An absolutely outstanding and optimistic speech by a guy who was having the time of his life:"I see a day when our nation is at peace and the world is at peace and everyone on earth, those who hope, those who aspire, those who pray of liberty will look to America as a shining example of hope realized and dreams achieved...None of the old hatreds mean anything when you look down into the faces of our children...Tonight I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city, he's black, or he's white, he's Mexican, Italian, Polish, none of that matters, what matters, he is an American child."
Salvador Sanchez Watch the Oliver Stone movie Nixon from 1995. Captures the essense of the real Nixon. The fragility and the paranoia, the almost greatness, all there.
What the US media and liberal historians will never want you to know. It's that until Watergate, Richard Nixon was a very popular president. His approval numbers were in the 70s at some points. And Nixon was just doing similar things to what John f Kennedy had done before him. JFK and Lyndon Johnson did far More in terms of shady stuff, then Nixon did. The difference is they had the media covering for them, and Nixon naively thought that they would cover for him because he was a Washington insider too.
It's not getting more relevant. Nothing ever changed. I swear listening to this speech is like listening to some of the few competent politicians of today. It's the same shit in a different toilet.
You’re a democrat, and you’re a complete moron. Nixon was a POS evil crook who removed us from the Gold Standard. Wtf propaganda are you watching that you think this is a good man?
Think about this. If he does not run for reelection, there is no Watergate break in, ergo, no cover up. A strong foreign policy. Foreign policy was always his main interest. A decent economy. Reduction of involvement in Vietnam. While I do not believe you can be a great president with only one term unless some strange things happen, he would have been well above average
Same here. Listen to him! This is my first time listening to a speech. Ashamed, but proud to finally listen to him. As I begin studying Nixon, his policies and his morals, I have this gut feeling I am going to really be impressed.
I admit Richard Nixon was very paranoid and he shouldn't have bugged the DNC. I mean look he already had a very sizable against McGovern in 72 and a very high chance of victory
that wasn't the reason he resigned and he was elected fair and square, in fact there was more controversy on Kennedy's behalf in 1960 against Nixon, these not only turned out to be true but some speculate that he stole the election from Nixon
My history teacher in high school always made it pretty obvious that he was left leaning and despite his lectures on Watergate scandal and military escalation in Vietnam, he spoke of Nixon respectfully and even said he did a lot of good things for the country.
Thank you for this video. Watching this and other speeches, it's strange that Nixon isn't better known for his oratory. If he lacks Kennedy-style "charisma" he's got remarkable authority and persuasiveness.
I have to be completely honest...I'm a Liberal/Progressive Democrat. Having said that, President Nixon is one of the underrated Presidents of the last century.I have so much respect for him.He was not perfect;but who among us is? He made many mistakes in and out of his political life. He's one of my favorite Presidents. I can't wait to go to Yorba Linda for his centennial next January 9th. Thank you for posting this wonderful piece of history!
He only got caught CONSIDERING using the CIA to cover up the FBI investigation into Watergate. Obama/Hillary and the corrupted DOJ and FBI ACTUALLY DID MUCH WORSE CRIME!
On foreign policy, shrewd and strategic -- our last great foreign policy president. On domestic matters, too pragmatic and given to tinkering that has unintended consequences. But intelligent, statesmanlike, and respected abroad long after his resignation.
A great leader who unfortunately fell to his own paranoia and his party's stupidity. Despite his flaws, he was a BRILLIANT man, and helped achieve peace. He ended Vietnam, he fixed the economy (LBJ's programs screwed it up), and established peace with China. His social views were good, never radical, and his efforts were, at least in his mind, in our best interest.
Don't think you quite understand what Nixon was. You are repeating GOP CW that has been around for decades and not based on anything remotely the truth. It doesn't matter what "good" he did--Vietnam and Watergate doom him to the bottom of US presidents; in fact, the two go together. He was somebody who was clearly unfit to be president, never should have been elected. He was clearly mentally ill. Sure, he "ended" Vietnam, after he deliberately sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 so he could be elected. He dragged that war out deliberately for FOUR YEARS to ensure his own re-election, coupled with going after his political enemies hence Watergate. The VN agreement he and Kissinger hammered out was virtually identical to the 1968 agreement, but who cares about thousands of American soldiers, let alone Vietnamese, died in the meantime when you have political ambitions? Nixon was pure evil. Don't believe me? Do the research on Nixon. It is all out there on the tapes, both his and LBJ's, plus documentation. Why do you think NIxon fought tooth and nail for the rest of his life against release of the tapes? He was afraid his treason in 1968 would be found out.
An absolutely phenomenal president. Created the EPA, initiated detente with the Soviet Union, ended US involvement in the Vietnam War, opened diplomatic relations with the Chinese, pretty damn impressive
The Philadelphia Plan? The EPA? Nixoncare? and he restored order and ended a nightmare Johnson proved he couldn't. Then removing the Gold Standard, making it a floating currency system, securing the dollars current reign as they're all valued off it. Oh, and China?
"...this is the kind of a day I see for America on that glorious Fourth, eight years from now; I see a day when Americans are once again proud of their flag, when once again at home and abroad it is honored as the world's greatest symbol of liberty and justice, I see a day when the President of the United States is respected and his office is honored because it is worthy of respect and worthy of honor..." Irony of ironies, Nixon turned out to be right, but only because after nearly tearing this country apart by his misdeeds, his successor, Gerald Ford, brought honor and respect back to the Presidency and Americans became proud of the nation once again.
University of Kentucky historian Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of the book “Hanoi’s War,” and who examined Hanoi’s foreign ministry records, told me in an interview this year that Le Duan “wasn’t ready to negotiate seriously until the summer of 1972” when American airpower and South Vietnamese ground forces smashed Hanoi’s Easter offensive. Professor Nguyen, who is not a Nixon admirer, pointed out Le Duan always believed negotiations at Geneva in 1954 were a mistake that led to the partition of Vietnam, and he did not want to repeat that error. The irony is Le Duan clearly emerged at the end of 1968 as the winner in this game of high-level political intrigue that involved Washington, Saigon, Hanoi and Moscow. Le Duan outmaneuvered Johnson, gaining a badly needed bombing halt in return for talks that had no chance of success. When Nixon took office in January 1969, he was saddled with a bombing halt he did not want and peace talks in Paris that could not succeed except on Le Duan’s intractable terms. “In the weeks preceding Election Day,” writes Nguyen, “intrigue permeated the corridors of power not only in the United States, but also in the two Vietnams as leaders in Saigon and Hanoi both tried to manipulate American electoral politics to further their own objectives in the war.” The late William Bundy, who served as assistant secretary of state in 1968 for Johnson, complained in page after page about Nixon’s perfidy in his book “A Tangled Web,” before lamely admitting “no great chance for peace was lost.” Here is what actually happened: Johnson and his top advisers, including Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Averill Harriman, head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks, wanted to establish a framework for those talks. In his memoirs, Clifford acknowledges that by October 1968 “it was clear that it was too late for Johnson to negotiate an end to the long war in Vietnam -- but it was not too late to get negotiations started and it was clear that if such talks began before [Election Day], they would help Humphrey.” In an oral history for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, the late Philip Habib, who served as an adviser to Harriman, acknowledged “Harriman was very anxious to get this done before the elections to avert, as he put it, the greatest disaster: Richard Nixon. That was the way he felt. So he was doing everything to get Humphrey elected.” The deal pushed by Clifford, Harriman, former Undersecretary of State George Ball and other LBJ advisers was the United States would cease all bombing of North Vietnam and in return, Hanoi would offer vague assurances not to violate the 17th Parallel dividing the two Vietnams, cease “indiscriminate” attacks on South Vietnam’s cities, and permit Saigon to take part in negotiations in Paris with the U.S., Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, which represented the South Vietnamese communists. LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 14 mins Manage Bill Hare Bill Hare In late October, leaders in the Kremlin, alarmed at the thought of a Nixon presidency, successfully pressed Hanoi to include Saigon in the talks. That seemed to break the deadlock. In a nationally televised address on October 31, 1968, Johnson announced a cessation of the three-year U.S. bombing campaign. With Americans relieved at the possibility of peace from the bloody and divisive war, polls showed Humphrey moving into a tie with Nixon. But over the weekend, Thieu announced he would not attend the talks, peace hopes vanished, and Nixon narrowly won. When Johnson announced the bombing halt, he said Hanoi and the NLF would take part and that Saigon was “free” to join the talks -- a not too-subtle hint Saigon had no intention of attending. In reality, there never was any chance Thieu would participate in the talks in November of 1968 -- no matter what Nixon did or did not tell him. The declassified transcripts of Thieu’s meetings with his top advisers throughout October make clear that he would not agree to four-way talks in Paris with the NLF as “a separate entity.” That was not just some procedural objection on Saigon’s part. By recognizing the NLF as a legitimate government, Thieu was acknowledging it as a potential coalition partner, a stance Saigon consistently rejected throughout the war. It is true Nixon’s people urged Thieu to stand firm and resist Johnson’s pressure to join the proposed talks in Paris. But that is because they saw Johnson’s bombing halt not as a serious peace plan but as a cynical 11th-hour move to tip the election to Humphrey. Writing for Politico last year, John Farrell, one of the more scrupulous reporters in Washington and who is working on a Nixon biography, cited a newly released oral history of onetime Nixon adviser Tom Charles Huston, who said “clearly” Nixon campaign manager John Mitchell “was directly involved.”
Agreed.... coming from a similar background, was nonetheless impressed watching this as it happened 44 years ago. While affection for Nixon may be difficult, even impossible for many to feel, respect and admiration can not be avoided.
It’s effective rhetoric, if it resonates with you it’s because it’s written and constructed to appeal to people with your particular beliefs. These are the most basic talking points politicians have used throughout history, that people always believe is “true now more than ever”. Personally, I see through the manipulative language and empty platitudes.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I read Nixon's massive autobiography and was moved by it. I finished it in about 5 days and I highly recommend it to you.
Who would have thought that at the end of his speech Richard Nixon would be greeted by the man who would succeed him as POTUS almost 6 years to the day later. 33:04
A man who was a good President. I can understand why he did what he did. People looked to undermine and ridicule him. Therefore he had to stay one step ahead of them. A man has got to do, what a man has got to do.
He was also one of the few comprimise candidates to actually be a success. Successfully uniting the Conservative-Goldwater wing and the Moderate-Liberal Rockerfeller wing and even stealing away some Democratic voters.
Nixon was one of our country's best presidents too bad Watergate overshadows all of his great accomplishments one small mistake ruined his legacy what a shame
michael maraio Watergate wasn't a mistake, Nixon made the choice to lie to the American people about the Watergate cover-up and got caught, pure and simple.
+bocfan53 He did have the personal dignity to resign, unlike the Clintons whose lies are laced with lies about past and future lies that focus on how they are going to lie. Bill Clinton is such a liar his last words will be "No, I feel fine."
Much better than Hubert Humphrey's 1968 acceptance speech in Chicago, under conditions that were much more positive than those facing Humphrey, at his convention -- conditions that Humphrey, himself, was partly responsible for. Parts of Nixon's speech are poetic and appeal to unifying idealistic vision -- lacking the details of policy that would get us to this vision. Still, embedded in the speech are the dog whistles and coded phrases that appealed to southern segregationists and northern racial fears. This Nixon speech is a mix of fair criticism of the track-record on the Johnson administration, poetic idealism about a possible American future, and the "fly in the ointment" hints at a strategy that has made the Republican Party increasingly self-segregated and insular over the years since this speech was delivered.
@@actualideas8078 it seems you're getting your actual ideas from Alex Jones. According to Alex Jones, the last real American president was John Kennedy. And when he started moving on the Insiders, and the conspirators, they had him assassinated for it.
A great speech, so optimisti , so hopeful , so full of promise. .Nixon was so far ahead of his time. His pledge against domestic violence is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. His critics lied about him calling him a wife beater when the truth was he loved his wife and his daughters, his mother and father and they loved him.
At approximately 8:00 “ what America Needs its leaders to match the greatness of her people.” So, Mr. Nixon, are you saying back in 1968 “make America great again?”
This speech is among the best campaign speeches ever given in the TV era, and it surely helped propel him to the White House. However, it is a tragedy that the commitments he made - a clean government, intolerance of crime, acute support for justice, a fine new Attorney General, an honorable and rapid exit from Vietnam - these were not only failed promises, but quite contradicted in his policy. If Nixon had the integrity he projected, all parties, and all Americans, would look up to him now.
Your right, that's always been the pitch by the non incumbent candidate, they just evolve it a little. Obama used a version of it in 2008 and I am sure Romney might use it this year.
Just like politicians today. Telling the people what they want to hear while planning on doing the exact opposite of what he says. I'm not shitting on Nixon--he was a fascinating man, smart, informed, driven. But people saying, "I wish he was President today" don't know history and they certainly don't understand propaganda.
He was before my time, so, I really can't say anything about him, good or bad. I've just watched videos of him, like this one here. But, based on what I've seen, he seems like he was a good man. Hard to believe he'd be 100 today! I wonder what he'd be doing if he were still alive.
Well said. The funny thing is he didn't die or .. you know, not get driven out of office. One is always available to question the indomitable question. Why?
He said that in 1976 the next president would be in his 2nd term. In fact it turned out to be Gerald Ford and he didn't even get 1 full term before losing to Jimmy Carter. You all know this but I just find it amusing.
Richard Nixon is a great person who believes in our republican values. His law and order attitude is a good thing for are republican party.He is probably in heaven because he believes in our country and was a hard worker. He is a nice man and always for our nation's best interest.We have a good country when Nixon was president.He believes in capitalism and that is what I believe in.He was run out of office by the democrats.The republicans should of not let him be run out of office.
“For a few moments, let us look at America. Let us listen to America... As we look at America we see cities envelope in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night. We see Americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. We see Americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. And as we see and hear these things, millions of Americans cry out in anguish, ‘Did we come all this way for this? Did American boys die in Normandy and Korea and in Valley Forge for this?’ Listen to the answer to those questions. It is another voice. It is a quiet voice in the tumult of the shouting. It is the voice of the great majority of Americans, the Forgotten Americans, the non-shouters, the non-demonstrators. They’re not racist or sick.... They’re good people, they’re decent people. They work and they save and they pay their taxes and they care. Like Theodore Roosevelt, they know that this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it’s a good place for ALL of us to live in.”
Nixon had great geopolitical skills and was a good writer. His post-White House work in books like "Leaders", "Real Peace:, and "No More Vietnams" is excellent. He was corrupt and paranoid as hell, though, and should have never been so close as a thousand miles from the Oval Office. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338217/New-tape-recordings-reveal-Richard-Nixons-racist-rants-resigning-Watergate-scandal.html
I was playing tag and crawling into the diningroom window while this speech first ran in August 1968. For an unknown reason, no one was watching the television at the time of this symbolic coincidence.
AFTER WHAT WE HAVE SEEN LATELY~~~~~~~~ I WISH WE HAD HIS PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP//!! MANY AGREE IN FOREIGN POLICY// HOWEVER LEARN OF THE MANY DOMESTIC ACHIEVEMENTS!
After listening to this speech, every single candidate of the 2012 presidential race look like they were mentally handicapped. Has the calibre of politician in our country really dropped that much?
Sadly enough-the presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon came to a premature end-via his resignation, necessitated by his role in the "Watergate" scandal-on Friday, August 9'th, 1974.
If you came here because you heard that Trump's convention speech was supposed to be a rehash of Nixon's speech, and got so flabbergasted from the travesty that was Trump's convention speech, that you came here looking for the speech that it was 'SUPPOSED' to be, thumps up.
Bobby was on his way to the nomination when he was murdered. Humphrey, while a good man, was not most Dems first choice, because he was too closely tied to the unpopular LBJ.
This guy was railroaded out of office. There’s been numerous things exposed in just the past few months and years worse than what he did. He did a lot of bad stuff, sure. In justice if he should have resigned hundreds of other pols and bureaucrats should have resigned with him. Or should right now….
An absolutely outstanding and optimistic speech by a guy who was having the time of his life:"I see a day when our nation is at peace and the world is at peace and everyone on earth, those who hope, those who aspire, those who pray of liberty will look to America as a shining example of hope realized and dreams achieved...None of the old hatreds mean anything when you look down into the faces of our children...Tonight I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city, he's black, or he's white, he's Mexican, Italian, Polish, none of that matters, what matters, he is an American child."
ROFL - all the while being the inventor of the "Southern Strategy", to out-Wallace Wallace, and to send "Law and Order" dog-whistles to right-wingers.
What a beautiful comment, I just love it
Just now realizing how overdone every Nixon impression I've heard is after hearing the actual Nixon.
Brodie Herbst I actually looked up this speech because of futurama, it's the only nixon I knew
Salvador Sanchez Watch the Oliver Stone movie Nixon from 1995. Captures the essense of the real Nixon. The fragility and the paranoia, the almost greatness, all there.
Did any of the impressions involve his BS corruption? Horrible guy. He is a con artist. Literally a con artist
Miami SWL Radio oliver stone is a propagandist. Wake tf up. You think there was Greatest in Nixon?? Wtf? I mean I guess he had honor among thieves...
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In many ways this speech is more relevant today than when he gave it.
I absolutely love Richard Nixon!!!!!!😙 I don't understand how anyone could hate him-at least as president.
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Every year, this part of his speech gets more and more relevant.
What the US media and liberal historians will never want you to know. It's that until Watergate, Richard Nixon was a very popular president. His approval numbers were in the 70s at some points.
And Nixon was just doing similar things to what John f Kennedy had done before him.
JFK and Lyndon Johnson did far More in terms of shady stuff, then Nixon did. The difference is they had the media covering for them, and Nixon naively thought that they would cover for him because he was a Washington insider too.
@@paysonfox88 100%. Nothing has changed, especially with regards to how this plays out now, but things are looking up imo.
It's not getting more relevant. Nothing ever changed. I swear listening to this speech is like listening to some of the few competent politicians of today. It's the same shit in a different toilet.
As a Democrat, I would like to say that if it were not for Watergate, Nixon would have been remembered as a good president.
You’re a democrat, and you’re a complete moron. Nixon was a POS evil crook who removed us from the Gold Standard. Wtf propaganda are you watching that you think this is a good man?
I think he was a good president.
Ashley Worden there’s a reason women don’t belong in politics.
He had an amazing foreign policy.
Think about this. If he does not run for reelection, there is no Watergate break in, ergo, no cover up.
A strong foreign policy. Foreign policy was always his main interest. A decent economy. Reduction of involvement in Vietnam.
While I do not believe you can be a great president with only one term unless some strange things happen, he would have been well above average
I would totally vote for Richard Nixon if he was running for President in 2016.
Same here. Listen to him! This is my first time listening to a speech. Ashamed, but proud to finally listen to him. As I begin studying Nixon, his policies and his morals, I have this gut feeling I am going to really be impressed.
you fuckers know that he rigged an election and then spent the better part of 4 years being investigated that he eventually had to resign... right?!
Rick Dangerous Look at what we have now in 2016. Back then we had better candidates and choices.
I admit Richard Nixon was very paranoid and he shouldn't have bugged the DNC. I mean look he already had a very sizable against McGovern in 72 and a very high chance of victory
that wasn't the reason he resigned and he was elected fair and square, in fact there was more controversy on Kennedy's behalf in 1960 against Nixon, these not only turned out to be true but some speculate that he stole the election from Nixon
My history teacher in high school always made it pretty obvious that he was left leaning and despite his lectures on Watergate scandal and military escalation in Vietnam, he spoke of Nixon respectfully and even said he did a lot of good things for the country.
Great comments. I was in Yorba Linda a while back and the library is great!
When Nixon speaks of poverty, he spoke from the heart from knowing it as a child himself and the experience of lass and tragedy in his youth.
Wow you are a moron. Nixon was a con man who took us off the Gold Standard. Wtf propaganda have you been watching?
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Fulgencio Cruz and you’re Mexican
Thank you for this video. Watching this and other speeches, it's strange that Nixon isn't better known for his oratory. If he lacks Kennedy-style "charisma" he's got remarkable authority and persuasiveness.
Nixon is a better orator than Kennedy - that's why radio listeners deemed him to have won the first debate with Kennedy in 1960.
He spoke like a lawyer. Analytical. Laid out options
I have to be completely honest...I'm a Liberal/Progressive Democrat. Having said that, President Nixon is one of the underrated Presidents of the last century.I have so much respect for him.He was not perfect;but who among us is? He made many mistakes in and out of his political life. He's one of my favorite Presidents. I can't wait to go to Yorba Linda for his centennial next January 9th. Thank you for posting this wonderful piece of history!
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He only got caught CONSIDERING using the CIA to cover up the FBI investigation into Watergate. Obama/Hillary and the corrupted DOJ and FBI ACTUALLY DID MUCH WORSE CRIME!
I will agree there. I also have to be honest as a conservative republican JFK was a good president.
I share a birthday with Nixon January 9
I once had a co worker many years ago who was liberal but he said Nixon was his favorite president.
On foreign policy, shrewd and strategic -- our last great foreign policy president. On domestic matters, too pragmatic and given to tinkering that has unintended consequences. But intelligent, statesmanlike, and respected abroad long after his resignation.
This is a great speech. Something America should hear today.
A great leader who unfortunately fell to his own paranoia and his party's stupidity. Despite his flaws, he was a BRILLIANT man, and helped achieve peace. He ended Vietnam, he fixed the economy (LBJ's programs screwed it up), and established peace with China. His social views were good, never radical, and his efforts were, at least in his mind, in our best interest.
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9:58 "The time has come for honest government in America.."
Don't think you quite understand what Nixon was. You are repeating GOP CW that has been around for decades and not based on anything remotely the truth. It doesn't matter what "good" he did--Vietnam and Watergate doom him to the bottom of US presidents; in fact, the two go together. He was somebody who was clearly unfit to be president, never should have been elected. He was clearly mentally ill. Sure, he "ended" Vietnam, after he deliberately sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 so he could be elected. He dragged that war out deliberately for FOUR YEARS to ensure his own re-election, coupled with going after his political enemies hence Watergate. The VN agreement he and Kissinger hammered out was virtually identical to the 1968 agreement, but who cares about thousands of American soldiers, let alone Vietnamese, died in the meantime when you have political ambitions? Nixon was pure evil. Don't believe me? Do the research on Nixon. It is all out there on the tapes, both his and LBJ's, plus documentation. Why do you think NIxon fought tooth and nail for the rest of his life against release of the tapes? He was afraid his treason in 1968 would be found out.
He didn't end Vietnam. He extended it, then ended it.
Ended it none-the-less...
An absolutely phenomenal president. Created the EPA, initiated detente with the Soviet Union, ended US involvement in the Vietnam War, opened diplomatic relations with the Chinese, pretty damn impressive
+Nicholas LoGrasso One of the only times I've ever heard a counter-arguement FOR Nixon, Thanks for that info
+Cadell Anderson Nixon was the greatest president of the modern era.
The Philadelphia Plan? The EPA? Nixoncare? and he restored order and ended a nightmare Johnson proved he couldn't. Then removing the Gold Standard, making it a floating currency system, securing the dollars current reign as they're all valued off it. Oh, and China?
If it wasn't for his paranoia we would have remembered him as one of the greatest presidents in history
top 5 at least! nixon puts any of the recent stiffs to shame!!
"...this is the kind of a day I see for America on that glorious Fourth, eight years from now; I see a day when Americans are once again proud of their flag, when once again at home and abroad it is honored as the world's greatest symbol of liberty and justice, I see a day when the President of the United States is respected and his office is honored because it is worthy of respect and worthy of honor..."
Irony of ironies, Nixon turned out to be right, but only because after nearly tearing this country apart by his misdeeds, his successor, Gerald Ford, brought honor and respect back to the Presidency and Americans became proud of the nation once again.
University of Kentucky historian Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of the book “Hanoi’s War,” and who examined Hanoi’s foreign ministry records, told me in an interview this year that Le Duan “wasn’t ready to negotiate seriously until the summer of 1972” when American airpower and South Vietnamese ground forces smashed Hanoi’s Easter offensive. Professor Nguyen, who is not a Nixon admirer, pointed out Le Duan always believed negotiations at Geneva in 1954 were a mistake that led to the partition of Vietnam, and he did not want to repeat that error.
The irony is Le Duan clearly emerged at the end of 1968 as the winner in this game of high-level political intrigue that involved Washington, Saigon, Hanoi and Moscow. Le Duan outmaneuvered Johnson, gaining a badly needed bombing halt in return for talks that had no chance of success. When Nixon took office in January 1969, he was saddled with a bombing halt he did not want and peace talks in Paris that could not succeed except on Le Duan’s intractable terms.
“In the weeks preceding Election Day,” writes Nguyen, “intrigue permeated the corridors of power not only in the United States, but also in the two Vietnams as leaders in Saigon and Hanoi both tried to manipulate American electoral politics to further their own objectives in the war.”
The late William Bundy, who served as assistant secretary of state in 1968 for Johnson, complained in page after page about Nixon’s perfidy in his book “A Tangled Web,” before lamely admitting “no great chance for peace was lost.”
Here is what actually happened: Johnson and his top advisers, including Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Averill Harriman, head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks, wanted to establish a framework for those talks.
In his memoirs, Clifford acknowledges that by October 1968 “it was clear that it was too late for Johnson to negotiate an end to the long war in Vietnam -- but it was not too late to get negotiations started and it was clear that if such talks began before [Election Day], they would help Humphrey.”
In an oral history for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, the late Philip Habib, who served as an adviser to Harriman, acknowledged “Harriman was very anxious to get this done before the elections to avert, as he put it, the greatest disaster: Richard Nixon. That was the way he felt. So he was doing everything to get Humphrey elected.”
The deal pushed by Clifford, Harriman, former Undersecretary of State George Ball and other LBJ advisers was the United States would cease all bombing of North Vietnam and in return, Hanoi would offer vague assurances not to violate the 17th Parallel dividing the two Vietnams, cease “indiscriminate” attacks on South Vietnam’s cities, and permit Saigon to take part in negotiations in Paris with the U.S., Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, which represented the South Vietnamese communists.
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Bill Hare In late October, leaders in the Kremlin, alarmed at the thought of a Nixon presidency, successfully pressed Hanoi to include Saigon in the talks. That seemed to break the deadlock.
In a nationally televised address on October 31, 1968, Johnson announced a cessation of the three-year U.S. bombing campaign. With Americans relieved at the possibility of peace from the bloody and divisive war, polls showed Humphrey moving into a tie with Nixon. But over the weekend, Thieu announced he would not attend the talks, peace hopes vanished, and Nixon narrowly won.
When Johnson announced the bombing halt, he said Hanoi and the NLF would take part and that Saigon was “free” to join the talks -- a not too-subtle hint Saigon had no intention of attending.
In reality, there never was any chance Thieu would participate in the talks in November of 1968 -- no matter what Nixon did or did not tell him. The declassified transcripts of Thieu’s meetings with his top advisers throughout October make clear that he would not agree to four-way talks in Paris with the NLF as “a separate entity.” That was not just some procedural objection on Saigon’s part. By recognizing the NLF as a legitimate government, Thieu was acknowledging it as a potential coalition partner, a stance Saigon consistently rejected throughout the war.
It is true Nixon’s people urged Thieu to stand firm and resist Johnson’s pressure to join the proposed talks in Paris. But that is because they saw Johnson’s bombing halt not as a serious peace plan but as a cynical 11th-hour move to tip the election to Humphrey.
Writing for Politico last year, John Farrell, one of the more scrupulous reporters in Washington and who is working on a Nixon biography, cited a newly released oral history of onetime Nixon adviser Tom Charles Huston, who said “clearly” Nixon campaign manager John Mitchell “was directly involved.”
Fun fact: Ted Bundy the serial killer was in this arena as a delegate for the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller.
For real are you messing with us Trump?
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A kick ass speech. Excellent from beginning to end.
Agreed.... coming from a similar background, was nonetheless impressed watching this as it happened 44 years ago. While affection for Nixon may be difficult, even impossible for many to feel, respect and admiration can not be avoided.
A very good speech. Aside from Watergate, Nixon was one of the best Presidents we have had so far.
5:30 to 9:30... a speech from nearly 50 years ago, and sadly still very relevant today.
Too bad Nixon only ended up making all those problems he talked about worse.
It’s effective rhetoric, if it resonates with you it’s because it’s written and constructed to appeal to people with your particular beliefs.
These are the most basic talking points politicians have used throughout history, that people always believe is “true now more than ever”. Personally, I see through the manipulative language and empty platitudes.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I read Nixon's massive autobiography and was moved by it. I finished it in about 5 days and I highly recommend it to you.
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Who would have thought that at the end of his speech Richard Nixon would be greeted by the man who would succeed him as POTUS almost 6 years to the day later. 33:04
One of the best conventional speeches
Nixon got a raw deal......compared to what we have in the White House now he was a saint.
Obama is much better than Nixon?
***** Says the one who can't spell, '*you*'.
***** I see you have a great argument.
***** Obviously, therefore Obama was far better.
Bob Barker...you are smart....the rest are idiots...
A man who was a good President. I can understand why he did what he did. People looked to undermine and ridicule him. Therefore he had to stay one step ahead of them. A man has got to do, what a man has got to do.
You are right DUKE
That voice though.
Nixon can articulate his words; he was really a stateman.
He was also one of the few comprimise candidates to actually be a success. Successfully uniting the Conservative-Goldwater wing and the Moderate-Liberal Rockerfeller wing and even stealing away some Democratic voters.
Nixon was awesome .. rip wish I could have met you bud !
Yes he was. As a teenager, I got to shake his hand at San Antonio International, November 1, 1968.
Fantastic 😊. RIP Mr Nixon.
Say what you want about Dick, but he's a saint compared to what has come and gone in DC in more recent history.
Remarkable comeback 🇺🇸
Nixon was one of our country's best presidents too bad Watergate overshadows all of his great accomplishments one small mistake ruined his legacy what a shame
You're a funny guy
Watergate was the tip of the iceberg.
michael maraio He a made a terrible choice so he paid the price that is what happens when you choose the wrong path in life.
michael maraio Watergate wasn't a mistake, Nixon made the choice to lie to the American people about the Watergate cover-up and got caught, pure and simple.
+bocfan53 He did have the personal dignity to resign, unlike the Clintons whose lies are laced with lies about past and future lies that focus on how they are going to lie. Bill Clinton is such a liar his last words will be "No, I feel fine."
Nixon was the man for 1968. Kennedy was the man for 1960
Um… you do know they stole that election from him…
I'm a liberal Democrat and no fan of Nixon, but this speech is sheer brilliance.
except he was lying through his teeth
1:16, He was more comfortable, and at ease in his 1968 campaign, when I watch the clips from the campaign.
@Suprkit Oh no problem! I agree with you, he does not get the credit he deserves, he did a lot of good things for this county.
Moron. Are you actually that stupid that you think Nixon did good for the US? Wtf?
Fascism is Right Wing He ended the war in Vietnam, after LBJ promised NOT to expand the war.
Man I love that smile....
Nixon... what a gorgeous smile... my favorite...
Much better than Hubert Humphrey's 1968 acceptance speech in Chicago, under conditions that were much more positive than those facing Humphrey, at his convention -- conditions that Humphrey, himself, was partly responsible for. Parts of Nixon's speech are poetic and appeal to unifying idealistic vision -- lacking the details of policy that would get us to this vision. Still, embedded in the speech are the dog whistles and coded phrases that appealed to southern segregationists and northern racial fears. This Nixon speech is a mix of fair criticism of the track-record on the Johnson administration, poetic idealism about a possible American future, and the "fly in the ointment" hints at a strategy that has made the Republican Party increasingly self-segregated and insular over the years since this speech was delivered.
I'm no fan of Nixon but looking back on his Presidency, I think he did great compared to our last few Presidents.
Every president since JFK has sold us out to the Federal Reserve. Wake tf up
@@actualideas8078 stfu Kennedy was a idiot he almost started WW3
@@actualideas8078 it seems you're getting your actual ideas from Alex Jones. According to Alex Jones, the last real American president was John Kennedy. And when he started moving on the Insiders, and the conspirators, they had him assassinated for it.
Excellent speech
A great speech, so optimisti , so hopeful , so full of promise. .Nixon was so far ahead of his time. His pledge against domestic violence is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. His critics lied about him calling him a wife beater when the truth was he loved his wife and his daughters, his mother and father and they loved him.
An undeniably excellent and interesting speech, even if I'm not such a fan of Nixon's period in office and some of what he did.
Best smile I ever seen to this day......
At approximately 8:00 “ what America Needs its leaders to match the greatness of her people.” So, Mr. Nixon, are you saying back in 1968 “make America great again?”
best political speech I've ever heard
Flawed, yes, but one of the best presidents IMO
This is better than the clip from the Nixon library
lawlessness now vs then, I’ll take then easily
I came here to see if the futurama version of him's voice was exaggerated
No better speech before or since.
Nixon’s the One! Make no mistake about it!
This speech is among the best campaign speeches ever given in the TV era, and it surely helped propel him to the White House. However, it is a tragedy that the commitments he made - a clean government, intolerance of crime, acute support for justice, a fine new Attorney General, an honorable and rapid exit from Vietnam - these were not only failed promises, but quite contradicted in his policy. If Nixon had the integrity he projected, all parties, and all Americans, would look up to him now.
He was so confident having got RFK out of the way.
3:06 hahaha.. Nixon despised Spirow Agnew... he talked about him on the tapes, that he thought he was an complete idiot^^...
Your right, that's always been the pitch by the non incumbent candidate, they just evolve it a little. Obama used a version of it in 2008 and I am sure Romney might use it this year.
Best smile I have ever seen to this day and love......
People forget the man was working against the Military industrial complex and a lot of powers that be who still wanted to continue the war in vietnam
If you take Watergate away, Nixon is easily one of the best USA Presidents.
Nixon was a saint compared to the Clintons.
Just like politicians today. Telling the people what they want to hear while planning on doing the exact opposite of what he says. I'm not shitting on Nixon--he was a fascinating man, smart, informed, driven. But people saying, "I wish he was President today" don't know history and they certainly don't understand propaganda.
Oh he came back?
John F. Kennedy he did but you didn’t
@@thomascars1 damn, that hurt 😔
This reminds me of last night..........
I love this guy!!!
i don’t know anything about america but i love futurama
He was before my time, so, I really can't say anything about him, good or bad. I've just watched videos of him, like this one here. But, based on what I've seen, he seems like he was a good man. Hard to believe he'd be 100 today! I wonder what he'd be doing if he were still alive.
reelect President Nixon
Well said.
The funny thing is he didn't die or .. you know, not get driven out of office. One is always available to question the indomitable question. Why?
+miinyoo why is it that the good presidents are murdered but terrible ones aren't? That's always been strange to me.
+Jupiter William Mckinley, you will be missed :'( On a serious note JFK is overrated
SirGrips how is jfk over rated?
HanBaby82 they did 1972
He said that in 1976 the next president would be in his 2nd term. In fact it turned out to be Gerald Ford and he didn't even get 1 full term before losing to Jimmy Carter. You all know this but I just find it amusing.
Richard Nixon is a great person who believes in our republican values. His law and order attitude is a good thing for are republican party.He is probably in heaven because he believes in our country and was a hard worker. He is a nice man and always for our nation's best interest.We have a good country when Nixon was president.He believes in capitalism and that is what I believe in.He was run out of office by the democrats.The republicans should of not let him be run out of office.
Nixon was on 5 Presidential tickets that is something
He’s tied that record with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
LONG LIVE THE GREAT NIXON!!!!
What a gorgeous most beautiful smile. Best there is best there was best there ever will be.
“For a few moments, let us look at America. Let us listen to America... As we look at America we see cities envelope in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night. We see Americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. We see Americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. And as we see and hear these things, millions of Americans cry out in anguish, ‘Did we come all this way for this? Did American boys die in Normandy and Korea and in Valley Forge for this?’ Listen to the answer to those questions. It is another voice. It is a quiet voice in the tumult of the shouting. It is the voice of the great majority of Americans, the Forgotten Americans, the non-shouters, the non-demonstrators. They’re not racist or sick.... They’re good people, they’re decent people. They work and they save and they pay their taxes and they care. Like Theodore Roosevelt, they know that this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it’s a good place for ALL of us to live in.”
SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH WRITTEN BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN BUT REWRITTEN BY RICHARD NIXON!!!!
Not a Nixon fan at all -- I grew up rooting for him to be impeached -- but that is a well-written and effectively delivered speech.
1:23...legendary badass!
Nixon had great geopolitical skills and was a good writer. His post-White House work in books like "Leaders", "Real Peace:, and "No More Vietnams" is excellent. He was corrupt and paranoid as hell, though, and should have never been so close as a thousand miles from the Oval Office. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338217/New-tape-recordings-reveal-Richard-Nixons-racist-rants-resigning-Watergate-scandal.html
What Happened yo those Days?
I hired Kissinger, who betrayed South Vietnam.
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I was playing tag and crawling into the diningroom window while this speech first ran in August 1968. For an unknown reason, no one was watching the television at the time of this symbolic coincidence.
AFTER WHAT WE HAVE SEEN LATELY~~~~~~~~ I WISH WE HAD HIS PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP//!! MANY AGREE IN FOREIGN POLICY// HOWEVER LEARN OF THE MANY DOMESTIC ACHIEVEMENTS!
How was it? I've always wanted to go.
I share a birthday with Nixon January 9
After listening to this speech, every single candidate of the 2012 presidential race look like they were mentally handicapped. Has the calibre of politician in our country really dropped that much?
Nixon is one of the greatest Presidents EVER!!!!!!!!
Sadly enough-the presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon came to a premature end-via his resignation, necessitated by his role in the "Watergate" scandal-on Friday, August 9'th, 1974.
8:48 Vietnam War, Lawlessness, Fear
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AGNEW!!!!!
Stamp of the approval!
If you came here because you heard that Trump's convention speech was supposed to be a rehash of Nixon's speech, and got so flabbergasted from the travesty that was Trump's convention speech, that you came here looking for the speech that it was 'SUPPOSED' to be, thumps up.
Marcus Bradley The people that said that Trump’s speech was a rehash of Nixon’s only got it half right. You can never out do an original.
Best smile I've have ever seen.... Nixon....
Someone cut the clip of Nixon saying "I congratulate Governor Romney" and send it to the Obama campaign
Nixon is one our Great Presidents... But in the Last Century Id have to give it to Ronald Reagan..
He only won because RFK was killed no way he could have defeated Bobby Kennedy.
Bobby was on his way to the nomination when he was murdered. Humphrey, while a good man, was not most Dems first choice, because he was too closely tied to the unpopular LBJ.
This guy was railroaded out of office. There’s been numerous things exposed in just the past few months and years worse than what he did.
He did a lot of bad stuff, sure. In justice if he should have resigned hundreds of other pols and bureaucrats should have resigned with him. Or should right now….
It sounds like they are saying “Joe Biden” at 17:48
Joe Biden first got elected the same year.