Nixon on Nixon: 60 Minutes Interview | October 8, 1968
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Hard to believe that there have been US presidents who could speak intelligently, in coherent complete sentences.
like the bummer biden idiots , not
And with good vocabulary!
@@nancyoffenhiser4916 I have the best words. -Trump
This interview also took place at a time when government experience was considered an major asset when running for the presidency.
I was just about to write the same comment
I appreciate President Nixon. He was not a shallow person.
Self made man
What a highly intelligent, articulate and driven man! Love Nixon
Nixon was an amazing communicator.
Richard Nixon was flawed but brilliant. As far as I'm concerned, he was the most fascinating president of the 20th century and one of the most consequential along with both Roosevelts and Ronald Reagan
He had
Nothing to do with water gate !
Every time I see Richard Nixon speak, I'm impressed all over again by his fine intellect and his political skills. I tend to be more liberal, perhaps, than was President Nixon, but I cannot think of a better or more effective president in all of the twentieth century.
Effective at what? Committing crimes?
Nixon needed a pardon for what?
How many of his cronies went to prison?
FDR was ranked 2nd in the latest presidential poll from Houston.
Nixon ranked 35th.
Trump ranked dead last.
Look it up.
Sabotaging the Paris Peace Accords in 1968 and prolonging the war for four years, plus the atrocious attacks on Cambodia, the Allende coup---yikes. If that's your idea of effective...
As bad as everyone thought of him I sure wish we had more politicians like him
He easily could have been a 3 term President if allowed. He got things done. Unfortunately, paranoia and power are a volatile mix.
He was a liar and fool.. as Dwight D Eisenhower said of Nixon, “The man just can’t be trusted”👍
He tried so very hard, but the press was determined to destroy him. He will be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in American history.
uh..no he was a paranoid, anti-sematic criminal who hired Henry, a jew, to prolong the war and help him navigate the Cambodia fiasco which wasn't authorized by Congress...APART from Watergate...millions died because of his policies...
Of the 20th century.
You're probably right on all counts. The thing that drives you crazy about the guy, however, is that something drove him to order a burglary, which is bizarre.
He's become one of my favorites, other than the gold standard thing.
@@wiffwaff734 he didn't order it. Mark Felt did, who also coincidentally broke it to the press. Also coincidentally he was an FBI asset. Also coincidentally, they removed Nixon and installed the first president ever who was never elected to president or vice president: gerald ford. Gerald Ford also coincidentally headed the warren comission.
He is the most intense president that I am aware of. It's as if he is in attack mode permanently. Each question he gets he attacks it, and nails the answer, over and over. You can sense ambition and drive oozing from every pore on his body. Nixon was born to be president and it was inevitable that he did.
Well said
this is gay as hell
we were officially lied to about Nixon by media and our schools
I always found the endless regurgitation of the Watergate saga looked suspiciously like that was all they could come up with to fire at him. His list of achievements is quite impressive and he left America in a far better position.
Really? Because my public school system glorified him
@@every16652024 is 50 years after Watergate. I wonder what will be on the news this year.
Brilliant observation. His contemporary enemies hated him for their own reasons, but Nixon was no doubt presidential material, and he served his country with passion.
I’m British and even I held an initial negative view about him based on watching Futurama at the age of 12.
His videos have randomly popped up and I love listening to him speak!
I never thought I'd say this, but Nixon was the best president in my 58 yrs. on this planet.
He was a brilliant man who was with the times right up to the milli second.
So I’m assuming you were born after JFKs term
@@ChristopherJoseph35 do the math genius
@@ChristopherJoseph35 nothing gets past you I see, so yea being born in 66 you are correct
@@ChristopherJoseph35 before
Richard M. Nixon was a Brilliant POTUS.
Nixon, after 50 years plays much better. He was well informed. Nixon wasva statesman.
And much of that is the void in leadership over the last 35 years. Makes everyone since then appear to be amateurs.
I've been listening to many of these old interviews of Nixon lately and have a new found respect for him.
President Nixon foreign policy was immaculate. A good example is how he supported the Shah of Iran, while the middle east was in peace. love him.
I think the “nuclear ambiguity” policy of the Nixon administration toward Israel was a big mistake.
You can see the obvious bias of Mike Wallace.
Nixon was a criminal.
Accepting a pardon is an admission of that.
Pretty classic Wallace questions. Frontal attack to see if you could take the heat. Notice that he doesn't constantly interrupt or preface his questions with 5 minute editorials, both of which are standard practice now.
Was he biased to the Kennedy/Johnson duo who left the US and Nixon with the mess to clean up in 'southeast Asia?'
In those days we had GREAT MEN on both sides of not just the aisle, but also the press and the political arena. I wish we could have a guy like Richard Nixon back in the White House...DESPITE his flaws! He's still heads and shoulders above the last 5 presidents!
Wallace said he liked Nixon. What the fuck are you talking about
I stand in awe of this man’s political acumen and effectiveness as a leader. Brilliant and decisive. We sure need you today President Nixon.
Campaigning on issues and not on personalities. Self-Critic. Admiting mistakes.
What happened? How could we end up here?
We started tolerating pedop hilia
Marxist Indoctrination in American Education
They destroyed _this_ guy. That's how.
We started tolerating the rainbow people.. all morals were flushed.
Democracy rots culture. What do you expect from a nation raised on TV and by leftie beurocrats in school.
I see why people argue whether or not the hate for Nixon was deserved.
I can’t defend Nixon, but he definitely had a lot of wisdom that we choose not to listen to.
Real great statesman, that what the entire world badly needs today
Thank you for intervening with Romanian government. So I could meet my grandfather just once , before he passed
President Nixon was one of the best. Watergate was the "Russia hoax" of the 70s.
Even Leonid Brezhnev knew this was a witch hunt and he personally gave his moral support to Nixon.
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Exactly. The parallels are
stunning.
I agree that Nixon was impressive! For that very reason it seems a little unfair to his memory to compare him with the most recent Republican president. They couldn't be farther apart. Watergate was a big mistake and very unfortunate. But it was one mistake, and Nixon faced the consequences and graciously stepped down. As for that other president ....
@@bjarnejakhelln-semb73 More than everything, he shouldn't be compared to the recent Democrat presidents, as they are destroying America.
I was born in 1966 and grew up in a household that despised Nixon. I remember my father making me watch the Watergate hearings, and I had no clue what was going on. As a 57-year-old man I think I understand Richard Nixon better. He was an incredibly smart and savvy politician. He was always the underdog, and had to fight like hell to survive. I think it was his inclination to fight that caused him trouble during Watergate. We now know he won the 1972 election by a landslide never seen before or since. And yet his insecurities overrode acknowledging his overwhelming success. I believe in my heart he did not know about the Watergate break-in. However, he was aware of the committee to reelect the president and turned a blind eye to their shenanigans. If he had come clean early on, he would’ve continued serving as president. But once he started lying and covering up, there was no return…..it’s a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
I grew up in one also. They loved Stevenson, Kennedy, and Johnson. Hated Nixon. They were startled that I put on the TV to hear Nixon, Goldwater, and Reagan. Nixon's 1960 acceptance speech at the RNC was one for the ages.
Some very prophetic moments in that interview.
A man dedicated to his craft. Pure excellence.
Most intelligent president ever, and one of the best presidents ever. This man was a very misunderstood genius.
Nixon was really, really sharp and on point in this tough Mike Wallace interview. Nixon could hold his own with anyone! Watergate destroyed his Presidency. After Watergate broke, he wasn’t an effective President. Before Watergate, he was a really Good President and could of been a Great President.
As a kid, a (against my own family and local opinion...) I always liked President Nixon. I was right. Nixon was one of the BEST Presidents in US History.
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Great Man
I saw the rival programme to this one and I do agree, from what little I can see, that he engaged far more with television than I had expected from the reputation he got in 1960.
That again was his campaign. His campaign manager was not with it. Winning in 1960 was no longer like the FDR or even Ike days in which your name wins the election. You had to go and get it.
“ … a matinee idol. Forget it! If that’s what they want in a president, I’m not the man.”
Total balls.
SNL was my first exposure to the details on Nixon. U could not help but like the guy in reality. Anyone who has the guts to go after that office has tremendous guts.
Miss the days when the US actually had an intelligent President!
Nixon had an incredible grasp of international affairs. Clearly extremely knowledgeable, empathetic and engaged. Comparing this to our current leaders is like chalk and cheese.
Nixon had a great voice, which is a clear edge of the Kennedys. I do enjoy the blinking at 3:02. Dominant.
JFK was a brilliant speaker, very intelligent, and observant. But he was never a hard worker. He missed a lot of Congressional time in the 50s probably due to his health. Nixon was a great learner and an observer from the moment he entered politics. And truthfully he should have won 1960. His campaign strategy was off track. Not sure why his team did not pick up on this. Should have used Trump's 2016 plan. Instead on the final weekend of the campaign he goes to Alaska??? A GOP sure win when he should have gone to Texas and Illinois.
I really like Nixon, the dude is so genuine. I tell my siblings how popular he was and they can't believe it.
8:29, The 1968 election between Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon is one of the most underrated campaigns in our history. Two excellent candidates and watching the news clips they both really went after it the right way. Humphrey would have been a good President too.
He was really nice and generous in his description of Humphey being a delightful person. I believe he personally liked Humphrey.
Yes, it was great how Nixon secretly reached out to the South Vietnamese to tell them not to sign the Paris Peace Accord because he'd give them a better deal. And then he dragged the war on for four more years, and 15,000 US servicepeople died. That was so excellent.
I believe that's true. They both respected each other. A clip from Face the Nation in 1968 shows that Humphrey shared a similar respect for Nixon.
Humphrey, was a decent and nice man, but would have been horrible president, like Carter was a terrible president.
Fair comment. Now the bombing halt at the end of the '68 campaign may have nudged Nixon to reaching out secretly. He felt the bombing halt was a political play by LBJ to help Humphrey
This is a fascinating interview. Thank you for presenting this. Richard Nixon's greatest strength and weakness was his own stubborn conviction to be judged by his character.
Few things shift your sense of reality as much as realizing just how badly the media railroaded Nixon.
If only he were available now, he'd have my vote. And a few other votes too, I suspect.
It's refreshing to see a president with intellect speak, a far cry from the current crop of characters running for office now.
Can we have him back please!
Holy crap a coherent president who doesnt rely on tweets and catch phrases.... damn and this guy was a crook, compared to the crap we have had the last 7 years??
4 of the 5 men who broke into Watergate had see eye eh ties. It was entrapment.
With all that has taken place in recent politics, I have to rethink everything I was told about some of these historical events.
I miss SO much the professionalism, respect of these political conversations.
He was a sincere man...
God rest his soul 🙏
When Nixon spoke, people listened. They still do.
00:38 SOCK IT TO ME! So this is where this classic Nixon line came from.
I think he made an appearance on Laugh-In.
@@joycepino5346 he did!
Cameo appearance. Paid off.
Every time I see President Nixon's interview, he isn't respected for Foreign policy but for the Watergate scandal, but I think school teachers and colleges should see how Nixon was as a president for his courage on Foreign policy in China in ‘72, the Middle East and exposing Alger Hiss a commie. Those are things people read in the history book of Nixon's Presidency and predictions on Russia and China.
Unfortunately, Academia went off the beaten path a long time ago. They failed to learn from history. Instead they try to erase it.
@@smilanesi98 of course.
I think its interesting that Richard Nixon was named for a king of England, Richard the Lion Hearted, and that he was raised in the Quaker religion, which produced a lot of great people out of proportion to their numbers in the population.
Similarly, "when the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool." Words to live by!!
one of the brightest people ever to enter the Oval office and achieved a lot, also a tragic figure
Highly relatable
sad how things are today. things were more cordial and this was even during the Vietnam era.
Weve got a LOT to learn/re-LEARN both as a society & government and more to go back to prestigious sorely missed 1950s-1960s levels of daily Life, Intelligence/Educatión/cordiality respect & much more
No regrets . And you opened up China. Where my soul sister best friend lives
Nixon forever
Nixon- Pure Intellect❤😊
Had Nixon not paranoid and surrounded himself with goons, he would’ve been remembered as one of the greatest presidents this nation has ever had.
I know Nixon was no saint but so much better than Trump. Nixon was articulate, a foreign policy scholar, and actually had the ability to be introspective and self critical at times.
In that sense, Yes. But he was not able to ride the crest of his support the way Eisenhower and Reagan did when the Media planned its attack. And it forced him out. Trump on the other hand is a businessman. He learned how to fight at a young age. And that is why he is willing to fight to this day. Nixon got his competitive instincts from playing poker. And when the cards do not line up you fold.
The more l hear this man , the more l am certain he was true and honest . I do wonder if there were some political shenanigans behind his demise. Thankyou
Discourse: Discussion, exchange, dialogue, debate, cross-fire, deliberation, symposium…..
Nixon has shown himself to be a worthy orator…..
Quote by RICHARD NIXON (Upon hearing word of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's announcement of candidacy in the 1968 Presidential campaign) ~
"We've just seen some very terrible forces unleashed.
Something bad is going to come of this."
wish we could have presidents of such intellectual caliber these days. they took nixon for granted, he loved this nation
One of the best presidents ever!
This was right in the heart of the Vietnam war. Humphery could have beat Nixon a few months later, but that oh-so hot summer of divisiveness of the Democrats in Chicago, gave Nixon the platform he needed. This is really powder-puff journalism and the best Dems could come up with. Remember: This was the VP under Eisenhower! They forgot that.
And for 8 years. He had been around the block a lot more. What a contrast to the 8 year VP who holds the top spot today.
Mike Wallace sounds like hes trying to make Nixon talk "smack" about the Kennedys.
Nixon lost to JFK in 1960. RFK was assassinated only three months earlier.
Damn Mike! Theres more important things to talk about a politican's appeal as a TV star..
? Well it is an interview with Nixon what's wrong with it?
Mike Wallace can ask whatever he wants. But he already knows that neither Nixon nor Humphrey have more charisma than the Kennedys. How many voters don't already know that fact? It's common knowledge about Nixon having a bias against the Kennedys and the media. Mike Wallace comes off as wanting Nixon to talk ill of the Kennedys. Reporters are supposed to be impartial. Reporters are supposed to find out new material on a subject, but Mike is just bringing out the same old stuff.
There's more important topics to discuss during a Presidential Election Year, like Nixon's foreign policy, economic policy, or domestic policy.
@@robertpolityka8464 Nixon and JFK were friends he might of been baiting him to speak more about Bobby whom Nixon didn’t care for
RFK wasn't assassinated until 1968
@@5GCHEMTRAILVACCINESFORBATS the interview was conducted 3 months AFTER RFK was assassinated.
Such a Windom ❤
Interestingly enough, Mike Wallace was offered the job as Press Secretary in the Nixon Administration, shortly after Nixon's presidential win the following November. Wallace declined and the rest is history. Nixon knew that Wallace was a tough SOB who could manage the press which (for the most part) unfairly disliked him. A brilliant man whom I wish could be President today.
The movie where Elvis meets Nixon was surprisingly good.
Brilliant man, and a great President! Critics be damned!
Time does heal heck it even does wonders to one's reputation.
If it hadn’t been for the tragedy of Watergate, I believe historians would have placed Nixon in the top quartile of American presidents.
I love Nixon's eyebrows 💖
I loved his speaking, his voice, his confidence, his intelligence, his quick responses! Ask me what I don't like about Richard Milhouse Nixon. Zero, Neil, nothing! I loved his presence. I stood near Nixon, and he had charisma about him. He was an interesting, very powerful individual! He was a very clean, shiny man; very handsome! I worked for him briefly. Worked at USO, saw n heard him sworn in as President. Attended his inaugural ball. The ball was in 5 Sheraton Hotels in DC.
wow
Nixon was a good president in many ways but his attempt to cover up watergate instead of just coming out and exposing what was done brought shame. It was a sad day when he resigned. I was 13 when he resigned and I was very sad. I don’t think he was necessarily a conservative but he was very good at foreign policy.
He was a conservative in the "old school" definition of the word. He was also "liberal" in the "old school" definition. So was JFK! If one looks at the 1960 platforms of Nixon and Kennedy, they were more ALIKE in policy than DIFFERENT. Kennedy was as anti-Communist as Nixon, Nixon "gave us" the EPA! The words "liberal" and "conservative" have mutated into different meanings in my lifetime.
@@jamesslick4790But both were politicians and believed they had to negotiate with the other side to get anything done. Different today. In 1960 the Democrats were more divided among themselves on most everything except big government. The GOP had some diversity but they were much more united than today. Sometimes I think the GOP of today thinks they are dealing with the same Democrat Party of 1960.
Nixon had his demons but he also possessed a first rate intellect.
You mean first-RATE intellect.
@@djmcnerney I stand corrected
Imagine if Biden spoke to Apollo 11....they'd have run out of oxygen.😏
The way he praises his political opponents would be unthinkable today, more's the pity.
And that is to his credit. Those who do not respect their opponents are asking for defeat.
Dang! this guy was really engaged and focused, he gives a good interview and doesn’t let it show how much of an A-hole he probably though Mike Wallace was, I certainly do. 😂 too bad for that watergate affair, he accomplished a-lot as president in spite of that.
As much as Wallace was responding to his beliefs I would take him over ANY of today especially his own son.
The most intelligent President ever
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Wow! Gracious, articulate, smart as hell. I agree with him about Johnson; Johnson was a mensch. Nixon was pro-choice, pro-environment, and can take credit for Title IX. Shame about the crook thing.
I never heard that he was pro-choice. If he had he never would have been elected at the time. No politician would have been. Now he was pro-Constitution and he would accept SCOTUS decisions even if he disagreed. And just because he went along with establishing the EPA did not mean he was pro-environment in the Green sense of the term. Nixon supported Governor Hickle in Alaska when he stated he did not believe in conservation for conservation sake.
An effective response to many of Wallace's negative assertions would have been to ask, "who says those things, or are they your opinions, Mike?" Because often that just what happens; a reporter expresses his own thoughts and projects them on to some anonymous someone. Trump is good at that technique.
And back then the strategy was to let the opposing journalist slap you around and just turn the other cheek. They thought the public melted to a candidate that takes. Trump changed all that. He fights back and he has taught so many more to fight back. Maybe today that means more.
Nixon is intimidatingly charming and I believe the powerful could see it.
watch how fast his eyes blink at 3:00 when getting a tough question. I've never seen that before
He did that a lot.
He brought himself down
Tricky was at the absolute top of his game when this was shot.
Wallace gleefully baited him with backhanded insults about lacking JFK's "social graces" etc., and Nixon weaved and bobbed with self deprecating comebacks admitting such lack.
The DC political press corps always regarded Nixon as the political equivalent of a small town used car salesman. He was far smarter and geopolitically skilled than that, but his personal insecurities over this sort of sort of blithe characterization of him by those he equally disdained for a perceived callous elitism did him in eventually.
I am not so sure if it would have worked at the time or was in his DNA but I thought he should have been more of a fighter. Hit them back. They were just reporters competing for a headline. He was tough with Alger Hiss and he got tough with his Checkers speech. Should have kept swinging.
Time and history are proving what a great American and President Nixon was. If only today's
Republican party had only an ounce of intelligence and class that this man had, our country would be in a much better place. Nixon was a great President, and we all know this, but some still pretend he wasn't. But they know he was....
I get the feeling he’s Telling the truth! I think he’s honest. I don’t know enough about What but I will say if you judge a man on one action And not his whole body of work, I think respectfully you’re making this mistake
Not a disrespect towards JFK, but humans generally prefer style over substance. Nixon was the better candidate, but many were awestruck with Kennedy's looks and or optics.
Unfortunately. And those qualities should be irrelevant unless style becomes a form of motivation. I believe my mother voted for JFK because of his looks. She told me once, " What woman would ever want to have an affair with Nixon? "
Ask any Vietnamese, who managed to escape that country following its reunification: Nixon was great. Also, ask any American FirstNations, for the same assessment
Quote by SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (During June 4,1968 interview with Roger Mudd at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles,CA) ~ "Richard Nixon is the nominee of the Republican Party which I think is unacceptable to the country."
Well, that view is just about always the one taken by a candidate of the opposing party. In the end I like to think the American People decide. But even that is in question today.
Quote by RICHARD NIXON (Upon getting word Senator Robert F. Kennedy won the California and South Dakota Democratic Presidential Primaries on June 4,1968) ~
"It sure looks like we'll be going against Bobby."
Bobby got in a little late. The Democrats had a lot of unelected, uncommitted delegates on their slates. They answered to the party bosses who were still pro-LBJ, thus Humphrey who was not on any ballot because he announced too late. There was a possibility that the bosses would switch to RFK with the uncommitted delegates at the convention if RFK showed enough strength in the primaries and in the polls. Without George Wallace in the race Nixon wins handily. The Wallace states went GOP in 72.
Nixon was our most talented President.
I'm struck by the irony of such a great man could be brought down by his petulance.
Nixon ALL the WAY!
NIXON'S THE ONE!
Do you remember his campaign slogan!
It was fitting when he resigned!
@@user-fs1gd6iy1u Wasn't there also "Nixon NOW"? Great alliteration!
Reporter to Eisenhower: "Can you give us an example of a major idea of [VP Nixon] that you have adopted?"
Eisenhower to reporter: "If you give me a week, I might think of one."
He reminds me of Dan Akroyd in Tommy Boy
America was denied a lot of huge opportunities when media destrroyed then Pres Richard Nixon.