Nixon’s Lessons for
the Would-Be Impeachers
National Review,
by
Conrad Black
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
11/21/2019 4:53:38 AM
One thing that will quite possibly be achieved by the nonsensical impeachment investigation being conducted in the House of Representatives is the end of the extreme criminalization of policy differences. Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 (an election year in which he would not be nominated) for firing the secretary of war for insubordination, because the majority in the Congress, with not all the Southerners reinstated and Johnson a Tennessean whom Abraham Lincoln had chosen to run with him to emphasize national unity, resented Johnson’s conciliatory approach to the South. Johnson survived the outrageous allegations against him by one Senate vote, and he became (again by one vote in Tennessee),
Reply 1 - Posted by:
VELOX 11/21/2019 6:11:46 AM (No. 241016)
Finally! Finally some gets the Nixon story out that shows how horrible the dims and press were. The one thing never mentioned is why were they in the Watergate plaza. Larry O’Brien was the head of the DNC. He was a despicable person that had gathered illicit information on thousands of citizens, including politicians, movie stars, government officials and private citizens. His dirt files was second only the the FBI. He knew who was gay, cheating, and numerous other bits of info that would ruin a persons career. He used that info to bribe people to support the DNC’s
agenda. They were trying to get his files. It was sorta like Hildabeast’s email files.
In order to cover up the existence of those files and what was in them, the Dims blitzed Nixon and the nation to divert attention from the Dims actions.
Nixon was an incredibly good President, he won his second term by historical margins. He was not a movie star, but a very effective president that turned world politics on its ear for the good.
Now all anyone hears is the Dims planting their story. JFK was no where as popular as one would be lead to believe.
Just like Carter, Clinton and Obama the Dims go to work after their man leaves the White House to start a false narrative about them. Of course the left wing press does everything it can to help spread that message.
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ToryWhite 11/21/2019 6:37:27 AM (No. 241027)
Fabulous piece, one of his best. Hooray.
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If I'm sitting in the family room and water begins flooding out of the ceiling and down the walls, then I will run upstairs to determine the cause. And if I find that someone filled the bathtub, left the water running and let it flood over the sides I will find that person and blame that person.
Similarly, this nakedly political Kafkaesque farce was started, if unknowingly, by the simpletons, fools, wine moms, independents, swing voters and anyone else who, after decades of leftist treachery, still decided to vote for a Democrat in 2018 because Trump sent out the occasional sharp-edged tweet. Never mind that job, that 401K, that new car, that new house that they couldn't afford under Obama for 8 years.
Responding to media button-pushing, cliched commercials in shirtsleeves and sweaters with firemen, police, seniors and schoolkids, they have put demented figures like Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler in charge.
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Golden Goose 11/21/2019 8:36:49 AM (No. 241111)
Fair enough, #3, but they had the assistance of the Paul Ryans and numerous other RINO's who effectively surrendered their seats . . . and control of the House.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msjena 11/21/2019 8:40:47 AM (No. 241117)
Nixon never should have resigned. He should have made the cowardly Republican senators put their money where their mouths were.
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bad-hair 11/21/2019 9:42:52 AM (No. 241182)
Conrad Black / William F. Buckley Jr.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 11/21/2019 11:09:44 AM (No. 241256)
I agree very much with Mr. Black that Nixon was railroaded, but the list of Nixon's 'accomplishments' really rubs me raw.
Some of Nixon's actions angered me greatly at the time, like creating the EPA, others which seemed benign at the time, but have proven to be disastrous since, like opening up China, remind me how much harm Nixon's choices really did.
I was a solid Nixon voter, twice, and he did good things like mining Haiphong harbor, something that,even as a teen, I had argued in favor of, to shut off their weapons flow, largely coming via ships. He did manage to pull things together reasonably well after the race riots. But his wage and price controls were literally stupid, and very counter productive. I lived through Nixon, and remember it very well. A VERY mixed bag Presidency. The oil embargo was a mess and departure from Vietnam badly done.
Nixon made many foolish errors in the Watergate affair, and often governed too far left for my opinions at the time, and looks even more harmful due to China and the EPA when examined many decades later. But, ultimately, it was a media-Dems hit job, and with the extremely anti-Nixon alphabet nets and papers, and no alternative news sources then, he had little chance of a fair hearing, we had no chance at all of hearing fair news.
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