Why Was President Nixon So Paranoid?

[@serbkebab2763]

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

[@pedenmk]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. The two things I remember most is you don't have Nixon to kick around anymore and im not a crook lol. Compared to the politicians now? Nixon was a saint. The corruption continues. Thanks for sharing.

[@JPSE57]

The corruption is accelerating!

[@Bruno-cr2eu]

I agree ! Nixon was a great president! If only he hadn’t recorded himself

[@Raya14]

@pedenmk corruption was in the first Congress, it will be in the next Congress. Its in the nature of man.

[@Raya14]

@pedenmk my ancestors voted Republican from the time they received citizenship. I followed politics since Eisenhower went into office.I first voted in 1968, and knowing Nixon when he was VP, I voted independent and have since. Damn few inside the beltway wear halos. The rest stink of rotten corruption. Still, the People eat their putrid BS like its candy. The People deserve what is about to befall them, for their arrogant ignorance.

[@pedenmk]

@Bruno-cr2eu yeah I guess so. Times were much better back then. People were friendly and helpful and television was much better.

[@TkrB]

Richard Nixon who hates face to face confrontations: The OG Keyboard Warrior 😂

[@ricardocantoral7672]

@@TkrB Just because he didn't like it that doesn't mean he didn't do it.

[@aaronjaben7913]

I hear this narrator's voice and I know it's going to be good.

[@johncordes7885]

David Reynolds is one of the best narrators

[@serbkebab2763]

Except when he mimics the silly American accent. Hire professional voice actors for those parts.

[@johncordes7885]

@serbkebab2763 there's no redemption for silly Americans

[@beeenn649]

Total BS. Some Nixon haters put this hit piece together. According to historian David McCullough, Nixon was "the most astute politician of our time." I'm really tired of people making up history, I lived through it, and I know that this is just a cheap smear.

[@Bruno-cr2eu]

If he hadn’t recorded himself he would never have had to resign

[@JayKno420]

He had every right to be

[@Swedishpolymath]

Interesting. This describes me pretty well.

[@fairygurl9269]

Can a Human With Compassion, Loyalty, & Humanity of The People Please Stand Up?

[@elizabethsohler6516]

Jimmy Carter.

[@levistrauss5378]

So you're telling me the man who knew all the secrets was paranoid.

[@scottmclaughlin5674]

Considering the past nearly decade with Trump and the party media, it really makes me personally revisit my media programmed opinions of Nixon. Nixon too was an anti-establishment Republican. Kinda scary how predominantly leftist media slants and agendas program our opinions of our public officials and we used to think nothing of it.

[@familykaplan1341]

He knew dark stuff from the deep state

[@marcharsveld2914]

Paranoia is one of the traits of narcissism. And Nixon sure was a narcissist. A violent father etc.

[@chrishonegger7180]

He was paranoid cuz of people that were gonna get or he thought was sadly

[@wagz72]

Maybe he was so paranoid because he knew who got Jack

[@bobblueford]

17:15 Excuse me, "launched" by Eisenhower and Nixon! These two began the U.S.'s involvement with Vietnam.

[@josephgoldmacher8214]

Actually, Kennedy did.

[@bobblueford]

@josephgoldmacher8214 The U.S. involvement in Vietnam began in the mid 1950s by Eisenhower/Nixon. And escalated by every next president, including Nixon, until it ended during Ford's presidency.

[@roberthanan5541]

He was a good president other than that one little personality tic.

[@phineas117]

still remember all of this. my youngest brother was born the day Nixon resigned. came home from hospital the day He left Washington. put the newspapers in his baby book. same year I graduated high school. still remember watching the Watergate hearings, specially John Dean. said then to my mom, "he's lying through his teeth"...and he was.

[@familykaplan1341]

Like Reagan: Iran-Contra.

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Politicians like Nixon and Kissinger are missing us nowadays

[@roxannemoser]

If they were here, they'd probably say, "why didn't I think of that"

[@Reallythough]

When you know you are no good you expect others to be the same.

[@johnwatson3948]

As told in other docs - his paranoia and “go-it-alone” method had also lost the needed support of other Republicans running for office, when his election campaign did not, as was usual, share the massive funds collected.

[@josephallsen3135]

I have always been into history. Nixon is one of the strangest characters I have ever studied. The more I learn about him the less I understand him or know about him.

[@neuro.weaver]

Apparently, he wasn't paranoid enough. THEY were out to get him.

[@lumu76]

Who is 'they'?

[@Eriugena8]

dude literally resigned because the white house tapes He recorded, were about to be legally subpoena'd, which had him spouting jewish conspiracy theories countless times, (when Henry wasn't around if course), so you are definitely closing the circular conspiracy loop on that. well done. 👏⭕️

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Hardly. His paranoia brought him down.

[@Yourordinaryuser_]

​@@lumu76 His political opponents. New evidence reveals that Nixon was framed.

[@kellyharper8072]

@@Yourordinaryuser_😂🤪

[@thomasriggins1299]

JFK had plumbers too 😉

[@youarelegend-bio]

0:37 A landslide victory... yet the only president to resign in disgrace. What really happened behind the scenes? This story has layers, and we're just peeling them back!

[@pedenmk]

Yes indeed. Maybe one day it will be known.

[@familykaplan1341]

He knew way too much!

[@bobyoung1698]

Because he was guilty.

[@davidevans8691]

Who was the real Woodward?

[@angloaust1575]

He stayed faithful to his wife Not a divorcee as others were Or immorality in the oval office!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Ever since Watergate, no President has recorded their conversations.

[@Raya14]

Would it have anything to do with his hatred of JFK, his involvement with the crime syndicate, and fear of being outed ?

[@djpalindrome]

Nixon did not hate JFK. Johnson hated the Kennedys

[@Raya14]

No one seems to realize how Nixon's petty jealousy ate at him for having lost to JFK.

[@domashnie_lubimtsy]

Answer one question: did the owners of large companies get richer? If so who cares if the leader is nuts? He does his job perfectly as long as his bosses increase their income.

[@bobblueford]

31:05 Wow, was he petty.

[@mamaharumi]

Neither Nixon nor Kissinger deserved a day of peace. Pure evil.

[@familykaplan1341]

Amen and Kissinger wasn’t a Jew in my world 🌎!

[@russellpayne070]

Richard Nixon evil!! I totally disagree

[@random-J]

Nixon was not evil that's over simplifying a complex man dealing with complex circumstances

[@Yourordinaryuser_]

How was Nixon evil?

[@Aleksssssssss]

Excuse me but Nixon wasn’t evil

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Other Presidents did that too right? Only used the Oval for the formal stuff and used an alternative office for the everyday stuff?

[@super60sand70s]

Answer the question you posed in the title. Why was Nixon paranoid

[@lorekeepermeerah]

They did lol it’s because of the crimes 😂

[@ChuckKarges]

Nixon wasnt the crook it's was others in Congress and last administration there where problem was they let off a rich person he was mad he couldn't get that same deal

[@therealphantombeats7171]

I guess because I’m a Capricorn like Nixon was, idk, I guess I will always have this interest in him regardless of what happened to his presidency..

[@fredk9999]

Shame on you people for characterizing former President Nixon this way. He resigned office for the good of the nation

[@melanieswor5900]

Maybe because he was committing crimes?

[@clairealderwood1928]

Turned out he was an evil crook.

[@bartfargo6744]

Cause he was a criminal.

[@AyyappanRandaman]

If you get rid of Dulles and Hoover even Satan would get paranoid about the forces lurking in the dark. Nixon was brave, very brave!

[@Josh-y4r]

O bam na

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Because he was right.

[@Jorrie86]

His biggest crime was him ending the gold standard

[@Yourordinaryuser_]

The gold standard didn't have the gold to back it anymore.

[@josephthomasjr.6551]

My father absolutely HATED Richard Nixon!!! And when the President was re--elected in 1972, by a landslide no less, my sister and I marveled at the words coming out of Daddy's mouth. Because we had never heard him use PROFANITY before. Even once. Unlike like father, I do NOT hate Nixon. I do not like him. But I don't him either. He was a fascinating and complex man. But, being a student of Noam Chomsky, I will always associate Nixon with the horrors visited upon the peoples of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (both North and South), and, of course, Chile. Like Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon has an OCEAN of blood on his hands!!!

[@LethalBubbles]

he did not "thaw the cold war". do you have any idea why they call it "cold" in the first place? oh wait this is absolute history so of course you do, and you're doing it on purpose.

[@bobblueford]

15:42 Ugh! Or maybe he won because he didn't look or sound like he had a chip on his shoulder.

[@damianglenn2565]

He was set up

[@lorekeepermeerah]

Surely it had nothing to do with all the crimes he was committing lmao I think anyone would be paranoid if they did what he did

[@bdup680]

Actually, Lyndon Johnson was from Stonewall, Texas, which is in Central Texas, not East Texas

[@River.channel]

Nixon's a baby compared to wicked Trump

[@nonactive3654]

Because he was right...

[@monetscott2406]

Trump is the new Nixon

[@jackiebinns6205]

Ugh 😮

[@LONE_WOLF_GANG]

He had something to do with the assassination of JFK. He was in Dallas that morning, at a convention that just happened to block the original motorcade route, which caused the president to reroute to where he eventually got shot.

[@griffon2-6]

best day of jfk life, when his brain got finally ventilated

[@KristiChan1]

Too bad Nixon didn't get nixed sooner.

[@familykaplan1341]

And that Reagan survived the bullet!

[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

He was a disgrace king Faisal hated him

[@BebbaDubbs]

Because he had a personality disorder.

[@Lisa_RNHealthHub]

Which one?

[@maryaltshuller885]

@BebbaDubbs - I assume you mean Nixon and not Kissinger? Yes, I think so.

[@moeluv]

J Edgar Hoover 🇺🇲

[@D.H.-mg2cz]

You Americans celebrate reckless egomaniacs far too much...

[@River.channel]

At least Americans don't have dictators like Russia and China. Trump tried and failed.

[@p5rsona]

A truly crazy sob

[@thewiseoldtree3873]

Because he was a 🐱

[@WOMFT]

Gotta be alert to deal with the alphabets

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Watch out, don’t TSA the FBI or the CIA will JFK you?

[@Monica-gj2yx]

My farher knew he was a bad person ever since the "Checkers Speach."

[@Greebia]

Why not also first

[@nickfoleie2074]

just proves a British accent won't help a s*** documentary. My what a one-sided garbage doc.

[@edsoderlind7568]

leper

[@vickisemans7238]

Because he was a guilty piece of manure.

[@scottmclaughlin5674]

Absolute Propaganda.

[@backto-il9ne]

Overly dramatic and hyperbolic presenter. Seems like a failed thespian seizing this chance to chew scenery smh

[@grammeb719]

Hello woke Disney. You’re pretty slick, eh?

[@theodorekorehonen]

Uh-oh... Chatgpt is having hallucinations again

[@out_running_erins9118]

Lol😂

[@SRBc-g7ml]

F i r s t

[@Danilio.]

Sike

[@SRBc-g7ml]

@@Danilio. Your literally 3 minutes ago💀

[@Danilio.]

@@SRBc-g7ml I wasn't talking about me. Sort the comments from newest, then scroll all the way down.

[@sam_p792]

Third

[@MrScaryLemonHead]

Because he was corrupt. Because he was comically hollow.

[@michaelslater3464]

Phlebitis 😐…. Aka “ ants in my pants “ syndrome