Nixon's Dignity

I didn't like Nixon - obviously. But his exit from the WH had a modicum of dignity. This is going to be a knock-down drag-out fight. Kicking and screaming. Mel is already girding his loins and getting out his broadsword.

Nixon seemed to find grace and dignity later in life.

It could be that I am simply nostalgic for the old days.

Almost as short as "Bush's intelligence"

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He was elected and wasn't born with a silver spoon. I am sufficiently a humanist to have some sympathy for people - like when they were prying Saddam's mouth open. I will never feel anything but contempt for *

"The Great Fear" by David Caute. Nixon was a scumbag long before he became an outright criminal. While I never saw any need for this war, I'm not sure what to make of anyone having sympathy for Saddam. Now that he's out of power why don't we just take him with us and LEAVE, before we are thrown out.

having tea and crumpets with his old runner Donald Rumsfeld. He may be directing the counterinsurgence operation for the CIA.

Never admitted a thing.

leaving, talked about 'those who hate you....unless you hate them back, and then you destroy yourself,' without realizing one iota the irony of what he was saying.
his whole record was one of hateful deceit.

did you know that Nixon and Kissinger sabotaged the Paris peace talks during the last few months of the Johnson administration? Nixon ran as a peace candidate with a 'secret plan' to end the war, which turned out to be bombing the living shit out of North Vietnam and, oh, for good measure, Cambodia, too.
They got into office, let the war drag on, then accepted terms almost identical to those on the table the day they took office. In the meantime, about 25,000 Americans and untold millions of Vietnamese had died.

Read: "Sideshow: Nixon, Kissinger and the Destruction of Cambodia," or "The Final Days" or Christopher Hitchens' essay on Kissinger as a war criminal.

At the end he lied his ass off to his own attorneys, lied repeatedly to the American public, lied to his own family.

He only resigned when it was absolutely clear that the vote to impeach and convict would be overwhelming, crushing.

Later he tried to justify everything. He told David Frost, "If the president does it, that means it's not illegal."

IN other words, long after he left office, he still believed the president of the United States was above the law.

There was nothing dignified about Nixon's entire career, including his exit.



ON EDIT: By the way, welcome to DU to the newbies. I;m not always this mean. But Nixon sorta touches a nerve. I consider him to have the blood of thousands of my generation on his hands. He lingered before dying because they were warming up a very special place in hell for him.
KIDDING! I'm just kidding. May he rest in peace. Sort of.

Two of my best friends in HS came back in boxes. I was lucky not too. My opposition to Vietnam started way before Nixon. The chant was :Hey, Hey, L B J. I have a natural opposition to people whose ideology is so clean that they can't acknowledge a "modicum" - tiny - bit of dignity in Nixons exit from the WH. If you saw his back straight - then that's a modicum. bush will blurb.

I find him an object of some pity. I have no pity for any of these gangsters.

with other well known ditties as "Military intelligence" and "Fox News."

oxy is sharp
moron is not so sharp

a just war - that's an oxymoron

Your's are loosely oxymoronic in terms of actual usage. tired cliches are oxymoronic by that standard.

There's a modicum of intelligence in the U.S. military.

... he would knock his head on the helicopter door frame.

And he'd probably have shouted "I am a cook!", or something equally cryptic.

By the way, who's Mel?