The only thing he's missing is that the media is in bed with thr government that Nixon is/was part of. Might not have been applicable back then but today for sure and his words would be apt.
They’re literally broken people. They’ve been separated from values and logic, separated from the world, but they think they know better than the common man. They are husks of people
Nixon was wrong about one thing in this interview. The media was restrained in its use of absolute power up until about 10 or 15 years ago. Something changed and now they are not hiding it. They have obviously become pure propagandists. I suspect they realized just how stupid the general population is and lost all fear of being seen for what they are.
Same here in U.K.. I remember when political decisions where debated in a packed parliament. The only time that chamber is full now is when they (MP’s) are voting on their pay rise.
In 1983' when Nixon spoke these words, 50 companies owned the vast majority of media in the US. Today last figure I saw was 5. Nixon was correct to be concerned about media and monopoly of information and perspective and here we are.
Another scary thought Hot wheels and Matchbox are both owned by the same Mattel. Just think about this, you think buying one "hurts" (figurativly speaking) the other, but their profit loss or gain means nothing when they are both owned by the same company. Now just imagine if Hot Wheels and Matchbox are so different in style and "choice" yet are the same, just think about how the rest of everything else is.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio Good point. Even the economy at large as measured by the stock market is controlled by a vast majority made up of only 3 players in Vanguard, Black Rock and State Street. And I suspect if you looked at interlocking directorships, it's even closer. I came of age and awareness with the Nixon Presidency but the world at that time was far more decentralized than it is now. As unperfect then as it was, looks almost idealic compared too today is some areas of society. Odd looking at now, I think even Nixon would be a critic of the present order and he was far from perfect to start but I'd feel more at ease with Nixon as President even with his flaws compared to what either of the 2 parties will give us as a choice this year. And not too excited about independent or 3rd party options either. We're in a bad spot IMO.
This is one of the few good things that social media has been able to bring: more freedom of information. We no longer need to get our news from mainstream media; instead we can determine for ourselves who delivers trustworthy reporting and support them directly. The only reason brands like CNN even still exist is because they have deals with TH-cam to push their content over others.
I grew up thinking he was the most corrupt evil politician in American history. Wow did I find out the exact reverse. All I knew about him was he wasn't particularly attractive and watergate. Guy probably saved the world multiple times over and we never will know it.
-Eisenhower was right about the military-industrial complex -Nixon was right about the unaccountable media -Reagan was right about the potential for liberal tyranny -Trump was right about the illegals Hmmm, I wonder if there is some “common denominator”???
Legacy media themselves have amplified the problem 10x. What Nixon identified as an attempt at selling more prints and increasing ratings has now evolved into outright control of the masses.
Indeed it has. [sorry for writing a whole essay, I just feel like this is the only way to have a safe debate without people getting physical]As much as it is easy to just pull the plug and just outright ban it(like TikTok in Montana) it doesn’t fit well in a nation that heavily emphasizes the First Amendment. The problem I see with people trying to be their own reporter for like youtube, TikTok, IG and twitter, is that at the end of the day they’re all trying to sell their story to make money to feed themselves. In that particular state you kinda lose the quality assurance, and instead just trying to dish out as many stories as possible. Some reporters mix in their own ideologies and opinions to sway the viewers into believing them. Whether it true or not it really doesn’t matter because they’re making money anyways. If everyday citizens wants to be their own reporter they should have a badge like every other reporter who reports to their publishers. Back on January 6th 2021, I wrote down my thoughts as I was watching people storming the Capitol. I was talking about how people should be measured on how much influence they have on the world. All these people with these “subscribers and followers” should be held accountable for how much influence they have on other people, movie stars and actors knows this better than anyone. Right now it just seems that the trend for everyone is to play the victim card at the right time gain popularity and make money, and become the very thing they hated. With the current proceedings/hearings that’s going on with Mark Zuckerberg right now. Maybe we can come to a new compromise on how information is shared and how to hold these social media corporations accountable for byproduct of the usage of social media.
I don’t use twitter but having community notes, especially on political content should be mandatory due to how dangerous it is to sweep an entire nation or even the world into mass hysteria over absolute horse shit nobody will realize isn’t true until years later. That’s if they realize at all.
It’s also fascinating that those who do their research are actually the one who are causing all this issue. I used to be that child, who would argue with his mother and be like the science proves it. Now I’m disgusted with what science is putting, permanent body augmentations, gender bending this and that. I’m just not all for it. And now these folks are saying what I’ve said to my mom all those years ago, only now is that “the data says this is possibly, the data shows this, the data shows that” it’s like “oh come on now, do you just have the data for apparently everything?” It’s total bs, “you can’t have everything, if nothing is left behind”(learnt this from a communication professor) It’s a small victory, but I’m glad that there’s jobs out there now that are being more lenient to those without college degrees. Also my first comment no longer appears🙃
In school Nixon was portrayed as a bumbling fool who got impeached. Oh how wrong they were. This man puts most modern politicians to absolute shame. Well done Nixon Foundation!
If anything, Nixon's downfall may have been that he was too intelligent for his own good. He was the smartest guy in the room, usually by a mile; but he knew he was the smartest guy in the room, and up until the humiliation of Watergate, he let that blow too much smoke up his you-know-what, as they say. Post-presidency, after his ego had been knocked down several pegs, he was better able to harness his intelligence in more positive and productive ways. The last 12-15 years of Nixon's life were one of the better redemption stories ever written.
Agreed. I was always taught that he was a corrupt stupid man and now that I'm older and I can hear him for myself I find out that he's quite articulate and intelligent behind those ears and eyes.
@@Speed.Racer.5nor is it correct in education, these organizations have been captured by communist/soviet who have been cranking out lies and hatred towards their political opponents for the last 50+ years. Yuri Bezmenov called the brainwashing technique they used ‘Active Measures’ with Demoralization being the first step .
Faults? He reacted, he NEVER ordered the break in at Watergate, you can thank G Goron Liddy for that, but he was guilty of the coverup. Clinton covered up his sexual affairs, and Joe has cackhhead son. keep in mind, Trumps kids are doing fine.
Calling them a populist is their label. Their vilification label “He’s a populist.” In other words: He’s not “American”… he’s an “outsider”……. And finally, he’s a “Russian asset.” That’s the game right there. To make the opposition seem like an invader by tying them to another “bad” country.
4 minutes straight and he didn’t mix up leaders, countries, cities, nor pause for 20 seconds to think his words through. Sad what we are at currently and he would be appalled.
I don't know who is in charge of the Nixon Foundation's TH-cam channel but y'all have been working OVERTIME to put out great content from a great man! 👏
Nixon content has become relevant to current times and events. His spoken firm grasp of the issues would serve us well in the present on the domestic front, and especially the international fronts. Richard Nixon would provide a steady experienced hand at the helm. He would unify the nation and give us the focus we need in these turbulent times. Richard Nixon's take on the media is spot on. It gives a balancing background to what occurred in the Watergate issue of yesterday, and the media's role in what is occurring on the domestic arena today. The media today lacks balance and focus. During Watergate the media was myopic and over zealous. Today the media is self- confused and lacks focus to properly inform the public. The media has become a circus.
@georgehunter2813 I'm no capitalist I'm no pro American and I'm certainly no lover of Nixon but because of Watergate he gets a very bad rep and compared to previous and post presidents Watergate was a mild crime. Plus nixon was the last president to do anything to help the working class of America even just a little.
@@agnidas5816 This interview was taped in 1983. Nixon previous had stated he "liked the days of the 50s when the writing press was dominant." He believed television would eventually devolve into what we see today, and ratings bonanza and he was right. The 80s was the start of the media monopoly.
@@agnidas5816 Wrong. The media did not change its politics and agenda. It only has gotten even more partisan. They wrongly called him the bad guy and they would do the same today. He was a populist.
It doesn't strike you odd that the man who was caught in criminal acts by investigative journalists has an axe to grind against the media. That didn't occur to you at all? Why do you have high praise for people with little regard for law democracy or human life?
My father used to always tell me that Nixon was completely different than how he was portrayed by the media and history books. Nixon was one of the last remaining genuinely intelligent and good presidents we ever had, his landslide record election proved that. Nixon was completely right about the media and the bureaucracy.
As a kid I was taught by media both Nixon and Reagan were jerks. I now know it was the media that were jerks. And today they border on treason for some of the destructive lies they deliberately peddle as truth. And openly meddling in elections.
Also like Reagan. I didn't realize how much of a number they'd done on him till I saw in real time the number they were trying to do on Trump, the information available now for those who want to look can let you see things much more clearly.
Thank you Nixon Foundation for getting these videos of President Nixon out to the public. History can finally judge him fairly based on his own words and how his insights 50 years later are so relevant now
@@Skyking6976 You get to form an opinion of him on your own based on these videos, rather than through the lens of an activist pretending to be an educator or journalist.
@@tony_anello Uh…I was in high school when the man was president, Tony. I don’t have to use these videos to form an opinion. Nixon had a devious side, where the ends justified the means. BUT that devious side wasn’t his ENTIRE makeup like Trump. But for Trumpers that’s okay because as Trump said after the Nevada primary in 2016, “I love the poorly educated”. That translates to working class loyalty that never goes away. The wealthy and well educated don’t live that way…so it’s a mystery to us.
Nixon was correct about the media. And he was an intelligent, thoughtful man. The Eisenhower farewell address is also very accurate especially for today, 60 years later. The swamp!
the Eisenhower farewell address was accurate but also chickenshit the man was a passive smiley face icon people trusted as a patriot while he presided agreeably over the military-industrial complex's political entrenchment, then he made one pretty speech as soon as he could do nothing about it, then immediately turned back into a smiley face lapel button appointing folk who'd steered '30s USA investment$$$s to building Nazi war tools to key Foreign Policy posts in Ike's cabinet is one of many reasons to say so choosing Prescott Bush as golf buddy & personal political advisor was another
The people should look into the finances of congress and senators. We need to know which military industry is giving them money for campaigns and how many stocks they have in said company. They receive about $180.000 a year for their salary yet look how many are millionaires. It is said that alot of the people in congress are getting alot better returns on playing the stock market than Warren Buffet. We all know he is one of the best at picking winners in the market! Sounds like insider trading.
Nixon hated the media because they uncovered his illegal dealings with Watergate, forcing him to resign. He was a crook. Trump literally tried to orchestrate the overturning of an election. Media still doing it's job.
Nixon was my neighbor growing up in San Clemente. Actually got lectured by him. Great interview and so observant! Too bad the media has gone off the rails!
@@EdmacZ Exactly. Can't even count how many times growing up seeing comedians do that cheesy "I am not a crook" impersonation. Pot shots at Nixon were just standard procedure for the media complex. They made sure to work it into Forrest Gump.
@@EdmacZYou just have no idea. Are you aware that general Patton tried to form a clandestine army at the end of ww2 using returning American GIs and defeated German soldiers? He was going after the international bankers that funded both sides of ww2, and mysteriously died in a car "accident"
My grandmother, an old school black southern Republican had two wishes in her later years. She wanted to go to Israel which she ultimately did. Her second great wish was to go to the White House and shake hands with a Republican President. She didn’t meet Eisenhower but President Richard Nixon fulfilled that wish for her in 1970. Her name was Emily Lambert Holt. Thank you President Nixon.
Thank you for this video and for all the positive comments as well. I met Pres. Nixon (after he resigned) he was my passenger on a Pan Am flight. I was working First Class and he was the only pax. besides his security. He was the most charming, mannerly, and humble President I have ever served. We got to chatting. I am N. Irish and he was of N. Irish descendants. I remember telling him that one of my childhood friends was a Nixon and about my family coming to this country.. I cannot say how nice it was to meet him and talk with him. He gave me his business card (I didn't ask - would never) and signed it - I keep it, framed, on my dresser. He also signed the flight log for the Captain and when deplaning, he hugged me and told the Captain what a great girl they had in me. It was such a nice compliment. I have met many famous people, politicians, Presidents, and none were as kind and as humble as President Nixon. I will never forget that meeting and what a pleasure it was to serve him. RIP You were a great man.
I am jealous but glad you had this OIAL meeting. Nixon is also Scottish descent. Clan Nixon is a lowland clan (means family) and were a part of the "Devils Dirty Dozen" as the English govt used to call them; 12 great riding (equestrian) families that fought English domination and helped to.keep Scotland's independence (with quite a bit of pillaging and trickery against them to survive and achieve this) In fact 75% of US Presidents have Scottish lineage. Quite amazing when one realizes that our US Constitution was modeled after Scotland's Declaration of Arbroafh, and given Scotland's 400 years of loyalty and defense against the Roman Empire not to mention British, and Viking attempts to dominate this North Atlantic island. Never underestimate the Scots - they are fierce in their determination and unparalleled in their creativity and invention.
Interesting. You are correct on the influence on America's formation. However, and perhaps this needs clarifying, it is the Ulster Scots. As our two coast lines, Northern Ireland and Scotland are less than 30 miles apart, Scots and Ulstermen traveled back and forth between the two areas, intermarrying. Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States (as of 2018), no fewer than 20 could claim Scotch-Irish roots. This includes all four first-generation Americans who have occupied the White House, three of them with Ulster parentage. Pres. Trump's mother was a Scot. Nixon's Milhouse family ties were with County Antrim (where I was born). My grandparents on father's side were from Glasgow and were also Quakers. Nixon's ancestors were believed to have lived in Carrickfergus for a time. so interesting! We are the Kirkpatricks (clan Calhoun) - the Plantation of Ulster distributed Scots all over the six counties of N. Ireland in the 18th c. - they were to settle there because they came from strong, Christian stock who would never give up! Proud of our ancestry -- :) I loved your post, Thanks!
The interviewer was Frank Gannon, Nixon's Chief of Staff, after he left office. Media has gotten even more powerful if you consider how the corporations have bought up tv and radio stations and dominance of twitter and Facebook and instagram and so on. Nixon Library is a good Presidential Library. Good clip.
I've always believed Nixon was a good president I didn't care what others had to say about him he sent troops to Israel to stop them from being analated
Remember , he had NO intention of resigning , but it was turncoat REPUBLICANS who came to him and told him to "RESIGN" or face impeachment . Sound FAMILIAR ? AND there is an entire political party DEDICATED to doing the will of that "media" (yes , the order is correct) . Some say the Democrat Party began in 1829 . *NO .* _THAT_ is *ONLY* the incarnation of the NAME "Democrat Party" . They have been a scourge and a THORN since *BEFORE* the founding of this nation , and The Founding Fathers had to deal with it EVERY _BIT_ as much as we are having to deal with it today . THEY survived the SICKNESS and gave us America . Will WE survive the malevolence - and to WHAT _END_ ?
Thomas sowell points out that the US won every engagement in Vietnam but had to pull out of the conflict because of the mounting public pressure orchestrated by the media.
This is nothing new. The media has taken sides, and influenced the narrative for much longer than most people think. Look at any list ranking US presidents, and you'll invariably see Warren Harding listed as near the bottom. As one writer put it: "Harding’s legacy is perhaps modern America’s first example of how an ideologically motivated media and academic establishment can set about dismantling politically inconvenient truths and installing a false narrative in their place." There was a stock market crash in 1921. Not quite as bad as the on in '29, but it wasn't far off. Harding resisted calls for the government to "do something," and as a result there was no Great Depression in the 1920s. The KKK experienced a resurgence starting during the Wilson administration (which had resegregated the military and the federal workforce), but Harding supported an anti-lynching bill that was filibustered by Democrats, and went to Alabama, the heart of Klan country to give the most impassioned civil-rights speech that had ever been delivered by any American president. During his first year in office, Harding freed all of Wilson's political prisoners (whom Wilson had jailed for opposing his WWI policies). When Harding died of a heart attack in office, he was among the most popular presidents in history. But after his death "progressive" reporters focused on his extramarital affairs, and the political scandals (e.g. Teapot Dome) that did occur during his presidency -- though there's no evidence of Harding's personal involvement in those. As the same writer I quoted earlier put it: "Harding was a smashing success in a historically important role as the anti-Wilson: He restored a classically liberal, rights-focused, limited government, and deserves immense credit for the economic boom that kicked off in his first year and continued throughout the rest of the 1920s (though his agricultural tariffs were misguided). His legacy is a useful example of how left-wing journalists and academics will, when they can’t argue with success, instead set about destroying the reputation of any Republican who might have engineered it."
How did they lie? By not telling you Nixon would have been convicted of obstruction of justice had president Ford not pardoned him? Yes…Nixon was an intellectual who under no circumstance could have rallied the uneducated today as MAGA’s or whatever. I’ve watched so many Jordan Klepper TH-cam videos from Trump rallies and I can assure you NONE of the people I saw interviewed was a Nixon voter. Don’t see many in the videos who look like neurologists or CEO’s of a major bank.
@@beanindividual4000 He ought to know what his parents are/were like. It's not like the Keatons of "Family Ties", a rather self-congratulatory and self-righteous couple that were part of the "Sixties", but now, inexplicably, have the upper-middle class lifestyle they once despised, and wonder WHY their oldest, son Alex, is gung-ho for Reagan and "Greed is Good". Yes, many of the "hippies" were indeed LIED to, but typically those that are easily misled often have ALREADY deceived THEMSELVES. I find it a "rule of thumb" that the more a prominent man is despised and HATED, absent PROVABLE atrocities and crimes (like Hitler, Mao, or Stalin), in general, the more he is RIGHT.
@@cougarcandy921 William McKinley. I mean he was literally pressured into declaring war against Spain (The Spanish American War) and he served in the Civil War, which is why he did not want to see America in another one.
"They can find everything wrong with somebody else, but they will not look inside and ever admit that they could be wrong themselves" Woah, I felt that.
I once knew a man who worked in the department of defense as a communication engineer. He said Nixon was the most inquisitive president he ever briefed, wanted to know everything about the system.
He seemed very intelligent too, its sad to see how american politics evolved from him and Kennedy to what you guys have now, you went from people giving intelligent answers to a guy who doesn't even remember a country properly and doesn't even answer questions right
Nixon was very intelligent and knew more about foreign policy than any president in modern history,but the media hated him and kept the Watergate break-in on the front page and the lead TV news story until they convinced the public that Nixon was a monster, Watergate was a minor break in and they destroyed a good President over it
Thats the issue with identifying with the politician instead of identifying with his politics. People vote for politicians nowadays like they’re celebrity figures.
Ever notice how when a Republican is under the microscope, we see the best journalistic reporting on the planet, bar none; and when a Democrat is in the same situation, the journalists forget how to do their jobs...
@@temporarysaint740 That's because in some cities, Democrat poll workers are still filling out ballots, to get the desired results. That doesn't happen in Florida, anymore. The law was changed. The 2 cheating county supervisors were fired by the Governor DeSantis. And, Counties are required to submit the total ballots cast within 30 minutes of polls closing. The race results better not exceed that number.
@@firstnamelastname956Would you prefer indoctrination by Biden's National Socialist schools? I was 5. And, I never had a Federal Department of Education to DICTATE MY EDUCATION TO MY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Same here. In our house, we weren’t even allowed to say his name growing up because he was so hated. Trump derangement syndrome version 1.0. So sad to see history repeating itself.
He received the most EC votes of any candidate only MA didn't cast its votes for him and yet two years later he is out of office in disgrace due to journalism gone wrong.
My daughter wasn't alive during his time, but for some reason she picked him as her idol; she started collecting old campaign buttons, pictures, etc. about him. He was SORELY mistreated by the mockingbird media!!!
Be balanced. Nixon is the reason why no one can afford health insurance now. They lobbied him, and with the stroke of a pen turned the medical industry from what it should be, non profit, to a for profit that focuses on price fixing, treatments no cures, and manufactured for-hire science to sell dangerous drugs that later get recalled.
Nixon was a remarkably intelligent man. He had the MSM pegged as biased which they were already way back in the 70s. A lot of falsehoods were told about him back then which was sad. On foreign affairs he was way ahead of his time. Many of the things he made observations of are true today. China's apprehension toward Taiwan being one of them.
They have been doing it to Trump since he came down the escalator to announce he was running for President. They have never stopped doing it. The MSM is not to be trusted with any story they present.
It's amazing how in school all that my teachers ever focused on was a quick coverage on Watergate... completely ignoring all of his accomplishments, his popularity and acting as if he was a terrible President. Now that I've been able to reanalyze his life's work... I realize this man was railroaded and his legacy trampled by the established order.
I know....my education on him was basically the idea that he was a terrible and criminal President who should be viewed as a smear on the timeline of American history. I'm starting to really notice a pattern
@firstnamelastname956 Look in the declassified files that were released he was set up by the CIA just as Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA. The elites needed a Biden and Gerald Ford was it. Start researching and wake up.
President Nixon was a very intelligent, articulate and tough man. We would not enjoy the lifestyle we have if Richard Nixon had not opened the way to trade with China. Full Stop. Great interview and great for President Nixon that he didn't shrink and stood up to the "press" for himself, love that.
What a great mind President Nixon had! I listen to him today and I realize America upgraded In a big way when voters traded in LBJ for RIichard Nixon. What a guy!
With all the negative things I have read about Nixon, I am surprised to be an instant fan once I actually hear him in person. Looks like the media wrote so much negative stuff about him that it created an image.
All of the news outlets want to shock you. “Look what I found out! It’s so incredible that it must be true!” They ask convoluted questions about specific topics and hope that they get the gotcha answer.
Coverage of the Watergate scandal was my first exposure to advocacy journalism. I was a 12-year-old, but already I could feel that the journalists who were covering the story seemed to have a personal interest in a particular outcome.
I think the news media already hated him for how he fought the release of the Pentagon Papers. But really, he had no choice because to not at least publicly call it into question would suggest implicit approval of stealing classified documents. The government has to stand for its interests at least in appearance. If I were President I’d have done the same, even though the actual content was far more damning to his predecessors than him.
40 years ago when I was a student in Sacramento, even the Liberals were impressed with his knowledge on foreign policy. That would never happen today. He was a great, great American.
That knowledge about foreign policy was what led him to sabotage the Paris Peace agreement by cutting a deal with the South Vietnamese, in hopes of beating Humphrey? And then signing an almost identical deal five years later, after the loss of tens of thousands of US troops and who knows how many Vietnamese? Did "the liberals" think that was clever? He was a traitor and a drunk.
00:53 "When I get old enough, and decide to retire--and I'm not planning it at the moment..." As an older man myself, I had to smile at that. He's an inspiration.
I was a teenager in high school hearing about the so call Watergate. I was one who actually felt sorry for President Nixon. I hated how he was treated the last day he got on that helicopter. To this day when I speak of President Nixon or someone else does I still say how I feel sorry for him and how badly I thought he was treated.
This is rich. Nixon playing 'the press crucified me' card. Now we know where trump got it from. Republican criminals are nothing without their victim card.
I was a teenager too, watching the Watergate hearings. *FUN FACT* President Nixon was asking too many questions about the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Nixon then called in CIA Director, James R. Schlesinger and told him he had information that the CIA was involved with the assassination of JFK. Following this, we had the Watergate break-in where four of the five burglars were CIA agents. 🤔 President Nixon was making great strides towards peace and prosperity in the United States. (Like Trump). They got rid of President Nixon without firing a shot. Bob Woodward was military until Watergate Break-in then suddenly became a Journalist investigating Nixon/Watergate. 2 1/2 years later……H.W.Bush became CIA Director. 🤔
And he repeatedly commented privately on tape about the danger of the Israeli tribe dominating media and the state department. He hoped to restore representation for the actual American people at the time. Certainly why they slandered and removed him.
@@Spraddles That's an excellent point. Try to think back on the last time a public figure was interviewed and was not rudely interrupted. You ask them a question, let them answer it, dammit!
Nixon made a hell of a lot of mistakes including putting recorders in his office as allowed the Democrats to dig up all the dirt on him that they wanted! At least Trump resisted the impeachment attempts, which is more than Nixon did. 😂
That just means we control the flow of information for whom is media playing for? Us! The consumer! If you watch whatever content the media puts out, the media will advertise corporate products! They media is the bait, corporations are the hook and we, the people, are the catch. Capissce!
When I was a kid, we used to chant this on the way home from school.. President Nixon he’s our man ..the government belongs in the garbage can. I think I was first or second grade.
Did you also chant there's far too many yids in our government administration, way way over representation for such a small group in each and every administration.
I spent 3 years in Tehran, Iran 1954-1956, 1957-58. In spite of the alleged abuses by his Intel and Security Services, (SAVAK) the Shah was responsible for bringing a largely illiterate and poor nation, into a vibrant one from the mid-50s to the Summer of 1966 when my father (who could read, write and speak Farsi) visited there for several days. Unlike the 50's, we didn't see one beggar in Tehran and the population seemed to be much more robust with much of the population able to read and write Farsi. Our first 2 years we lived in the village of Jamaran, just 200 meters or less from the Jamaran family compound. In fact, my father's closest Persian friend was Hosheme Jamarani who helped my father to learn Farsi, etc. Although Hosheme was very well educated in Great Britain, his father was a very stern-looking Mullah. Never met his mother due to her place as a Mullah's wife.
@Gomoboo Thanks! It is always great to hear non biased and non Iranian views of the era. What those days revolutionaries and the American administration failed to understand was that Shah while not being perfect, was walking on tighrop in navigating Iran towards well being. On one hand the state was contantly being bullied and penetrated by Russia and Brits for decades. On the other hand the people of Iran, merely 30 years before his reign started their journy of freedom and state building while still living in the states of the old vassel-lord relationship as the old time. Therefore, we had no independent political parties or group, other than those who were advancing their russian or brit puupet maser agenda! There barely enough bright policitcsl minds and institutions to get the country to run in a democratic fashion... he had to keep the enemy out while helping the country to become modernized...
@@saeedpakiari7446 - Frankly, although I will turn 76 this June, I would like to visit Iran one more time. After looking at Jamaran on the app, Google Earth, I realized how much it changed in the past 70 years. In fact, the 4-bedroom home and one-acre compound we rented from a well-to-do Persian seems to have been built or paved over. I can see the Jamaran family compound that was the residence of the Ayatollah Khomeini at their invitation so I know where our residence was, but it is all built up now and unrecognizable to me. Nevertheless, I would like to perhaps meet the Jamaran family and share several photos of their deceased relative, Hosheme Jamarani. One of my fondest memories was my mother purchasing fresh baked Barbari bread right out of the oven. My mother hired a horse-drawn carriage to take us to the village of Jamaran. I don't recall the name of the small town. The main road from Tehran split into a road to the left (West) and a road to the right (East) that took one to Jamaran and beyond. That hot Barbari was very delicious and the open carriage was special as well. We also ate quite a bit of the Sangak. I also developed a taste for Doogh (دوغ), it was quite sharp-tasting and was carbonated. It went well with some of the Iranian cuisine that was served at our table and prepared by our cook.
Well said. It makes you reconsider some of the other "powers" that were toppled by the trouble making secret societies of their day. How about the Romanoff's for example.
@docbradleydc You can't do a Jew count in a democratic government. The "Nixon Jew count" of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon's attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wikipedia.
In the 1960 election it was found that the Daily machine in Chicago found, fortified, enough votes for Kennedy to win. When brought to Nixon's attention he said to let it go cause making a big deal about it would be bad for the country.
For all with eyes to see, this is a stark reminder of how fast & far we've fallen in terms of prudent quality leadership. Nixon was far more knowledgeable, particularly in international affairs, than our last several presidents combined.
Right from when i watched his debates with Kennedy, ive always respected President Nixon. The only thing that has happened over the years as I watch TH-cam videos of him is that the respect has only grown. Watergate was a tragedy to his stellar public service. RIP
@@Jpaintingdesigns Actually, I believe that after he left office he freely admitted that looking back, when he compromised on immigration with Dems it was his biggest mistake. So, I wouldn’t call it weak. Good memory though!
I’ve always loved Nixon ever since I did a report on him in secondary school. He’s the most underrated president in US history. Cool to get this very timely video recommended out of nowhere
The Elder Stateman is sorely missed. I graduated High School with 'Tricky Dick' as a reference point for Nixon. Got into a debate with someone who crushed my perception with one sentence: 'He got us out of Vietnam, ended the draft, opened diplomacy with China, treaty's with USSR and created the EPA".
I love how the interviewer asks him a question and then lets him answer. Imagine that.
Who is the interviewer? Tucker Carlson’s father?
@ld4035
Did you ever listen to a Hussein interview?
He talked in circles never actually answering a single question.
I believe he still does that!
@@onclebob2178I was sitting here trying to figure that out. It’s like watching Tucker in another universe
It is a lost art. They all want to hear themselves these days.
Haha
He would be stunned how much worse it has gotten. The media doesn't even hide it anymore.
He would be. But what is remarkable is that he could be saying the same thing today. Nothing has changed.
He'd be flipping tables.
The only thing he's missing is that the media is in bed with thr government that Nixon is/was part of. Might not have been applicable back then but today for sure and his words would be apt.
They’re literally broken people. They’ve been separated from values and logic, separated from the world, but they think they know better than the common man. They are husks of people
Nixon was wrong about one thing in this interview. The media was restrained in its use of absolute power up until about 10 or 15 years ago. Something changed and now they are not hiding it. They have obviously become pure propagandists.
I suspect they realized just how stupid the general population is and lost all fear of being seen for what they are.
Watching Nixon makes you realise how far the calibre of politicians has fallen.
Complete agreement --- much of the electorate behave (at least at the national level) as if stupidity were a virtue.
He was the smartest President for over 50 years.
Damn that's what I was thinking. We're over thinking were at a banquet while we nibble on cracker crumbs.
@@slewone4905 the best we had since Teddy Roosevelt, and only Ronald and Donald join them in that class ever since.
A few years after this interview the Church hearings proved Nixon was 100% correct about the corrupt media.
I like how the interviewer not once interrupted him. Asked a question and let Nixon finish. He listened unlike journalists now.
A very underrated comment over a brilliant observation
because the journos now are controlled by the enemy
Most journalists today are pushing a narrative be it their own or someone else's
Say what you want about Nixon but he sounds 10 times more intelligent than what we have in politics these days.
Same here in U.K.. I remember when political decisions where debated in a packed parliament. The only time that chamber is full now is when they (MP’s) are voting on their pay rise.
I agree, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden really have been an embarrassment for America for different reasons.
💯!!! 🇺🇲
@@BishopWalters12 you should have stayed in school.
@user-xt4ft4od7ptrump can barely finish a sentence. He sounds like a child. A bigly child.
To hear a president speak with clarity is so refreshing.
What about Joe Biden? Such an amazing intellect and with integrity to boot
U joking right?@@bobo0202
@@bobo0202with how modular lying is he may aswell be competent.
lol not really all he has to do is constantly deny things that sound bad@@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@bobo0202
In 1983' when Nixon spoke these words, 50 companies owned the vast majority of media in the US. Today last figure I saw was 5. Nixon was correct to be concerned about media and monopoly of information and perspective and here we are.
Another scary thought
Hot wheels and Matchbox are both owned by the same Mattel.
Just think about this, you think buying one "hurts" (figurativly speaking) the other, but their profit loss or gain means nothing when they are both owned by the same company. Now just imagine if Hot Wheels and Matchbox are so different in style and "choice" yet are the same, just think about how the rest of everything else is.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio Good point. Even the economy at large as measured by the stock market is controlled by a vast majority made up of only 3 players in Vanguard, Black Rock and State Street. And I suspect if you looked at interlocking directorships, it's even closer. I came of age and awareness with the Nixon Presidency but the world at that time was far more decentralized than it is now. As unperfect then as it was, looks almost idealic compared too today is some areas of society. Odd looking at now, I think even Nixon would be a critic of the present order and he was far from perfect to start but I'd feel more at ease with Nixon as President even with his flaws compared to what either of the 2 parties will give us as a choice this year. And not too excited about independent or 3rd party options either. We're in a bad spot IMO.
This is one of the few good things that social media has been able to bring: more freedom of information. We no longer need to get our news from mainstream media; instead we can determine for ourselves who delivers trustworthy reporting and support them directly. The only reason brands like CNN even still exist is because they have deals with TH-cam to push their content over others.
7 oil companys are now 3 large oil companys. I see a pattern here.
He was concerned the media wasn’t doing his bidding
The more I hear from Richard Nixon, the more I like him.
I grew up thinking he was the most corrupt evil politician in American history. Wow did I find out the exact reverse. All I knew about him was he wasn't particularly attractive and watergate. Guy probably saved the world multiple times over and we never will know it.
He’s a fascinating individual
He was so right it's unreal
That's why they hated him
@@RJ1999x The dual citizenship individuals
That's why he has enemies. Donald Trump is going through the samething.
People Forget! Nixon Got 🇺🇸 Out! Of Vietnam!
@@RJ1999x its why they do not like trump either
Fifty years later... he's proven to be right again.
Just like Trump!
😂
-Eisenhower was right about the military-industrial complex
-Nixon was right about the unaccountable media
-Reagan was right about the potential for liberal tyranny
-Trump was right about the illegals
Hmmm, I wonder if there is some “common denominator”???
@@perfectsplit5515McCarthy was right. Funny moustache man was
@@bradchambers5886 Forgot about Joe McCarthy. I am wondering if the history books were wrong to demonize him.
The social media reporting cycle has amplified this problem 10x.
Legacy media themselves have amplified the problem 10x. What Nixon identified as an attempt at selling more prints and increasing ratings has now evolved into outright control of the masses.
Indeed it has. [sorry for writing a whole essay, I just feel like this is the only way to have a safe debate without people getting physical]As much as it is easy to just pull the plug and just outright ban it(like TikTok in Montana) it doesn’t fit well in a nation that heavily emphasizes the First Amendment.
The problem I see with people trying to be their own reporter for like youtube, TikTok, IG and twitter, is that at the end of the day they’re all trying to sell their story to make money to feed themselves. In that particular state you kinda lose the quality assurance, and instead just trying to dish out as many stories as possible. Some reporters mix in their own ideologies and opinions to sway the viewers into believing them. Whether it true or not it really doesn’t matter because they’re making money anyways.
If everyday citizens wants to be their own reporter they should have a badge like every other reporter who reports to their publishers.
Back on January 6th 2021, I wrote down my thoughts as I was watching people storming the Capitol. I was talking about how people should be measured on how much influence they have on the world. All these people with these “subscribers and followers” should be held accountable for how much influence they have on other people, movie stars and actors knows this better than anyone.
Right now it just seems that the trend for everyone is to play the victim card at the right time gain popularity and make money, and become the very thing they hated.
With the current proceedings/hearings that’s going on with Mark Zuckerberg right now. Maybe we can come to a new compromise on how information is shared and how to hold these social media corporations accountable for byproduct of the usage of social media.
I don’t use twitter but having community notes, especially on political content should be mandatory due to how dangerous it is to sweep an entire nation or even the world into mass hysteria over absolute horse shit nobody will realize isn’t true until years later. That’s if they realize at all.
Exactly 💯
It’s also fascinating that those who do their research are actually the one who are causing all this issue. I used to be that child, who would argue with his mother and be like the science proves it. Now I’m disgusted with what science is putting, permanent body augmentations, gender bending this and that. I’m just not all for it. And now these folks are saying what I’ve said to my mom all those years ago, only now is that “the data says this is possibly, the data shows this, the data shows that” it’s like “oh come on now, do you just have the data for apparently everything?” It’s total bs, “you can’t have everything, if nothing is left behind”(learnt this from a communication professor)
It’s a small victory, but I’m glad that there’s jobs out there now that are being more lenient to those without college degrees.
Also my first comment no longer appears🙃
In school Nixon was portrayed as a bumbling fool who got impeached. Oh how wrong they were. This man puts most modern politicians to absolute shame. Well done Nixon Foundation!
*Nixon was highly intelligent*
If anything, Nixon's downfall may have been that he was too intelligent for his own good. He was the smartest guy in the room, usually by a mile; but he knew he was the smartest guy in the room, and up until the humiliation of Watergate, he let that blow too much smoke up his you-know-what, as they say. Post-presidency, after his ego had been knocked down several pegs, he was better able to harness his intelligence in more positive and productive ways. The last 12-15 years of Nixon's life were one of the better redemption stories ever written.
Nixon had a good cabinet. He was a terrible president. Kissinger kept him from going full Trump.
The state knew what it was doing
Agreed. I was always taught that he was a corrupt stupid man and now that I'm older and I can hear him for myself I find out that he's quite articulate and intelligent behind those ears and eyes.
The worst problem I see in much of the media is not what they choose to report, but what they ignore.
You mean hide, not ignore.
Yes, and same effect.@@wawabbit
You mean paid to say
And ignore
YT is Exhibit A of hiding or auto deleting certain comments that go against their peers in the Levant and Washington.
True! People don’t realise how powerful big media is
They spew lies because they know the lumbering herd will eat it up no matter how dishonest they are.
Backed heavily by CCP, 2 trillion dollars past15-20 years....yes USA msm!
Don’t be antisemitic
@@Deewood612 oy vey
AND what do you suggest? The only way to change the 1st amendment is by a new amendment ratified by 30+ states.
It’s gotten much worse now President Nixon.
With social media and censorship joining in too.
@@victorsamsung2921They have given us all the ability to censor each other. The worst kind of censor-ship
Yeah the Republican party has lost it's mind
@@Pablo-no1lo Most people do, not just republicans. Find a better talking point.
@@DrJones20 How about OObama, Hilliary, and ByeDumb causing wars, destroying countries, pay for play brybes,etc.
This explains why the media always makes a bad picture of Nixon
"Media Elitist Complex" AKA "Democrap Globalist Jews".
I always knew history would look more favorably on Richard Nixon.
Unfortunately, history isn't reflected correctly by the media.
@@Speed.Racer.5nor is it correct in education, these organizations have been captured by communist/soviet who have been cranking out lies and hatred towards their political opponents for the last 50+ years. Yuri Bezmenov called the brainwashing technique they used ‘Active Measures’ with Demoralization being the first step .
Even with the Watergate scandal.
Posterity is undefeated when it comes to totalitarian regimes trying to "acid wash" history.
@@brandonallen3808even with Obamagate, and steelgate, but opposite. They will be brought to the surface and dissected and compared with watergate.
For all his faults, Nixon was a brilliant man. One of the most thoughtful and intelligent presidents in American history.
Faults?
He reacted, he NEVER ordered the break in at Watergate, you can thank G Goron Liddy for that, but he was guilty of the coverup.
Clinton covered up his sexual affairs, and Joe has cackhhead son. keep in mind, Trumps kids are doing fine.
Better than all his successors.
@@patrickmccutcheon9361 Nixon was truly one of the very best American presidents. A very brilliant man, and a great American patriot. 🦘🦘🪃
Tricky Dicky strikes again.
Nixon was a good president. He was just very paranoid.
Nixon seems like a saint compared to the current batch of politicians
Absolutely. Watergate is nothing next to a president who advocates for mutilating children's privates under the guise of "affirming care."
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@@Surprise_Inspection The infamous hidden reply is often the sign of a hOmOsExUal GaYrAy lurking about.
Indeed
Makes me wonder what Watergate really was
I met him twice at Le Cirque. The second time he waved me over with my date and I said, "we have to stop meeting like this." His memory was insane.
Woah
You definitely got laid that night. Am I right?
Awesome!
Very cool, thoughtful act. Much the way Pres Trump acknowledges others 😊
Sorry to hear that
History has proved him right.
It fits PERFECTLY 40 years later. Great interview.
When the media calls a politician 'populist', I always wonder... as opposed to what? Elitist?
Good point.👍
Same with the "white nationalist" label. Bunk.
@@wawabbitI never understood how nationalism became a bad thing
Even worse than elitist, an ideologue
Calling them a populist is their label.
Their vilification label
“He’s a populist.”
In other words: He’s not “American”… he’s an “outsider”……. And finally, he’s a “Russian asset.”
That’s the game right there. To make the opposition seem like an invader by tying them to another “bad” country.
4 minutes straight and he didn’t mix up leaders, countries, cities, nor pause for 20 seconds to think his words through. Sad what we are at currently and he would be appalled.
😂
brainrot has affected the political elites too it seems
clown times we live in
How correct that intelligent wise President was and how relevant he is now- more so than ever
yes - "Nixon NOW more than ever", (that was his re-election slogan I believe..)
I don't know who is in charge of the Nixon Foundation's TH-cam channel but y'all have been working OVERTIME to put out great content from a great man! 👏
Currently 66.6k subscribers 😂
Thank you!
Nixon content has become relevant to current times and events. His spoken firm grasp of the issues would serve us well in the present on the domestic front, and especially the international fronts.
Richard Nixon would provide a steady experienced hand at the helm. He would unify the nation and give us the focus we need in these turbulent times.
Richard Nixon's take on the media is spot on. It gives a balancing background to what occurred in the Watergate issue of yesterday, and the media's role in what is occurring on the domestic arena today. The media today lacks balance and focus. During Watergate the media was myopic and over zealous. Today the media is self- confused and lacks focus to properly inform the public. The media has become a circus.
@georgehunter2813 I'm no capitalist I'm no pro American and I'm certainly no lover of Nixon but because of Watergate he gets a very bad rep and compared to previous and post presidents Watergate was a mild crime. Plus nixon was the last president to do anything to help the working class of America even just a little.
Indeed! Very underrated!
Oh man this aged phenomenally well. Love him or hate him, he's right.
He was complaining that everyone RIGHTLY called him a bad guy.
Now he would be called a good guy in media because it is finally fully sold
@@agnidas5816 This interview was taped in 1983. Nixon previous had stated he "liked the days of the 50s when the writing press was dominant." He believed television would eventually devolve into what we see today, and ratings bonanza and he was right. The 80s was the start of the media monopoly.
@@agnidas5816 Wrong. The media did not change its politics and agenda. It only has gotten even more partisan. They wrongly called him the bad guy and they would do the same today. He was a populist.
It doesn't strike you odd that the man who was caught in criminal acts by investigative journalists has an axe to grind against the media. That didn't occur to you at all?
Why do you have high praise for people with little regard for law democracy or human life?
My father used to always tell me that Nixon was completely different than how he was portrayed by the media and history books. Nixon was one of the last remaining genuinely intelligent and good presidents we ever had, his landslide record election proved that. Nixon was completely right about the media and the bureaucracy.
As a kid I was taught by media both Nixon and Reagan were jerks. I now know it was the media that were jerks. And today they border on treason for some of the destructive lies they deliberately peddle as truth. And openly meddling in elections.
Also like Reagan. I didn't realize how much of a number they'd done on him till I saw in real time the number they were trying to do on Trump, the information available now for those who want to look can let you see things much more clearly.
You may already know that President Nixon wanted to see age limits -- I'm thinking 70 - 75 -- for Congress.
And to this day the stench of deceit of the media that Nixon is speaking of is just really something.
Thank you Nixon Foundation for getting these videos of President Nixon out to the public. History can finally judge him fairly based on his own words and how his insights 50 years later are so relevant now
What do you mean by, “…judge him fairly…”?
@@Skyking6976 You get to form an opinion of him on your own based on these videos, rather than through the lens of an activist pretending to be an educator or journalist.
@@tony_anello Uh…I was in high school when the man was president, Tony. I don’t have to use these videos to form an opinion. Nixon had a devious side, where the ends justified the means. BUT that devious side wasn’t his ENTIRE makeup like Trump. But for Trumpers that’s okay because as Trump said after the Nevada primary in 2016, “I love the poorly educated”. That translates to working class loyalty that never goes away. The wealthy and well educated don’t live that way…so it’s a mystery to us.
@@tony_anello- Ignore it Tony. They probably get paid every time they use the word Trump in their posts.
Nixon was correct about the media. And he was an intelligent, thoughtful man. The Eisenhower farewell address is also very accurate especially for today, 60 years later. The swamp!
the Eisenhower farewell address was accurate
but also chickenshit
the man was a passive smiley face icon people trusted as a patriot while he
presided agreeably over the military-industrial complex's political entrenchment,
then he made one pretty speech as soon as he could do nothing about it, then
immediately turned back into a smiley face lapel button
appointing folk who'd steered '30s USA investment$$$s to building Nazi war tools
to key Foreign Policy posts in Ike's cabinet is one of many reasons to say so
choosing Prescott Bush as golf buddy & personal political advisor was another
Truth is always relevant
That's why he won
The people should look into the finances of congress and senators. We need to know which military industry is giving them money for campaigns and how many stocks they have in said company. They receive about $180.000 a year for their salary yet look how many are millionaires. It is said that alot of the people in congress are getting alot better returns on playing the stock market than Warren Buffet. We all know he is one of the best at picking winners in the market! Sounds like insider trading.
John F Kennedy made it worse by allowing the swamp to have a union.
George Orwell, understood this too. “ The ministry of truth “
Because he was Jewish
Nixon hated the media because they uncovered his illegal dealings with Watergate, forcing him to resign. He was a crook.
Trump literally tried to orchestrate the overturning of an election. Media still doing it's job.
Nixon was my neighbor growing up in San Clemente. Actually got lectured by him. Great interview and so observant! Too bad the media has gone off the rails!
Which is why TV and movies never pass up an opportunity to take a shot at President Nixon.
Nixon wasn't banished for the Watergate theft. He was banished for ending a very profitable war.
It's makes you wonder about all the other "villains" that were manufactured in history. Guys we believed were bad because the media told us too.
@@EdmacZ Exactly. Can't even count how many times growing up seeing comedians do that cheesy "I am not a crook" impersonation. Pot shots at Nixon were just standard procedure for the media complex. They made sure to work it into Forrest Gump.
@@EdmacZYou just have no idea. Are you aware that general Patton tried to form a clandestine army at the end of ww2 using returning American GIs and defeated German soldiers? He was going after the international bankers that funded both sides of ww2, and mysteriously died in a car "accident"
@@EdmacZSo Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Charles Manson and Pol Pot were good guys then, in your opinion?
My grandmother, an old school black southern Republican had two wishes in her later years. She wanted to go to Israel which she ultimately did. Her second great wish was to go to the White House and shake hands with a Republican President. She didn’t meet Eisenhower but President Richard Nixon fulfilled that wish for her in 1970. Her name was Emily Lambert Holt. Thank you President Nixon.
Wonderful
That is brilliant.
You’re welcome!
I'm happy that your grandmother was able to get her two wishes fulfilled, I really enjoyed your tale of your dear sweet grandmother. Take care.
Are you from Buffalo??
So impressive as always. I wish he had been around a few more years. 1994 was too soon to lose this great man.
Rip, President Nixon. You would’ve loved podcasts.
And cocaine as well
“The Fourth Estate” has been a major power player in the affairs of this country for over a hundred years.
Cept it's been dead for years. At most since the mid-90s.
Richard Nixon correct as usual
I remember being told that the Great President Reagan often talked with President Nixon concerning matters. Both men were brilliant.
Even he couldn't have foreseen the sewer the media would become.
Thank you for this video and for all the positive comments as well. I met Pres. Nixon (after he resigned) he was my passenger on a Pan Am flight. I was working First Class and he was the only pax. besides his security. He was the most charming, mannerly, and humble President I have ever served. We got to chatting. I am N. Irish and he was of N. Irish descendants. I remember telling him that one of my childhood friends was a Nixon and about my family coming to this country.. I cannot say how nice it was to meet him and talk with him. He gave me his business card (I didn't ask - would never) and signed it - I keep it, framed, on my dresser. He also signed the flight log for the Captain and when deplaning, he hugged me and told the Captain what a great girl they had in me. It was such a nice compliment. I have met many famous people, politicians, Presidents, and none were as kind and as humble as President Nixon. I will never forget that meeting and what a pleasure it was to serve him. RIP You were a great man.
Thanks for sharing! GREAT story!
great story
I am jealous but glad you had this OIAL meeting. Nixon is also Scottish descent. Clan Nixon is a lowland clan (means family) and were a part of the "Devils Dirty Dozen" as the English govt used to call them; 12 great riding (equestrian) families that fought English domination and helped to.keep Scotland's independence (with quite a bit of pillaging and trickery against them to survive and achieve this) In fact 75% of US Presidents have Scottish lineage. Quite amazing when one realizes that our US Constitution was modeled after Scotland's Declaration of Arbroafh, and given Scotland's 400 years of loyalty and defense against the Roman Empire not to mention British, and Viking attempts to dominate this North Atlantic island. Never underestimate the Scots - they are fierce in their determination and unparalleled in their creativity and invention.
Interesting. You are correct on the influence on America's formation. However, and perhaps this needs clarifying, it is the Ulster Scots. As our two coast lines, Northern Ireland and Scotland are less than 30 miles apart, Scots and Ulstermen traveled back and forth between the two areas, intermarrying. Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States (as of 2018), no fewer than 20 could claim Scotch-Irish roots. This includes all four first-generation Americans who have occupied the White House, three of them with Ulster parentage. Pres. Trump's mother was a Scot. Nixon's Milhouse family ties were with County Antrim (where I was born). My grandparents on father's side were from Glasgow and were also Quakers. Nixon's ancestors were believed to have lived in Carrickfergus for a time. so interesting! We are the Kirkpatricks (clan Calhoun) - the Plantation of Ulster distributed Scots all over the six counties of N. Ireland in the 18th c. - they were to settle there because they came from strong, Christian stock who would never give up! Proud of our ancestry -- :) I loved your post, Thanks!
@@lynb2039 makes me even prouder of Scottish lineage!
The interviewer was Frank Gannon, Nixon's Chief of Staff, after he left office. Media has gotten even more powerful if you consider how the corporations have bought up tv and radio stations and dominance of twitter and Facebook and instagram and so on. Nixon Library is a good Presidential Library. Good clip.
I thought it was Tucker Carlson’s father! 😊
Amazing he could forecast these problems as if he were talking about the Media in todays age. A very very wise man and a great President.
Yo! This channel by itself has changed my high school propagandized view on Nixon. Thank you to the person who maintains this channel.
Bro is speaking facts
Homeboy Nixon in da house
I've always believed Nixon was a good president I didn't care what others had to say about him he sent troops to Israel to stop them from being analated
Boy Nixon looks like a goddamn angel today compared to these corrupt politicians we have in there now
Remember , he had NO intention of resigning , but it was turncoat REPUBLICANS who came to him and told him to "RESIGN" or face impeachment . Sound FAMILIAR ?
AND there is an entire political party DEDICATED to doing the will of that "media" (yes , the order is correct) .
Some say the Democrat Party began in 1829 . *NO .* _THAT_ is *ONLY* the incarnation of the NAME "Democrat Party" . They have been a scourge and a THORN since *BEFORE* the founding of this nation , and The Founding Fathers had to deal with it EVERY _BIT_ as much as we are having to deal with it today . THEY survived the SICKNESS and gave us America . Will WE survive the malevolence - and to WHAT _END_ ?
the democrats have always been in control of everything....
He wasn’t an angel! Check out what Fiona Barrett has to say about him! You don’t get to that high a level if you’re an angel!! Wake the f up.
Ain't that the truth!
@@weedpuller2000 you cannot grasp sarcasm.. clearly... wtfu
Thomas sowell points out that the US won every engagement in Vietnam but had to pull out of the conflict because of the mounting public pressure orchestrated by the media.
Phew, so it wasn't the dead Americans and Vietnamese civillians. Thank God for that intellectual giant Sowell.
@@ColtraneTaylor and where did you get that brilliant insight? jane fonda and platoon movies?
@@ColtraneTaylor Wow, John K is commenting on TH-cam
@@AndreComtois Nice quip. Did you have to use your own brain for that? Staggering.
The US won engagements, but at what cost in US lives? I would add that a Democrat got us into Vietnam but Nixon pulled us out of it.
How prescient! Nixon was one of the most brilliant men ever to become President. I miss his opinions and analysis of current events.
My hippy parents lied to me about Richard Nixon. I think he’ll be remembered more fondly in the years to come.
This is nothing new. The media has taken sides, and influenced the narrative for much longer than most people think. Look at any list ranking US presidents, and you'll invariably see Warren Harding listed as near the bottom. As one writer put it: "Harding’s legacy is perhaps modern America’s first example of how an ideologically motivated media and academic establishment can set about dismantling politically inconvenient truths and installing a false narrative in their place."
There was a stock market crash in 1921. Not quite as bad as the on in '29, but it wasn't far off. Harding resisted calls for the government to "do something," and as a result there was no Great Depression in the 1920s. The KKK experienced a resurgence starting during the Wilson administration (which had resegregated the military and the federal workforce), but Harding supported an anti-lynching bill that was filibustered by Democrats, and went to Alabama, the heart of Klan country to give the most impassioned civil-rights speech that had ever been delivered by any American president.
During his first year in office, Harding freed all of Wilson's political prisoners (whom Wilson had jailed for opposing his WWI policies). When Harding died of a heart attack in office, he was among the most popular presidents in history. But after his death "progressive" reporters focused on his extramarital affairs, and the political scandals (e.g. Teapot Dome) that did occur during his presidency -- though there's no evidence of Harding's personal involvement in those.
As the same writer I quoted earlier put it: "Harding was a smashing success in a historically important role as the anti-Wilson: He restored a classically liberal, rights-focused, limited government, and deserves immense credit for the economic boom that kicked off in his first year and continued throughout the rest of the 1920s (though his agricultural tariffs were misguided). His legacy is a useful example of how left-wing journalists and academics will, when they can’t argue with success, instead set about destroying the reputation of any Republican who might have engineered it."
Maybe they were lied to? Nice characterization of your parents.
How did they lie? By not telling you Nixon would have been convicted of obstruction of justice had president Ford not pardoned him? Yes…Nixon was an intellectual who under no circumstance could have rallied the uneducated today as MAGA’s or whatever. I’ve watched so many Jordan Klepper TH-cam videos from Trump rallies and I can assure you NONE of the people I saw interviewed was a Nixon voter. Don’t see many in the videos who look like neurologists or CEO’s of a major bank.
@@beanindividual4000 He ought to know what his parents are/were like. It's not like the Keatons of "Family Ties", a rather self-congratulatory and self-righteous couple that were part of the "Sixties", but now, inexplicably, have the upper-middle class lifestyle they once despised, and wonder WHY their oldest, son Alex, is gung-ho for Reagan and "Greed is Good". Yes, many of the "hippies" were indeed LIED to, but typically those that are easily misled often have ALREADY deceived THEMSELVES.
I find it a "rule of thumb" that the more a prominent man is despised and HATED, absent PROVABLE atrocities and crimes (like Hitler, Mao, or Stalin), in general, the more he is RIGHT.
That would make you gen X right?
I think Nixon might have hated the media more than trump lol. What a man
All the greats have hated the media! Lincoln, Nixon, Reagan, Trump!
@@cougarcandy921 Notice how all those presidents are Republicans? Makes me wonder if the dems are in on it...
@@cougarcandy921 William McKinley.
I mean he was literally pressured into declaring war against Spain (The Spanish American War) and he served in the Civil War, which is why he did not want to see America in another one.
@@cougarcandy921Lincoln wouldn't like being compared to Trump
@@jackalenterprisesofohio yeah that billionaires whom citizen kane was about, boasted about it. Calling it "his war"
Compare his fluidity of thought and getting his message out there compared to the now.. lol What a difference .
"They can find everything wrong with somebody else, but they will not look inside and ever admit that they could be wrong themselves"
Woah, I felt that.
I once knew a man who worked in the department of defense as a communication engineer. He said Nixon was the most inquisitive president he ever briefed, wanted to know everything about the system.
He seemed very intelligent too, its sad to see how american politics evolved from him and Kennedy to what you guys have now, you went from people giving intelligent answers to a guy who doesn't even remember a country properly and doesn't even answer questions right
Nixon was very intelligent and knew more about foreign policy than any president in modern history,but the media hated him and kept the Watergate break-in on the front page and the lead TV news story until they convinced the public that Nixon was a monster, Watergate was a minor break in and they destroyed a good President over it
Thats the issue with identifying with the politician instead of identifying with his politics. People vote for politicians nowadays like they’re celebrity figures.
Yes, he was an independent thinker, so the Deep State had to take him down and Henry Kissinger was just the man.
Ever notice how when a Republican is under the microscope, we see the best journalistic reporting on the planet, bar none; and when a Democrat is in the same situation, the journalists forget how to do their jobs...
Interesting point considering the history of the parties.
They literally did not ask the questions a 4 year old would.
Yup joes favorite ice cream is chocolate chocolate chip
It's no better when it's a Republican, they just lie to try to destroy them instead of protect them.
The fact that the Durham Investigation didn't become a national talking point is direct evidence of this. Crazy how much corruption there is
I'm almost nostalgic for that era. I'm 72 now. If I could time travel, I'd love to drop by for a visit
I live in the UK, and I find the Richard Nixon Foundation TH-cam absolutely fascinating. I have been viewing everything on here! lol
I stayed up with my parents, at age 5, in 1968 to see Nixon elected President. We were very happy with that.
Now it takes days or weeks for the media and officials to figure out the " winner"
@@temporarysaint740 That's because in some cities, Democrat poll workers are still filling out ballots, to get the desired results. That doesn't happen in Florida, anymore. The law was changed. The 2 cheating county supervisors were fired by the Governor DeSantis. And, Counties are required to submit the total ballots cast within 30 minutes of polls closing. The race results better not exceed that number.
@@temporarysaint740
In 1972, when I was 8, I think he was declared the winner by 9pm. Just about the whole country was red.
What do you mean we? Lmao you were 5. Stop acting like you weren’t indoctrinated by your parents.
@@firstnamelastname956Would you prefer indoctrination by Biden's National Socialist schools? I was 5. And, I never had a Federal Department of Education to DICTATE MY EDUCATION TO MY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I owe President Nixon an apology because I was dumb enough to believe the lying media.
Same here. In our house, we weren’t even allowed to say his name growing up because he was so hated. Trump derangement syndrome version 1.0. So sad to see history repeating itself.
Same here
A lot of people fell for their lies. I’m a huge skeptic, saved me from that mistake.
He received the most EC votes of any candidate only MA didn't cast its votes for him and yet two years later he is out of office in disgrace due to journalism gone wrong.
I hope you're not referring to the Watergate scandal as being a lie against Nixon.
He was so right about the media.
I will never forget my dad teaching me "Nixon Nixon hes our man" when i was in the 2nd grade. I knew there was a good reason dad liked Nixon
I’d always admired President Nixon, even as a child. I took a lot of criticism by defending this man who was far ahead of his time. RIP Sir. 🙏
Exactly!
The criticism you received was due to exactly what he's speaking of here.
😉🇺🇸
@@LaughingRandomly as a solid conservative I’m still receiving a lot of criticism.
My daughter wasn't alive during his time, but for some reason she picked him as her idol; she started collecting old campaign buttons, pictures, etc. about him. He was SORELY mistreated by the mockingbird media!!!
Be balanced. Nixon is the reason why no one can afford health insurance now. They lobbied him, and with the stroke of a pen turned the medical industry from what it should be, non profit, to a for profit that focuses on price fixing, treatments no cures, and manufactured for-hire science to sell dangerous drugs that later get recalled.
Warmonger
Nixon was a remarkably intelligent man. He had the MSM pegged as biased which they were already way back in the 70s. A lot of falsehoods were told about him back then which was sad. On foreign affairs he was way ahead of his time. Many of the things he made observations of are true today. China's apprehension toward Taiwan being one of them.
They have been doing it to Trump since he came down the escalator to announce he was running for President. They have never stopped doing it. The MSM is not to be trusted with any story they present.
He did unfortunately recognize China, which allowed our companies to outsource our jobs.
Vietnam bad. No support for soldiers. Left a generation of men that felt used for no reason. A slap in the face to veterans.
It's amazing how in school all that my teachers ever focused on was a quick coverage on Watergate... completely ignoring all of his accomplishments, his popularity and acting as if he was a terrible President.
Now that I've been able to reanalyze his life's work... I realize this man was railroaded and his legacy trampled by the established order.
"Only Nixon could go to China." -- Spock
I know....my education on him was basically the idea that he was a terrible and criminal President who should be viewed as a smear on the timeline of American history. I'm starting to really notice a pattern
Amen!
@@Technotoad63 Ancient Vulcan proverb.
Now do Trump.
„They allowed their advocacy ahead of their reporting“. Still true today.
I watch these excellent videos, and every time I'm struck by how far political discourse has fallen.
The media destroyed Nixon and his reputation.
Bob Woodard worked for the CIA
Yeah when you get caught doing the BS he did...... that happens.
Ahh, like Tricky Dick had nothing to do with his own demise. 😂
Almost like that was the goal, so no one would listen to his wisdom in the future
@@awes5709with the watergate scandal? He was innocent because he didn’t call for the espionage act
He wasn't a crook, the elites were.
😂😂
He was still working under the U.S. government, he’s also a crook. Get real.
@firstnamelastname956 Look in the declassified files that were released he was set up by the CIA just as Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA. The elites needed a Biden and Gerald Ford was it.
Start researching and wake up.
President Nixon was a very intelligent, articulate and tough man. We would not enjoy the lifestyle we have if Richard Nixon had not opened the way to trade with China. Full Stop. Great interview and great for President Nixon that he didn't shrink and stood up to the "press" for himself, love that.
One of the greatest president America ever had...his acumen and intellect are way higher than all latest presidents combined
What a great mind President Nixon had! I listen to him today and I realize America upgraded In a big way when voters traded in LBJ for RIichard Nixon. What a guy!
It’s eerie how true his words still ring today. The media and the general public could learn a thing or two from this.
With all the negative things I have read about Nixon, I am surprised to be an instant fan once I actually hear him in person. Looks like the media wrote so much negative stuff about him that it created an image.
All of the news outlets want to shock you. “Look what I found out! It’s so incredible that it must be true!” They ask convoluted questions about specific topics and hope that they get the gotcha answer.
Coverage of the Watergate scandal was my first exposure to advocacy journalism. I was a 12-year-old, but already I could feel that the journalists who were covering the story seemed to have a personal interest in a particular outcome.
I think the news media already hated him for how he fought the release of the Pentagon Papers. But really, he had no choice because to not at least publicly call it into question would suggest implicit approval of stealing classified documents. The government has to stand for its interests at least in appearance. If I were President I’d have done the same, even though the actual content was far more damning to his predecessors than him.
@m851
Primarily, Woodward and Bernstein.
Both Hacks.
40 years ago when I was a student in Sacramento, even the Liberals were impressed with his knowledge on foreign policy. That would never happen today. He was a great, great American.
That knowledge about foreign policy was what led him to sabotage the Paris Peace agreement by cutting a deal with the South Vietnamese, in hopes of beating Humphrey? And then signing an almost identical deal five years later, after the loss of tens of thousands of US troops and who knows how many Vietnamese? Did "the liberals" think that was clever?
He was a traitor and a drunk.
I can't believe how ahead of his time his insight was. Anyone under 30 realy has not lived long enough to see with full understanding.
Can’t imagine why this clip has not gone mainstream lol.
@pm475
Sarcasm? 😏
Words of wisdom are always moving and through these insights we can now understand why they wanted to remove him from office
If you are a good president you will be condemned for the hell of it & if you are a bad president you may receive a Nobel peace prize.
You're right. Obama received one.
00:53 "When I get old enough, and decide to retire--and I'm not planning it at the moment..." As an older man myself, I had to smile at that. He's an inspiration.
I was a teenager in high school hearing about the so call Watergate. I was one who actually felt sorry for President Nixon. I hated how he was treated the last day he got on that helicopter. To this day when I speak of President Nixon or someone else does I still say how I feel sorry for him and how badly I thought he was treated.
He always seemed like a desperate man taking desperate measures against the three-letter-agencies, the democrats and the neocons.
@@DM_Curtis
😮 and you don’t understand the animosity?..look what they are doing to President Trump.. out of the way by any mean possible…🤐.
Then you are a fool.
This is rich. Nixon playing 'the press crucified me' card. Now we know where trump got it from. Republican criminals are nothing without their victim card.
I was a teenager too, watching the Watergate hearings.
*FUN FACT*
President Nixon was asking too many questions about the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Nixon then called in CIA Director, James R. Schlesinger and told him he had information that the CIA was involved with the assassination of JFK.
Following this, we had the Watergate break-in where four of the five burglars were CIA agents. 🤔
President Nixon was making great strides towards peace and prosperity in the United States. (Like Trump).
They got rid of President Nixon without firing a shot.
Bob Woodward was military until Watergate Break-in then suddenly became a Journalist investigating Nixon/Watergate.
2 1/2 years later……H.W.Bush became CIA Director. 🤔
Nixon would be terrified to know that the media today has the power of the internet.
The Problem is that only Stupid 's believe in Media and there are many.
And he repeatedly commented privately on tape about the danger of the Israeli tribe dominating media and the state department. He hoped to restore representation for the actual American people at the time. Certainly why they slandered and removed him.
@@williamearle6281Makes sense. Thanks.
He'd be terrified of WHAT was being put out as news, not how.
And Artificial Intelligence
A President who speaks clearly and with substance. Unlike what we have now. He makes "45 " and Biden look like 4th graders!!
Give the guy a break, he's been in politics for 180 years!
Unscripted, no earpiece telling him what to say and right off the top of his head and heart
And without interruptions.
@@Spraddles That's an excellent point. Try to think back on the last time a public figure was interviewed and was not rudely interrupted. You ask them a question, let them answer it, dammit!
Nixon made a hell of a lot of mistakes including putting recorders in his office as allowed the Democrats to dig up all the dirt on him that they wanted! At least Trump resisted the impeachment attempts, which is more than Nixon did. 😂
This is how you make ones legacy live even the history lies in front of you.
Media controls the flow of information
Lately, most media outlets deal in propaganda. Even 60 Minutes has been corrupted.
Who controls the media? I see a lot of funny last names 🤔🤔🤔
Which is exactly what brought you here. Lmao isn’t that ironic?
That just means we control the flow of information for whom is media playing for? Us! The consumer! If you watch whatever content the media puts out, the media will advertise corporate products! They media is the bait, corporations are the hook and we, the people, are the catch. Capissce!
Excellent! Clearly forsaw the horrible state of the media today by talking about the sad state of the media of the time he was speaking.
When I was a kid, we used to chant this on the way home from school..
President Nixon he’s our man ..the government belongs in the garbage can. I think I was first or second grade.
Did you also chant there's far too many yids in our government administration, way way over representation for such a small group in each and every administration.
1st grade, out on the playground at school, "Nixon, Nixon, he's our man, let's put Humphrey in the garbage can. : )
The government IS the garbage can nowadays.
😂😂 I remember doing that too.
First and second graders, chanting political slogans. Propaganda sure ain't new.
Richard M. Nixon was a wise man, this interview proves it. It's unfornunate that America doesn't have a president of his kind nowadays.
Most under-rated president in history.
Thanks
~Jim Eagle
not by me. and I can prove it
@@loupasternakOk genius prove it
@@DogeickBateman I voted for him , hows that 🤡
@@loupasternak Yeah ok communist
@@loupasternak Yeah ok communist
After 45 years we see how Nixon was right! And how Shah was the right person! The world shall miss them both.
I spent 3 years in Tehran, Iran 1954-1956, 1957-58. In spite of the alleged abuses by his Intel and Security Services, (SAVAK) the Shah was responsible for bringing a largely illiterate and poor nation, into a vibrant one from the mid-50s to the Summer of 1966 when my father (who could read, write and speak Farsi) visited there for several days. Unlike the 50's, we didn't see one beggar in Tehran and the population seemed to be much more robust with much of the population able to read and write Farsi. Our first 2 years we lived in the village of Jamaran, just 200 meters or less from the Jamaran family compound. In fact, my father's closest Persian friend was Hosheme Jamarani who helped my father to learn Farsi, etc. Although Hosheme was very well educated in Great Britain, his father was a very stern-looking Mullah. Never met his mother due to her place as a Mullah's wife.
@Gomoboo Thanks! It is always great to hear non biased and non Iranian views of the era. What those days revolutionaries and the American administration failed to understand was that Shah while not being perfect, was walking on tighrop in navigating Iran towards well being. On one hand the state was contantly being bullied and penetrated by Russia and Brits for decades. On the other hand the people of Iran, merely 30 years before his reign started their journy of freedom and state building while still living in the states of the old vassel-lord relationship as the old time. Therefore, we had no independent political parties or group, other than those who were advancing their russian or brit puupet maser agenda! There barely enough bright policitcsl minds and institutions to get the country to run in a democratic fashion... he had to keep the enemy out while helping the country to become modernized...
@@saeedpakiari7446 - Frankly, although I will turn 76 this June, I would like to visit Iran one more time. After looking at Jamaran on the app, Google Earth, I realized how much it changed in the past 70 years. In fact, the 4-bedroom home and one-acre compound we rented from a well-to-do Persian seems to have been built or paved over. I can see the Jamaran family compound that was the residence of the Ayatollah Khomeini at their invitation so I know where our residence was, but it is all built up now and unrecognizable to me. Nevertheless, I would like to perhaps meet the Jamaran family and share several photos of their deceased relative, Hosheme Jamarani.
One of my fondest memories was my mother purchasing fresh baked Barbari bread right out of the oven. My mother hired a horse-drawn carriage to take us to the village of Jamaran. I don't recall the name of the small town. The main road from Tehran split into a road to the left (West) and a road to the right (East) that took one to Jamaran and beyond. That hot Barbari was very delicious and the open carriage was special as well. We also ate quite a bit of the Sangak. I also developed a taste for Doogh (دوغ), it was quite sharp-tasting and was carbonated. It went well with some of the Iranian cuisine that was served at our table and prepared by our cook.
Well said. It makes you reconsider some of the other "powers" that were toppled by the trouble making secret societies of their day. How about the Romanoff's for example.
He had no idea how destructive social media would become
This aged like fine wine.
It is apparent that President Nixon is head and shoulders in comprehension and intelligence vis a vis his successors.
This mas was spot on. I remember his empeachment and, even then, he put the country before himself,
He resigned when his own party saw the writing on the wall of what he did and their inability to spin it. He is no hero.
@docbradleydc You can't do a Jew count in a democratic government.
The "Nixon Jew count" of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon's attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wikipedia.
In the 1960 election it was found that the Daily machine in Chicago found, fortified, enough votes for Kennedy to win. When brought to Nixon's attention he said to let it go cause making a big deal about it would be bad for the country.
For all with eyes to see, this is a stark reminder of how fast & far we've fallen in terms of prudent quality leadership. Nixon was far more knowledgeable, particularly in international affairs, than our last several presidents combined.
And Reagan who bullied the Soviet Union without blinking.
Right from when i watched his debates with Kennedy, ive always respected President Nixon. The only thing that has happened over the years as I watch TH-cam videos of him is that the respect has only grown. Watergate was a tragedy to his stellar public service. RIP
I’m 62 and he’s the greatest President of my lifetime.
I'm 54 and agree 100%- if only we had a Nixon nowadays...
@@jasonph2522 "Mister, we could use a man like Richard Nixon again! 🎵"
The Democrats had to take him down because he ended the Viet Nam war that Johnson created.
Seconds greatest. Reagan has to be first. But point taken. :)
@@Jpaintingdesigns Actually, I believe that after he left office he freely admitted that looking back, when he compromised on immigration with Dems it was his biggest mistake.
So, I wouldn’t call it weak.
Good memory though!
...and now it's 10 times worse. A brilliant man, treated unfairly. ❤
I’ve always loved Nixon ever since I did a report on him in secondary school. He’s the most underrated president in US history. Cool to get this very timely video recommended out of nowhere
The Elder Stateman is sorely missed. I graduated High School with 'Tricky Dick' as a reference point for Nixon. Got into a debate with someone who crushed my perception with one sentence: 'He got us out of Vietnam, ended the draft, opened diplomacy with China, treaty's with USSR and created the EPA".