Lies. No such thing as too much dick.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Guess that bundt needs a bigger pan.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Favorite hitter, Williams; pitcher, Koufax. He remembers arcane details surprisingly well. At one point, he mentions getting back from Russia in 1959, when he says the Senators were coming off an 8-game losing streak, and that he went to the next game and they won. I checked that...He got back Aug. 5; the Senators were indeed in the midst of a seventeen game losing streak at the time. They played a double-header on Aug. 5; lost the first game to make it 18, won the second. I can't find the start time of the second game, but maybe he attended that one. Which would be pretty close for a 65-year-old guy remembering something 19 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVn_Odo0I4Q
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 December 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11514352/Richard-Nixons-Western-White-House-goes-up-for-sale-for-75m.html
I'm very open to a group bid on this.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 April 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
Too bad there are never open houses for those types of places around here. It's a 20 minute drive away
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 April 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
reading Caro's bios I'm kinda struck by the similarities between Nixon and LBJ, the harsh, humiliating conditions of their youth, their flexible political positions, their pathological need for power, their self-destructiveness
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
also jowls
The Bryan Cranston LBJ movie on HBO was kinda weird. You could easily tell it was based on a theater show.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
think we talked about that somewhere else - I couldn't take more than 15 minutes of it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Didn't see the thread.
Sometimes you see makeup on an actor that's so good, you just keep reminding yourself throughout the whole thing, "Wow, that makeup's pretty good."
― pplains, Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 4h4 hours ago
Johnson is coming into the life that's rightfully his: bad books, an ugly mistress. Cirrhosis. He won't die early, though. They never do.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
different johnson
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I'm aware.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
perfectly clear
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
http://66.media.tumblr.com/eb6ee3ecf44b26407a57a7de9e6e0275/tumblr_n3ro2prStD1qjih96o1_400.gif
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
pplains my issue with it was that they seemed to take dramatic liberties with the material, except the choices they made made the story *less* dramatic. Like having him being all nervous and shaky about assuming the presidency - which very much runs counter to all the accounts given in Caro's book - is less interesting than him rising to the challenge with steely determination; or portraying his championing of civil rights as being strictly about votes rather than the deeper, more nuanced but genuine commitment he worked himself into, etc. It's like they decided to make one-dimensional cliched choices instead of more interesting ones.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Absolutely.
And how someone found a way to make Hubert Humphrey into even more of a namby-bamby golly gee-whiz whiny liberal wasn't necessary.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
ha yes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
thought of another thing LBJ and Nixon shared: bottomless wells of self-pity
They both loved their mamas.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
long-suffering spouses
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
First or last names that are also slang terms for a penis.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
42 years since Dick left
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GaowQnGRw
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Very glad to see the spirit of Black Friday everywhere.
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1b467fe3b2c9cbc8c7ded8810&id=e298ba760a&e=ee11fe0254
― clemenza, Friday, 25 November 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Yet another smoking gun:
During a phone call on the night of Oct. 22, 1968, Richard M. Nixon told his closest aide (and future chief of staff) H.R. Haldeman to "monkey wrench" President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to begin peace negotiations over the Vietnam War. Nixon long denied giving such an order, but Haldeman's notes, which were quietly made public in 2007 and were recently discovered by the historian Jack Farrell, prove he was lying.
Gets better too:
Time has yielded Nixon’s secrets. Haldeman’s notes were opened quietly at the presidential library in 2007, where I came upon them in my research for a biography of the former president. They contain other gems, like Haldeman’s notations of a promise, made by Nixon to Southern Republicans, that he would retreat on civil rights and “lay off pro-Negro crap” if elected president. There are notes from Nixon’s 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, in which he and his aides discuss the need to wiretap political foes.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 January 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
forever a Dick
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 January 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
I had never heard that apparently Tricky Dick and Zsa Zsa Gabor had a fling together, at least according to a couple articles on the ladies life a couple weeks ago. I hadn't really heard of Nixon having affairs, but I guess that is another power trip too.
― earlnash, Monday, 2 January 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
If poor old homely Wilbur Mills could have an affair with a stripper, then surely Nixon, the goddamed President of the United States of America, had a decent shot at an affair with no-talent opportunist like Zsa Zsa Gabor.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 2 January 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
good grief I could totally hear that in Nixon's voice.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 January 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon Jan 1
The key term is "monkey wrench." It is used to fix things. President Nixon sought to improve the yield and efficacy of the peace talks. - RZ
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
wow smh
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 January 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
My deal was that Tricky Dick seemed more like a guy that would get his rocks off making lists and counting money than doing the nasty. Sex seems way too personal and sticky. It actually humanizes him a bit.
― earlnash, Monday, 9 January 2017 05:12 (seven years ago) link
nixon's erotic side comes out when he talks about his enemies
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 9 January 2017 05:22 (seven years ago) link
that's how they play it and we're gonna play it just as dirty. get them on the ground where we want them. stick our heels in hard. twist.
Nixon supposedly came out of WWII working with a bank roll that helped get him into Congress. In the rear with the gear could be quite profitable.
― earlnash, Monday, 9 January 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Won most of it playing poker according to Nixonland
― Number None, Monday, 9 January 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Monday, January 9, 2017 12:22 A
real lol (and true)
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DNiIIPx.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 9 January 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
seems like politicians who excel at poker do better than those who excel at chess
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Slate: That also sounded to me like a chess player’s analysis. You’re the greatest chess player ever. Is Putin playing chess, or is he playing a different game?Kasparov: No, I always wanted to defend the integrity of my game—when people said, Oh, Putin played chess, Obama played checkers. Putin, as with every dictator, hates chess because chess is a strategic game which is 100 percent transparent. I know what are available resources for me and what kind of resources could be mobilized by my opponent. Of course, I don’t know what my opponent thinks about strategy and tactics, but at least I know what kind of resources available to you cause damage to me.Dictators hate transparency and Putin feels much more comfortable playing a game that I would rather call geopolitical poker. In poker, you know, you can win having a very weak hand, provided you have enough cash to raise the stakes—and also, if you have a strong nerve, to bluff. Putin kept bluffing. He could see his geopolitical opponents—the leaders of the free world—folding cards, one after another. For me, the crucial moment where Putin decided that he could do whatever was Obama’s decision not to enforce the infamous red line in Syria.
Kasparov: No, I always wanted to defend the integrity of my game—when people said, Oh, Putin played chess, Obama played checkers. Putin, as with every dictator, hates chess because chess is a strategic game which is 100 percent transparent. I know what are available resources for me and what kind of resources could be mobilized by my opponent. Of course, I don’t know what my opponent thinks about strategy and tactics, but at least I know what kind of resources available to you cause damage to me.
Dictators hate transparency and Putin feels much more comfortable playing a game that I would rather call geopolitical poker. In poker, you know, you can win having a very weak hand, provided you have enough cash to raise the stakes—and also, if you have a strong nerve, to bluff. Putin kept bluffing. He could see his geopolitical opponents—the leaders of the free world—folding cards, one after another. For me, the crucial moment where Putin decided that he could do whatever was Obama’s decision not to enforce the infamous red line in Syria.
― Mordy, Monday, 9 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/APIC_USA/status/834534585799053312
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Farrell's Nixon bio is out.
“The press is the enemy,” Nixon told his aides. “Write that on the blackboard 100 times and never forget it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/books/richard-nixon-biography-john-a-farrell.html?_r=0
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
Didn't realize till a FB post just now that today's the 43rd resignation anniversary. Trump seems to taken his Madman-Nixon mask off the shelf to commemorate.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
The Farrell bio, by the way, is excellent, and he gives the fullest account of his "monkey wrenching" the '68 peace talks.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
Don't have it. I bought Tim Weiner's One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon recently, but haven't read it yet.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT! Funny gifts appear to have been a tradition in the Nixon White House. In 1973, he received some caricature figures, a framed image of Massachusetts and DC (he didn't win them in '72) & this Halloween mask from daughter Tricia. (WHPO-D1193-19) pic.twitter.com/zLfd4HFMQd— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) January 9, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
Last time I get to do this: spend 15 minutes talking to nine-year-olds about Richard Nixon on his birthday. He’s the greatest object lesson ever in the lie being worse than whatever led to the lie, and if you frame his downfall that way, kids immediately understand. Trump’s lies are so numerous and (often) so bizarre, I don’t think there’s much meaning there. Nixon was a much more interesting liar.
Obviously, you won’t come across a clearer explanation of Watergate than my diagram. The burglars are the x’s at the bottom right, Nixon is the check mark at the top left.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/watergate.JPG
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 January 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
Nixon was born 106 years ago tomorrow—here in 1974 offering cake to dog King Timahoe, San Clemente: pic.twitter.com/1aZkYptdDW— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 9, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/O81x9cV.jpg
"Well I'll be damned – your birthday's the day before mine!"
― pplains, Thursday, 10 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
RMN shares a birthday with Joan Baez. Guess where Joan was when Nixon bombed Hanoi at Xmas '72... Yep.
― Josefa, Thursday, 10 January 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link