thought of another thing LBJ and Nixon shared: bottomless wells of self-pity
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
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
Graceland?
― pplains, Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
Hanoi Joan
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
I've read enough about Nixon that I ought to know the answer to this, but was he as aggressive as Trump in going after people from his own party? My sense of Nixon is that he had his inner circle of Haldeman, Erlichman, Kissinger, etc., and that the rest of the party--even his own cabinet--barely existed.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
Nixon didn't do that shit in public the way Trump does afaik
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
Before he became president, Nixon was a tireless speaker for any republican candidate or party organ that wanted him, as a means of collecting chits for return favors in the future. When he became president he switched more into the mode of dictating terms in advance, but he was a party man top to bottom.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
Nixon definitely obsequious in a way Trump has never had to be
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
I was thinking of Nixon in '72, heading into the election, when he--like Trump--felt all-powerful and untouchable. I don't think he was out there beating the bushes for disloyal Republicans and responding to every last slight. Not even privately, I suspect; he had moved beyond party in every sense. If you look at his '72 ads, there's just Nixon, nothing else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dploiFDlRE4
Such an inspiring song.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
Happy Earth Day.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/planting.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
every picture tells a story
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
"Goddamn it, Pat, is this really necessary?"
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
I wonder who on the shit list is under the dirt.
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Just posted today--your dreams have been answered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hOqnG9UHLE
― clemenza, Friday, 29 May 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/resignation.jpeg
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 August 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Does anything say Valentine's Day better than Richard Nixon?
https://phildellio.tripod.com/nixon-2.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
somewhere, Roger Stone just got hard
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
You just sent me to therapy.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
Screenshot I took from Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/fashion.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 7 June 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
CNN starts an LBJ series tonight (yeah, I know, "Turn Turn Turn"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pND1mP0Rwpo
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 February 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link