Saving South Vietnam
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Nixon was brilliant. Watergate was his downfall. It overwhelmed his intelligence, brilliance and his credibility. Nixon was a great leader. I'm Black but I can recognize now what kind of guy he was.
he had several odd quirks, but his most self destructive quirks were that he trusted no one and that he tried to keep every decision secret. those personal issues were what created watergate and brought him down. if it hadnt been watergate it would have been something else.
He was pretty racist tho. And definitely anti semitic. Not sure how much of it was personal hate vs political strategy but the war on drugs and its focus on marijuana was definitely targeted at black people and hippies. Then theres lots of instances of him talking about the "new york jews." Interesting leader but certainly flawed beyond watergate
To think, in recent years what happened in watergate pales in comparison to the lengths our constitution have been shredded and stepped on. Media is the only reason Nixon was removed. Media is why the guilty still hold power now.
Yeah, a White Crook.
@@brians9508had watergate never happened, he would be considered on the greatest presidents of the 20th century
Totally correct. 1st bombing stopped NVA invasion, 2nd ended the war. All knew he was serious
So technically that means we won Vietnam, though a U.S. victory as opposed to a South Vietnamese one.
The North Viets no longer carried out acts of aggression against the U.S. as if the war was still going on. Huzzah.
@@Agent1Wthe point of the war was to prevent the entire region from falling into communist/Soviet control, which at least partially worked. But Vietnam itself fell.
@@amazin7006 True, but we can argue it now that was nowhere and nowhen a U.S. failure, and that speaks volumes when we did it with a conscription military. Not to mention that Nixon scored a touchdown with his Chinese diplomacy, so we were winning globally...
That were, before CARTER came around.
Nixon had 7 years to 'Win' that war....all while chirping about Peace With Honor! What part of that claptrap BS ever came to fruition? If Nixon wanted to make that statement as Ike's VP, when the victorioius HO was open to a more peaceful resolution to a failed French IndoChina colonization, US post WWII partnership with France, overruled such a agreement with HO, because Franch would lose face further, post Dien Bien Fu fiasco. Did the Western corporations oil drilling/rubber plantations have a say in the escalation post Tonkien 'raid',? Hindsight would say Yes. But that was a different time, when corrupt Catholic regimes were allowec to rule a country of 90%+ Buddhists....and few saw the inner conflict. The policy sold to the public was the Domino Theory. And public fear and ignorance was a powerful political tool, back then, too!
@@Agent1W In my Books I state Nam was a stalemate, Korea was a win. When we left Nam in 73 THEY WERE A VIABLE NATION BEATING NVA OUT OF THEIR LANDS. Dems cut all aid in 74, that caused collapse
History shows how brilliant president Nixon was.
No More Vietnam's [Book] by President Richard Nixon 🇺🇲
Out of all the presidents i've heard speak richard nixon sounds the smartest.
He is the Gold Standard whenever the subject of foreign policy comes into a conversation. The man could read he opponents like a book and had the mettle of steel.
I see what you did there😂
@@moderateatberkeley
At first, I did not understand your comment; I do now, I see what you saw. It was not done on purpose; I find myself surprised that I could be so inadvertently clever. Once I saw it, I got a good laugh out of it. Thanks.
Pls enlighten us plebes on the Nixon dumpster fire that destabilized Cambodia and set the stage for the murder of 1.3 million Cambodians at the hands of Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge.
Most Moronic statement today
Irony. He made the USD weaker by taking it off the gold standard for expanding social security.
Many of us already know, I didn't learn it in school, I was paying attention to the nightly news. Nixon had his issues but he was infact a real force to be reconned with. R.I.P. President Nixon.
You know Nothing
@@raxxtango Funny, because I remember those years just like the OP does. Had Nixon remained in office, the NVA never would have attempted to reengage South Vietnam while he was there. They were testing Ford once he took office. And while he tried to follow through with the Paris Accords and put obligations, it was congress who refused to honor our commitments. And South Vietnam fell soon after. Joe Biden was one of those who voted against honoring our obligations, starting a fifty year history of his failing the nation. And you voted for him, right?
If we could go back in History and delete Watergate, America and her Citizens would have realized what a great President, Statesman, and Orator, Richard Nixon was!
Today the Trumpsters would have called Watergate fake news and defended the SOAB
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Watergate was nothing compared to how things are being done now.
@@davidsisson2026 and was mostly a CIA job devised to get rid of Nixon. oh the surprise! 😱
Nixon flushed the 68 Peace Talks just so he could get elected, costing the US years of tens of thousands of casualties -- just so he could get elected.
Nixons worst day, is still better than Bidens best day!😅
Both Nixon and Biden's combined worst day is still way better than Trump's best day.
Amen.
@@surewinnerYou trolls are still trying to justify Brandon. It isn't working.
There is no comparison between the two. President Nixon was a genuine statesman
Nixon's crimes are like stealing candy from a baby compared to the crime's of treasonous traitor insurrectionist trump!
100 percent on point! Brilliant man
Yet Nixon was considered less than likable or charismatic.
I personally don’t understand how, looking at every president I’ve had in my lifetime. It seems like he was brilliant and articulated his points well, and I’m ashamed I let the school system trick me into believing he was all bad.
I always thought back then that Nixon would turn out to be one of the best US Presidents! His peace agreement and his ongoing detente with the communist states was the right way to go! Very good Leader for the West!
a President is mostly a reflection of the people, we're nearing Idiocracy level now... 😑
Nixon flushed the 68 Peace Talks just so he could get elected, costing the US years of tens of thousands of casualties -- just so he could get elected.
You can mount a serious criticism of Nixon, just like you can anyone. Schools still vilify him unfairly because-to over simplify-they’re run and staffed by communist hippies to this day.
He had the tools, and compared to the lunacy of today, he looks even better.
TRUTH!
Instead the USA was forced to go through a massive stage of demoralization.
I’m only 28 but having the privilege of hearing this man’s wisdom it’s horrible how we as a nation were robbed of his leadership.
I agree. His reasoning surpasses that of any president after him. He speaks in the present.
The media took him down, by brainwashing=constant repetition of Watergate. Much like CNN broadcasted daily alleged covid cases to create the illusion of a pandemic. Media owners hated Nixon.
If he broke the law, how were we robbed?
@@Pimpin-rm1ju CIA broke the law and framed him for it.
Very sad. Brought it upon himself, but then again, don't we all?? These days, politicians get impeached and nothing really happens. Back then it was the end of a career.
Nixon knew global politics and foreign policy better than any other president in the 20th century. He was very strategic In his thinking. He would be a good one to have around right now.
pls enlighten us plebes how destabilizing a democratically elected government and replacing it with a military dictatorship in Chile & unleashing a rightwing death squads throughout Central & South America was strategic and not just a cluster f up.
Better in foreign policy and statesmanship than any of the 20th century?
No, let's try "the very best foreign policy and statesmanship" president that we have ever had.
@@JD-tn5lz The 'Peace thru Honor' sh*t show of Nixon & Henry Kissinger was pure 'BS', dude. Expanding the Vietnam war with secret bombing campaigns & invasions that resulted in destabilizing Cambodia. Thus setting up it's take over by commie Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge that murdered over 1.3 Cambodians was pure insanity. Only matched by the Nixon administration foreign policy of overthrowing democratic governments like Chile and replacing them with murderous military juntas like General Pinochet and unleashing death squads with the blessing of the US.
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This man was BRILLIANT! If he would have won 1960 (BTW he won it) Castro wouldn't have had a chance, just think how many problems the USA would have resolved... but Kennedy came in and messed it all off. Cuba, Vietnam, Missile Crisis. I do not see what people mean when they say Kennedy was "great". The only thing I applaud is that he pushed for a Moon landing.
Such bullshit you weren’t even alive and so I know since I was alive at the time haven’t been born in 1962; tanoe witnessed his presidency from 1969 to 1974
It is so sad that this astonishingly intelligent man was brought down by the Watergate scandal. He was such a great visionary, sharp political analyst and solid, stable president
Why is it sad that he was brought down? He made something that was totally unacceptable. With your logic, Hitler did some good things too (created a lot of jobs etc.) - however that does not make him a great person in ANY way - just like this scandal also does not make Nixon a great president. You cannot just judge the ½ package. You have to judge the full package
@@sukhmaidickoffWatergate was and is misunderstood to this day. It was about the JFK Assassination. The "burglars" were all CIA. After the break in Hunt began blackmailing Nixon. Nixon felt if the truth got out that the CIA killed JFK with help from the Mob, it would be devastating to the United States' standing worldwide. So he allowed the narrative to be advanced that the break in was a political stunt and he took the fall. In retrospect, if the truth got out we wouldn't have the deceptive, corrupt Deep State we have today, where the heavily Democrat Party infiltrated government views American citizens as its enemy. Us vs. them.
His resignation was proof of the strength of the U.S. democratic system. No-one is above the law.
Chenault affair
@@sukhmaidickoff Nixon was covering the CIA's involvement in the JFK Assassination. The Watergate Burglars (all CIA) retrieved incriminating evidence from the Watergate safe. Nixon, right or wrong, felt it would be detrimental to the country if the truth got out. Hunt was blackmailing him over it. So Nixon allowed the media spin to run that it was all about a dirty campaign stunt and cover up, and resigned to put the entire affair to rest. Only one time during the Watergate hearings was the question asked: "When you broke into the safe, what were you looking for and did you find it?" It was asked of E. Howard Hunt. Hunt sat back in his chair, put his sunglasses on, smiled and never answered the question. The question was never asked again.
This man was AWESOME!!!
Nixon, Reagan, Trump!!
They should build a monument praising these 3 men.
Tuck Frump
Nixon really has nothing in common with the other two you listed. He would hardly be considered a conservative today; Reagan totally changed what that word means in America.
We really made a big mistake loosing this man. Thank you media nothing has changed.
No. No we didn't.
And had America minded it's own business 58,000 would not have died for nothing.
Sure does this include the South Vietnamese?
@@forwhatitsworth5745 don't know don't care I am an American
Thank you!!!
CORRECT. AND AFTER USA GOT INVOLVED, CHINA CAME IN. AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EXTRA LOCALS DIED ON BOTH SIDES IN THE ESCALATION.
True. But that wasn't on Nixon.
I was born in 02 and i wish i could be happy to vote for someone, ive never voted and ive never been satisfied with any president i have witnessed
Please vote in November. It's a very important election for the preservation of American culture.
Vote Republican across the ticket!
That's wisdom. The worse example is this upcoming election. And it's likely manipulated via computers, gerrymandering and other slights.
Any country allowing computers for voting might as well just surrender.
Except they already have.
@@randyneilson7465I was born in November of 02 I’m voting for the Man, the Myth and the Legend Donald J Trump.
@@randyneilson7465Republicans should legalize LSD, and Cannabis on the federal level. No one fights harder against Marxism, and Communism than a determined Acidhead like myself.
@@randyneilson7465too bad Germany lost the eastern front, in an alternate universe they did win and communism does not exist. China never got powerful, because Mao never got inspiration from Stalin. It has been a chain of events ever since the Battle of Stalingrad. I honestly think had the Germans won Stalingrad the Vietnam war wouldn’t even exist . Communism was on its last leg anyway by mid 1944 the USA kept the Soviets in the fight
Keep in mind that Congress had finally had enough, refusing to authorize and fund the Ford Administration’s proposals to further aid the Saigon government.
If Nixon finished his term he probably would have done something cuz Gerald Ford did not have enough support
It was Kissenger who lost that war.
McNamara has his grubby hands in that too as have all the perfumed princes of the Pentagon. 😉
No Sir It Was The South Vietnamese Army That Lost That War. Plain And Simple. The North Would Have Taken Over In 1977 Instead Of 1975 Had Nixon Remained In Office
A coup is what took out Nixon
Bro’s on tape saying the south would fall even when he was still in office
The more I learn about the man.the more respect I have for him
I say this: i cant side with him blindly, but after reading about the events he talks about i am having a bit of trouble about the overall potrayal of vietnam. It was a long story, a lot of decicions and the actual conflict was much larger than vietnam, fighting(beetwen even allies) continued even after the us left. Did the states made everything much worse? Probably, would they had killed each other without the us participation? More than we believe but probably not that much. The biggest issue with vietnam is, that it lasted 2 decades and that alone makes it difficult to understand and this is a truth often left out.
It’s crazy to think that I learned about Nixon in school was Watergate. I was born in 71 so I was just a baby that’s his presidency ended… I’ve been watching a lot of of his interviews recently… And I can say two things… I wish to God we had a man like that today… And I don’t think there will ever be someone like this in the presidency again much to our demise
He unleashed The Dogs of SAC.
Once again, his foreign policy was second to none.
I remember thinking AT THAT TIME that if Nixon had remained in office South Viet Nam would not have fallen.
Pres. Nixon made it clear that POWs were to be immediately released. Mining seaports was first proposed by USN in '64.
He is a prime example of, when the press has it out for ya.......
Nixon would run circles around any politician today.
We had no business there in the first place. Most of the pro American Vietnamese especially the Montagnards were murdered after we ran out on them. That is just some of the things that haunt me to this day after 50 plus years
Operation Linebacker II
He should have said "GET THE AG HERE" instead of "STONEWALL IT!" in a panic.
Like a brilliant crook. Watergate was the dumb and dumber of burglaries.
Operation Linebacker 2 for the win
Should have stayed in office! Congress Probably wouldn't have convicted him!🙄
I was a soldier and I lived Nixon
With Nixon south Vietnam would've survived! His plan was to continue to Provide Advisors,equipment, and air support to the south after the withdrawal of US ground forces. This would've bled the North further without US casualties.
People always complain that Nixon bombed Laos and Cambodia but they fail to mention that those governments allowed NVA troops to move through their territory. Nixon decided that in order to effectively defeat the NVA or just bring them to the negotiating table you had to prove that you were not messing around.
Nixon was a smart intelligent man. Knowledgeable, in fact doing something others don’t. Admitting when he was wrong and his mistakes. Especially, as President of the US. So, he watergate hit him hard, really hard. If you take that away, he has achievements, risks and mistakes. He was a good President and actually had plans for a lot of things finally taken serious today. He had a healthcare plan like the affordable care act, but he resigned.
Wow, seeing these shorts of him just remind me how deep that I miss him in office!
Christmas bombing? Politicians...
What about H.S.Truman's "Give them hell Harry".
The problem here is that he had Kissinger working to give up. He was the problem and the President allowed the bad actions.
NIXON
NOW
You have to be kidding. He got re-elected saying he had a plan to end the Vietnam war. He didn't have a plan.
Had Nixon not been brought down by his intense paranoia he may well have gone down in history as one of the greatest US presidents of the 20th century, certainly the post-war era.
What if we just let the Vietnamese people decide what kind of country they would have?
Thats too simple
I may not have agreed with everything President Nixon did he is still a real experienced statesman and far above the very low bar set by Generalismo Bone Spurs.
I always thought nixon was really a good guy
He was brilliant. I was around when he was Pres and remember him being bold and resolute against VietNam. He was a foriegn policy genius but domestically not so much. No Pres is usually an expert at home and internationally... you need a good team
As any politician, Nixon had the ability to justify his actions. If he wouldn't have that amazing skill, he wouldn't have been the president. The question is, was that the rigth desicion for the world or was just good for his political profile.
If he had stayed in office the Republic of Vietnam would still exist today
We need a man like Nixon again…..minus watergate of course
Anyone who knows the history of Nixon's prolongation of the war knows about his"credibility".
Vietnam is the war we should not get involve in the first place. We should offer assistance to Ho Chi Min when he asked our assistance and say fuck off to French. That way Vietnam would never have been a communist country and we would have strong trading partner in SE Asia, also millions of lives would have been saved.
Well said. Not many go back that far to understand the root cause
"...I would have done SOMEthing"? Doesn't sound like a plan from here.
I bet you Kissinger had something to do with the Watergate scandal
The Congress should not have cut off the weapons for South Vietnam
He is right
Failed in Vietnam. Failed in the middle east. Failed in South Asia. He 'opened up' to China and finished off US as a manufacturing economy. He abandoned gold standard in favor of the petrodollar that led to the $ 30 T debt.
Agressive, boorish, uncouth. What is there to like?
The mad man theory.
He's right we had them down to three sam mussels and the north was ready to quite
What about making the deal to hold back POW's until after the 1980 election?
Take away Watergate and Nixon would be mentioned right up there with the greatest President ever....Top 5..
Nah, the writers of our history would never allow that.
IDK about top 5 but at least he would have been considered an better president than Carter, and certainly better than the clown in the WH now.
Yes Sir .
Nixon: If only I hadn't committed crimes and got caught I really could have gotten things done! What a bum.
At this point in history nobody understands why so many people died in that war. The necessity of that stupidity.
He never should have resigned. My biggest issue w Nixon is he took us off the Gold Standard. Can anyone explain why I should not have an issue w him for this? TIA
His international policies were spot on if it hadn't been for his domestic trouble he'd been one of the greatest presidents we've ever had but because of Watergate he had too much power
I agreed
I remember Watergate. At the time we thought that was the lowest point for the USA and its republic. We thought it couldn't get any worse. Little did we know...
Don't EVEN compare Nixon with Hump.
Nixon beat Humphrey in the '68 election.
Nixon and Kennedy were great leaders!
Number one politician.
says number one thing that he thinks will advance his agenda.
i dont know if dead people can have an agenda and no one alive is going to become a fanatic because of him, cause he was still to healthy minded.
Right Now
Ifs and buts and coconuts. If he wasn’t a crook ….but he was a crook.
Bob Woodward was Navel Intelligence. Nixon got the choice that Kennedy never got. Reagan and Trump got lucky.😮
There are some things I like about Nixon from a historical perspective. He was a great statesman. However, he did expand the war into Cambodia. Ther Khmer Rouge were a small fighting force when that started but we bombed the crap out of that country. The U.S. bombing was a huge recruiting boost for the Khmer Rouge. Sadly, after the U.S. backed government fell, there was a horrific genocide in the that cost 1-2 million Cambodians their lives.
total nonsense. he had been withdrawing forces for over 3 years when he resigned. Kissinger had been trying to get the North to agree to a unilateral withdraw (North leaving the South and US leaving VN) and cessation of all hostilities during his secret negotiations, and all to no avail. the reason the North would not give in to any of the conditions was that they already knew we were withdrawing. why would you agree to withdraw or end hostilities if you see your enemy publicly and loudly withdrawing??? he tried to paint his failure in Vietnam as something else, but it was very simply an abject failure. trying to slow step a withdrawal in order to make it look like it wasn't withdrawing. total nonsense.
This is nonsense. The NVA Easter Offensive was crushed while we were withdrawing. The North was defeated when Nixon left office, and they knew it.
Nixon flushed the 68 Peace Talks just so he could get elected, costing the US years of tens of thousands of casualties -- just so he could get elected.
withdraw ground troops but keep airpower and logistics support in place would have been a better, winning strategy.
@@tocu9808 WINNING strategy? a slower losing strategy maybe.
@@brians9508 That winning strategy had been proven in all battlefields in summer 1972 with NVA total attack campaign being defeated.
God bless his soul
Respect for you sir,Mr President
You should have let our soldiers fight without permission was ridiculous
Anna Chenault was handling the South as well
one of the best presidents
Great president
I was not old enough too now this dude. But if hadn’t been involved with watergate. It might have gone down as 1 of the best. You can tell he has some intelligence. Foreign affairs he was real good. The damn plumbers brought him down. And , if the series was correct , he won by a landslide. Didn’t even need the cheating. White House plumbers should have gotten a damn Emmy. It was great.
A GREAT MAN FOR SURE 😢 RIP SIR 🙏💙
You. Listened to. Henry. Kissinger. That was. Your. Down fall and. G. Gordon. Liddy. Fumbling. Which he. Blamed on you
He often comes across as a smart man. But I think he missed the goal on this remark.
Vietnam was was inwinnable, because the Vietnamese cared more about Vietnam then the USA does.
The US would inevitably be forced to weigh the never-ending costs to meager benefits and decide to withdraw
He realised that war must be total...he also engaged with China....he certauly got forward movement
The best poltician
I was not part of that time, but what I can tell now in 2024 That guy called Nixon was a Jack! He now what’s he talking about!!!
Sadly today when you look around and see the Trumpet’s everywhere is hurting!!!
Watergate...the dumbest,most unnecessary thing you could have done.
North would be victrorious. If there wasnt Regan
Not buying it. He was pres from 69 to 73 & basically same KIA as Johnson.