[Rhodes22-list] R. M. Nixon

[Ronald Lipton]

I seem to remember Tricky Dick on laugh-in with one line
"sock it to me???".  

The history of our leadership in the last
40 years has not been a pretty picture.  I am wading through
the multi volume biography of Lyndon Johnson by Robert
Caro.  He paints an amazing picture of raw ambition and political
power.  Johnson's election to the senate in 1948 was blatently stolen
(200 Mexican-Americans were on the election rolls after the
last known voter had entered the polls and managed to vote
in alphabetical order).  He used McCartyesque smear tactics to 
defeat thenomination of the head of the public utilities commission 
as a service to the Texas natural gas industry.

He also used his power and real empathy
with the poor (he grew up poor in the desolate Texas hill country)
to produce the first meaningful civil rights legislation in the US
since reconstruction.

Ron Lipton
Empress of Blandings

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Bell" <alexbell@coastalnet.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] R. M. Nixon


> Wally,
>
> Nixon didn't order break ins. He was a party to the cover up. He was not
> aware of the plans to break into the Democratic National HQ. That was
> the result of John Dean and several others who were pulling the strings.
> I think Nixon needed to resign, but so should Clinton.
>
> As for the worst ethics in office, that has to go to Lyndon Johnson who
> took 50 thousand "advisor" troops and managed to multiply that number by
> 10 in Vietnam. He also had the ability to pick the worst advisors, like
> Robert McNamara. They refused to let the military leadership do their
> job, and interfered with their ability to do their job. Results! Go look
> at the wall. It's a somber reminder of what Johnson did. Now there's the
> guy that "socked it to us". Don't know if Nixon was ever on Laugh IN.
> But I remember the slogan. "Don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw,
> vote for Nixon in 72".
>
> That was a bad time for someone to determine how good the job of
> leadership might have been. I recall the economy was in such a dumper
> that we had wage and price controls, and things were not going well for
> the country. The Vietnam thing was an anchor dragging us down. Nixon did
> work magic in foreign relations. It was the domestic policies that
> caused him grief.
>
>
> Alex
>
> Wally Buck wrote:
> >
> >
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