From the Archives: Issues and Answers with Richard Nixon 1966
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- November 6, 1966: Richard Nixon's appearance on Issues & Answers. Features a film clip of President Johnson criticizing Nixon as a "chronic campaigner." Also featured are Nixon's remarks on bipartisan politics, and predictions for the 1966 elections.
From the archives of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
He was a master when it came to speaking and answering questions.
He did have a really nice, deep, voice tone.
Ok Sam
So true Nixon had an amazing voice. If you close your eyes and listen to President Nixon it's super soothing and educational plus interesting. There will never be another like President Nixon.
Probably the most prepared president the US has had.
He definitely didn't give up despite losing to Kennedy in 1960 and to Ronald Reagan for California Governor in 1966 (despite having served as Vice-President of the United States for all eight years of the Eisenhower Administration). If Robert Kennedy hadn't have been assassinated in 1968, he would have defeated Nixon in the General Election that year and Nixon never would have been President.
I totally agree 100%!!
Wow, what a sharp guy.
I think Nixon touches on something important to reflect on in our own times around seven and a half minutes in. He speaks on how bipartisanship is possible when the disagreement is on means and not the end goals. Unfortunately, today the political parties have moved so far from eachother ideologically that they no longer even seek the same end goals.
That really is true. For a lot of us on both sides, it was the 2016 that really hammered home the fact that the other side did not have at all the same goals as whichever side we were on. It was rather shocking at the time, no? It still is sometimes, although we have grown accustomed to the situation. It is hard for both sides to avoid viewing the other side as literal enemies, not just political opponents, because both sides believe the goals of the other side are immoral. I certainly think that about those on the other side, and I know they think it about me.
@@briteness Yes that is the great issue for America as a whole to answer - what is the moral path for us?
I agree, but l but the blame on the democrats, in general and snotty schmucky Schumer in particular, he is such a slimy disgrace!!!-- and I'm fron NY
I am very grateful for this post. I have always wanted to see the "chronic campaigner" clip.
Nixon had incredible command of the issues.
But doesn't it seem crazy looking back now that he was going to increase US forces to 500,000?
@Robert Klugh You're the young (I'm guessing) jackass who has no command of the issue whatsoever.
@@stevebbuk Had Nixon promised to end the Vietnam War, he would have been a real hero.
No one said the man was stupid. He just had demons as we all do.
@@stevebbuk- You might want to recheck that, there were over 500,000 US troops in Vietnam by 1967 (Johnson). During his first year in office 1969, Nixon started withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
Nice to see a President with a brain to think......
Thanks for the upload!
LBJ's comments were a gift for Nixon, highlighting him as the titular leader of the Republican Party and giving him national coverage right before an election which marked the party's comeback.
That’s right. Nixon was gifted a good economy from Lyndon B. Johnson.
@@jasonarokiaraj9817 gifted? Um no he wasn’t lol
@@RetiredVet2020 Nixon was selected to carry on big government programs and liberalizing the southern Republicans. Reagan continued that by making liberal corporations more powerful. It worked great!
@@jasonarokiaraj9817 He was also "gifted" a war overseas.
Both Nixon and the newsmen seem quite restrained and civil by today's standards, Human is the word.
Professionally is another.
Great view on Nixon’s knowledge on foreign politics
I find it incredibly refreshing to hear a president, even if it was over 50 years ago compliment his opponent on legitimate decision-making call Richard Nixon conducted himself was truly an art form.
Nixon was right that Johnson's policy in Vietnam would prolong the war. If the war had been managed properly it could been ended in 1966 or 1967 with the South remaining free instead of under the control of the communists.
A complex man but highly intelligent.
I wish we had this type of programming today.
used to really look forward to Sunday : FIRING LINE, McLAUGHLIN GROUP etc
I wonder when the media first had the ability to play clips of this sort to their guests. I reckon it had to be at the time of this broadcast (1966) or not long before.
27 years today since he died
30 years now
Other than Watergate why is he so hated? He was right here?
Nixon was VP for IKE - Joe Kennedy, the Klanocrats & their anti-American mob ured their organized crime money to buy & control the meda; as Joe Kennedy had done with FDR. Note: Kennedy was appointed as ambassadoq to U.K. in 1938 FDR - Kennedy had to vacate in 1941 due to his appeasement of HITLER. Kennedy predicted, " democracy was finished in Britain. " Kennedy wanted to strike a deal with HITLER & was furious when the Royal Air Force victory in the Battle of Britain prolonged their " inevitable defeat. " < > sotrce, THE PATRIARCH by David Nasaw
he was an outsider. he didn't go to an ivy league. he pushed conservative policies. that's why.
Well for one thing, he could have brought an end to the Vietnam War a lot quicker than he did. America had no business being over there to begin with (no disrespect to the American soldiers who fought and sacrificed in Vietnam) and gained absolutely NOTHING from the battle!
Closing the gold window. It's led to the enormous national debt, which will ultimately collapse the economy to a state worse than that of the Great Depression.
I get the feeling that former Vice President Nixon would like to be president.
As well as he was..
He was very intelligent.
interesting. This is well before he announced his candidacy.
I know this is late, but in hindsight LBJ was right. Nixon was always running for office. Chronic campaigner is an accurate description. But you gotta love him. Smart as a whip.
Nixon should have released a Tennessee Ernie Ford tribute album, he's got the pipes on him
1:02 President Johnson hits Nixon here. 11:28, Nixon was right about the troop level in Vietnam for the next year.
2:16 Anthony Hopkins nailed his smile. Look at that!
Oh my god! You are right!!! Jesus.
@@jonchaney There is no comparison of Nixon to Jesus 😵, are you trying to get Jesus angry 😡 !
@@gargould7186 FYI. Jesus does not get angry.
@@riff2072 Psalms 2:12 Kiss 💋 his son or he will be ANGRY 😡, and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 🤔 ( Is that ANGER or something else? 😒 .
@@gargould7186 Jesus loves you, even if you do not adopt his ways ( which that passable means) he will still love you. And I shall not get in a bible debate with you because of the picture next to their name.
God bless Nixon 🙏
Listen to the phone call between LBJ and William Fullbright the day before this aired, the President seemed a like angry at Nixon!
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President Nixon - Articulate and brilliant wisdom on Vietnam.
former u.s. president richard nixon
And he ran in 68 and won lol
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
What does Nixon say at 18:25? "And they'll beat us right"???
Republicans won 47 in the House 4 in the Senate and 8 Governorships taking the majority of Governorships
Nixon was the best modern president we ever had.
Bob Clark is a member of the Dave Clark Five.
47 house seats and 3 senate gained. Close estimation by Nixon.
Listening to the words of Richard Nixon here and elsewhere make us all much more aware of our political history. It also lets us know what we lost with Nixon's death. There's simply nobody who can replace him, least of all the present incumbent at the White House.
Mr. Nixon was formidable. However, nothing scared him more than the kind of licking that Mr. Johnson was capable of giving him.
True enough, but LBJ in the coming year-and-a-half would lose much of his spunk and very influence due to the morass of Vietnam. He'd be shown-up as the bag of hot Texas air he really was; an "accidental President" (JFK assassination) who rose beyond his level of competency, in true "Peter Principle" fashion! The LBJ who announced he wouldn't run in 1968 was a "whipped pup" himself. In 1968 Candidate Nixon flayed Lyndon alive... you'd of thought Dick was running against LBJ and not HHH! And, like him or not, Nixon could think rings around old Lyndon -- he had an innate grasp of geo-politics that the myoptic Texas could never achieve. [BTW, Barry Goldwater was one man who LBJ could NEVER brow-beat. Goldwater simply wouldn't take LBJ's attempts at threats or intimidation -- he was just as strong (if far more quiet) a person.]
MKIVWWI You're a poli-sci professor; brilliant commentary. My only caveat is this.: Goldwasser ("Water") was the GOP high priest, not Nixon, and Eisenhower knew that for all of Nixon's grasp of geo-politics and savvy on domestic issues, he was a radioactive isotope, one, by the way, owned by the syndicate. Duke Law was a front.
He mensions Ford at 22:30. Imagine someone told him at that point: "Ford? Are you talking about Ford who will pardon you?"
Vice president Nixon's job during the Eisenhower administration was to be prepared to assume the presidency upon the death or incompasitation of the president. It is rich that president Johnson criticized Vice president Nixon on this when he admitted he was not prepared to assume that position. Nixon was...
He was a master at sneaking and answering in poppycock…
been under that DEMOCRAT KLAN DONKEY too long again ?
Wait a minute... there were 35,000 American casualties in Vietnam *already* by November 1966? He said at 9:44 that "we've had thirty-five thousand casualties in Vietnam." 35,000 American casualties in Vietnam sounds like the number of casualties by the end of 1968 or by the time he took office in January of 1969 *not* 1966. If I didn't know better it seems Nixon knew before he even started running for President in 1968 that the body count in Vietnam circa 1968 would be somewhere around 35,000. Did important men like Nixon already know in advance that 35,000 Americans would be killed in Vietnam?
He goes on to say "6,000 of them dead and the rest wounded and missing."
Casualties, not deaths
@@stevenledbetter9997 please explain the difference between casualties and deaths. As far I'm aware casualties is but another word/term for deaths.
positive is that both are listening to each other are having a conversation. with Nixon: he was definitely a very intelligent person with huge political capacity but because he was also paranoid he organized this silly "plumber" action which led to his resignation.
Okay
1:02, A real swipe at Nixon by LBJ!😂
I always felt that it was such a tragedy that his paranoia overwhelmed his knowledge and experience to the point where he destroyed himself.
I thought Johnson sounded childish.
Well he was. Johnson was quite the narcissist, egomaniac, and hypocrite. If it weren't for his southern dwelling in Texas in order to help his candidate achieve votes in 1960, JFK would have never nominated Johnson as his running mate in the first place.
Didn’t he abandon peace talks in 1968-69 that prolonged the war well into his 2nd term?
Nixon wasn't President in 1968. Last American combat troops left Vietnam in in 1973 during Nixon's first term.
Nixon was certainly an astute exponent of foreign policy and history. But the hypocrisy with which he spoke, particularly in relation to Vietnam, was laid bare for all to see once he became President.
Nixon was paranoid and completely dishonest but at least he was extremely intelligent.
Sometimes extremely intelligent people are paranoid! And dishonesty can often take the form of manipulation.
"Issues & Answers" was the forerunner of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos".
LBJ, for all his faults,had Tricky Dick pegged.But I wouldn't have bought a used car from either one
LBJ, like all klanocrats was anti- American
But it fooled a lot of “smart people”
Would ave won in 60 if he tried to look as young and gay as JFK
He always looked old with that unchanging hairdo
Sadly Nixon was a big govt guy, like so many others, leading to such bad outcomes.
It was fairly obvious what McNamara said in his press conference at the LBJ ranch, Nixon is just causing trouble for the sake of it.
But Bobby Mac was a liar and scoundrel -- read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster. Bobby Mac and LBJ deserved every "brickbat" thrown at them, and them some!
It's too bad Nixon took the low road.
Dennis Rivenburg on this it was LBJ who took the low road. Eventually Nixon bought the right of way rights to taking the low road, but not this time
No President was LOWER than Lyndon Johnson. Corrupt to the bone.
There are some historians who believe Johnson's announcement in 1968 that he would not seek an additional term as President was more disgraceful than Watergate and Nixon's resignation.
He goes down as far as State politics. Governorships, yes, but lower than that even. He mentions in passing the results in State legislatures. Reagan did exactly that on Presidential election night in 1980. You wouldn't think that level of politics would mean a real lot to those honchos operating at Federal level. But at least with the idiot Republicans it apparently does warrant some attention.
Nixon should have had a botox injection to stop the creepy smile ,he would have swept all before him !
How does the anti-Christ have a voice?