Richard Nixon used to be known as “America’s Worst/Most Evil President,” until he got pretty much continuous competition in the ensuing years. And to this day, some of Tricky Dick’s most secret paranoid/racist/warmongering ravings have been kept from the public lest we all suddenly realize Richard Nixon was a low-level monster. But now ….
Thanks to a Public Citizen legal victory, a key piece of Watergate history – the grand jury testimony of former President Richard Nixon – will be made public for the first time today by the National Archives and Records Administration. Sealed since 1975, Nixon’s grand jury testimony before the Watergate Special Prosecution Task Force is sure to raise some eyebrows.
The weird thing about Nixon is that his administration was in many ways very liberal, and if Barack Obama tried to do anything like start the EPA (after Rick Perry remembers to delete the EPA from history), Barack Obama would somehow be more of a left-wing radical than conservatives already pretend he is. Anyway, Richard Nixon is twisting in his grave today, in pre-shame over whatever horrible things he said which will now become public. We bet he said something embarrassing like “some fags are nice.” [Public Citizen]
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"I am not a crook."
"Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat."
"Sock it to me?"
"Jerry Sandusky is my favorite linebackers coach."
The Trickster was a big George Allen fan, used to even call him up with play suggestions. He and Allen were kind of psychological doppelgängers who felt everyone was out to get them.
well didn't he declare Alabama as #1 one year, over Penn State?
He must have known about Sandusky even then.
Since the guy gave us the EPA, I'll forget my plan to rebury his corpse with its hell-bound soul in a toxic landfill and just let it continue to rot in Yorba Linda instead.
I'm sentimental that way.
Where's my Jewboy???
I thought that's how Rick Perry calls his dog when he gets home.
It will be worth it to hear this testimony:
"Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
"I do."
"Are you a crook?"
"I am a crook."
"Man, Kissinger has a nice ass. Sometimes I make him walk across the room and fetch things from a low cabinet."
Ewwww, God that's vile.
{Henry answers phone]"Oooh, hallo Dick, tahl meh vut chew are verring. Ooo, thot's nice. Ah'll be ofer soon, honny badger"
Kissinger dated some beautiful women in his time.http://www.life.com/celebrity-pictures/90879723/kissingers-date
One of my professors once said "power is an aphrodisiac." It's my only explanation or Jill St John was drunk.
I still have my Spiro T. Agnew wristwatch somewhere, if we're gonna go all retro here.
I just got out my CREEP-endorsed big fat political button (dang near four full inches across) with Tricky and Spiro arms over each other's shoulders with the spare arms upstretched doing the peace sign, with "NOW MORE THAN EVER" shouting in the background.
that's not a peace sign. it's victory. they could give a fuck about peace (unless you count silence following mass genocide as peace–then, yeah, sure peace…you dirty fucking hippies).
anyway, that's a badass button you've got.
I had a poster which showed a very young girl who was very pregnant holding a sign, "Nixon's the One!" Since I went to a Holy Ghost Catholic University, I had to explain it a lot.
I happen to have a bumper sticker that says "Impeach Nixon" around the house someplace…
I saw one a while back which said: "I don't care if he's dead, I still want to IMPEACH NIXON"
I liked the ones that had the NIXON AGNEW logo from the 72 election, with a "K" superimposed over "AG".
Like Nixon was going to say anything even remotely interesting to a grand jury. I predict dull, dull, and more dull… unless you find it interesting to see what lies he told.
Now, if we let some of today's digital wizards have at that 18-minute gap, I'll be all ears.
He said "I practically blew my stack" when learning about the deletion of those 18 minutes.
It's nice to know what Tricky Dick called an orgasm.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45240250/ns/politics-...
Yes, he blew his stack about the accidental repeated erasures of the same stretch of tape. "What do you mean, they only made four passes?!! Fucking idiots!!!"
Arlo Guthrie says they were listening to Alice's Restaurant.
Nixon's liberal legacy is largely overlooked because he wasn't sincere about it, and because spent most of his time bombing the fuck out of Southeast Asia.
Wasn't the case that anything that he did which would be labelled "liberal" today, he did in order to placate the one-half of the country which hated him, in order to continue his policy of bombing the f**k out of SE Asia?
He was very sincere about it. He really did seem to want to accomplish some very good things. Even if that was to make everyone remember him well and gratify his ego. Guess that plan did not work out so well.
I have to disagree with that being an act of sincerity.
I can agree with that, even though I do think that he did want to make a positive difference. And I agree that the reason he wanted to make such a difference was a completely sociopathic reason.
Isn't there an old saying, that Republicans are the only ones that can do wildly liberal things without getting flayed alive? Witness all the wild things Nixon did: institute wage and price controls, clink glasses with Mao, setting up the EPA. One wild and crazy dude.
"I heart JFK"?
"Salvadore Allende was my lover"?
"Yeah, sure, that was the only thing we kept. Like Pat and I could give a flying fuck about the dog. Christ, the puppy was for me to eat."
E P fucking A! Dick Nixon. I just can't fade that, though I remember it happening.
And the Environmental Planners Full Employment Act, better known by its acronym: NEPA.
That fucker is still working. I think we've got a dozen on staff; one of them is in my vanpool.
Country Joe
Sing Along!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwRj9fijEvg
One of my favorite CJ memories is actually fairly recent. Couple years back he was playing at the C'Addled Zoo Tunes. There was a charming family unit sitting next to us with Gran & Gramp, about the age of me & Mrs. weejee, their kids and a couple of granddaughters about 10-12. Joe went into the Fish Cheer, and along with us Gran & Gramps next to us went full bore to give proper refrains to the "gimme an F – U – C – K" & to Joe's query of "what's that spell." The expressions on the faces of the two grandkids was truly priceless.
Brings a tear, it does.
He had Watergate and Bush had Waterboarding. Both of them should rot in hell.
RMN: !lleH ni skcoc skcus rehtom ruoY (projectile vomits pea soup all over the prosecuting attorney)
Judge: The witness is hereby instructed to reply in his human form.
"Ash nazg durbatuluk, Ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatuluk, Ag burzum ishi krimpatul"
Who let the orcs out?
Who! Who! Who! Who!
Kek!
Somewhere, in hell, there's a new enemies list being furiously written.
Don't forget our house special, it's called a Trickie Dickie Screwdriver.
It's got one part Jack Daniels, two parts purple Kool-Aid,
and a jigger of formaldehyde
from the jar with Hitler's brain in it we got in the back storeroom.
happy trails….to you….
Drink up! Happy hour is now enforced by law.
Nixon wasn't really a secret liberal; it's just that he only cared about foreign policy, and didn't give a shit about domestic policy except in how it would effect his chances of winning. He let the Dem-controlled Congress control domestic policy. Thus, he gave us both the national Southern Strategy and the modern GOP's coded courtship of racists, alongside the EPA and and Clean Air and Water Acts. The same happened with George H. W. Bush
nice how he and poppy bush are both hailed as foreign policy geniuses when really each is just a bloodthirsty scumbucket ready to lie his ass off and bomb the fuck out of brown people so pepsi can develop a market in central america. yeah, pepsi.
RIP bill hicks & george carlin.
You guys should post the photo of Nixon giving Elvis that federal agent badge.
Nixon's real legacy is that he laid the foundation of Republican ethics (for themselves only, of course) ever since:
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
Thank goodness our Democratic President would never stoop to anything like that.
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Nixon did 9/11. 9/11/1973, that is. Pinochet says thanks.
You really could make the case that he's the most liberal President since LBJ. I mean, my god, he wanted to give us single payer national health!
OK, it was after he was impeached, but still! Give the man credit!
Instead he gave us HMOs.
Fuck him.
According to NPR, Nixon was very liberal, until his re-election advisors started helping him realize he needed to politicize abortion to appeal to the religious Dems.
They have to say that. NPR came into being under his watch.
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And we did change dicks in the middle of a screw.
Read here about Reagan the rapist, Coolidge the abortionist, and Nixon the Bottom Boy http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/11350/the-hidden-p...
I heard that his entire testimony was him doing Johnny Carson Carnac routines for the better part of four hours before closing with Neil Sedaka's "Laughter in the Rain." Eyebrow-raisingly fabulous!
Cheney didn't need a stupid tape recorder to capture his rude, obscene language!
HE DID IT THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY—LIVE ON THE SENATE FLOOR…
I believe Nixon was once close to agreeing to a national single-payer insurance plan. A thoroughly hate-filled man, he could never imagine the heights (or lows) his Myrmidons such as Cheney and Rumsfeld would achieve in surpassing his banal evilness.
"My nose is actually prosthetic".
"Our Jews are better than their Jews"
"Watergate? Hell, they're just mad that they didn't think of it first"
"Why does Kissinger get all the chicks?"
"I take my orders only from George Soros"
Nixon was fairly liberal – compared to todays corporate Dems and batshit crazy Repugs….but he was a wildly paranoid muthafucka.
Nixon? Liberal? Nixon was only "liberal" in the sense that Reagan was "competent."
Yet Kissinger and Cheney live on……WTF?
We won't have that lack of grand jury testimony to kick around, anymore.
I can't even think about Nixon these days without recalling old Roy Wizzle
He was the Tex O’Keef of his day.
Who brought this lawsuit, some cocksucking hebe kike? Fuck them, get that old cocksucker Hoover to investigate their commie asses.
"Bay of Pigs".
I have to admit there is something very sexy about a man with a lot of power, even if they are not attractive.
Bunga Bunga.
What does he "they" refer to, or is it obviously what I think.?
Sorry, should have said “he is”. Mea Culpa.
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