]

Other than the whole racism and criming.

[@johnyrevenge6356]

Wow!! An American president who could form a coherent sentence. Those were the days. RIP America, you guys are doomed.

[@dummy2784]

Wumao is mad. America has a president who could form a coherent sentence.

[@gasparole]

How did things go in Vietnam with Winnie Poo?

[@Jake-rs9nq]

Obama was a phenomenal wordsmith, and he only left office 7 years ago. There is still hope for the American Presidency.

[@Tethloach1]

The world is doomed because everything could be destroyed by a disaster.

[@mengsiongkheng113]

Wow, I can't believe I can actually witness the downfall of the British empire and now the US.😂

[@Rextum]

Not every ”crook” is stupid. Not every nice person is clever. We all have strength and weaknesses. You cannot sum up a person into a single event or scandal.

[@mbradley274]

We seem to be surrounded by stupid crooks.

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

Nixon was a pinko traitor.

[@mbradley274]

@@user-ei9ns9hq6b Compared to Biden, he was a saint. Compared to Biden, a gerbil is a genius.

[@sangeetsubedi9509]

@@mbradley274 Biden and Trump both

[@AxePlays-hc5dj]

Saving this

[@mlmoreno75]

Refreshing listening to an adult speak. None of those in our government today.

[@honkhonk8009]

Why dont we hear mfs give podcasts like this anymore? Its all brainrot now. You never see normal people talk normal shit like Nixon does here. Always about some idiotic bullshit that nobody cares abt

[@jabadoodle]

Pete Buttigieg speaks clearly and concisely. Biden would be okay but has lost most of it in the fog that comes with advanced age.

[@mlmoreno75]

Awww… YT. And FBI had to hide comments on this post… how cute.

[@MrDibara]

​@@mlmoreno75 Really? 😐 What did they hide, can you more or less remember what the comments were saying? No irony, I'm genuinelly curious.

[@mlmoreno75]

@@MrDibara Before our comments, it said I had 2 replies, but nothing showed up. YT does this to control the narrative.

[@fluxmuldar]

In foreign policy, you must understand the other side and their motivations. Nixon clearly had that knowledge in abundance. Our current leaders unfortunately do not, which is why we've stumble into one foreign misadventure after another in recent years.

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

He had that knowledge and used it to screw America.

[@vaughnmaycock4504]

Most importantly they didn't give a shit. They felt that being president automatically put them in charge of the world. Arrogance in place of wisdom.

[@indianajones4321]

Nixon was very underrated and we need him and his experience/expertise now more than ever

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

If you like everything sold in the USA being made in China, thank Nixon.

[@lordrevan571]

You're fucking delusional.

[@seancidy6008]

Today, he would be concerned with China's threat to American primacy.

[@jogendron6320]

Today he would be a felon like any other Republicunt.

[@lars277]

One of the most misunderstood Presidents ever. Great foreign policy mind.

[@generalgrievous2580]

He committed a crime and got pardoned by his vice president

[@MaloPiloto]

No doubt a out it- he was great at foreign policy. What he said 50 years ago holds true today…

[@MarioLopez-si8jb]

He's the reason why China is so powerful today

[@RockSmithStudio]

@@MarioLopez-si8jb China was going to be powerful one way or another. China's labor is too massive to not yield great potential(especially through a unitary government) though that will become an issue in decades to come as China's population is now declining

[@tom-kz9pb]

Nixon was one of the most misunderstood crooks in American history. He was far more violent, vicious, insane and dangerous than tragically bland, ignorant Americans realize.

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

The more I watch him, the more I identify with him. RIP Mr. Nixon. The world has severely misjudged you for too long.

[@ksw501]

Yup

[@mrw4165]

Nixon wasn’t misjudged. He was politically persecuted by the liberal media for the frivolous antics of overzealous supporters.

[@every1665]

I was only 14 when Nixon resigned and, being an Aussie, had very little interest or knowledge of US politics so I just accepted the common media narrative that 'Nixon was a crook and a despicable man'. But years later and reading up on what he actually achieved and what he stood for, I'd say he was a great President. The media has a long history of backing losers and reviling winners.

[@scottb4579]

I was a few years younger than you when the Watergate scandal happened. I'm American. Nixon was treated unfairly by the liberal press of the day. (Some things never change). I've always believed it was this treatment that drove him to get dirt on the democrats from their offices in the Watergate Hotel. Polls had him winning in a landslide, which he did winning 49 states and taking 60.7% of the vote. It was completely unecessary. He made a terrible decision based on bitterness and anger. He actually signed into law many great laws we still have today. One of our most intelligent presidents.

[@shreyaskumarrath721]

@@scottb4579 what about Nixon's deliberate support of Bangladeshi genocide in 1971? Do you support that too?

[@charliefreemansingsandspeaks]

"Backing losers and reviling winners." That sums it up extraordinarily concisely! One would think that this mindset would only prevail in the media of a nation like the United States, where total equality (and the religion of envy that it engenders) is the implicit goal of the culture, but it seems that we've exported that to the rest of the world as well, unfortunately.

[@Rowlph8888]

Forget Watergate… He took the US off the gold standard, permanently, after promising to put it back after the Vietnam war - that''s the worst Corrupt acte in Modern history and now several decades later,, the culmination of the money printing and excessive borrowing from the future has plunged most of the world into an massive domino collapse within 2 years

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

It’s now worse than ever before.

[@billybob5337]

Nixon is the greatest President by far when it comes to commentary. He can break things down in such a sensible way, and analyze every angle, without going over your head. He is, imo, also the greatest writer among any President since at least TR, and wrote multiple books.

[@numuves]

As someone who is living in China (and making vlogs and content here) this President was spot on!

[@felisasininus1784]

Nixon's pronunciation of Pr Zhou Enlai's names shows exactly how much respect he pays to his counterparts. He learned to pronounce ZH and EN in mandarin and did a commendable job saying his name.

[@felisasininus1784]

@@elmastro-ye9lw Lmao literally every American politician who calls Pres Xi "President She", which would be everyone. Who would prolly just call Zhou Enlai something like "Joanne". lmfao

[@memyself1566]

@@felisasininus1784 Americans are not too good at languages - including the English language!

[@felisasininus1784]

@@memyself1566 I personally know Americans who speak better mandarin than half of us Chinese folks. The problem with most Americans is not incompetence, but sheer arrogance.

[@paulmicelli5819]

I agree, you must give respect to receive respect, a brilliant statesman

[@felisasininus1784]

@@paulmicelli5819 President Nixon had beef with Dr Kissinger. But he employed Kissinger anyway. That's how you can tell he is a true statesman, and not your run-of-the-mill politician.

[@GeorgeDoughty-m8e]

Imagine that. A politician thinking of putting HIS country first!

[@quattordicimontenapoleone3113]

It was more politicians putting themselves first. Security for the country meant security for the party and its leaders first and foremost.

[@WeAreLegion-]

Trump...?

[@ozrob8726]

@@jasoncullen8430 Since he first decided to run for President. He could have taken the easy life, but decided, at huge personal cost, to run because he didn't like what America was becoming. He also decided to forgo the Presidential salary. You think Biden's Presidential material and cares about you?

[@blacktimhoward4322]

This is how racists say "a racist"

[@unacceptablefringe7508]

@@blacktimhoward4322 only racists I see today are BLM activists being openly racist against Whites and Asians and the Leftists who think that just because someone is Black somehow means they don't have the mental capacity to acquire an ID and produce it in order to vote...

[@generalrommel5666]

I’m not American but I’m liking Nixon. What drew towards knowing more about him is the hate that the media spreads that acts like obstacles towards getting to know him. He’s a good guy

[@jogendron6320]

Good guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dominicboyle1672]

God,how we need an intellect like Nixon right now..

[@atomatman3104]

SO SORRY BUT NO GOD

[@hlf_coder6272]

Right. He's only the guy that put us on fiat currency which is absolutely going to be what destroys the country, and in just a few years. Look at the national debt over the years. We have amassed 100 times the amount of debt since Nixon took us off the gold standard than we did in the 200 years before that. 100 TIMES. If you're wondering why your grandfather could buy a house for 20k and you can't for 800k, there's your answer. He put us on fiat because LBJ's welfare state was amassing an enormous amount of debt. The answer was to end that welfare state, not give us a monetary system that ALWAYS inevitably fails

[@ezakustam]

​@@atomatman3104That's obsession to the point of absolute irrelevance. IT'S JUST A COMMON IDIOM.

[@brentsummers7377]

Ah, well! We've got cue cards prepared by Blinken and Austin & read out by Biden.

[@patrickporter1864]

Well you picked triumph and will have to live. With him and musk.

[@williamryan9195]

That's what the American public wants, leadership that thinks of America first.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

Dude, just say 'racist'. No one is fooled by this 'america first' phrasing

[@williamryan9195]

@@blacktimhoward4322 Your'e fooled by it.

[@darkmatter21_xx]

​@@blacktimhoward4322Bruh you clowns bring up race into every conversation, Get a Job

[@cyborgchicken3502]

​@@blacktimhoward4322 dude just you're woke, no one is fooled by it.... Kinda wild that you don't want a government to care about its people ... But yet it's you woketards that demand reparations

[@patrickbateman1660]

Like trump? A zionist? Like all republicans who have no issue sending billions overseas.at least biden actually put money in the economy

[@viz8746]

My late father who died in 2009 when he was 72 used to say, "Kennedy may have had charisma, but Nixon had the brains and the intellect". Until some kids came along and pigeon-holed him into Watergate.

[@johannuys7914]

The days when the US had intellectuals for leaders who could contemplate complex foreign issues and make long term plans. Today's bunch of neocon criminals is a far cry from that.

[@gusloader123]

@johannuys --- Newsflash: The "neocons" are not in charge of anything. Have you been asleep in a cave without a radio for 7+ years?!? The communists and extreme socialists and gender-bender perverts are running the nation and most of the media in November 2023 A.D. Have you not seen the Biden Cabinet secretaries being questioned by members of the House & the Senate? How did you get any "Likes" for your silly post?

[@timothydempsey3763]

Selfie politicians in the moment, today's predicament

[@dankamp2872]

Less time placating queers and more time protecting the nation.

[@superduck6456]

We’ve got a problem with neocons not planning anything out, and we’ve got a problem with isolationist so-called “anti-globalists” not planning anything out. Both sides of the issue push simple solutions to complex international issues and it doesn’t work. Things are nuanced; there should be no one size fits all approach.

[@tnbspotter5360]

You mean globalist criminals on the foreign payroll today.

[@althunder4269]

Compare a president like Nixon to what we've have recently. There is no comparison.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

Being able to form a sentence is indeed important.

[@Ettrick8]

Yeh Nixon had to resign before he was impeached due to his criminal activities. Whereas Biden is sorting out Trump and the GOP mess.

[@jameslay1489]

@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep Yeah, and actually knowing that we didn't have airports during the Revolutionary War and that Nikki Haley wasn't in Congress on Jan 6th. Neither candidates we have right now are able to speak well.

[@linshitaolst4936]

I am a Chinese. To tell you the truth, we Chinese people will not hate you Americans, because there is a famous saying in China: your friends will help you, but your opponents will achieve you.

[@davidkannorsk2055]

Good post. My daughter in law is from China. I try to learn as much as I can from her knowledge. And by the way, my News Years wish to you, Cái yuán guǎng jìn

[@Muslimcel]

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer😉

[@linshitaolst4936]

@Muslimcel China will not be as foolish as the US to completely collapse the Soviet Union. It has been proven that the disappearance of a superpower will only affect the world balance and make the world more chaotic. China's goal is very clear, which is to surpass the US and weaken its influence in the Asia Pacific region, but the US must exist

[@serenam4490]

A true statesman that’s so sorely lacking in American politics today!

[@penitent2401]

it's what you get for voting base entirely on catch phrases. people are not interested in long complex explanation and solutions to tackle root causes, whoever fills the most bingo cards wins.

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

You're easily fooled by communist propaganda if you think Nixon was any good.

[@jogendron6320]

A true statesman. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Gullible much?

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Brilliant mind.

[@MusingsOAM]

This applies very much to the USA too: security and self preservation has a higher priority over ideology when it comes to a simple choice between the two.

[@catzanddogz7517]

As in open borders?

[@Samuel-wm1xr]

well I wouldn't say it applies totally to the USA. American politicians often insist on working only with democracies or push regime change even if it makes no sense strategically

[@user-fy6kr7yr9c]

@@Samuel-wm1xr Hasn't the vast majority of those regime changes well as how it works only with democracies been in the interests of US security.

[@georgearrivals]

@@user-fy6kr7yr9cwhat is this gibberish lol

[@fungunsun1]

Not anymore

[@johngamerschlag7001]

In retrospect Richard Nixon was an incredible president.

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

He's the reason made in China is more common than made in America.

[@jogendron6320]

Pretty credible to me.

[@DavidJones-tw3ov]

I was a child around the time of Watergate,now watching these videos of Nixon I think he was stitched up,he makes Biden look a lightweight.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

he was a very smart man

[@docsavage8640]

Great president for the most part. Too bad he undid himself with no need. He was going to win 1972 so big yet destroyed himself through paranoia.

[@slewone4905]

It wasn't Paranoia. The deep state hated him and wanted him gone.

[@waybee100]

not him his advisers. he had nothing to do with watergate.

[@lar7905]

I am now 74 . Seeing and hearing Richard Nixon now is fascinating . Not a Republican then or now but regardless he is a breath of fresh air in both his views and how he will even analyze how the Chinese think .The parallels he draws between Russian and China are mind blowing . I need to hear more of Tricky Dick . Anybody alive who remembers that nickname ?

[@bubbadano1508]

Was a great president that took the fall for others.

[@DoseofTruth]

He was so afraid of Americans, because he had integrity and knew Americans should be revolting. Yet, no one did. Shame

[@alexanderlyon]

For all is weaknesses, the guy had brain power and a nuanced understanding of the way the world worked.

[@Tyzok_]

Its strange watching an American president that can sound cohereant.

[@mikem.2078]

Such common sense. He shows why you truly have to think, and see, not just believe "what you're told." That's why I am no longer a Liberal, they just follow along what is "likely" right, and they're quite often wrong.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

*seems legit*

[@Prodrive1]

Liberals are very naive and misguided people.

[@CrazyYurie]

There are loons on both sides. Don't drink the kool-aid and think that just because one side seems crazy, then that automatically means the other side must not be crazy.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

Smart guy! A pragmatic thinker. 👍🏻

[@jiangqicheng6691]

His name has been written into every history textbook that we learnt in China and we appreciated him very much❤. In fact, I believe he would be the top 5 most well-known America president in China.

[@hl5910]

Always liked Nixon. 👍

[@CBlargh]

Heh heh heh... You're into that anti-American stuff, huh...

[@vincewilliams5219]

Nixon knew that Mao was at odds with Khrushchev. Mao thought he was weak compared to Stalin and would often disrespect Khrushchev during their meetings.

[@agoodchow]

Stalin was super tough , was he ?

[@userwsyz]

Not really. Mao did not like Stalin but tolerated him. Mao called kruschov a revisionist, which he was. It was Kruschov made Crimea a part of Ukraine republic when he was the Head of USSR, and Kruschov was a Ukrainian by birth. Kruschov did not have much education and was a farmer. Any surprise USSR would fall when you know that the people in charge were either uneducated or alcoholic.

[@mikeg2491]

⁠@@userwsyzKruschev was a rube when his big goal in coming to America was to go see Disney Land like a child.

[@nickbarber2080]

A re-evaluation of Nixon and his legacy is long overdue. His career totally overshadowed by the last couple of years. Also...could you imagine any of today's leading politicians being able to give such a thoughtful analysis?

[@latinhellas6383]

He's saying what any independent-thinking human already knew: all ideologies are like soap bubbles, they burst in the instant that reality hits the ground.

[@theotheleo6830]

Nah, he's talking about priorities. Security is the number one priority.

[@777Eliyahu]

@@theotheleo6830 correct, China has historically been willing to set aside its marxist or quasi-marxist ideology when it becomes a hinderance to security

[@michaeldriskell2038]

Say what hou will about him, he understood dealing with foreign powers. My first presidential election in 72 was for him, and I STILL don't regret it!!!

[@cpegg5840]

A George McGovern Presidency would have been a complete disaster. Nixon was practically assured re-election that year.

[@galaxymetta5974]

He correctly understood that China is not hegemonistic, unlike USA.

[@countryman4691]

Never forget Nixon ended the Viet-Nam war which saved thousands of young soldiers lives.

[@matthewgagnon9426]

Nixon sabotaged the peace talks in 1968. It would have ended sooner if he hadn't interfered.

[@hiddendragon415]

He could have ended the War years earlier...

[@jchock7503]

An intelligent, open minded man who understands the thoughts of China's leaders , which are perfectly legitimate for if a country's leaders do not think first of the interests and welfare of their country, how can they be considered good leaders ?

[@VonGreen]

The articulation, the cohesion and the dynamism of one who speaks in a highly diplomatic oriented manner. --- this is how a politician used to speak in the 70's... Hear them today.

[@rencelani-ty2sc]

There is something I forgot yes Nixon good man extremely intelligent and forward thinking he only ever made one mistake Watergate by todays standards of president like Clinton and Bush Senior or Obama Watergate was nothing to be concerned about just a little listening in no big deal compared to today’s corruption

[@PatricKlein86]

Every country should see the world through those lenses

[@patrickf2671]

He was a brilliant strategist. The North Vietnamese exploited his removal to move South. They feared him bombing them again if he was in power.

[@duartesimoes508]

😂 absolutely!

[@hiddendragon415]

Brilliant strategy bullshit. He dragged on the Vietnam war for years in the vain hope America could pull out with dignity. Just like Afghanistan it was a pipe dream.

[@Rondo2ooo]

Many politicians were a different breed back then. Highly educated with good geopolitical and diplomatic knowledge and skills.

[@RockSmithStudio]

One of the most brilliant minds when it came to international politics

[@jcx5659]

Criminal.

[@generatorjohn4537]

​@@jcx5659We presently have a criminal (Joe Biden) in the White House now but not too many people in Congess are demanding his removal. Unlike the days of President Richard Nixon.

[@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb]

@@jcx5659 democrat

[@howdydo5760]

So what?@@jcx5659

[@Martive_Led]

@@jcx5659But, nevertheless, exceedingly brilliant in the international political arena.

[@dankamp2872]

I'd take Nixon over any Democrat nowadays. He just happened to get caught for something far less dangerous than politicians routinely get away with today.

[@yawos9024]

Nixon will not qualify for a republican today. He was even left of Biden on many issues.

[@clacicle]

What about any Republican? Why not compare him to Trump and all the other MAGA followers in congress and the senate?

[@yawos9024]

@@clacicle If he left of Biden, he sure will not be considered a republican by MAGA standards. Nixon was a big supporter of affirmation action. He created a lot of policies to assist blacks.

[@calioumarx4289]

Republicans too

[@classicalextremism]

@@yawos9024 The Republicans did affirmative action at the time because they were necessary to help blacks get out from racist Democrat rule. To give them an opportunity. It was never meant to be a permanent installation. But its the government, there is never a temporary measure. Now its kept in place by Democrats to advance their segregation agenda under new marketing. And there was pushback from inside the party. Because people knew it was ripe for abuse.

[@CheBellaTelevisione]

I have a feeling Nixon’s legacy will be rehabilitated. Compared to the dealings of other modern presidents, nixon was a saint.

[@ricardosantos4900]

Totally correct. Even nowadays.

[@steveglover2741]

For the way President Nixon was set up and destroyed by his fellow politicians and the media, I am surprised that , and especially after all this time, anyone would consider his advice on anything! His family and ours have ties, so I've always had respect for the man

[@clacicle]

Clearly a very bright guy. But, he set himself up for his fall.

[@jeffcanada8897]

President Nixon’s first term was an extremely successful one - he accomplished more in the first four years than most presidents do in eight.

[@Tyler-vw9bh]

@@clacicle What's crazy is by today's standards what he did personally is par for the course. Nixon had no advance knowledge of the break-in, it was some rogue over-zealous guys working for his campaign. Where he screwed up was trying to block investigations and covering it up when he did find out about it.... but like I said, every president since has tried to cover scandals up time and time again. Sadly, watergate is all any highschooler is going to remember from the Nixon years, but ultimately he did do a lot of good while in office. I think history will be more favorable as time goes on.

[@MarikHavair]

@@Tyler-vw9bh Yeah, what Nixon stepped down over is roughly equivalent to a CEO retiring because the janitor pulled a French farmer in a competitors parking lot. And as history has shown he could have just told everyone else to screw off and get away with it, many have since for greater offences.

[@userwsyz]

Nixon is a much under rated president. History has not been fair to him. US would be better off if we have someone like him now. These people in government now are getting us closer to WW 3 every day.

[@Donut16367]

The average American has benefited an immeasurable amount from the business relationship between the US and China.

[@JohnHoulgate]

Nixon was President during my late childhood and early adolescent years. He was the subject of a lot of dinner table talk. My father was very loyal to him because Nixon had secured an appointment for him to the US Naval Academy when Nixon was a Congressman. My older brother was a well-read, know-it-all, teenager who was very enamored with the anti-war movement. Though Nixon staked his rise in politics on being the 'little guy' fighting against the establishment, he had become the establishment. His 1968 campaign promise was to end the war in Vietnam. Once elected, his strategy became ending the war by winning it. By then, the war had become unwinnable. Looking back, I'm not so sure that opening relations with China was such a good idea. I think the relationship has been more beneficial to China than it was to the US. Nixon's insight that Mao's interest in putting China first should have given us a clue as to how things would unfold. My Dad became disillusioned with Nixon when Watergate broke as our whole family spent mornings watching the hearings on TV until he resigned. It seems that up until then two major parties were much more collegial with each other. There were liberal and conservative wings in both parties and the media treated them the same. I think that the current media bias against Republicans started with Nixon. I started college in 1976 and majored in journalism. I was told by various people that the J-schools were filling up with lots of young students who wanted to become the next Woodward or Bernstein. A narrative began taking shape over the idea that Democrats can be trusted because they just want to operate the government with transparency. On the other hand, Republicans can't be trusted because they just want to cut special deals with their corporate buddies. This narrative persists to this day. The truth is the parties are very different today than they were in Nixon's time. Conservatives and liberals have polarized along party lines. Corporate special interests work with both parties and it's the Republicans who now demand more transparency from the Democrats.

[@jackjones3657]

Interesting insights. It certainly does appear now in hindsight that Ch!na has benefitted more than the US from our "normalization" of them. While the country and people itself should be afforded equal footing on the world stage what Nixon and our politicians clearly did not anticipate was that Communism and not individual liberty would become MORE entrenched by their ruling elite and not less as that "normalization" unfolded. Now the CCP, and maybe our own US govt., are probably the greatest threats to personal liberty in the world. Critical thinking is imperative now in a world of "go along to get along" cowardice.

[@userwsyz]

Nixon's China policy did a lot more for the US. The difference is that China used the benefit gained from the relationship into its people and nation building, while the benefit gained by the US mostly went to the pockets of the very few people. The common people in the US only got affordability of consumer products but there is no nation building from the gain, but seeking more and more profit for stock holders. The relationship certainly produced a lot of billionaires for US.

[@marianhunt8899]

​@@userwsyzand that unfortunately is why the USA is now doomed. The ordinary citizens have lost hope and their faith in the nation. This is what happens before nations collapse. So shortsighted of the government and corporate leaders.

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

Nixon was a lot more sophisticated than our current crop of politicians

[@MrSpongeheart]

Seeing Nixon's double chin waggling while talking.... is very relaxing. A well-fed Politician always calms the nation!

[@cccspwn]

Yes people often forget that Chinas main focus are on domestic affairs mainly it’s own security.

[@Rinifi]

For a president who was “not a crook” he sure was followed by a plethora of crooks.

[@jameshepburn4631]

For people who’ve never been there, Nixon is held in very high esteem in China. In many cities & towns there is a Nixon Memorial Library or reading room for people studying English who want to learn more about America. Their political opponents, mostly incompetent blunderers, called Nixon and Kissinger devious & tricky. Unfortunately it’s a world full of devious and tricky enemies of freedom who don’t mean us well. Nixon & Kissinger both had the wisdom, good judgement, critical thinking ability, and street smarts for us to survive & prosper in the real world. We were lucky to have them. Likewise Singapore was blessed to have London trained Lee Kwan Yew as leader through the divorce from Malaysia crisis and guiding the country along to become economically thriving with responsible and productive citizens and very minimal crime. Truly one of the great leaders in world history.

[@lennylhchen]

Sorry to see complete absence of such great leaders.

[@lance8080]

Now days we get Obama and Biden for a country leader 😢

[@jbusta8548]

Ditto miss having great leadership

[@userwsyz]

Nixon truly understands the Chinese people. Chinese people are never ideology driven people. That's why there is not a single dominant religion in China but the Chinese culture. Chinese people are the most pragmatic people. And keeping China as a unified nation has been the theme of the Chinese history for thousand of years. That's probably why Chinese culture has continued to present day.

[@brentsrx7]

The cultural revolution destroyed the family unit and China's cultural landmarks/ heritage. Religious institutions were dismantled by force and millions died of starvation and political persecution. When I look at a picture of a new Chinese city, I see KFC, Mcdonalds, Starbucks, and everyone is wearing American-style clothes with Apple phones and is working a job at a Western-style corporate capitalist company. Traditional Chinese culture is being preserved and appreciated more now in museums and public performances, but Mao and his Little Red Book did a number on your culture. Now Tianjin looks more like New York, relying on a Western infusion to fill the void that Communism left. Good for you tho, the standard of living in the United States is much higher than traditionally Marxist economies.

[@cangzhang3849]

so what you're saying is we are better off living in mud huts lol@@brentsrx7

[@userwsyz]

@@brentsrx7 cultural revolution destroyed the class system in China for thousands of years. But did not destroy Chinese culture. China still use the written and spoken language that it has been using for thousands of years. China is still a country dominated by the Chinese spirituality of Confucianism, Daoism and etc, but not any non-Chinese religion. Culture is defined by language, religion, view of the world, food, and the governing system. Styles of building and clothing are more art than culture and they change with fashion. For example, the Roman columns had three different styles but they are all Roman.

[@userwsyz]

@@brentsrx7 BTW, there is no American style clothing unless you talk about the traditional clothing of the native Americans. What most people wearing now are modern western style clothing. ancient Europeans did not wear this style of clothing either.

[@userwsyz]

@@brentsrx7 Well, I see Chinese, Italian and Mexican restaurants everywhere in the US. But I don't think US has lost its culture to Chinese, Italian, or Mexican cultures.

[@Hystericall]

Very insightful. President Nixon was one of the most intelligent presidents we've ever had.

[@shinwanate]

...Back when people actually said things that had true substance. Refreshing.

[@bryedtan]

This war Nixon's true passion and Forte Foreign Policy. Even today if you disagreed with his domestic policies maybe personalities even to some extent ethics. He had a much more forward thinking foreign policy.

[@lemmdus2119]

China’s number 1 priority has always been China. This is why I don’t understand why people think “nationalism” is a bad thing when powerful countries like China and Russia put their country first….or is it only bad if the Americans do that? Why?

[@sunrays1279]

Yes America has never put America first like that is such a joke at this point. America has always put America first that is why it is more than happy to even start wars just for fun and no reason like Iraq war. Acting world's policeman has made America the superpower it is today.

[@Hackenberg]

"Only Nixon could go to China."

[@skoolzone]

That’s right only Nixon could go to China with a giant backpack full of American hopes and dreams and jobs and futures. Wow

[@robertgasper2495]

One of the greatest foreign policy presidents in American history.

[@BillyCarsley]

Right below FDR, Eisenhower, HW Bush, and Reagan.

[@tscully1504]

At the end he got stomped pretty good and deserved some of it, but there is no doubt he was one of the more intelligent and statesmanlike presidents we had in the last 100 years. He did get us out of Vietnam like he said he would and re-establishing contact and diplomacy with China was huge. He was also president during one of the most turbulent periods in our history. I was age 10-16 during his time in office.

[@amunra5330]

The Chinese concept of family goes up to the national level. The mandarin characters for country literally means nation family…and to Chinese people, family comes first.

[@jshepard152]

Imagine Kamala Harris or Joe Biden taking on this question.

[@EasylikeSunday]

Or any other politician today as far as I’m concerned.

[@robs5688]

Okay, I imagined it. Now my brain exploded.

[@MMCUSN]

Kamalala would laugh herself to death and Joe would mutter something nonsensical, get angry and wonder off.

[@erictrenbeath9680]

Or Donald Trump.

[@UgandanWarriorofHell]

“look heres the deal……come on man. my butts been wiped!” *sniffs a child’s hair*

[@gener8423]

Nixon is truly one of the most intelligent U.S. Presidents, who understood how the world worked and how the world should work for the best of not just America, but the entire world.

[@gregzimmerman2431]

Well said, Mr. President!

[@jcx5659]

Mr Criminal.

[@quantiquefilms]

About 20x smarter than Justin Trudeau in Canada right now.

[@jaredleicht1656]

His last name is spelled Castro

[@PassivePortfolios]

My Canadian friends say that Trudeau is widely despised in Canada.

[@marionmarcetic7287]

I Pray 🙏 That Our Country Can Have Another President Of Richard Nixon's Stature And Brilliance!!! Shalom And Amen!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤️❤️❤️‼️

[@nathanruben3372]

As a non US citizen, looking at US from outsite, I can definetely say that US is declining fast, one of the most impontant reason is that every leader that comes is worse than the previous in last 20 years or so. Intelligence, capacity on decline...

[@duartesimoes508]

Yes, and that started with Clinton & Monica Lewinsky.

[@hackman669]

Obama was pretty good 👍😉

[@ParDiss-e4i]

@@hackman669 ❤️👍

[@generatorjohn4537]

Compare President Nixon's wisdom and abilities to Joe Biden's. No contest. Yet Nixon had to go but not Joe Biden.

[@fritztm9261]

I mean there’s the whole Watergate thing. If Biden does the same he deserves the boot.

[@johnpglackin345]

​@@fritztm9261Biden did steal the election. And he mandated things that are unconstitutional.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

As a democrat, I agree, and I'll add that Trump also loses to Nixon spectactularly

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

He didn't have to go. He would never have let it come that far and therefore left in time. Compare that to modern politicians: hold tight to power and money unto the last possible minute.

[@ltkreg]

I was entering my teens when the Watergate scandal unfolded. I remember everyone accusing Nixon of being a crook, but I was never sure of the accusations being made against him, and much less what proof there was. I remember thinking they just enjoyed calling him a crook. I'm now in my mid sixties and still not sure what it is he's suppose to have done.

[@deadtome44]

What did you just stop learning once you hit puberty? Nixon’s campaign paid people to break into a hotel to spy on Democrats. Faced with overwhelming evidence of his involvement, Nixon chose to resign the presidency.

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

These leaders of today better take head to these words. Today, no one but President Trump could handle countries like these. Everyone else has their fingers in the cookie jar.

[@ddellwo]

Compare this to the incoherent slop that comes out of the foggy noodle of Joe Biden…………🙄

[@erict.35]

Still it’s a hogwash.

[@jstasiak2262]

And Nixon was older than Biden when this interview was recorded.

[@robs5688]

Keep in mind that Biden is not in charge of anything, including wiping his own butt. We are in Obama's third term. But Obama's not really in charge either. The people currently running the country are the ones who groomed Obama for the presidency, over the course of his lifetime. And who exactly are those people? Well, to paraphrase a wise man: If you want to know where the power lies, ask those whom you cannot criticize.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

True... or the garbage we heard from 45!