I've always been fascinated by the way Nixon makes his way into every presidential election--often by way of specific connections to candidates (i.e., trailing Romney's father at one point for the '68 nomination), sometimes as a point of comparison.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/01/hillary-clinton-new-email-released-state-department-column/71504450/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
W. was so much more lovable and endearing than Nixon. He was the bagman. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice, and Rove were the real super villains.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
W was a cockroach.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Nixon on Crossfire, including outtakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MacmN1EtIPQ
Would love to see the whole episode.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 January 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
i'm sort of fascinated by the number of books Nixon wrote post-presidency. some of them sound intriguingly weird but i'm sure they're all paranoid and dull slogs.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515nFIAwlEL._SX339_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 22 January 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
This book is so weird just for the captions. Stuff like:
"Like most men, I too hated the Vietnam War."
* Nixon studying yellow legal pad, pencil eraser in mouth *
"Here am I working on a speech. Writing even one line can take hours of concentration."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oLfZ9xw.jpg
"Hmmm. 'I've never been a babysitter...' No, that's no good. 'I've never been a bullshitter...' Too many syllables. 'I've never abandoned ship...' God, this could take hours."
― pplains, Friday, 22 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
haha
that clip above did contain any actual expletives :(
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
"shit it makes him [unintelligible] like a goddam animal"
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
(at around 1:15)
ah I couldn't quite make out that part about the Caro bio
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 January 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
funny cuz i feel like these days, post vols 3 and 4, caro's reputation is for being a bit of a softie re lbj, but when that first volume came out i think it seemed like a hatchet job to some? he really does come off textbook psycho in it. nixon otm there: "it makes him out to be a goddam animal. of course he was." (then lol comes over all marlene: "he was a man.")
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 23 January 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
Nixon as avid reader of NYROB, even citing Clifton Fadiman! Was he the last prez to do until maybe Obama?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 January 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
so after learning that mtv vj kennedy has a show on fox news (lol) and reading in her wiki that she chanted "nixon now!" at the clintons at his first inauguration, i had to look into it and found this http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/08/08/mtv-vj-kennedy-recalls-being-an-alt-rock-republican/
When the Clintons went onstage she chanted, “Nixon now! Nixon now!” (There was apparently a lot of Nixon nostalgia in the ’90s.)
“John McLaughlin was looking and I knew another headset was bound to intercept if I didn’t act fast, and I had to prove to him he was not the only Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) in the room.”
― qualx, Friday, 22 July 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/8f/36/858f36226e6cfc4e148618401bc24d8c.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 July 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
he'd become The Elder Statesman – the image he'd sold to credulous publishers and Beltway types – by holding salons in '80s Manhattan, serving homemade Chinese food and martinis he mixed himself. Apparently he cut quite the figure.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 July 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Now, of course, he has proven himself very deft on Twitter.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 July 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 4h4 hours ago'68 brought people in. Trump locked the door and threw away the key. If you can't see the difference, the hell with you.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 July 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
My lord, it sounds just like him. HOW UNCANNY. PITCH PERFECT.
― pplains, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Gonna start a Reagan twitter. Post things like "Boy, this guy? Nothing like 1980."
]people who remember the 90s, was this a real thing? i can't find anything about it and am now obsessed with the concept of 90s youth describing themselves as Lovers of Nixon
now listen y'all. I don't share this video with just anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvy8uFN31s
― pplains, Monday, 25 July 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
thank you.
― qualx, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 11h11 hours agoBobby Kennedy was the coldest man I ever met.
Richard M. Nixon@dick_nixonI mean it. Bobby Kennedy should have burned witches.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
no offense to alfred specifically, but i am seriously ready for an ILX plugin that filters out reposts of @dick_nixon tweets
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
but that's what the thread's for – the reposting of wisdom
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixonThese DNC wikileaks. This is why you employ plumbers.
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixonBeyonce might sing about lemonade, but Arnold Palmer was the man with the real drink.
See? Anyone can do it!
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
I get the uneasy feeling that @dick_nixon might be a friend of ours, but I just hate to see anyone trying to sully up the good Nixon name.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
All it took was G W Bush for Nixon's legacy to be reconsidered.
― the return of (burt_stanton), Saturday, September 13, 2008
I bet we all know how to update this, as fucked as it is.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/837659000581808128
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 March 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
I can't wait to see Trump's finger painting.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 March 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/george-w-bush-takes-credit-snls-strategery-not-war-251447
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 4 March 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
@adamjohnsonNYC39 of the 39 people indicted by the ICC for war crimes are African meanwhile Blair is writing NYT op-eds & Bush is taking selfies w/ Ellen.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Sometimes it's hard to believe Dubya was President. Is there a German word for knowing and remembering something but it not feeling real?
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 9 December 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link
buschtraum
― omar little, Saturday, 9 December 2017 07:25 (six years ago) link