Nixon with no expletives deleted

[@woyame1]

You realize how truly horrible the standard is now, when you realize that this guy for decades was considered the worst example of political corruption and poor character. He comes across as top-shelf compared to most of the offerings we get nowadays.

[@retrorampage9015]

Because he would of been great had he not cheated.

[@joejacobs8008]

He was a strong intellect

[@russellking9762]

@@faifai5343 Well spoken Fai Fai!

[@russellking9762]

@@tencraziest5697 Well spoken!

[@650homesbyramy2]

Well, as they say in Frost Nixon, in interviews Nixon was a “major operator”. He became president for a reason.

[@ExploreAlways]

I was waiting for a barrage of F-Bombs. This actually showed a rather well-behaved and self-restrained Nixon.

[@Btn1136]

Very respectful descriptions of the Kennedys’. I worry we have a new normal now.

[@samc6923]

God damn ? You like that phrase captain man of God

[@homescool3767]

yea fuck him to hell

[@jacklewis3803]

Or W-bombs

[@tskibrownski7711]

Weird for you , not a mans man

[@ancelrick5396]

He speaks of his political rivals with respect. That's so weird.

[@cybergothika6906]

It just shows how politicians were even more hypocrites. It isn't like it degenerated to what it is today, it is just showing its real ugly face now.

[@ancelrick5396]

@@cybergothika6906 Nah. It' shows that manners and decorum in public discourse mattered. It those days you could disagree with political opponent and still be civil and respectful. Being in opposing political parties did not make them blood thirsty mortal enemies. It was probably before you were born. It was much less polarized.

[@cybergothika6906]

@@ancelrick5396 That's just your opinion. Mine is stuck with anarchy. How naive a person has to be to believe that matters, plus, that thing got impeached so, morals are very low. Don't worry it has been like that just for the past 10 thousands years.

[@ancelrick5396]

@@cybergothika6906Well, you know what they say, opinions are like A$$holes, everybody has one.

[@cybergothika6906]

@@ancelrick5396 Opinions means shit when you crumble the law in pieces, so I have a better saying. No honor among thieves. Like on French revolution beheading accusations.

[@eminusipi]

I've heard that if someone watched the Kennedy Nixon debates on TV Kennedy won, but if they listened on radio, Nixon won.

[@jamie42172]

heard that too

[@wordup897]

Kennedy looked good while Nixon had stubble and was sweating bullets.

[@samuelbutler9968]

He may have been a crook 😉, but Nixon was definitely a rhetorical master

[@5.0king32]

The reason for that is the way Kennedy looked vs Nixon and how Nixon spoke vs Kennedy. Great comment

[@michaeltracy2725]

@@samuelbutler9968so is every other politician…

[@agreen182]

What an odd title for this video. You focus on the 2 curse words he mumbles under his breath rather than the insightful commentary on 20th century politicians. Huh.

[@darkgreenrifleman4871]

How else will they trick people to watch?

[@sunix6551]

@@darkgreenrifleman4871 Good point

[@jorgeespinosa3179]

President Nixon was and is still the target of a smear and discretization campaign. True, his presidency ended in the worst possible way. However, time and distance are now reevaluating his time in the White House and the man himself. Not surprisingly, his administration accomplished much, from establishing the EPA and DEA, among other things. Compared to today's corrupt, political climate, moreover, President Nixon's political crimes diminish in comparison. To his detractors, however, he will always be a loser. But it can not be denied, he defended freedom and Democracy, and went toe-to-toe with the communists like no president before or after him. He was well hated for his bombing strategies, but he had a job to do. Time will eventually redeem President Richard Nixon.

[@karenmerry3251]

Omg! Nixon was the devil in a mans costume! Listen to a few watergate tapes!

[@dahawk8574]

@@jorgeespinosa3179, The enduring legacy of Nixon is that all scandals are branded with the -gate suffix. This is the signature he left on the USA. No matter what amount of good you do, like the astronauts in The Right Stuff indicated, all you need do is screw the pooch one time. History will remember you as a dog fucker. Nixon certainly did many great things. But I see no path for redemption, other than revisionist history. Well, actually what is happening with the office of Potus HELPS Nixon in a curious way. Now historians can cast him in this light of having only gotten caught screwing the pooch one time, whereas we now know that there is a person empowered as Potus who did it regularly, and bragged about it.

[@ericynot]

I could never stand Nixon, but I always found him fascinating and smart. You don't have to like a person to learn from them.

[@djf750]

he would have made a GREAT Secretary of State

[@jimmy2k4o]

And would have made a terrible CIA director. Lol God rest his soul. Nobody is kicking you around anymore sir.

[@thedude4795]

kind of how I learned from your comment, just kidding!!

[@dommirra5429]

My feeling's exactly as yours! Very good point!

[@nope929]

If you're smart enough to be president then you're smart enough to have some great quotes. And yes, that includes Trump and Biden. You may not like either, but they're far smarter than the average person, even at their age.

[@williamperry11]

Remember back when members of both parties could form coherent sentences? I miss those days...

[@samgarthherrington]

williamperry11 lol me too...and at least acted like reasonable upstanding people. Ahhh the good ole days.

[@UFBMusic]

williamperry11 I'm envious of you a year ago!

[@MICHGO1]

COVFEFE?

[@a.cardott3928]

I believe it was HS Thompson who when asked about the Bush dynasty, said seriously "makes Nixon look like a statesman"

[@guitarman7573]

williamperry11 The only party i see having a hard time forming words are the republicans.

[@copenhagen6116]

Back when you could strongly dislike somebody but still acknowledged your opponents as people with good careers and lives without name calling or shouting obscenities.

[@WhatTheHe11isTHAT]

Click-bait title. Was expecting a lot of foul language when it's actually a good interview.

[@San_Deep2501]

Bruh.. What more can u expect from cnn?

[@RantKid]

@@San_Deep2501 cute that you blame CNN. They're playing the game that KZbin (and its fans) has made for them. Clickbait YT algorithms existed long before mainstream news networks regularly used YT. Nice try tho. *Me see CNN. Me hate.* Neanderthal.

[@San_Deep2501]

@@RantKid ok boomer

[@RantKid]

@@San_Deep2501 As long as I'm right! Glad you agree :)

[@camacaron06]

Rumpel Felt CNN and Fox are both highly biased and deceptive.

[@jbw6823]

This guy was such a mixed bag. Big pluses, big minuses.

[@scotchrobbins]

Even speaking as a strong lefty, he started the EPA and pulled us out of Vietnam. Leaves me conflicted.

[@jbw6823]

@@scotchrobbins me too.And my draft number was coming up quick. Dodged a bullet. Literally.

[@AChunkyDog]

@@jbw6823 Meanwhile, others volunteered because they refused to be drafted and wanted to save at least one of their countrymen, even if it meant sacrificing themselves.

[@jbw6823]

@@AChunkyDog pretty sure that was a minority. It wasnt ww2. It was a stupid war where thousands of innocents were killed. they saw it as a war of independence from colonialism. And no dominies fell. Now we are friends.What a waste.

[@AChunkyDog]

@@jbw6823 A waste indeed. Nixon would have loved to drag the war on. Communism sucks, but we can't help those who won't help themselves.

[@QueenetBowie]

Has to be one of the most complicated US politicians of the modern era, the guy did some bad things but I grew up thinking he was some kind of monster, I was blown away the first time I heard that he created the EPA as president, the more I read the more amazed I was. Seems he was a victim of his own paranoia.

[@AChunkyDog]

Well, I suppose he redeemed himself after letting people die across the pond by founding the EPA Good dude.

[@SN2903]

He was an amazing President. Watergate is over hyped bullshit

[@AChunkyDog]

@@SN2903 Obamagate is an underhyped but much more serious scandal.

[@SN2903]

@@AChunkyDog Agree. The Nixon memoirs are amazing. The best book I have ever read. You can learn a lot about how to be a success just looking at his career. Guy came from nothing and became President.

[@jamesm.3967]

Nixon was a talented dude who got caught up in the politics of revenge. Call him the Walter White of politics.

[@redrider8036]

Like him or hate him. One has to admit his intelligence and ability to articulate his thoughts are significantly better than probably the last dozen Presidents.

[@Sharkfowl]

So the best orator since LBJ? Lol

[@Chadillac-xq7xk]

Eh. Debatable You might not like them, but Obama, Clinton, Reagan, were all very good speakers. The only exceptions I'd say are Biden, Trump, and Bush.

[@Afro.G.]

Obama was a great orator. One of the only things he was good at in reality.

[@captainjakemerica4579]

​@jordanb.2653 nah he was good at many things

[@elvisleeboy]

​@@Chadillac-xq7xkNixon was evidently far more well-read than all of those who followed. The ones you cited were decent enough at delivering pre-written speeches, but Nixon was vastly more articulate and knowledgeable, as many of his interviews proved.

[@udxpierre]

Oh look at this, a President that can speak coherent sentences.

[@punhoss]

It is shocking....how bad things have become.

[@cameroncooper4175]

So could Obama, so could Clinton [so could Bush senior, and Carter - and Reagan until the second half]. Since he early 90s, Republicans seem determined to elect the inarticulate - possibly because they relate to them better. They want to elect someone like them.

[@themonkeofthenorth7826]

Oh look at this, a leader that can lead that isn't a Cheeto

[@Thehandsomeliberal]

Wasn't he also a criminal?

[@udxpierre]

@@Thehandsomeliberal I think most of them were....one word "politicians"......the history of the American Presidents taking it on them selves to "War for Peace" is in it's self a criminal act against humanity.

[@MrDeadsurfer]

Nixon once gave a speech at a train stop in Fontana, an entire speech, just to one man, my father, a newspaper reporter at the time. My dad loved him after that.

[@thatguy6919]

I dont like Nixon for mainly humanist reasons but goddamn that sounds inspiring

[@pauline4581]

Thank you for sharing this story.

[@justafanintexas7913]

Turns out this interpretation isn't exactly correct. Nixon just finished giving a speech at the station and after the people dispersed he held court with 5 reporters. I have the names of the five reporters. Who was your father?

[@RobandRachelDahl]

Interesting how the person just gave a secondary eyewitness account of something his father told him, and you just tried to debunk it. People are idiots.

[@justafanintexas7913]

R and R D - You notice he didn't reply? Shall I tell you why? Because the five reporters Nixon spoke with were women. I don't doubt his father heard a speech and then asked a question in a quorum of reporters but the only small, private engagement involved five female reporters. Next time do the research before you can pretend to call anybody an idiot.

[@mcd3379]

For all of his failings, ethical and otherwise, what you can't question is Nixon's intelligence and his brilliant insights into the "American Political Machine" - he knew politics and people inside out.

[@2Bluzin]

People like that are very common, they are called evil genius.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

The CIA didn't get caught spying on behalf of him by accident. It was a setup. One of the guys actually confessed to killing Kennedy, on video, on his death bed. CIA controls the media through Operation Mockingbird, they shape narratives to get you to believe what you think you believe. Do you really believe what you thought you knew?

[@Edgelawd]

​@2Bluzin Nixon was not evil, he had several issues, hugely misunderstood.

[@Beigebunnyhunny]

@@Edgelawdevery American politician has bits of evil. To comprehend every way we operate this country and take a stand thinking they are doing anything differently, our government and country was founded and thrived from being corrupt. lol they are all crazy and able to be evil

[@sqd37l]

and cnn defends biden, clinton and obama

[@danstvguy]

He actually is quite charming, affable. I don't remember this side to him. The media must have really hated him.

[@xipingpooh5783]

All of Washington DC vilified President Nixon as VP and as Commander in Chief. The Media despised him because they couldn’t debate him and win. The CIA set him up for the fall with Watergate to rid them of the threat of Nixons goal to reform the House and Senate. Reminds me of recent History with another President who had an election stollen with fake ballots.

[@pp-bb6jj]

Oh yeah the media and the people who run them.

[@cr41gieboy]

Just like Trump. They HATE that man so much they don't even try to hide it.

[@jinnindo]

'Anyone who picks up a ... newspaper in the morning and does not see himself slandered in it has not made profitable use of the previous day; for if he had, he would be persecuted, reviled, slandered, abused and befouled.'

[@toddm9501]

Kind of like President Trump. The media, the New York elites, the Al Sharptounges, the rev jesse jack son. They all loved President Trump. Until, they couldn't buy him.

[@robertjohnson4301]

This "crook" is a boy scout compared to today's politicians.

[@RatatRatR]

He was a real piece of shit too though.

[@InformalGreeting]

Nixon was never as bad as people want to pretend he was. Especially 21st century people. His biggest flaw was paranoia followed closely by being loyal to his people. He could have easily thrown Liddy and the plumbers under the bus and walked away unscathed. Instead he tried to protect people that did something extraordinary stupid but did it in an effort to help him. People that know nothing more about Nixon that the Watergate claims owe it to themselves to learn more. The man was extremely intelligent and capable. His steps towards normalizing relations with China played a big part in the Soviet instability that lead to their collapse. People claim that Trump had an election stolen from him, but Nixon really did. JFK’s team cheated better.

[@tylergould6245]

Hahahaha, NO.

[@clc-gl4jn]

Cough cough Joe “let 13 service members and many Afghani’s die” Biden Cough cough

[@tylergould6245]

@@clc-gl4jn yes, Biden flew to Afghanistan and literally blew up some of our soldiers…. You are an idiot! Ok now it’s your turn to try to explain to me why you are not an idiot, start now!

[@TheAmericanLoudmouth]

The idea of Nixon in the 80's is weird. Imagine him buying an NES.

[@user-xp8wk1zt2p]

or 90s

[@HasSalute]

@@user-xp8wk1zt2p nice username

[@raptalos9412]

Honestly I love that thought. Seems like what Futurama Nixon would do

[@user-xp8wk1zt2p]

@@HasSalute thanks. Hugs and kisses

[@ianhines2302]

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[@ethzero]

What a refreshing thing to hear long coherent intelligent sentences.

[@pjcgaming9548]

Also a interviewer who will let the person answer a question without jumping in every 5 words.

[@TheGheseEffect]

When is the last time you heard somebody say a regular sentence without lol omg like

[@jonothandoeser]

Yes.. in the BIDEN era!!!!

[@codyleslie478]

Seriously.. we have a president now who literally cant finish a sentence if it's not on a teleprompter. And sometimes not even then..

[@quattro4468]

@@jonothandoeser what? Theyve ben shot since regan bush and clinton.

[@ascendant95]

I wasn't alive during Nixon's administration, but something about this guy is super impressive to me. He is so classy, yet he can go off cuff and say profane things. You can tell he loved the country and wanted to be a good President.

[@FingerinUrDaughter]

a lot of people arent alive from his administration, because when he wasnt drafting civilians for pointless wars in 3rd world shitholes that he was trading to china and russia, he was ordering civilians abducted and tortured. dont be impressed by nixon.

[@dontlookback3549]

but he failed miserably and was, for the most part, a contemptible human!

[@dougmacmillan1712]

I was alive during Nixon's administration. He was a horrible, paranoid human being. A lot of our problems today started with that SOB.

[@MundiaKamau]

@@dontlookback3549Who has succeeded where Richard Nixon failed? America looks like it's falling. All of us all over the world look like we are falling, including us here in Africa. If Richard Nixon truly was "the enemy," global society would be a paradise by now. Richard Nixon resigned as US President just under 50 years ago in August 1974, and neither American society, nor global society in general, is a paradise yet. Far from it. Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 9th January 2024.

[@karmaplushie4007]

​@@MundiaKamau Wrll stated. People have been lied to so much they can't even recognize a lie blatantly told to their faces anymore, make zero effort to critically think for themselves and ask absolutely no questions. We, Americans, here things like "Watergate Scandal" and never ask what that even was. What were the documents that Nixon was allegedly going after? WHY were these papers being held in a hotel? They just blindly accept the narrative presented to them and sxoff at the audacity of others that don't just guzzle and then regurgitate whatever news "programming" tells them.

[@humanforfreedom9583]

“Terrible book out about LBJ, makes him look like a god damn animal, and he was” Ha ha damn right everyone who knows, knows.

[@mooganify]

King

[@arisdelis1]

LBJ was involved in the CIA assasination of JFK...implicated by Nixon..and Howard Hunt

[@specialk3357]

That was the best part, crazy stuff.

[@michaelg2502]

He then muttered "He was a man"

[@Kyle_Schaff]

*Anno Domini* Okay, bro

[@postscript67]

His comment about Eisenhower being a military man who expected his subordinates to do what their chief wanted reminds me of another general who became a political leader. When the Duke of Wellington became British Prime Minister and held his first Cabinet meeting, he said afterwards: "I gave them all their orders but then they wanted to sit around discussing them!"

[@Jide-bq9yf]

😅😅😅

[@eddihaskell]

The Prime Minister of the U.K., even the venerable Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon, never has dictatorial powers. He or she can be removed by their own party, or (indirectly) by a vote in a general election, at any time. Winston Churchill was removed as Prime Minister right after VE Day because the Labour Party won the general election. Churchill did have nearly dictatorial powers during World War 2 in Europe due to his leading of a three-party coalition government.

[@deadasfboi]

@@eddihaskell If you think about it, would changing a political leader in the middle of the war would be a great idea?

[@guitarfan01]

@@deadasfboi If the first leader was a bad one and made bad decisions, yes. This is why Chamberlain was replaced by Churchill in May 1940.

[@philippburnett6045]

@@eddihaskell yea, he might have defeated Napoleon. But he won’t be able to defeat Napoleon at his prime. Wellington got lucky in that sense and that was his biggest achievement as a general

[@georgefeser2487]

1973: You're full of crap, Nixon! 2021: You make a valid point, Nixon!

[@rockthemoose66]

I'll have to check my program... yep!

[@ericynot]

Both of those things can be true. And were with Nixon.

[@kaisertreu6276]

He was both intelligent and well-spoken on the one side and wrong and corrupt on the other side.

[@joycheek6756]

@@kaisertreu6276 all Presidents are corrupt to a certain extent

[@Taospark]

A valid point about what? He committed the most crimes out of any President in US history including Trump.

[@ExtremeBeatlesArchive]

"Nixon with no expletives" would be a more accurate title.

[@SRSOS2]

No, the title is correct because this is how his cuss words were displayed by the media at the time. The redactions were called 'expletive deleteds' at that time.

[@TheWolfjak]

@@SRSOS2shut up nerd

[@cookie67]

What do you mean. He says "shit..it makes him feel like a god damn animal".

[@Lancer_0010]

Fr

[@reneauvray3440]

He conducted himself very well.

[@nomibe2911]

I'm a liberal and I've read numerous books on Nixon and one thing no one disputes is the man's intelligence and sharpness. It's a shame that he was so paranoid of his enemies and had no one within his inner circle to stand up to him or simply say Mr. President you've won. He wanted to go further and beyond what he needed to do because he was a great politician which is evidenced by his landslide victory. I find his tapes to be rather amusing and find his humor to be one a kind.

[@mykel1990]

He's one of those men who are very gifted, and ambitious and let it run away with him. From sabotaging peace talks in 1968 in regards to Vietnam and Watergate, he was his worst enemy, but very gifted and very intelligent even if he was a bit of a Machiavellian type.

[@aaronmarshall1212]

He was a Narrccistic Sociopathic feircely intelligent.

[@bduhe219]

+nomibe2911 for me, he was a man who felt he had to prove something. he had to make them pay for making him feel inferior. it was all in his head. he was not a very likable man, i mean his personality was rather aloof and cold, considering he was a politician. he had the great intelligence, but without warmth and compassion, you are an empty shell who possesses great power. and that is a dangerous mix.

[@MoeGreensRightEye]

+nomibe2911 It's true that Nixon was paranoid but I think for a reason. The press hated his guts ever since the Alger Hiss business and were determined to get their revenge

[@bduhe219]

***** the paranoia came way before he was even elected in congress. the press had reason to dislike NIXON, it was his dirty tactics he employed to win elections. the smear on HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS for one example. he was a ruthless man. the press despised him for that. they thought he could not win an election clean and free of dirty smear campaigns. and for that, his paranoia grew. but it was of his own making. for him, that wa sa ftal character flaw.

[@emmc9898]

For those of you who clicked on the bait: he mumbled a grand total of two “expletives” under his breath.

[@JaredConnell]

WHOEVER WROTE THAT TITLE IS A 👀 god damn 👀 ANIMAL

[@Sprite_525]

Right? A total nothing-burger

[@atendriyadasa6746]

Rip Off !! - there ARE no bleepin' expletives.

[@0217ldp]

Disappointment is one word. That's why I clicked on it, he's quite articulate

[@anthonypreziosi30]

The 'NIXON TAPES' would show you the kind of MONSTER HE WAS...if he didn't like you, he'd investigate their taxes...THIS IDEA PROBABLY CAME from SPIRO AGNEW, HIS VICE-PRES.-GUESS WHAT SPIRO WAS CONVICTED OF???...I GAVE YOU A HINT!!!

[@jadsayegh6283]

"Cuz he was!" that cracked me up! I LBJ getting roasted, but you can tell that Nixon held him in high esteem anyway.

[@niyomphusopha5375]

Yes, Jad Sayegh, u right

[@coopergoss350]

@DJ AND KERRI'S UFO lmao citation please

[@thebrutusmars]

He said “of course, he was!” But that’s just a minor nitpick lol

[@weeniehutwednesday6449]

@@coopergoss350 Lmao is the Vietnam War good enough for you? Agent Orange? He may not have killed anyone by his own hand but as president you take responsibility for the wars that the country is brought into and the deaths that result from it.

[@coopergoss350]

@@weeniehutwednesday6449 true, sortof. I agree.

[@gchukma]

I've always thought of Nixons most compelling moments. When he spoke of his mother and from the speech, "others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself". Interesting man. He led an amazing life, climbed to the highest heights and at the end, did the right thing. An old general, who just faded away. Let history be our guide.

[@Rat-Salad]

Erm he didn’t just ‘fade away’ he was a criminal who was pardoned.

[@donthaveaname1086]

@@Rat-Saladso we’re the rest of the US presidents. They just didn’t get caught by the public.

[@davidmenasco5743]

That's a great saying. It's ironic that he hated so many people so much ("enemies list"?), that indeed he did destroy himself. Perhaps there was a reason why his mother cautioned him so strongly against hate.

[@guy-nt9jt]

@@davidmenasco5743 Trump: "Of course I hate these people. Let's all hate these people. [the Central Park Five] Maybe hate is what we need if we're going to get something done. [restore the death penalty]"

[@MundiaKamau]

@@Rat-Salad Who has succeeded where Richard Nixon, the "criminal," as you put it, failed? America looks like it's falling. All of us all over the world look like we are falling, including us here in Africa. If Richard Nixon truly was "the enemy," global society would be a paradise by now. Richard Nixon resigned as US President just under 50 years ago in August 1974, and neither American society, nor global society in general, is a paradise yet. Far from it. Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 9th January 2024.

[@theraginginfernape9496]

Came for the "expletives" but stayed for the respectable insight into 20th century politics. It's such a respectful analysis on his rivals and his thoughts on the a great President still hold up today. Because heaven knows we need one like that.

[@jntj3007]

I appreciate Mr. Nixon's praise for F.D.R. and Mr. Johnson, even though they were from opposing political parties. This interview was a very candid one. In today's culture, Nixon, in spite of his own dirty dealings, would be a highly valued Godsend.

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

If it weren't for Watergate, Nixon would be remembered as one of the better presidents

[@toxicrush]

@@barbarabowry3652 what

[@79goldmaster1]

Nixon's foreign policy would have protected the Shah of Iran. Jimmy Carter let down the world and even today we are seeing the results.

[@Bruce_Gruesome]

Lol everyone likes to say “oh he wasn’t so bad” after republican presidents get destroyed by liberals their entire term. In 5 years you’ll hear “Trump was a funny guy and a decent president if he didn’t say so many dumb things”

[@IdiotBoxProductionsTV]

Joseph Grenner he is a good president

[@scottwitkowski1298]

I'd vote for Nixon over any GOP or DNC canidate today. Worst part is, he's more honest than the current field.

[@metalslather]

Sad state of reality

[@nullnulllnull]

We have assholes like Mitch McConnell and Lindsay graham on one side and dipshits like chuck schumer and Nancy pelosi on the other.

[@Mrbb33399]

Nixon hated the Kennedys. He lies like a true politician

[@scottwitkowski1298]

@@Mrbb33399Just for example, Obama was the most charismatic and successful President we've had in 40+ years...... I hate Obama with a passion. He was mostly successful in following through on his promises. He claimed he would transform this country, and he definitely did. Personally, I think Obama destroyed what good was left in this country. But, If I shared Obamas opinons, I'd hang his picture on the wall. You can complement a persons strengths and still hate them.

[@Mrbb33399]

@@scottwitkowski1298 I never mentioned the Obamas. Keep up with the conversation

[@theosnepenthes8751]

Amazing interview. Nixon was by far the most intelligent president the United States has had in the last 100 years.

[@ChristCenteredLivingUSA]

@peterg5383 Nice, link to a page that is not found. Yes Nixon had among the highest known I Q scores. Not the overblown faked ones like they have given out for Bush Jr and Obama either.

[@hamburgerboy]

@peterg5383 Imagine believing that garbage, it's just a handful of rando "experts" reading anonymized secondary sources about the presidents, scoring them, and then creating a flimsy model to fit them to IQ. Also, their model predicts that JFK had the third highest IQ, when we know JFK is the one president for whom we know an actual IQ score (119; quite low for a world leader), indicating further that their model is trash.

[@ahill4642]

Came for the expletives. Stayed for the excellent, intelligent speaker with interesting and powerful insights. Wow. 😳

[@jackuzi8252]

Yeah, I never thought I'd say "Mister, we could use a man like Richard Nixon again."

[@runner3033]

Do you really want to blow your mind? Watch Johnny Carson from the 70's and compare to the TV Funny Men of today.

[@JoseVega-dw8ig]

Same tbh. I would expect Nixon to be very sharp with expletives lol

[@FlatlandMando]

Additional Wow

[@jim021]

Nixon is generally regarded as one of, if not the most intelligent President of the 20th century.

[@carolynargabright8132]

I agree with Nixon about what makes a good President, "Someone who's warm on the outside, but tough and cold on the inside, who gets things done".

[@jamesdragonforce]

+Carolyn Argabright As long as we admire these qualities, we will always have the forthcoming problems therein. We should stop that. Wasn't Martin Luther King both warm on the inside and out?

[@KrypticAsylum]

Nah, he followed that philosophy. He was shy of committing acts of brutalism in the name of victory.

[@zeitGGeist]

Carolyn Argabright "without fear of failure" yeah sounds like trump hahahaha

[@permaculturedandfree2448]

Obama/clinton....cold mofos

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Remember he said he was not a Crook😂

[@zap4156]

Back in the day where even bastards had nobility. Noble bastards no more...

[@legbakukulan4845]

So noble he almost started a nuclear holocaust because he couldn’t handle his liquor

[@angusdog22]

Eisenhower was a great human being . Underrated as a president during the most dangerous time in human history .

[@Bill87762]

Definitely my fav president- funny that Nixon daughter married Eisenhower grandson

[@blaquenguni9249]

Eisenhower allowed Allen and John Dulles to make the US the biggest war mongering nation the earth has ever seen. He was a milliary industrial complex puppet, they killed Patton coz they knew Ike could be controlled.

[@reneauvray3440]

My dad always said Eisenhower was the best president in his time.

[@reneauvray3440]

Richard Nixon learned a lot when he was V.P. under Ike.

[@reneauvray3440]

My dad said when Ike was president, there was law and order in the house.

[@EBUNNY2012]

Richard and a great analytical mind which made him a great card player and he understood history which is understanding humanity.

[@cyclenut]

In 1970 I was 7 and went to the capital to speak about child abuse. That day on President Nixon was a great person to me. He let me stay in the White House and was a father to me as my parents were abusive. That day I also meet former first lady Jackie Kennedy.

[@chernovbrichtofen4767]

Trump would told you to get out and that’s not his problem

[@DaMathias]

So the president let you stay in the White House an took care of you cause your parents were abusive? Im not sure if I misread something but that seems pretty far fetched, not saying you’re lying its just pretty confusing that a president would let you chill in the White House

[@cyclenut]

@@DaMathias Yes, President Nixon did let stay for prolonged times in the White House. President Nixon and the First Lady were very good to me. I don't care what anyone thinks. By the way, there were newspaper stories about it. They would be in the Washington DC newspaper archive. 10-1970 to 7-1972. My parents moved to NC to escape legal trouble.

[@cyclenut]

@@pythontron8710 That can happen with the abuse from sick minded parents.

[@johnnybeanz1296]

@@DaMathias I agree with you mostly because it wouldn’t have been in the child’s best interest. I think this was more like a dream a neglected child had where the memory became the reality.

[@pukalo]

Richard Nixon would make a great narrator.

[@accam6734]

pukalo [CDN] prison films.

[@503945158]

If he was such a good narrator why did he lose to JFK in the 1961 debate?

[@onlythewise1]

@@503945158 ha ha keneddy fought in ww2 and was a good talker to

[@RedRaiderLobo20]

সরপুরিয়ায় পোকা because he was sick. Seriously. Read first-hand accounts of the debate.

[@onlythewise1]

@@503945158 keneddy was so good and Nixon was so tired he had jet lag at least try to knows things

[@griffinreitz7041]

He was a brilliant man. I didn't realize how brilliant till I read the transcripts of the tapes. Had some major personality flaws, but few understood the politics of the world like Nixon.

[@AKHWJ3ST]

Personality flaws? As compared to whom? Biden? McCain? Romney? Clinton? Bush? etc.

[@crackthefoundation_]

Romney for his faults does seem to actually attempt to follow his own morality, which is almost nonexistent today

[@joespice785]

This dude carried 49 states come election time! That just blew my mind when I came across that.

[@skoots6303]

But for some reason, he was stupid when he hired burglars to break into the DNC headquarters.

[@MRB16th]

@@skoots6303 If Nixon had said the burglars were working for the Russians (who believed the Watergate Hotel was a nuclear facility) and tossed them into oncoming traffic, nobody would have questioned it. And the press would also get to poke fun at the Russians for good measure.

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

@@MRB16th He could have easily swept it under the rug, but his paranoia got the better of him and it showed. If anything, I have mad respect for Nixon actually coming to terms with what happened, as opposed to what any other politician would've done.

[@MRB16th]

@@Kardia_of_Rhodes Fair point. He collapsed and basically realised he was screwed. You have to admit, using Russia (and ludicrously poor intel) as a scapegoat would have saved his hide, while Liddy and Co. would have been branded as traitors.

[@russellking9762]

@@skoots6303 he would have done it himself if he didn't have to get up early the next day...Fact!

[@s70rk]

It's funny how his head becomes president of the world 1000 years from now. in Futurama.

[@SleepNeed]

Arrooo!

[@jackrohde4709]

s70rk Laff My Ass Off

[@TheMatthess]

s70rk arrrooooooo

[@QueefJuiceOverflow]

When I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! -- Tricky Dick Nixon

[@teddelguercio2173]

You see, the Constitution says that no "body" can serve more than 2 terms as President. haha

[@leplus1]

I like how he acknowledges LBJ as a political operator, and truly a political animal of the highest order. He is quite possibly the greatest Parliamentarian in the history of Western Democracy. Also Nixon is such a tragic figure, he feels like a Shakespearean character. Edit: For Nixon I think Goethe’s Faust is more apt than any Shakespean tragedy.

[@jamie42172]

if ya study texas history much you'll what he did to get elected.

[@Levottomat01]

Parliamentarians? For American, quite possibly, but look at other countries that operate in a parliamentary system and they'll eat any American politician alive.

[@chrisroberts4999]

He was a crook

[@ash_11117]

@@chrisroberts4999what did he steal???

[@jeremieletellier807]

@@ash_11117 1948 US senate election

[@Agtsmirnoff]

Nixon was so based. Really need someone like him as President again.

[@vickaps]

Agreed.

[@jameslayne2985]

What a nice piece. I imagine he was a bit more relaxed with Pat Buchanan than he would have been with most other journalists, which likely explains the minor expletives. I'd be interested in finding and watching this entire interview. His insights into the Kennedys were quite interesting. I hadn't thought of Bobby as comparable to a 16th century Jesuit priest, but that is a perfect description. After he was shot, Bobby even clung to his Rosary and asked how others were doing. He was my favorite of the brothers, because of his passion. And yes, LBJ was an animal.

[@mikeg2491]

LBJ liked to bark orders at his aides while on the shitter and unzip his trousers exposing himself to journalists, meanwhile people got mad at Obama for a tan suit or Trump for over his tweets.

[@frederickloucks4865]

To call LBJ an animal is to insult animals . LBJ was an obscenity and , hopefully, burning in hell forever .

[@maazkalim]

moderate expletives.* There! FTFY 😑

[@redpat8832]

Bobby Kennedy Jr. for President, 2024! 😃👏🔥⭐️

[@davidr5961]

He had the ability, to give incredible speeches, on the spur of the moment without preparation, during tragic times, for ie. the night ML King was shot, addressing a group of people in Indianapolis, in the aftermath telling the crowd of the assasination. Interesting how Nixon, labels Teddy R, FDR, AND LBJ, as the best politicians of the 20th century.

[@markwilson9935]

This diction,eloquence and high standard of speech has compltely gone today.....most people can barely string a decent sentence together! This man wasnt perfect but oratory skills top class

[@robertjohnson4301]

Listen to the audio of the Kennedy Nixon debate from 1960. They both sound like brilliant scholars: Articulate, eloquent, well prepared, organized, and both highly intelligent. The contrast between what we hear today from politicians is striking. Kennedy won because he was handsome, charming, and had a tan. 🏆

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

@@orianna9200 this kind of thinking, is why politicians now don't try. Lol. They don't have to. Look at what people do. Lmao. Don't follow this example.

[@luxborealis]

This is actually very much on purpose. As voter participation from the middle class has dropped in elections the last 40 years, politicians have very much been coached in simplifying their language to better communicate their message to working class voters, an increasingly important demographic, whether it is white Rust Belt workers for Trump or Hispanic farmers in California for Biden. Most of the drama is fabricated too, you think a Republican Congressman making $200k a year and with a nice vacation home in the Keys gives a flying crap about AOC dancing stupidly in college? Or a Democratic Congressman making the same amount giving a hoot about Representative Brooks posting pictures with guns at Christmas? Why do you think every politician is on Twitter, despite it being a pointless cesspit of circlejerks with no real increase in user numbers since 2012? It is all red meat to galvanize the base into team sports. They don’t want you to stop and think about issues, they just want to deliver a simple message that the opposite side is bad and evil. That is why Trump was so appealing to many Republicans, he would rant and rave about the opposition being evil or crooked or corrupt, but unlike his peers who only fake the third-grade level speech and outrage, he was actually speaking like that and actually outraged. No serious Republican politician wanted Trump elected; he’s a terrible Christian, former Democrat, only gives a crap about abortion or gun rights when pushed, and alienated many of the same conservative Hispanic voters they have been courting since 2000. Yet he won, because he speaks to the working class at their level, proving the people who have stressed the importance of simple messaging right. The hats were a nice touch too.

[@scotsman6712]

@@luxborealis and now,we have president Bidet.

[@teebob21]

@@robertjohnson4301 Correct. Polls at the time had Nixon winning the debate with radio listeners, and Kennedy winning for those watching on TV.

[@StarWarsHour]

"Listen, I don’t want a president who’s warm on the outside and the inside too. I want one who’s warm on the outside but when the tough decisions are made is cold and tough and will make the right decision without fear or favor." so you want a hot pocket as president

[@dreamingrightnow1174]

..Or a psychopath, lol.

[@starwarsking548]

@@dreamingrightnow1174 ..Better than a puppet, lol.

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@starwarsking548 so Putin, Kim Jong Il is cool with you?

[@starwarsking548]

@@vogelvogeltje do you think they’re making the right decisions for their countries? I think if Trump was a better person on the outside he would have been better received.

[@mrman2415]

@@vogelvogeltje Vladimir Putin isn't the cartoon bad guy you think he is. I suggest thinking critically for a change and not taking propaganda (news) stories to heart.

[@gabrielsyme4180]

Back when Presidents has CLASS!

[@johncampbell3912]

you think this guy had class? kidding, right?

[@Tripperchris]

Nixon is - so far - the only American president who was forced to leave office. If he had not done so, he would have been the first president to be forced from office by impeachment. No president of the U.S.A. has been closer. So I don't regard Tricky Dick (as he was nicknamed) as a president with "class".

[@gabrielsyme4180]

@@johncampbell3912 Nixon conceded an election for the good of the nation even when his opponent cheated. Hillary and Gore couldn’t bring themselves to do that when they lost fair and square.

[@winstonhuang2552]

1:41 can you imagine a modern republican naming 2 democrats as the best politicians? it's possible, but takes a stretch of the imagination

[@DanTheMailman330]

Amazing to consider. And Teddy Roosevelt was considered a progressive in his day on many issues as well.

[@zeef6946]

The Newt Gingrich Fox news deplorables would roast a Republican alive .

[@jakeyskywalker66]

Teddy Rosevelt was a republican

[@lalalala5089]

Before the right went racist and the left went communist Yes. There was mutual respect

[@shrek1140]

Probably Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson, both super racist

[@groove9tube]

Here’s a guy, shamed and denigrated, comes back so eloquent, and the one we have now can barely put a sentence together.

[@ThiccBoi23]

thought you were talking about trump till i saw the date of your comment

[@bronz1973]

Nixon may have been eloquent, but he was rightly shamed and denigrated. Integrity matters more than words.

[@tomtriffid]

Yes, I miss Richard Nixon more and more every day.

[@gabriellefagan1014]

You do mean Trump

[@therealjames56]

Joe Bidens just a puppet that's why

[@truthmerchant9860]

He stood up to Kruschev. I was in middle school, my teachers liked him for that.

[@DutchGuyMike]

It's all a puppet play, both sides were manipulated from the same source.

[@youtubeuser206]

@@DutchGuyMikeis that source the terrorist state that assassinated JFK to protect their illegal nuclear weapons program? the apartheid state

[@DutchGuyMike]

@@youtubeuser206 Could be, it is the shadow government. JFK wanted to tackle the fed and bring back monetary matters back in to the US treasury instead of the Federal Reserve. That guy that replaced him after he was killed immediately quietly removed that executive order. Same reason why his brother was killed. Look up "The Real Manchurian Candidate" it shows in-depth how sickening the US's shadow government is (mind control programs, interacting and strengthening criminals, world-wide plots, etc).

[@Themanwhocameback2]

He was very insightful and perceptive, especially about the 3 Kennedy brothers, whom most consider exactly alike.

[@vernpascal1531]

Except 2 of those Kennedy Bros. did more for this country than all the Republican ass clowns from Reagan to the present!

[@Peter-976]

Yes he was very insightful and perceptive, for a goddamn crook!

[@onlythewise1]

don't forget the one who died in ww2 .

[@vernpascal1531]

JFK did everything possible to avoid committing ground troops -don't ever forget it! 8 times he resisted sending combat troops to Laos-Cambodia-Vietnam. At the time of JFK's death 75% of the people trusted Govt. to do the right thing,but after The Warren Report and Vietnam and the endless lies of both, this is the end result...

[@Themanwhocameback2]

Now you're getting into hard to prove details. I am no Nixon fan. He was a politician, but he was astute in his snap analysis of the Kennedy brothers.

[@frankdodd3355]

"Shit, it makes him appear like a God damned...ANIMAL." ::beat:: "Of course he was..." Great set up and punch line, R.N. :)

[@KidMillions]

The punch line was "But he was a MAN."

[@kreek22]

@@KidMillions You don't know what a punchline is.

[@Fatherflot64]

Whatever you thought about Nixon and his policies, he was fit for the office. Even a decade later, he is, in this interview, sharp, witty, knowledgeable, formidable. As a Republican, believing that he was unjustly driven out of office by the opposition, he still is able to admit that FDR and LBJ were powerful, significant presidents. My God, how our standards have collapsed.

[@hughjazzole2037]

yOURE A ANTI aMERICAN BASTARD THAT ONLY VALUES$$$$. nIXON WAS ATRAITOR HE INTERFERED IN FOREIGN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS!! JOHNSON SHOULDVE PUBLISHED THAT ON PRIMNE TIME NEWS BUT HE WAS A CROOK TOO& HAD JFK ASSISSINATED.5000 U.S. MEN DIED IN VIETNAM CAUSE THAT PEACE TREATY WASNT SIGNED IN 1970.BUT REPUBLICANS DONT CARE ABOUT5000 MENS LIVES THEY CARE ABOUT CREATING JOBS IN RED CHINA,,,,,,,

[@mistermackey638]

As it would happen, Nixons Southern Strategy, War on Drugs, destruction of Bretton Woods, and the neoliberal economic policies that began under his administration are directly responsible for the destruction of the social fabric and the rise of the reactionary, useless, and unwise in politics today

[@Fatherflot64]

@@mistermackey638 I don't dispute this at all. Greg Sargent's recent piece in the Washington Post traces this disaster all the way back to Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign and the takeover of the GOP by self-styled "conservatives," former Dixiecrats, hysterical anti-communists, "hardhat" northern racists, direct-mail con artists, and all the rest.

[@Rawnervzz]

Nixon looks like an honest politician in hindsight

[@Bill87762]

Especially now we see Hilary and Obama did the same thing he did- which they likely all do. Bill Clinton did. But Nixon made the decision to resign, though he may have changed the direction of this country.

[@TheOneAndOnlyRalph]

Nixon was a Lying Sack of Shit!

[@Triple_J.1]

Compared to Bush Jr. Trump. And Biden. Nixon WAS A SAINT. Mary the Mother of God should pray "Hail Richards".

[@stanleykolodziejczyk5627]

We all know the flaws, and how deep they ran, but I still find Nixon the most fascinating public figure of the American twentieth century. His grasp of geopolitical realities and strategies puts him in a class shared by a mere handful of leaders, such as Churchill, Mao & FDR.

[@Taospark]

I mean at least three of them committed mass murder so sure.

[@chrischandler889]

Mao is one of the worst human beings who ever lived. He actually holds the democide world record.

[@andrewpaschall8992]

@@Taospark 3???

[@scerdy3]

I love the comparison of Nixon and Mao.

[@therocinante3443]

.....MAO???

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

This contains expletives? This isn't jack shit.

[@MortimerTheMortified]

Richard Nixon You're typing through your head-jar, I assume.

[@zachxL]

Hello Mr. President.

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

+zachxL Hello, hello. Hey, you know a smartphone is a lot like a woman? Depletes energy like crazy, lights up when it gets plugged in and only 5-10% of it is worth a damn.

[@zachxL]

+Richard Nixon LOLOL

[@DarkLight753]

+Richard Nixon "I am not a crook".....course not Dickie!

[@slowbro173]

He's so damn sharp. It's pretty intimidating really

[@adams1458]

+Rick Dryden he was well respected, but teachers and professors hate him for OBVIOUS reasons.

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

+Joseph Reilly You mean like what is happening in the Middle east now with Obama pulling out?

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

Bush was an awful leader...Obama still is.

[@hellespont5072]

How can people so easily forget that this douchenozzle began the disastrous War on Drugs?! Let's not ignore his little sadistic sidekick Kissinger. They both have blood on their hands, these people should not be praised!!

[@hellespont5072]

***** Care to elaborate...?

[@jessemohring3484]

Hearing him speak and listening to jfk speak politics seemed so much more respectful and professional back then. Todays world is a reality tv show.

[@sliptacked9801]

he barely even swore. you ignored the whole damn interview

[@dans9463]

Don't swear

[@RigbyismyFavCatever]

@@dans9463 yeah they’ll get a video made about them by CNN

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

Because……. ….CNN

[@bridgetryder5352]

Nixon's daughter married Eisenhower's grandson.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Bridget Ryder Yes.Club of Rome Like the Haopsburgs- ten toes of clay and iron, after the fall of the Roman Empire will fall apart. Everyone knows cement, iron, and water will result in rust, after a time.,like bad political ties do

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Hapsburg History after Constantine.

[@imme9498]

@@peggyfranzen6159 that Carlos the 2nd was a zombie due to inbreeding.

[@rogerwhitee]

That’s good to know Bridget.

[@majik5194]

No shit?

[@knockoffjesus4844]

Man just to hear the way people talked 50 years ago is insane.

[@Fran11686]

mojo jojo he obviously spoke like that his whole life

[@Joeybago12]

You're not asian. Just a guess

[@donmoore7785]

It's 38 but to you it probably makes zero difference.

[@maxa3221]

It's amazing what reading books will do

[@070101r2d2]

What the fuck is this comment section

[@KellsKats]

It’s interesting to see that Nixon was actually an extremely knowledgeable man. I’m not saying he’s a saint, but it’s just interesting to see such a different time.

[@mackhardy9083]

Wow, he's not calling for the killing of his political rivals--what a different universe

[@katyungodly]

It was a different time, nowadays we say the corrupt quiet part out loud and yet people will still vote for you because our education system is a failure.

[@sirhc07]

The man never drank a duff in his life

[@niftyven2874]

John McCain May have been a dignified President like that...remember how he stuck up for Barack Obama when the woman badmouthed Obama at one of McCain's campaign meetings?

[@jamesanthony5681]

LOL. That's a naive statement. Nixon's not saying it, but he bloody well tried to annihilate and destroy his political opponents in any way, shape or form he could. Nixon's campaign manager Murray Chotiner in the 1950's: "The purpose of an election is not to defeat your opponent, but to destroy him." Richard Nixon to his opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950: "she's pink right down to her underwear." Douglas responded by calling Nixon, 'tricky Dick', and *THAT* nickname stuck with him for the rest of his life.

[@captainswan3079]

Are you talking about Hillary or Maxine Waters?

[@Pulsonar]

This man was vilified for years as a scoundrel, even by many of us UK folks, yet he is a really astute and intelligent man. He dropped more huge bombs of decisive insight and judgement in less than 4 minutes than today’s presidential quacks do in 4 years in office.

[@GabrielRodriguez-um8fi]

Fake news made him look bad

[@paulm6081]

He also dropped some huge bombs on cambodia and some vietnamese schools

[@bravocharlie639]

Speaking of "bombs", have you seen the Nixon Campaign Ads from 1968? They promised "Peace with Nixon" and you would have thought that Nixon was a "Flower Child" for all their feel-good appeal BUT Nixon Bombed North Vietnam which is "funny" because Nixon had interfered with LBJ's Peace Talks with North Vietnam. Yup, Nixon promised all of Vietnam "a better deal" if they "waited to negotiate with Nixon". SURPRISE! because we're talking about "bombs" here! Nixon dropped PLENTY of them (more than we used in Europe for WW2 (look it up)) on the same people who Nixon had promised would get "a better deal". Say, WHO made those "Peace with Nixon" political advertisements anyway? Ever heard of Roger Ailes? Yup! Nixon Campaign Manager and founder of Fox News.

[@bravocharlie639]

...oh yeah, and despite Nixon declaring that the Vietnam War had ended (when Watergate was closing in on him) and despite his panicky pull-out caught on film, the Vietnam War ended AFTER Nixon left Office. Look that up as well, or perhaps you have never heard of the Vietnam War Memorial?

[@Pulsonar]

@@bravocharlie639 Yes Nixon was a self serving lying narcissist, like all politicians. We know about the Vietnam lies, the ‘secret’ bombing raids in Cambodia, amongst the other bad things he did, etc… He was not immune to making awful judgements as well. What is your point?

[@jeffwhite6944]

I had the absolute privilege to meet him in his NJ office before he died, just an amazing gentleman.

[@wingmannj]

is it true he lived in park ridge?

[@ADAMdinho1]

And now his heads in a jar being carried around by a robot

[@cloudman8911]

Who?

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@wingmannj Saddle River.

[@richardhart9204]

@@ADAMdinho1 Arrrrooooo!

[@bobwhite2]

What a breathe of fresh air to hear him. Honest, well spoken, and intelligent. The leading politicians of today barely reach his toenail, worse, they cannot be included in the same category.

[@coletakkish4389]

I’ve lately been on a binge of videos about politicians from the 70s and 80s, and it’s always so astonishing to me how respectful they all are to each other. Like, I can definitely find people who I agree and disagree with, but Jesus, they’re all so likable it’s insane!

[@katyungodly]

Nowadays they argue in public but agree behind closed doors to screw the public the same. Bipartisan corruption!

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

Curious comment. Ted Bundy was also warm and fuzzy during interviews. Articulate...respectful. Much like when people see Adolf Hitler speaking softly instead of slamming the podium while yelling, this changes nothing about the man. Where the hell are the adults in this country?

[@mwj5368]

Also it's indicative how it's all one cutesy party, Dems and Republicans makes no difference to what really goes on. They know how to be "likable"... to you and I...

[@SageModeisOn]

Yeah no joke, when morality of respect from religion was still relevant. Instead of the “do you” movement ..

[@toddinthemiddle]

@@mwj5368 me

[@lyons24000]

I never realized Nixon was so smart and well-spoken. I knew he was more than Watergate but I've never heard him speak outside of a presidential or debate setting.

[@stevencramsie9172]

He was one of the best foreign policy presidents we ever had. He was born to play the role. But he was also cripplingly paranoid, as part of his odd Quaker upbringing. That was his downfall.

[@badcornflakes6374]

Old school Californian

[@shawn6669]

Can you imagine Trump describing someone as a 17th century Jesuit Priest?

[@thatguy6919]

I Laughed so hard when he said that, most religious and conservative sentiment ive heard in a while, and despite his ideal of a 17th century Jesuit being warped it was an eloquent allusion that I respect

[@shawn6669]

Paul WT: Who were you responding to?

[@EPJamesMacAdams]

Claystead Trump attended Jesuit Colleges

[@MikeDunn]

I love the fools that underestimate Trump.

[@marias7599]

Claystead Lol

[@johnshilljejr3799]

Nixon will always be remembered for just watergate but he did many other positive actions while he held political office

[@waytoobiased]

Yes. However, I don’t think I can excuse undermining democracy.

[@MrAlepedroza]

@@waytoobiased Not an excuse to whitewash him, but not an excuse to completely erase the good part of his legacy either. That's unfair and biased history. Most historical figures were grey, not black or white, yet most people don't want to accept it, they want to either idolize or demonize them in order to satisfy their own fantasies. As long as we see history like that, we will never learn from our mistakes, since we'll never get the full picture of what actually happened.

[@waytoobiased]

@@MrAlepedroza I absolutely agree.

[@johnalombardi2951]

Thank you, Mr. Hillje, you spoke my thoughts precisely. NO SURRENDER, U.S.A. 🇺🇸

[@humanbean1424]

Many positive things? Like what?

[@knoodelhed]

@CNN, your editor deserves a mini-Pulitzer for this vid. Took us straight to the tea, no filler. My time was well spent.

[@PabluchoViision]

Gsrry Wills’s book on Nixon is excellent. One detail I’ve always appreciated is Nixon’s nickname in law school (at Duke): Ironbutt. Because he could sit his rear end down in the library for hours & hours on end, studying.

[@joep5146]

I really wish that Nixon was alive, in his prime, and running for POTUS right now. We need his warmth, ability to communicate, statemanship and intellect in the worst way.

[@MrBobbybrus]

Nixon had paranoia and a persecution complex, which led him to do unscrupulous, even criminal things, but no one should ever question his political savvy and acumen nor his intellect.

[@katherinepll]

He never did anything criminal that I am aware of.

[@MrBobbybrus]

@@katherinepll One can only assume, he would most probably would have been impeached on the basis of his active role in trying to cover-up the Watergate fiasco and destruction of evidence, i.e the missing minutes of oval office recordings concerning such with an advisor.

[@katherinepll]

@@MrBobbybrus Of course that was the media spin back then, but now I think the CIA may have deleted those minutes to cover up their own involvement. Nixon would have had to lie either way, and that is why he resigned. When you learn how corrupt our CIA has been through the years, you see things differently. There was never evidence of Nixon’s involvement.

[@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361]

Could do with being a decent human being

[@MortalWombat4480]

Nixon, despite all his failings, will continue to be increasingly more respected as time goes on.

[@chickensquash023]

It really is a shame in all honesty. When you take a really good look at watergate Nixon was much more guilty of a coverup than the actually crime. For the most part he was much less informed and involved in the break in at the DNC headquarters, his true crime was simply covering it up. He could have been one of the best presidents in history, he acted very liberal for a republican, took us out of Vietnam, and eased relations with China.

[@MortalWombat4480]

ChickenSquash02 I agree, he’s technically one of the greatest presidents of all time as evidenced by his near total victory in 1972. But sadly Watergate overshadows all of it.

[@dougn2350]

Something that will never happen with tRump

[@smolpenguingoddess]

Does the respect come because of his civility or his hatred of black people?

[@joeski734]

@@chickensquash023 They did more than just the one Watergate break-in you know. They were bugging other people, breaking into doctor's offices to find compromising info on their enemies, spreading lies, compiling enemies lists, ordering IRS audits on their opponents, sabotaging legitimate political protest. You know all that J. Edgar Hoover shit. Nixon loved that shit. He knew about all of it and he approved of all of it. Then when he got caught, he tried to go make himself an emperor and obstruct justice. If he had done that stuff today, yes, he would not have been forced to resign. But that is not because his crimes were not serious. It is because his party would have been loyal to him rather than the rule of law.

[@jaydibernardo4320]

"...and always remember that those who hate you don't win. Only when you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself."

[@iforgotthenamemate]

When i read about Nixon, he came as a person who took himself too serious, almost constantly expecting someone to cross him or mock him.

[@davidmenasco5743]

He puts up a great front, but inside, he had serious issues.

[@grege5074]

is this not a precursor for "between two ferns"

[@uneedtherapy42]

Hilarious comment! LMAO

[@SWLinPHX]

That is actually a very good talk show. It doesn’t beat around the bush and asks pointed questions of its subjects. They also have the subject flanked by two tall plants so as to keep them centered from going off track.

[@marieskee22]

I thought the same thing!!!

[@albear972]

This is in the middle of one plastic palm tree.

[@russellschwartz9687]

Nixon all things considered was actually a good president. He just could not get out of his own way and let his paranoia and distrust of everyone around him get the better of him time and time again. But in spite of all that it’s impossible to deny that he was an extremely intelligent person and tremendously well spoken.

[@saintjabroni]

I’d be paranoid as President like him, I’m already paranoid. So naturally I vibe him. lol

[@deadboyzX8]

he was not a good president. quite intelligent i agree, just not good.

[@blainejeffreys]

He was right to be paranoid. Four of the five Watergate burglars were ex CIA. Ask a neighbor who is CIA if he'll take your garbage to the curb while you're on vacay, he'll go through your trash first. Maybe he'll rat you out for not separating out the recyclables.

[@kentuckybowl-o-sticks]

Probably just ahead of the curve re: the "Deep State"...

[@damonhymer9198]

He is so much more loose here, much more relaxed than I remember him in his second term

[@sidv4615]

are you really old enough to remember that?

[@Tryptick]

I was never a fan of Nixon but I have to admit it's a breath of fresh air hearing an executive politician Talk No Nonsense without being out of his mind

[@fh346]

I've never been a Nixon hater. I don't think he gets nearly enough credit as he's really rightfully do. Take away Watergate and you had a pretty decent man and a good person overall. NO. NOT PERFECT. But he was no worse than any of these other Assholes we've had to Put Up with.

[@tictok9972]

FRED Hall you’re absolutely right!!

[@TheEndingAbyss]

Take away his crime to make him better, got it.

[@waderoberge6205]

He did come up with the southern strategy and war on drugs tho...

[@valeriexvegan]

cough cough Pentagon Papers cough cough

[@valentino3191]

He was a man of his times. I find the “war on drugs” an abject failure. But being he was of the GI generation and we’d defeated the Nazis and Japan with overwhelming force. I honestly think they felt military-like force with tough law enforcement would work on drugs. Unfortunately, in the past 50 years, we’ve learned it doesn’t. Legalize it and make it cheap. The peripheral and organized crime goes away. If there is no money in a criminal enterprise, it dies off.

[@Woburn-RoxburyMedia]

Cold, tough, calculated... those indeed are the qualities of a powerful, effective POTUS.

[@whaddyathink949]

Sounds like you want Putin for President!

[@badcornflakes6374]

​@@whaddyathink949Well, maybe.. but to be Putin, you need to be elected like 5 times. I don't think any president can do that.

[@bend4137]

CNN is such a joke. They title the video about the 2 swears he said instead of the great interview.

[@killerkitten7534]

Yep that sounds like CNN

[@JH-qh4hr]

Its literally titled with no expletives deleted . Literally what the video is. Take head, remove from trump’s orange ass

[@BulletTheEnforcer]

J H But he can’t, because he’s a Cheeto addict.

[@russ123321bunya]

The interview is publically available, this is an excerpt and appropriately named.

[@Jesse__H]

it got virtually every single one of us to click, so 🤷‍♂️

[@jessicaryan4958]

Fascinating video, thank you for the upload.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Nixon, had a great brain on him ...fearless, confident ...love it

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

RMN was a brilliant man.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

@@johnrobinsoniii4028 yes, indeed 👏

[@TheGearhead222]

Richard Nixon was also an active duty US Navy officer during WWII and did not shy away from any assignment. For that he earned my respect as a patriotic American-John in Texas

[@TheEgg185]

My father told me how when found out he was being drafted he immediately went into his mother's closet and started trying on her clothes.

[@alexander1902]

@@TheEgg185at least he didn’t crap himself at MEPS like Ted Nugent.

[@jakurdadov6375]

He was a REMF his entire career...a supply officer. He bravely sharpened pencils.

[@alexander1902]

@@jakurdadov6375 I think he used the excuse of being a Quaker to avoid an direct action role. 🙄

[@jakurdadov6375]

@@alexander1902 Maybe. I read that he didn't have to serve at all, because he was a Quaker. But, it's a very great stretch to say that "he did not shy away from any assignment," as the OP said.

[@mrtrek64]

I actually had the honor of meeting President Nixon in..I believe 1987-88 in Swan Lake, NY. Played a few pieces on the piano and was just seemed like a nice genuine guy. Just looking at the man back then it occurred to me all the tough decisions he made during his Presidency. Decisions which would have made lesser Presidents fold like cheap suits.

[@thunderpooch]

geez, cool off. did you and Nixon have a thing? lol 😄

[@mrtrek64]

???? What did I write that was so hot-headed?. All I wrote was my opinion of the man :) @@thunderpooch

[@DvdLtch]

Like Kent State, Ohio?

[@saurabhshah4879]

Oh nice, are you a piano player

[@mrtrek64]

Perhaps reading comprehension wasen't your strong subject in school, if you had any at all. Nowhere in my post does it read that I am a piano player. Nixon on the other hand was a very accomplished piano player.@@saurabhshah4879

[@ArchLars]

What book is he talking about? EDIT: Found it, he is talking about "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent" by Robert Caro, who is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of American Presidents.

[@danieleskridge3180]

Actually it’s Path To Power, the first book, which was published in 1982, same year as this interview. Means of Ascent wasn’t published until 1990.

[@fishfinsteve]

Like him or love him, a fascinating person, as evidenced by this clip.

[@davisworth5114]

If anyone needed evidence of the abysmal, pathetic, invincible ignorance of Americans, here is exhibit A, and I rest my case. Nixon, the unindicted War Criminal, butcher of Vietnamese and American soldiers, architect of the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, who ordered the carpet bombing of Cambodia with B-52s which he kept secret from Congress, the American people, and even the Secretary of the Air Force, and was the enabler of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide, and never spent a day in prison. Most of the fools who wrote these replies should be quietly put to sleep, for life is wasted on you.. I would direct you idiots to the KZbin video "Children of the Dump" by the Small Steps foundation. This will give you a good dose of this evil bastard's real legacy. As a decorated Vietnam veteran, I am ashamed of you, and your ignorance shows that you are unworthy of your citizenship rights. Why don't you hang yourselves tonight? Go for it, Make my day.

[@bobboscarato1313]

Heavily edited!

[@donelmore2540]

I hadn’t heard Nixon speaking for decades. He was a very bright and thoughtful guy.

[@magmasunburst9331]

Amazing to hear a member of the opposite party say all those kind, objective things about members OF THE OPPOSITE PARTY! Where did we go wrong? Being moderate is the only sensible political stance, since so few are, it shows you why we are in the place we have been in.

[@abed2007]

Just like how communism is the best political system because so few people use it.

[@KClouisville]

Don't be fooled by this interview. Nixon was out of politics so he could be a lot more candid. If you read some books about his political history he could be as ruthless as any politician. It's sort of a mirror of what he says about LBJ when mentioning Robert Caro's book on him (a great great book).....he seems almost offended that such an honest, warts and all, biography of a former President is in print...saying it makes him (LBJ) seem like an animal...to which he adds: "Which he was", but then he adds: "He was a man."....indicating he had a lot of respect for a politician on the other side of the aisle who knew how the game was played and how to play it with no mercy.

[@Rikkity]

Sounds like the left.

[@Hirnlego999]

Trump spoke well about both Clintons before he ran for office. "Trump exposes Trump"

[@dlaird8]

Nixon is without a doubt one of the most interesting people ever and he had a great personality.

[@jaredkeller5107]

People call this guy corrupt and turn a blind eye to who runs the government today.

[@johnnyfives5416]

He only get all the hate is because he was the only one that got caught.

[@nixl3518]

You have no idea what you’re talking about!

[@DWWII]

doesn't mean he wasn't corrupt

[@smartfart9003]

A senile corrupt career politician who is weak and pathetic, loves China, allows in countless illegals with their drugs and covid, soaring energy prices and inflation and a son that is a disgusting embarrassment.

[@nixl3518]

@@smartfart9003 ...and his name is Trump!!

[@timsanderson5572]

Call me deaf but I don't recall hearing any expletives anywhere in this video

[@Braddington1]

1:17

[@timsanderson5572]

Ah yes now I hear it.

[@TheJollyGreenGiant]

He said, shit... And god-damn...

[@TheJollyGreenGiant]

Haha

[@TriggerHappyD]

i wanted full joe pesci

[@Merle1987]

To be honest he sounds very normal.

[@Sidiciousify]

Then you must be surrounded by losers.

[@evelcruzy]

He is! He was a great President he was just very insecure and made some mistakes. He spied on the DNC to see if they were getting money from the Cubans

[@Kenikex]

Yeah, in this circumstance. In private, Nixon was haunted by even the same press that interviewed him here. He was haunted by everyone, his past, his upbringing, just that fact that he was from the west coast. He was smart, but paranoid. Anti-social.

[@TheBUGZNTA]

Of course the propaganda doesn't live up. it never does.

[@Kenikex]

I agree. He was a smart man, but many people are psychotic smart, self-loathing, "persecuted" people.

[@rodneybjornstad9016]

Of all people from my life I would have loved to have had a private chat with Richard Nixon. Would have been Awesome . I was born in 1960 so I got to get a good look over next couple decades . Very smart man.

[@allwrathnograpes]

back when men crossed their legs

[@batfleckforever3594]

Oppose man spreading?

[@allwrathnograpes]

no. just an observation.

[@batfleckforever3594]

pancakewafflebacon I see...

[@coolguy02536]

Oh but isn't leg crossing considered effeminate.

[@allwrathnograpes]

men didn't give a shit back then

[@timw5108]

His observation about Robert Kennedy was dead on.