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My Grandfather flew a mission with McGovern as his co-pilot. I wonder what he thought about McGovern as he saw him run in 1972?
As I recall, McGovern got MA, RI and DC. So he got 2 states and a bit.
He didn't get South Dakota.
McGovern volunteered for extra missions over his 30. No doubt he was a great guy. Just clueless.
What was terrible about the Nixon administration? Imagine a couple of reporters creating a ficticious "informant" within any other administration and getting away with concealing the identity for 30 years until the alleged informant died and couldn't answer questions.. Karl Marx Bernstein was the son of card carrying communists and was raised with a hatred for Nixon who was a federal prosecutor working on communist infiltration. LBJ set the bar for spying and crooked black bag operations. Barry Goldwater's plane was bugged. All of a sudden the media was shocked that the Nixon administration was engaging in dirty tricks and they forgot about the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident that started VietNam.
Hanoi Jane was a bitch.
I cast my first legal vote for Nixon.
Despite being of prime draft age.
if he was such a terrible president??
What was terrible about the Nixon administration? Imagine a couple of reporters creating a ficticious "informant" within any other administration and getting away with concealing the identity for 30 years until the alleged informant died and couldn't answer questions.. Karl Marx Bernstein was the son of card carrying communists and was raised with a hatred for Nixon who was a federal prosecutor working on communist infiltration. LBJ set the bar for spying and crooked black bag operations. Barry Goldwater's plane was bugged. All of a sudden the media was shocked that the Nixon administration was engaging in dirty tricks and they forgot about the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident that started VietNam.
But Woodward was a Republican. Sort of evens things out, doesn't it?
if he was such a terrible president??
McGovern won his own state - if only Gore had been able to do that in 2000
Nixon was a political and foreign policy genius who was corrupt to the core. The Southern Strategy of 1968 began the shifting of the South white votes into the GOP column. He made momentous strides with the Soviet Union, Red China, and was not afraid to hold the North Viets' feet to the fire with his massive bombing campaigns in the North.
The Dems simply had no one who could hold a candle to him.
He wasn't a terrible president, he just had a terrible exit.
Nixon was a political and foreign policy genius who was corrupt to the core. The Southern Strategy of 1968 began the shifting of the South white votes into the GOP column. He made momentous strides with the Soviet Union, Red China, and was not afraid to hold the North Viets' feet to the fire with his massive bombing campaigns in the North. The Dems simply had no one who could hold a candle to him.
Jake the Fake ignores the fact that Nixon was able to play on the fact that McGovern embraced the most radical fringes of the liberal left on abortion, feminism, anti-war and social issues, so that it wasn't just the South that got behind Nixon, it was the whole country. Nixon got a bigger percentage than Reagan did. Because he ran as a honest to God conservative. Oh, another fact Jake the Fake conviently ignores about McGovern. He actually got LESS votes in the primaries. The rank and file Democratic Primary voters actually gave more votes to Hubert Humphrey. McGovern only won about 25% of the primary vote. And the Democratic Establishment and the hippies foisted him on the ballot, anyway. And then they acted all stupified when a lot of those Democrats voted for Nixon.
if he was such a terrible president??
McGovern won his own state - if only Gore had been able to do that in 2000