[Rhodes22-list] R. M. Nixon
brad haslett
flybrad@yahoo.com
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:33:15 -0800 (PST)
Wally,
Wow, I would love to have been a part of that. My
only exposure to a real President was I used to fly
Billy around when he was boy governer of Arkansas. If
only I had known. He was one of my least favorite
customers, a real jerk in fact, and the "punk kids" he
surrounded himself with were even worse. We'll get
together over some beers and I'll tell you the whole
story. I got even with the a***, uh, governor one day
real good. Maybe that's why I never got invited to
the Lincoln bedroom. Excuse me, I digress. Nixon was
the first President I ever campaigned for. I put a
"NIXONS THE ONE" bumper sticker on every car at the
Fayette County Illinois fair in 1968 when I was, uh,
young. He is still a facinating man, very flawed, but
interesting. Opening China was brilliant! Clinton
conferred with Nixon several times after he took
office. Nixon loved it. I can remember the day he
resigned like it was yesterday. He brought a lot of
shame to the office that we're still recovering from
today. And to think, he was in office during the
sexual revolution and didn't mess with the interns!
Pity, Pity.
Brad
--- Wally Buck <tnrhodey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> >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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