when Nixon was first elected I told my Republican father that he was a criminal

[ensho]

angered, my father said I was crazy. time proved me right.

this a.m. Wash. Journal had Nixon's younger brother on pushing his new book about their family.

he said Nixon was more or less bullied (my word), pressed into doing Watergate by the men around him. that Nixon was a man that insisted on following the rules.

Nixon himself was a bully so I'm not going with him being pressed to be a criminal.

the brother said Nixon resigned with honor not disgrace. in what reality?

the brother also said a peculiar thing. on one of Nixon's important op eds his face didn't get "dusted" before appearing. and that radio listeners liked what he said but the TV viewers didn't.
I'm assuming dusted means powdered.

he was asked about Nixon cussing and nasty language on the tapes. brother said he never heard him cuss much. ha ha.

are the neo cons dusting Nixon off and throwing him out there to fill up the air waves, so to speak.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Kennedy-Nixon Debates: TV viewers thought JFK won. Radio listeners thought Nixon won.

[ensho]

3. thanks for info, guess if his face had been dusted history would be different

nt

[rurallib]

4. I think Nixon was just out of the hospital and looked ill

his 5 o'clock shadow was visible and he was sweaty, literally had a kind of criminal look. Had he been dusted it may have covered the beard and held back the sweat.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. He had a fever which literally broke on-camera

Which is why he had that sweaty, miserable, sick look on his face. I don't think anything could have changed the way he looked.

An hour later and he would have looked a lot better. :shrug:

[drm604]

2. The bit about being dusting is probably referring to debate with Kennedy during the 1960 race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

The key turning point of the campaign were the four Kennedy-Nixon debates; they were the first presidential debates held on television, and thus attracted enormous publicity. Nixon insisted on campaigning until just a few hours before the first debate started; he had not completely recovered from his hospital stay and thus looked pale, sickly, underweight, and tired. He also refused makeup for the first debate, and as a result his beard stubble showed prominently on the era's black-and-white TV screens. Nixon's poor appearance on television in the first debate is reflected by the fact that his mother called him immediately following the debate to ask if he was sick. Kennedy, by contrast, rested before the first debate and appeared tanned, confident, and relaxed during the debate. An estimated 80 million viewers watched the first debate. Most people who watched the debate on TV believed Kennedy had won while radio listeners (a smaller audience) believed Nixon had won.

[SPedigrees]

5. I recognized him as the psychopath he was

from the first time I watched him speak long ago. Same thing with Bush.

[AllentownJake]

6. Bush and Cheney make Nixon look like a jay walker

[ensho]

7. but, to my question: are the neo cons putting Nixon on the scene

to change the subject or something? or is it just happenstance that the brother is on the tube today.

[pacalo]

11. It depends on when he wrote the book. If it was written years ago, I'd say yes.

If it's new, it's perfectly natural for him to promote it.

[The Straight Story]

8. Aren't all politicians in DC Criminals?

:rofl:

[LuckyLib]

9. The buffing of Nixon is new -- the Repugs, starting with Nancy's Reagan's efforts while

her out-in-the-ozones husband was still in office, have been burnishing Ronnie for years. If one more building, freeway, or statue goes up to commemorate that moran I'm going to scream!

:grr:

[pacalo]

10. Nixon's brother thought he insisted on following the rules & that he never heard him cuss much.

And he's trying to convince people to read his book?

He might fool those who were born after Nixon's presidency, although I doubt many would be interested, but the WH tapes prove just the opposite.