A critical word from the founder of modern Republican politics June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Thanks, gocomics.com Related
Santayana says: June 14, 2022 at 6:23 am Reply ‘Tricky Dick’ …wearing wings and a halo – in heaven? “Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Gain—And Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest” (2013) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/ Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by just 1 percent of the popular vote. “Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968,” says the BBC.
moss says: June 14, 2022 at 7:18 am Reply Those aren’t “heaven’s” clouds. That’s smoke from hellfire. Just like the tin halo nailed to Nixon’s head … just another cultural artifice added to keep the rubes onboard.
La-Z-Boy says: June 15, 2022 at 7:28 am Reply Recliner https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/a-laid-back-history-of-the-recliner
Will C. says: June 15, 2022 at 8:04 am Reply Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Change Anyone’s Mind? The 1973 Watergate hearings changed popular opinion after Richard Nixon’s landslide win. Here’s what is — and isn’t — different today. (ProPublica) https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-hearings-public-opinion
‘Tricky Dick’ …wearing wings and a halo – in heaven?
“Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Gain—And Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest” (2013) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/
Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by just 1 percent of the popular vote. “Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968,” says the BBC.
Those aren’t “heaven’s” clouds. That’s smoke from hellfire. Just like the tin halo nailed to Nixon’s head … just another cultural artifice added to keep the rubes onboard.
Recliner https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/a-laid-back-history-of-the-recliner
Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Change Anyone’s Mind?
The 1973 Watergate hearings changed popular opinion after Richard Nixon’s landslide win. Here’s what is — and isn’t — different today. (ProPublica) https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-hearings-public-opinion
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