Richard Nixon's press conference on Kent State shooting | ARCHIVE VIDEO

U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the shooting at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard on May 5th 1970.
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[@FleagleSangria]

“When the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool”
Not sure if President Nixon was the originator of this phrase, but I like it

[@ModernState]

His respect for those who disagree with him is commendable.

[@XanaduAsia]

When President's spoke in complete sentences.

[@spokentruth5909]

Yeah Trump always riffs

[@bobo0202]

@@spokentruth5909Yeah Biden is an eloquent genius

[@carlbuschman]

​@@bobo0202I was 15 when Nixon was president, he was a joke!

[@uberkloden]

He was an 🍺 c crook.

[@glyndiana]

This summer I hear the drummin’

[@HMan-zu6bf]

Four dead in Ohio.

[@frankteunissen6118]

It strikes me that Nixon is actually answering the questions that are put to him. These days “communication experts” teach politicians not to do that. “Don’t answer their question”, they say, “answer the question you wanted them to ask.”

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

Nixon was an expert at speaking off the cuff. You wouldn't see dementia Joe having a press conference like this today.

[@Chilangringo4220]

Who’s here in 2024? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana; “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” - Winston Churchill

[@hildyva]

I’m a Kent State grad and Kent Ohio is my home town. That incident on May 4 1970 has seared that community so much in the past 54 years

[@syourke3]

I never thought I’d feel nostalgic for Richard Nixon, but I do. At least he could speak intelligently and coherently, without any notes. I hated him and his expansion of the war but at least he was not a moron.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

The War was already expanded, Nixon merely did what Lyndon Baines Johnson should have done.

[@moviereviews1446]

Richard Nixon did not expand the Vietnam War

[@Badtown1988]

He certainly wasn’t a moron, just a criminal.

[@cringeandpunishment3140]

He was a corrupt criminal who could manipulate you into thinking he is somebody you should feel nostalgia fir

[@norahorphzinger6721]

@@cringeandpunishment3140 hilariously, Nixon was somewhat less of a criminal than many officials around him and future presidents, he just got caught in some of his crimes and actually framed for others like Watergate. He was definitely a criminal, but really not exceptional by presidential standards.

[@MRVISTA-wz7vj]

Hardly anything that directly addressed Kent State😮IMHO

[@scottythetrex5197]

LOL 10:35 Nixon totally destroyed her.

[@davidthompson6636]

“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming…”

[@reecehightower7297]

what about Kent State bud???

[@johndavis8669]

Nixon later stated as former President that Prince Sihanouk didn't mind him sending in troops to destroy Vietcong sanctuaries.

[@MariioMacLin]

Prompts

[@blakel2174]

Yeah your decision stopped the war alright, it further turned public opinion against it to the point America had to pull out.
"Stopped the war, it wasn't worth dying for"
- Stephen Stills

[@joycepino5346]

JFK started the war with sending advisors then boots on the ground. Nixon inherited the war. He did his best.

[@quad1000]

Nixon talking circles around anything trump ever said, and boy that bar was set low

[@MariioMacLin]

Coffe

[@hambone2335]

Nixon was the sorriest president and person we have ever had in the Whitehouse.

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

Look who we have now.

[@starter47990]

I see why America lost. Nixon kept announcing military plans. Withdrawl tiimetables, manpower, intent, etc. All the Viet Cong had to do was wait for America to withdraw

[@MariioMacLin]

Protesting came on like Palestine but now withdrawals up in airbases Kent State Terrell Maclin fingerprints Methodist 672.

[@pumpkinking5174]

Privately Nixon called the protesters "bums".
Nixon was a crook, scoundrel and a terrible person.

[@bradypatrick5405]

Because they were and always will be!

[@StandTallTx]

@@bradypatrick5405Okay, Cletus.

[@billybilly1284]

He never called them bums. Shut up kid

[@amansaggi5]

They weren’t nonviolent as we were taught. They were hate mobs burning down cities and looting in an effort to get what they wanted. Sound familiar? So yes they were bums. The war was drawn out longer than it should’ve been courtesy of lbj being a year and a half late on each move. Thank the democrats the ones who could never do no wrong.

[@angelomercure3747]

Yes, Nixon was a crook, a scoundrel, a terrible person, and he always will be!@@bradypatrick5405

[@emiliopena6841]

War criminal

[@johnnotrealname8168]

He was not.

[@saeedali5822]

Obama too

[@bobscott7440]

No, that was LBJ.

[@ModernState]

Okay. Got anything else from the MC 5 you wanna repost?

[@angelomercure3747]

He WAS!@@johnnotrealname8168

[@angelomercure3747]

Yes, WAR CRIMINAL;