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  • An intimate profile of Richard Nixon
    Nixon In The Den develops a fresh account of Nixon and his ruthless ambition to escape a loveless, impoverished background. Historian David Reynolds argues that Nixon was genuinely successful as an international statesman, with historic visits to Communist China and the Soviet Union in 1972 helping thaw the Cold War. Yet, behind the scenes, Nixon’s diplomacy was a story of intrigue and rivalry. The very methods that won Nixon acclaim on the international stage also doomed his presidency in the infamous Watergate scandal. With the help of Nixon’s scribbled memos, audio recordings and rarely seen home movie footage and photos, this film throws new light on Nixon’s obsessive secrecy, relentless deception and paranoid mistrust of key aides, especially his foreign policy adviser Henry Kissinger.
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  • @algrand52
    @algrand52 2 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    I love how Prof. David Reynolds narrates documentaries. He enunciates each words so clearly, and with such a delightful British accent. A great storyteller.

    • @michaelward944
      @michaelward944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes a very biased storyteller at that

    • @Junkman2008
      @Junkman2008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@michaelward944
      I was kinda feeling that too. As if he was rubbing it in our faces.

    • @johnsnow8140
      @johnsnow8140 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly thought he said, "End Korea fighting."

    • @HolgerRuneFan
      @HolgerRuneFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He's wonderful. Be sure to check out his documentary on Stalin, it's exceptional.

    • @AGMundy
      @AGMundy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@HolgerRuneFan Indeed as is his documentary on FDR as war time president.

  • @Joseph-Colin-EXP
    @Joseph-Colin-EXP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Let's not forget that Nixon was trying to root out corruption in the FBI. Isn't that quaint.

    • @bufordlee9468
      @bufordlee9468 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nixon was Soo corrupt he had be Screwed into the earth he was so crooked
      More to come!!
      Brb

    • @stefannicholson852
      @stefannicholson852 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I know little about Nixon. Could you recommend some books on the topic? Especially on him trying to root out corruption in the FBI.

  • @jonescrusher1
    @jonescrusher1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Amazing to think that by today's standards Nixon's transgressions appear so tame.

    • @Moonewitch
      @Moonewitch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Basically! 💯💯💯

    • @josephel4292
      @josephel4292 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isn't that the truth🤔

  • @eyestoenvy
    @eyestoenvy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    He's a SAINT by today's comparison

    • @HolgerRuneFan
      @HolgerRuneFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, his IQ was easily 50 points above senile Joe, that's for sure. And I detested Nixon when he was in office. Looking back, I wish he was in office now.

    • @jl3322
      @jl3322 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@HolgerRuneFan Thank God for Joe to remove Trump!

    • @rodgerrodger1839
      @rodgerrodger1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya, He was. He was nothing more than a paranoid, alcoholic, pill popping, closet case, wife beating psychopath. We definitely need more of his type in the White House.
      They had to hide Pat Nixon he beat her so badly. He was taking ridiculous amounts of Dilantin on top of heavy drinking. Yep, a real charmer by today's standards. He was most likely a repressed Homosexual which added to his constant physical abuse to Pat and his paranoid behavior and his heavy drinking. Go do some research. It's right there in black and white.

    • @derekbaker777
      @derekbaker777 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jl3322; Yeah, right. America is worse off now than ever before with sleepy Joe in control.

    • @giomalanga
      @giomalanga 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jl3322 yea absolutely, thank god for the 40-year high inflation, thank god for gas at $5. Thank god for the chaos in Afghanistan. I mean you can’t deny that Biden’s administration is an absolute DISASTER. I would rather be still with trump than with this clown in the White House that has us living in misery. Like literally the worst.

  • @rmorton8281
    @rmorton8281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +978

    TH-cam is so awesome, I want a Nixon documentary, type his name in and bam there it is.

    • @tasosdiaforetico7377
      @tasosdiaforetico7377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Imagine no TH-cam. Like when I lived in China eccvh

    • @kythrathesuntamer9715
      @kythrathesuntamer9715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I love and hate this platform at the same time. I love being able to just pull up a documentary whenever I want or a song but by the same token the platforms brought me a lot of bullying and death threats etc simply for being a Left winger...

    • @peterm1826
      @peterm1826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kythrathesuntamer9715 lol

    • @michaellobes1544
      @michaellobes1544 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Logan knknknnknknkknknknnkknknknknnknknknknknknknknknkn

    • @michaellobes1544
      @michaellobes1544 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Logan mkmk

  • @kingdonaltron
    @kingdonaltron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +603

    By today's standards, I'm like "what exactly did he do wrong again?"💀

    • @7thpilot
      @7thpilot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Ya Obama did the same thing not a peep.

    • @paulkennedy6060
      @paulkennedy6060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      For a start, he sabotaged the 1968 peace talks, extending the Vietnam war by four years and costing the lives of 20,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Asians...so he could win the presidency.

    • @shayantamdas5059
      @shayantamdas5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@paulkennedy6060 😆😆😆

    • @kn9ioutom
      @kn9ioutom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      REPUBLICONS HAVE LOWERED THE BAR AGAIN !!!

    • @thesource4189
      @thesource4189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shayantamdas5059 Richard Ray Nixon ✊🏻

  • @Yokozumas
    @Yokozumas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Incredible that Kissinger is still alive! 98 years and still kickin

    • @feelin_fine
      @feelin_fine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sad!

    • @davidgormley7990
      @davidgormley7990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Only the good die young....

    • @Despondencymusic
      @Despondencymusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HOLY SMOKES! Same age as my grandmama.

    • @IanPatrickOfficial
      @IanPatrickOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@davidgormley7990 In case you haven't already found out for yourself...no one is good. Only God is good.
      *Mark 10:18* "No one is good-except God alone."
      *Psalm 14:3* "They have all turned aside,
      They have together become corrupt;
      There is none who does good,
      No, not one.

    • @WilliamKoivisto
      @WilliamKoivisto ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In four months he'll be a 100 years old.

  • @instaman34
    @instaman34 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I'm Canadian, but American politics and history just fascinates me so much, great production, very good video.

    • @StefanBreton
      @StefanBreton 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Likewise... American politics are fascinating.

    • @TheBeggies95
      @TheBeggies95 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      They are our brothers and sisters after all

    • @instaman34
      @instaman34 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@TheBeggies95 very true

  • @mickwillson3239
    @mickwillson3239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    A model Machiavellian, floured mercurial and insecure to his core, yet driven by it.perfect traits for a leader looking for a legacy and immortality.

    • @gregsutton6258
      @gregsutton6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or a prison cell

    • @bobmateljan6986
      @bobmateljan6986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder in spades.

    • @Vanaheimxx
      @Vanaheimxx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not that deep bro

  • @treehugger3615
    @treehugger3615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +757

    I like watching British documentaries on US history and politics. They don't come with the inherent bias of one political wing or another, they just seem more fair and balanced.

    • @treehugger3615
      @treehugger3615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Gerald n no. I lean towards the left.

    • @robertbobsky8509
      @robertbobsky8509 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I'm not so sure, feralbear3615. FOX is very fair and balanced,. They say so themselves!

    • @octaviancaesarhibernicus4447
      @octaviancaesarhibernicus4447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Robert Bobsky I'm no leftist and I'm not American, I'm Irish, but I find Fox News one of the bizarrest things to come out of America, I watch the likes of Hannity and its disturbing to think about the influence they have, Hannity is basically running the country, from the TV set and the fact he advises Trump.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The accent helps- documentaries are supposed to seem dispassionate. However, we know all about you and we have a view. Labour under Corbyn, the "Momentum" movement, is well to the left of any Democrat, including Sanders. The rank and file of Labour are Sanders, the Blairites and LibDems are left of centre Democrats, the Tories are "moderate" and rightwing "corporate" Democrats. Hillary Clinton in the UK would be a Tory in the centre of the party. Only UKIP are anything like the post-1980 Republicans and no-one votes for them after Brexit. Fox News is no longer available in the UK.
      BTW, we are the most rightwing country in Western Europe, so most of your allies are utterly bemused by the American system.

    • @looseanus4213
      @looseanus4213 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Bobsky Hmm maybe you'd like a rusty blumpkin?

  • @blackfalcon1610
    @blackfalcon1610 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The voice actor for Richard Nixon in this documentary is spot on.

  • @simonmcgrath4112
    @simonmcgrath4112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You tube is such a fantastic medium that has a plethora of subjects that leaves no-one groping in the proverbial darkness without an answer, starting point or learning something new that leads to a new endeavour!! Whatever it is the genie is well and truly out of the bottle!!!!
    Herrrrrs Jenie!!

  • @colinfew6570
    @colinfew6570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Referring to Kissinger as his Queen is the best thing I've heard in a while.

    • @gireeshgprasad7589
      @gireeshgprasad7589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I believe that's a chess reference.

    • @reilneid6436
      @reilneid6436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey Colin, it sure is hilarious to read these comments from 2,3,4 yrs ago about politician's, politics in general & see where we all are now. Yes, times change but this last President left a real stain in the underwear of America.

    • @davideanes3425
      @davideanes3425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@reilneid6436 America doesn’t wear underwear… we wear 100% USA Cotton panties

    • @CWonderworld
      @CWonderworld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@davideanes3425 made in China..

  • @PeKe999
    @PeKe999 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I remember when I was a kid and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Golda Meïr and Moshe Dajan and some Vietnamese giys were on the news everyday.

  • @KeithWilliamMacHendry
    @KeithWilliamMacHendry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    David Reynolds is just the best, brings a theatrical touch without being a dramatist. The Englanders are good at stuff like that, probably the best.

  • @debasishbhattacharya2803
    @debasishbhattacharya2803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Awesome documented video on water gate scandal and Nixon's presidential tenure . Although I heard this famous water gate scandal previously but it was not even a sketchy form . Your video is not only well documented but at the same time well illustrated . Thank you very much from India ( Calcutta)

  • @pepperoniunicorn8641
    @pepperoniunicorn8641 5 ปีที่แล้ว +649

    Dude had his faults but the difference between him and any other 'statesman' is he got caught.

    • @ethelhoose2972
      @ethelhoose2972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      That true and is going the same thing today

    • @doreybain
      @doreybain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Pepperoni Unicorn Other presidents were caught too but the press gave them a pass and the stories quickly faded away.

    • @silvershocknicktail6638
      @silvershocknicktail6638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      He deliberately sabotaged the peace process in Vietnam so he could get elected, but....ok.

    • @axiomaddict
      @axiomaddict 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Maybe, but he also lacked charm, and, as Jules said in the film Pulp Fiction, “...personality goes a long way...”

    • @billyboy6028
      @billyboy6028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@silvershocknicktail6638 Yes, just like Reagan interfered with the Iran hostage negotiations to win in 1981. Just like George Bush's brother threw 100's of thousands of Dem voters off the rolls in Florida in 2000.

  • @nuqwestr
    @nuqwestr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Most cogent analysis of Nixon online. I am of the generation that remembers exactly where and what I was doing when Nixon resigned, and have studied the man for years. This documentary nails it.

    • @johnmalicoat9227
      @johnmalicoat9227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      6th⁵

    • @jamespatterson6972
      @jamespatterson6972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Had he not resigned ... Nixon would have also been the 1st US President to go to prison. *Nixon broke the law at the highest level.*

    • @nuqwestr
      @nuqwestr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jamespatterson6972 No, Ford could still have pardoned him after impeachment, I don't believe he would have ever served time.

    • @jamespatterson6972
      @jamespatterson6972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nuqwestr Well, the real reason why Ford pardon Nixon is because he believed a trial would have torn this country apart. I disagree with Ford because of the huge amount of evidence against Nixon. The public would have saw the evidence and be convinced that Nixon truly broke the law. Most Americans back then had little to no knowledge of the crimes he committed. Nixon's cover up was truly egregious.

    • @nuqwestr
      @nuqwestr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jamespatterson6972 I followed Watergate in real time, evidence of his crime was broadcast nightly, the public, at least the public that cared, had the information, and just wanted to move on, that's why Ford pardoned Nixon, and well done. Transcripts of the tapes were public. You make it sound like there was a "cover-up" after the base one was exposed? I hated Nixon, was of that age, but now look back and see many positive results from his two-terms. Jail would have sent a poor message to both our allies and enemies. Ford made the correct choice, perhaps his only one.

  • @mirekbns
    @mirekbns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    There's another, more detailed and also very interesting Nixon documentary which closely examines his early formative years and his entire political career; "American Experience" 1990. It delves into what motivated this guy and how he came to his political end.

    • @rogerhawkins6433
      @rogerhawkins6433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you for the advice, I appreciate you dropping this detail into your response. Kind regards from Auckland, New Zealand.

    • @MWhaleK
      @MWhaleK ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The book Nixonland by Rick Perlstein is a great and interesting look at Nixon, especially the man's early years.
      It also has an interesting anecdote from a man who was a friend of Nixon as a boy, the story was that Nixon wanted to trade a toy Hatchet/Tomahawk for a jar of Polywogs/Tadpoles that the friend had. After the friend refused and started to walk away? Nixon decided to bury the Hatchet, literally trying to bury the hatchet in the back of the other boy's head leaving a scar that would last the rest of his life.

    • @mirekbns
      @mirekbns ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MWhaleK Nixon reminds me of a few friends who were also a little extreme at times. None became a US President.

    • @grt49er
      @grt49er 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you will watch

  • @itsjustnopinionok
    @itsjustnopinionok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    40:50 Forrest Gump made the call that blew this case wide open.

    • @TX_BoomSlang
      @TX_BoomSlang 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Those lights were keeping him awake.

    • @itsjustnopinionok
      @itsjustnopinionok 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TX_BoomSlang lol

    • @jacobbaird951
      @jacobbaird951 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha just watched that movie for the first time the other night.

  • @vincentconti3633
    @vincentconti3633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I was there! May 70...six months later...drafted...

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    i liked Nixon despite his flaws
    he was a 100% correct when it came to the press
    and media

    • @treadlightlyorelse849
      @treadlightlyorelse849 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must be a Russian troll

    • @peterm1826
      @peterm1826 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@treadlightlyorelse849 As Nixon would say to a brainless comment
      like that Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger
      you see one can only be angry with those he respects

    • @MGAF688
      @MGAF688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The media are deeply entrenched in the left-wing, busily promoting all that is evil and godless.

    • @thomascoburn5481
      @thomascoburn5481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too

  • @darrellmortensen9805
    @darrellmortensen9805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    One of my college professors lived with Nixon in college. They belonged to the same fraternity. He told us he was a work horse on trying to be straight A. He redid a few classes in order to graduate as a straight A student. He constantly carried different colored notebooks with him. Always writing down different ideas in them. He was asked why? It wasn't a diary thing it was idea journals. He felt his entire life he knew someday he'd do something 'great'. He felt incredible pressure because of it. Sadly when things got bad after college in private he developed a tremendous love at the end of the day for vodka. He drank like a fish in the end of his presidency n would walk the halls of the white house residence plastered drunk. My son was one of his body guards. He promised to get us out of Vietnam n six months later we invaded Cambodia too

    • @V.E.R.O.
      @V.E.R.O. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "he knew he'd do something great"...he became a crook.

    • @ladymopar2024
      @ladymopar2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes I've seen a documentary and I agreed that Kissinger would often finish up what Nixon started. Kissinger said he was always drunk everyday and break even more in the days before he resigned

    • @davemarr7743
      @davemarr7743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He also was taking sedatives along with the booze.

    • @AA-ke5cu
      @AA-ke5cu ปีที่แล้ว

      Talk to your son let him tell you how Nixon would give the Secret service the slip on many many occasions. Nixon and Jackie Gleeson were great friends. While your son was clueless Nixon showed Gleeson where Aliens were stored at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and showed Gleeson the bodies. This is one of the main reasons Nixon was slowly set up; based on his ego as bait. Disgraced versus assassination. Then as now the CIA calling all the behind the scenes shots. Presidents are nothing but front pawns with perks. Nixon had many reasons to be half shitfaced.

    • @jazminekeely
      @jazminekeely ปีที่แล้ว

      htdfhjtfdj

  • @linsen3209
    @linsen3209 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    NIxon is one of my favorite US president.
    His decision on re-establishing diplomatic relationship with China is absolutely visionary, and one of THE most consequential decision of twentieth century period

    • @elik.webber7630
      @elik.webber7630 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So why are they our economic enemy today lol .

    • @wraynephew6838
      @wraynephew6838 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elik.webber7630 Put down the Trump Kool Aid. The world relies on the Chinese economy. China is not a economic enemy

  • @patricks_music
    @patricks_music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    I’ve always been amazed at how individuals rise to the highest position of power in America. Simply interesting.

    • @valleyrivers6872
      @valleyrivers6872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      By surrounding themselves with idiots

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The belief that a human can he better than another. Also a belief in minorities and elites. Its all quite amusing.

    • @tomloft2000
      @tomloft2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      because we pick elected officials the same way we choose underarm deodorants.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fingerprint5511 " a belief in minorities" Explain?

    • @Iamwatchvideos
      @Iamwatchvideos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@RideAcrossTheRiver whats to explain? If we would not believe one human is better than another, there would be no such thing as minorities. Or elites.
      Im assuming you consider yourself a minority and finds his/her comment offensive. Hence the problem with society today.

  • @god-son-love
    @god-son-love 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    We are literally redefining rock bottom every year. Happy new year right?

    • @errolkim1334
      @errolkim1334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2022 Mid Terms will be a slaughter....

    • @gregsage4514
      @gregsage4514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We?

    • @agni_oh
      @agni_oh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gregsage4514 unfortunately yes. Regardless of affiliation, the representation is of a whole nation.

    • @F_ckAllTrumpVoters
      @F_ckAllTrumpVoters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If history teaches us anything in the US, it's you have to be a moron to vote GOP.

    • @pickledblowfish6178
      @pickledblowfish6178 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@F_ckAllTrumpVoters how's it feel, being part of the problem?

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a really great doc. Thanks for posting!

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins1984 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Nixon was a lot better than what we have now leading this country .

  • @Littlegoatpaws
    @Littlegoatpaws 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Nixon was probably one of the most complex characters the US ever had for a president, he was a very multifaceted and conflicted man. It's difficult to find nonpartisan discussion on him anywhere inside the US, where the good, bad, and ugly can be hung out to dry without the usual drama, generalizations, and blindsides. This was pretty good, certainly levels ahead of a number of recent docudramas that have come out to coincide with anniversaries of his downfall.

    • @MikeJones-rk1un
      @MikeJones-rk1un 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When you realize the MSM has always told you what to think.

    • @fredharris5347
      @fredharris5347 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was out for his self . period, just a self centered bastido

    • @maxdurk4624
      @maxdurk4624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MikeJones-rk1un I mean, to some degree, but there is also so much partisanship in mainstream discussion that you can get an ok amalgamation from combining the mainstream outlets.

    • @maxdurk4624
      @maxdurk4624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nixon and Woodrow Wilson are the two Presidents I know of that are just all over the map

    • @Clayton.Bigsby.360
      @Clayton.Bigsby.360 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Richard Nixon was caught spying on his political enemies, but the real crime was the cover up, and he was brought down... Barack Obama and Joe Biden spied on their political enemy and then covered it up, but they were caught and nothing happened!! Your country is hopelessly corrupt!!

  • @MayimHastings
    @MayimHastings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    That last assessment of our presidents was so simple and perfect. The unzipped part was brilliant 😂

    • @michaelwood2924
      @michaelwood2924 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nixon betrayed the beliefs he supposedly stood for in the 1950s. It took Ronald Reagan to correct the decline in American moral authority by winning the Cold War that Nixon had allowed to continue through detente or appeasement of Communist regimes. Reynolds is totally wrong about Reagan.

  • @learnerm3120
    @learnerm3120 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Nixon was before my time but I can sympathize with him. We are kindred spirits. And I like his take no prisoners' attitude.

  • @davidgoetz2576
    @davidgoetz2576 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Very well written and delivered. Sensitive, balanced and insightful. Nixon is a fascinating historical figure - ultimately, a tragic one, like his two immediate predecessors, but for different reasons.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice comment here and I have to wonder if my son will be watching something akin to this regarding Donald Trump in 20 or so years. Best wishes from Liverpool UK 🇬🇧

    • @davidgoetz2576
      @davidgoetz2576 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DaveSCameron I don't think so. The Trump presidency was indeed tragic, but not in the Shakespearean sense. :) A measure of actual or potential greatness is required to be a tragic figure in that sense.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidgoetz2576 Hey, appreciate your reply and I understand your point however I was thinking more in general terms, something akin to this diligent presenter and a less sensationalist and emotional docu. I love this chap, David Reynolds, style. 👍

  • @jasonlynn1426
    @jasonlynn1426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    "The world will not be safe until" ads and advertisers are blocked from degrading programs on TH-cam and elsewhere.

    • @Nwachimerogo
      @Nwachimerogo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree 😂

    • @marconius101
      @marconius101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or Adblocker.

    • @destubae3271
      @destubae3271 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @RIDIN’ HIGH 5150 I never understood the massive push for that. Must be some kind of lobbying group pushing for rupaul

  • @43nostromo
    @43nostromo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The music from "Patton" (1970) was composed by the legendary Jerry Goldsmith. Nominated for Best Original Score. He would go on to earn a total of 18 Academy Award nominations, and one win for "The Omen" (1976). And now, back to our original program already in progress.

  • @mainamwareri6984
    @mainamwareri6984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When it comes to mesmerizing, magnetic narrative skill, you have the knack. Your voice held my interest, spellbound.

  • @pete3050
    @pete3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Politics is a dirty game something Nixon knew all too well

  • @cripplehawk
    @cripplehawk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    19:17
    The music is Patton's theme from the movie Patton by composer Jerry Goldsmith
    in case any one is wondering.

    • @stevencooke6451
      @stevencooke6451 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was riveting music.

    • @FiguraTheChancellor
      @FiguraTheChancellor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good ear. Good movie.

    • @carpediem6568
      @carpediem6568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There for a while, Jerry Goldsmith was the composer for everything. He wrote some beautiful themes.

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nixon was known to have watched the film several times before ordering the 1970 bombing of Cambodia. He loved the film and recommending it to others. Imagine how history might've been changed if he'd binge watched "Beneath the Planet of the Apes," instead.

    • @HandsomeBWonderful69
      @HandsomeBWonderful69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anyone know what song plays from 22:16 ?

  • @mindelo23
    @mindelo23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Funny. This has been on youtube for 2 years but it gets recommended to me now? I see you youtube.

    • @Vanaheimxx
      @Vanaheimxx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because you started watching similar videos dummy

  • @pookiesmoochie9121
    @pookiesmoochie9121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well put together!

  • @smacdiesel
    @smacdiesel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I worked for Nixon during the late 1980's as an intern with the development of his Presidential Library. He bitterly refused any federal money with the endeavor and in fact, was denied access to his presidential papers. He was very angry about that, which is understandable. He later made a comeback as an elder statesmen and wrote some really good books. His Watergate exhibit at the library was pretty bad though, it was later revamped after he died.

    • @knoxduder
      @knoxduder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What was it like working for him? What did you make of the man?

    • @HAL9000s3
      @HAL9000s3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I read Nixon's first book, "Six Crises" as a kid. Really enjoyed it.

  • @tineferk8584
    @tineferk8584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Professor David Reynolds is such a good narrator and story teller! I love every documentary he is in!

  • @elliotshaw4128
    @elliotshaw4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Even Nixon would be embarrassed by where our country is now. "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

    • @johnmichaelson9173
      @johnmichaelson9173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Unfortunately it's just unbelievable how we've watched it get worse and worse. Dare I say Trump has made Nixon look almost normal, smh. I can't believe I've said that. ☺

    • @johnmichaelson9173
      @johnmichaelson9173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @The Pilgrim I know enough to dismiss you as a honest source of information.

    • @classesanytime
      @classesanytime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This man stands at the very base of the global economical problems today !!

    • @Babyboy760_
      @Babyboy760_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @The Pilgrim perfectly discribed trump
      No one's saying Biden is a saint either but whatever you seem to believe I can just tell you truly believe people love Biden but on the contrary. I truly believe people picked Biden to get rid of the circus.
      Nixon was a professional crook that got caught.
      Trump follows just behind Nixon.
      Take away everything that happen through trumps presidency just look at who he pardoned 😂😂 that goes to show you CROOKED POWER NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOU IDENTITY YOURSELF WITH

    • @ykkfamily
      @ykkfamily 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahaha

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you🙏 Time Line History Documentaries.

  • @mattbrown5949
    @mattbrown5949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Love watching Documentaries by Professor David Reynolds. Glad to see he is publishing contemporary history. His WW1 series was excellent.

    • @elizabethbeierle7464
      @elizabethbeierle7464 ปีที่แล้ว

      What was the name of his ww1 series? I’m new to his documentaries but I’m enjoying this one immensely and would love to see more

    • @Rhys-tn9ep
      @Rhys-tn9ep 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The long shadow

    • @laminsanneh2993
      @laminsanneh2993 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Q0

  • @kennygordon7505
    @kennygordon7505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    The tragedy is had he admitted his involvement in Watergate in the beginning he would have survived. Instead he chose to deny it and when exposed that cost him dearly.

    • @rockintetster
      @rockintetster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Disagree. Historian Stephen Ambrose has spoken to that effect.The administration was involved far too deeply into nefarious activities, the most heinous being the Ellsberg break in. Investigations would have occurred anyway and discovered other crimes, Nixon was doomed.

    • @jamesrobertson432
      @jamesrobertson432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rockintetster I wonder if he'd have been made to resign over the Ellsberg break-in and he'd even suggested Firebombing the Brookings Institute. There may have been other things. They are serious things but then again so is forcing a President to resign so maybe he could have apologized and no doubt been criticized again and again for it but not had to resign. Certainly if he had fessed up about the plumbers working for the White House (even if he didn't know in advance) then it would have been very damaging at the 1972 election. His staff could have brought up the Ellsberg break-in and the Brookings Institute suggestion and maybe he's have lost in 72. He was way ahead in the polls so I guess he'd probably still have won...just but there was no way he was going to risk losing that election when he felt it was so important for the nation that he win. What a mess. And it was so unnecessary.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same with Clinton

  • @YouTubecanfuckagoat
    @YouTubecanfuckagoat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    Nixon. A difficult man to know. Let alone report honestly.
    Nicely done. A fairly balanced documentary on a very divisive president.

    • @scottgrooters301
      @scottgrooters301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You know he still has More creditablity than the Clinton Cartel family

    • @1999glock
      @1999glock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Divisive or decisive ? Im 80 years old, and can tell you, he and JFK were the 2 best presidents we ever had. Watergate was a "parking ticket" had it occurred in any other administration, i.e. FDR, JFK or LBJ. What it boiled down to was covering up and hiding "political shenanigans" undertaken by subordinates, that virtually every politician engaged in since the beginning of time. BFD !!!

    • @antwonsworld3435
      @antwonsworld3435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@1999glock yeah the guy responsible for the “war on drugs” was an amazing president

    • @smokeemifyagotem8851
      @smokeemifyagotem8851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@antwonsworld3435 ya the guy who’s also responsible for starting up in Vietnam too

    • @Flowerz__
      @Flowerz__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antwonsworld3435 Harry, bless you. Nixon did do a few good things. But hearing the actual tapes that he was secretly doing. He taped his closest confidants without them knowing. That’s how much of a snake he was. Nixon was far from a great president. He led the country into a terrible place and tainted American democracy.

  • @myguitar5724
    @myguitar5724 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very insightful. Great video. Thanks.

  • @weavethehawk
    @weavethehawk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What an incredible presentation. No American scholar could have even equaled this.

  • @priayief
    @priayief 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Well done. Thank you.

  • @wilverbal
    @wilverbal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    May I just say... Apart from everything else that's great about this documentary, Professor Reynolds's presentation is outstanding. Few other people I've seen in documentaries are so interesting to watch and hear.

  • @ladymopar2024
    @ladymopar2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember being in 9th grade having to listen to the court proceedings every single day in civics class. For those months you only have three television stations, there was no Escape. I am glad that you stated that he did do good because he did, thank you for adding that I also if not like Kissinger

  • @lanacampbell-moore4549
    @lanacampbell-moore4549 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for sharing😊

  • @Shah-of-the-Shinebox
    @Shah-of-the-Shinebox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Did he make mistakes? yes
    Did he lie about things? yes
    But Nixon owned up to it. History should cut him some slack. Especially compared to the Presidents and politicians today. By today's standards, i would hardly call him a crook, i would call him flawed, because what human isn't?

    • @Preservestlandry
      @Preservestlandry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, it really was criminal, so, he's a crook. Just because other people get away with it doesn't change that.

    • @thecawdsquad875
      @thecawdsquad875 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nixon didn't lie. He just forgot to tell the truth.

    • @faykguru
      @faykguru 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He didn't own up to it. He said that although the things he did were illegal, his being the president made them legal.

  • @Lemma01
    @Lemma01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    David Reynolds is about the best we've got...

  • @rayray-pd7fe
    @rayray-pd7fe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When you want to win at any cost you lose. He wasn't thinking clearly neither were the people who surrounded him.They definitely didn"t have his best interest.
    Someone in his circle should have been a true friend calling him by his name saying "Richard, with all
    respect, don't do this"
    even if it meant being fired. Everyone get caught up by saying "Mr. President." True friend should privately be able to call him by his name and even by a nickname without neither one of them thinking this is disrepectful.

    • @Matt-cr4vv
      @Matt-cr4vv 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He did have people tell him not to. Including Hoover. He did it anyway because he was paranoid.

  • @Arcenia13
    @Arcenia13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good journalism with areas of the film score of “Road to Prediction”, The narrator voice is soothing which makes it interesting to keep listening.
    Impressive!

  • @Lionfish5656
    @Lionfish5656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Nixon made some pretty close friends with Brezhnev & the Chinese leadership when he first embarked on his 1972 trips to Moscow & Beijing. On the one hand, they taught Nixon to be an authoritarian & mimic their tactics but on the other hand, it did mean better relations & acknowledgement of the Soviet Union & China's place on the world stage.

    • @ladymopar2024
      @ladymopar2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I remember my parents making me sit down and watch when Nixon stepped off the plane in China first US president to do so

    • @grt49er
      @grt49er 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nixon was to arrogant to mimic them.

  • @googleisillukinati8071
    @googleisillukinati8071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He was good on Futurama

  • @moserfugger6363
    @moserfugger6363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    a documentary that at least tries to see both sides. very rare nowadays. thank you for that.
    greetings from germany :)

  • @bobertkennedy
    @bobertkennedy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    “Clinton: A Presidency Unzipped” absolutely demolished me lmfao

    • @Moonewitch
      @Moonewitch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      💀💀💀💀💀💀

    • @carverjohn7350
      @carverjohn7350 ปีที่แล้ว

      Youre black💀💀💀💀

  • @JM-gj7de
    @JM-gj7de 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love this channel! Keep up the great work!!!

  • @youonlyliveonce12ish
    @youonlyliveonce12ish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    A very common misconception is that he had to resign due to the break in. THAT IS INCORRECT.
    He had to resign because he INTERFERED with the following investigations. Ironically if he never tried to stop it a lot of his close aid would go down but not him since they did not have direct evidence, where else they had direct evidence that he interfered in the investigation.

    • @shikat2371
      @shikat2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He also had to resign because he was facing an almost certain impeachment and conviction in the Senate. In the end, he only had two choices: either he resign or face conviction in the Senate impeachment trial. Had Nixon been convicted, he would've lost his lifetime pension which all former presidents receive after leaving office.

    • @iluvpittys242
      @iluvpittys242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Nixon taped all his conversations on phones and elsewhere. Nixon was a smart man ! I was just a kid at the time,but I was spending the night at my grandparents and will never forget grandma making me come inside and watch this sad day in history, she said. I could careless about it,but I've never forgotten that night though either. We need a president like Nixon now ! Someone who actually reads and plans, not wait for someone else to read everything, and then brief the president about what is going on !

    • @broadstreet21
      @broadstreet21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm sure that's why a lot of leaders let their close aids be thrown under the bus, lest their loyalty should lead to their own downfall.

    • @heathergustar638
      @heathergustar638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@broadstreet21 how come you can use lest. in a sentence. But you can t spell aides. What state are y all from

    • @blueponypics4112
      @blueponypics4112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He COMPOSED AND ORCHESTRATED AND EXECUTED THE WATERBREAK BREAKIN! HIS CRIME HIS LIE HIS DENIAL OF ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS CRIME COST 2 OTHER NIXON ADMIN.AIDS TO BE TRIED, CONVICTED @ IMPRISONED.🐎🐎🐎🇭🇲🇺🇸

  • @loverofbeers
    @loverofbeers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    As a dork who has read so many damn wonderful books covering Richard M. Nixon and having watched a shitload of Nixon documentaries, well, this was simply the best I have seen.

    • @danzan6951
      @danzan6951 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      loverofbeers: 'Nixon documentaries, well, this was simply the best I have seen,' yes, so true for Nixon haters with no counterpoint to what he did relative to Russia and China.

    • @brianmcghee3597
      @brianmcghee3597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your not a dork. A lover of history told correctly.

    • @loverofbeers
      @loverofbeers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brianmcghee3597 Cheers sir.

    • @loverofbeers
      @loverofbeers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danzan6951 Don't judge those you don't know. I am well aware and respectful of his best but won't whitewash his worst. His totality of life fascinates me. So don't be a troll. Converse with me if you wish, but acting the clown fails in conversation sir.

    • @danzan6951
      @danzan6951 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loverofbeers ; stop acting like a candy assed liberal clown yourself.

  • @forgofire5583
    @forgofire5583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best documentary I have ever watched

  • @crazydave951
    @crazydave951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    As an American I like to see it from another perspective. Thank you.

    • @crazydave951
      @crazydave951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Actually United States Citizens are called Americans.

    • @crazydave951
      @crazydave951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Jaime Alonzo lmao ok buddy.

    • @crazydave951
      @crazydave951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Canada=Canadian Bolivia =Bolivian Columbia=Columbian Brazil=Brazilian Mexico=Mexican United States of America =American. Comprende?

    • @barrontrump3943
      @barrontrump3943 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jaime Alonzo United States owns America and the rest of the world as we know it

    • @cjaquilino
      @cjaquilino 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jaime Alonzo What a pedantic hill to die on.

  • @christophermanley3602
    @christophermanley3602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    05:33 - Sometimes I'll rewatch this just for this moment. :-)

  • @patsonmwaala157
    @patsonmwaala157 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish you could bring Videos of Richard Nixon much on Water gate scandal. Please, do your best you are renowned for.

  • @JohnnyBallgame88
    @JohnnyBallgame88 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work

  • @spammy1982
    @spammy1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    His paranoia and actions are tame by today's standards. He would have served out his 2nd term if the same happened today, thanks to an anemic opposition and frantic news media.

    • @debjoy12
      @debjoy12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      that and the fact that republicans in congress back then didn't care as much about the party, they wanted investigations along with the democrats. i.e. the checks and balances system of power was working - it was inevitable that he was going to be impeached and found guilty, I have no doubts about that. fast forward to today and the gop will literally do whatever 45 says because they are too afraid of getting a mean tweet read aloud on fox.

    • @selvitr3945
      @selvitr3945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why blame the elected Americans Chosen Presidents, why not Before , any Presidents ve Image reputasi aint !!!!!! It’s kinda ego ekstrem too, the living Post Presidents are seniors WHO could mentor to being prosperois oh spelllllllll!!!!!!

    • @chrisconley8583
      @chrisconley8583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@lanedayes7956 Biden is an empty vessel. Trump “sucks” because he didn’t get the US into any wars I guess.

    • @Felix-tm3eb
      @Felix-tm3eb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@chrisconley8583 Trump sucks because he’s a bigot but if you’re a bigot too then I guess you’d like him. Biden is half dead but at least he’s filling his cabinet with smart people

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a kid, I saw the evil of Richard Nixon. Gerald Ford issued a statement that was read at his funeral that he had in-fact agreed to Nixon's demand that when he was offered the vice presidency, he had to agree to pardon Nixon if it came down to it. Ford infamously lied about this over-and-over again. Jimmy Carter was elected in '76 over Ford because he was perceived as being honest and he was. In '74 when the Georgia Governor announced that he was running for president, he swore, "I will never lie to the American people" and he never did.

      Nixon resigning in '74 is part of GOD=7_4 theory which is Seal #2 of the 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce this. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation with COVID-19 being added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) theory.

  • @skipmichaels6184
    @skipmichaels6184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Professor David Reynolds is my favorite teacher. Watch his other documentaries - the one he did on Stalin is particularly good.

  • @davebarrowcliffe1289
    @davebarrowcliffe1289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    So Kennedy started Vietnam, Johnson escalated it and Nixon ended it.
    Gotcha.

    • @njad3
      @njad3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you should know that the aliens force him to resign

    • @jonbyron38
      @jonbyron38 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After keeping us there to get re elected.

    • @davebarrowcliffe1289
      @davebarrowcliffe1289 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonbyron38 And yet the fact remains that Nixon ended the Vietnam war....

    • @jonbyron38
      @jonbyron38 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davebarrowcliffe1289 not a vet from that war who had to stay in Nam so tricky could get re electedhuh? Guess the orange draft dodger was more your kind huh

    • @jonbyron38
      @jonbyron38 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davebarrowcliffe1289 and closed the gold window and "opened" China [ now destroying/destroyed our manufacturing base] all for his republuicant friendds benefit. Tho I do understand Lady Bird Johnson made gillions having the contract to ship war materiel to Nam via Sealand?

  • @leonhre
    @leonhre 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A very nice documentary about an interesting and complex character. Thanks for that.

  • @thomaspgreen6302
    @thomaspgreen6302 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    As far as civil right are concerned Nixon in my opinion was underrated, Affirmative Action, desegragation as president, and as president, Black Capitalism, lowering the voting age, appointing William H Brown III as chairman of the EEOC.

    • @carseye1219
      @carseye1219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      But any positives on civil rights pale to the incredible damage caused with the "Southern Strategy" he unveiled for '72. It has plagued us all through Reagan, the Bush's and into Trump. The clever way of putting a stop to social progress and emboldened racists to yell "state's rights" as a substitute for the N word. The short period of progress after the final removal of Jim Crow was halted in its tracks. The biggest obstacles to us becoming a fair society were the failure to finish Reconstruction, Plessey (the codeification of accepting segregation) and the Southern Strategy. A century and a half wasted! We should be so much further enlightened by now!

    • @carseye1219
      @carseye1219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Coolbread Rye "DYING OUT"! a "MYTH"! Have you ever been in AL or MS? Trump put the southern strategy on steroids! He doesn't bother with "dog whistles", he just blares racism through bullhorns. Do you think it's any accident that he says Andrew Jackson was his favorite president, the "go to" prez for all racists? He doesn't want Confederate traitor statues down. He has never condemned the batsh**t crazy "Q" people. A black friend of mine was offered $200 by the Trump campaign to stand behind him at a rally with a "Blacks for Trump" sign because they saw it was a total lily white audience. Btw, I always praised Nixon for advocating for universal health care (One of the central reasons Europe has handled Covid 8 times better than our country because they have it)and creating the EPA. And I think Nixon had a moment of conscience when he turned over the tapes. Does anybody think Trump would've hesitated for an instant to destroy them (or have Barr do it for him)? Racism is alive and well in Trumpworld and he's going to ride it as long as he can.

    • @azraelbatosi
      @azraelbatosi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Coolbread Rye it’s not about skin color, it’s about enmity. The more you dislike Trump, the more you can hear his racist “dog whistles”. Strange that it’s Trump’s detractors rather than his supporters hearing all these secret messages supposedly meant for them, maybe he is “whistling” incorrectly?

    • @thomaspgreen6302
      @thomaspgreen6302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carseye1219 I don't think S. Strategy was just republican if there was one. Biden considered Strom Thurmond as his closest friend and did his eulogy, in 72 Nixon won by a landslide. There was still Lester Maddox, and Byrde in the dems George Wallace ran at first as dem in 72. Barry Goldwater lost in 64. He was working on issue with Sammy Davis Jr before he was attacked for the hug. I think he was still working with Robert J. Brown and CORE.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In the 90s I had old and I mean OLD neighbors, they'd been adults when WWII started, he served in the Navy in D-day and she had some interesting Depression stories like how they were poor themselves but devoted a day a week to feeding others, anyway, he'd had Nixon come around to his house, selling encyclopedias door to door.
    And I once won a bike race in Whittier, and did the Nixon two v-signs thing on the podium ...
    My older sis got into the national spelling bee and went to Washington and they were going to meet Nixon but had to settle for Spiro Agnew, and my dad brought back a really cool subversive Nixon coloring book. I loved that thing even if I didn't understand most of the humor.

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I still do the victory gesture similar to Winston Churchill and Nixon. Make no mistake, Nixon had one lovely wife the mother of his daughters. Nixon had two daughters and son in laws who never worked in the white house. Nixon served during WWII.

  • @Kapplerartbloomingdale
    @Kapplerartbloomingdale 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful docudrama. I loved the actors and research.

  • @michaelmuldowney8
    @michaelmuldowney8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He was on a Presidential ticket 5 times - 52, 56, 60, 68, 72.

  • @jonchaney
    @jonchaney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I like him. He had balls and guts.

    • @ernestmacmurray1716
      @ernestmacmurray1716 ปีที่แล้ว

      If things whould have been a little differnt he could have been loved.......

  • @phillipthompson7911
    @phillipthompson7911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love the soundtrack to this video road to perdition and from Russia with love one of my favorite bond films

    • @currencylad7125
      @currencylad7125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Road to Perdition? I thought I detected the soundtrack from Patton.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@currencylad7125 You did!

  • @danmcdonald9117
    @danmcdonald9117 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love everything David Reynolds does, he is most excellent

  • @tj6193
    @tj6193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Excellent. Not what I expected. 🔥

  • @ethanomcbride
    @ethanomcbride 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @5:39 I live in East Texas and I can confirm that was a perfect line read

    • @ethanomcbride
      @ethanomcbride 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not the accent, just the swagger

    • @ritemolawbks8012
      @ritemolawbks8012 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethanomcbride He wasn't lying.

  • @m3rl707
    @m3rl707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Honestly today's politicians can learn from Richard Nixon. The good and the bad.

  • @akashch3194
    @akashch3194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He was ahead of his times.

  • @richardshiggins704
    @richardshiggins704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Brilliant as usual . Not to be missed . If only Shakespeare were a contemporary what a play he would have penned , NIXON .

    • @gregsutton6258
      @gregsutton6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think Shakespeare would have bothered with a pissant like Nixon

  • @KRAKENNCHANNEL
    @KRAKENNCHANNEL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    Clinton, Presidency Unzipped. That cracked me up!

    • @cristhiansalazarminaya1743
      @cristhiansalazarminaya1743 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      KRAKENN PRODUCTIONS ZŻVQ1111QQA1Qß

    • @evilmadness8052
      @evilmadness8052 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nixon was the greatest president we ever had followed by Johnson, Ford, Bush 41, and Bush 43 🙂.

    • @Elainerulesutube
      @Elainerulesutube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@evilmadness8052 An underrated President. He made the world a safer place by detente' with China, the then Soviet Union.

    • @olitalty2159
      @olitalty2159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Elainerulesutube Not safer for Vietnamese and Cambodians. But those are not counted, right?

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@olitalty2159 No safer for them, but they are counted nonetheless.

  • @jacobayala666
    @jacobayala666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from Whittier, California. Nice to hear our town get a shout out.

  • @collisw8302
    @collisw8302 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can't believe that gargoyle Henry Kissinger is still amongst the living. Hopefully any day now.

  • @dannyboysable
    @dannyboysable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Looking at the states today in 2020 ,and who has come and gone, I always wanted to know this story ..

  • @adamsmith275
    @adamsmith275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    45:00 ...it is the first time I hear this!...

  • @ronalburgos3855
    @ronalburgos3855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 6 years or 5 when he passed away. I think the moment he knew about the break-in he should’ve make an statement and distance himself from all this. Everything does come to light in one way or another. Saludos desde California 😎

  • @jackanthony3651
    @jackanthony3651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent and well done. I grew up with Nixon’s years living just outside of DC.

    • @njad3
      @njad3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you should know that the aliens force him to resign

  • @destubae3271
    @destubae3271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The narrator definitely has fun with these

  • @frankknudsen842
    @frankknudsen842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the james bond music

  • @rathertiredofthemess2841
    @rathertiredofthemess2841 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the Patton music and the Bond themes! lol!

  • @johnc.bojemski1757
    @johnc.bojemski1757 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting about his "sanctuary" in the "O.E.B". Never heard that before!

  • @thisfacebelievesyou8862
    @thisfacebelievesyou8862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    27:25 Ok, I like Nixon ever so slightly more for this, lolol.

    • @zachsmith1676
      @zachsmith1676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nixon never said that, It's a Soviet joke about their misgivings concerning the Chinese

    • @markstevens1729
      @markstevens1729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fitting that everything to like about Nixon is something made up about him.

  • @adamhonestyanddecency5054
    @adamhonestyanddecency5054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    1:20- "...a man who REMAINED a perpetual outsider."
    If a person is something perpetually, doesn't it go without saying that he remains that thing?

    • @carrie4443
      @carrie4443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He’s dead. Past tense...

    • @broadstreet21
      @broadstreet21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He couldn't have been a bigger insider on paper, with all the years he spent in Washington as a legislator, senator, VP, and senior spokesperson before being elected president. Not to mention he wielded influence after resigning.

  • @PM.68
    @PM.68 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stunningly good

  • @davidleethompsoniii8263
    @davidleethompsoniii8263 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A lot of
    Good Stuff!

  • @kmstrade
    @kmstrade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    not very objective but kept my interest...thanks for sharing. unfortunate how excessive commercials have become