[Rhodes22-list] R. M. Nixon

[Wally Buck]

Brad,

Back in the early 70s my Dad was stationed in San Diego. We lived on base 
and the President was coming to visit. We headed to the Naval Air Station 
and saw Air Force One come in for a landing and then taxi over to the 
cheering crowd. Nixon came down from the plane waving to the crowd and 
stopped to shake hands before jumping in his limo. Well Tricky Dick shook my 
hand and patted me on the back. I was only thirteen years old and didn't 
know squat about politics but I really liked Nixon after that. I mean after 
all he did shake my hand right?

Well a few years later we are living in Fairfax VA (Dads was working at 
Pentagon then) and Watergate hits the scene. Talk about bursting my bubble. 
First Agnew is gone and then Nixon announces his resignation.  My Mom wanted 
us to see history in the making. She loaded up the wagon with the family and 
we went down to the White House to witness Nixon's infamous exit. We saw him 
walk over to the helicopter, give his big two handed wave and fly away in 
disgrace.

It was kind of cool to see all of this first hand. It really opened up my 
eyes though and I have not trusted politicians ever since.

Wally


>From: brad haslett <flybrad@yahoo.com>
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>To: wwrhodes@rhodes22.com,The Rhodes 22 mail list 
><rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Social programs.
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:05:42 -0800 (PST)
>
>Stan,
>
>That reminds me of the campaign rhetoric from 1992
>coming from the "pork belly" Senator from NY,
>remember, "the greed of the 80's".  Much of the
>"paradigm shift" in the "new economy" of the nineties
>was "smoke and mirrrors".  My best friend, a very
>conservative stock broker, said all through the boom
>there wasn't anything to back up the stock prices and
>he was right.  Some CEO's, no, make that a lot of
>CEO's turned out to be crooks. I hope they go to jail
>but they probably won't.  Now we're in the middle of a
>recession, business cycle, correction, what ever you
>want to call it.  It would have come no matter who was
>in office or who ran the SEC just as the Tulip Bubble
>burst in Holland several hundred years ago. We've made
>money about as cheap as it can get and people aren't
>spending.  Now we're running up the deficit just as
>FDR did to jump start the economy.  Cutting taxes
>worked for Reagan, maybe it will work for 43.  The
>truth is, as Richard Nixon lamented, the President is
>either hero or goat as a result of the economy with
>limited means to change it in the short run... Ah,
>Richard Milhous Nixon!  Oh well, save that praise for
>another day Bradley.
>
>Brad Haslett
>--- General Boats <wwrhodes@rhodes22.com> wrote:
> > You are talking about the C.E.O. generation the
> > government coddled after Levitt
> > left the helm of the SEC, right?
> >
> > stan/gbi
> >
> > Rik Sandberg wrote:
> >
> > > Rummy,
> > >
> > > Absolutely agree that a "helping hand" sometimes
> > is necessary and good. What
> > > we have now is not a helping hand. The better
> > share of these people are
> > > doing nothing more than mooching their entire
> > existence off of the rest of
> > > us. Probably can't only blame either them or the
> > government for that though,
> > > as much as we'd like to, WE are letting them do it
> > to us. I'm with Steve
> > > here. Once you let people get used to getting
> > stuff for nothing, not only do
> > > they eventually stop appreciating these benefits,
> > they soon also expect
> > > more. Just ask them, they'll tell you they
> > *deserve* this stuff. Some folks
> > > just don't have the strength of character to take
> > pride in making their own
> > > way through life. Free handouts uncover these
> > types very quickly.
> > >
> > > Rik
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <R22RumRunner@aol.com>
> > > To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:18 AM
> > > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Social programs.
> > >
> > > > Whether we like having our tax dollars going to
> > social problems or not,
> > > it's
> > > > the social programs that help make our society
> > what it is. Without the
> > > > programs you would have more homeless people,
> > health problems, more crime
> > > and
> > > > a social class without a future.
> > > > I'm not advocating free rides. People need to
> > work at improving their
> > > > situations, but sometimes circumstances put good
> > people into bad
> > > situations
> > > > and they need a helping hand.
> > > >
> > > > Rummy
> > > >
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