You've heard the saying that you can't buy your way into Heaven but can you buy a Presidential election?
MidnightCowboy
2012/06/16 18:30:26
|
|
|||||
|
0 votes
|
|
0% | |||
|
5 votes
|
|
56% | |||
|
4 votes
|
|
44% | |||
Crook Nixon would have been a shoo-in, riding the coattails of Eisenhower's popularity. Likewise, murderous thug, LBJ rode JFK's popularity.
Eisenhower and Kennedy were the last two presidents who solved, or even improved upon any problems, and worked for this country.
Kennedy caved to Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis and removed all our weapons in Turkey. He didn't win that battle at all.
He sent the first armed troops into Vietnam, at first it was special forces to protect advisers but eventually had 15,000 regular Army & Marines.
He also organized the CIA led coup of S. Vietnamese Pres. Diem & his brother. Both were captured, 'escaped' - recaptured and executed.
Kennedy was assassinated 20 days later. -- OOPS
Even PT-109 was a farce. He figured he would either be court-martial-ed or come out smelling like roses. Papa Joe arranged the latter.
Nixon, on the other hand, did a helluva lot more for this country than he ever gets credit for.
Established the EPA .... OSHA was created, ended the forced draft and got us out of Vietnam.
The South would have remained separated but Congress de-funded his efforts, tossed the exit plan to help them stabilize and they were over-run by the North.
They simply could not allow Nixon that type of victory and had him on the ropes with W-G.
Watergate was a joke and the same damn thing has gone on in every campaign, --- stealing each other's strategy -- only it's done by E-Mail hacking today. There's more corruption at the current WH in 5 minutes than what went on at the Watergate Hotel.
Imagine that ! Russia did not like missiles pointed at them either !
Apparently, have never heard of Nixon's "Checkers speech", when the television first became a political spin tool.
At the 1952 Republican National Convention, presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Nixon as his running mate. Two months later, the New York Post ran the headline “Secret Rich Men’s Trust Fund Keeps Nixon in Style Far Beyond His Salary” above an article claiming that campaign donors were buying influence with Nixon by keeping a secret fund stocked with cash for his personal expenses (some $140,000 in today’s dollars). Outrage followed, and many Republicans urged Eisenhower to take Nixon off the ticket.
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/bl...
--brought to you by mental_floss!
Kennedy was president from 1960-1963. His refusal to commit to full scale war is probably one of the factors that got him murdered.
U.S. MILITARY CASUALTIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -
- DEATHS BY CALENDAR YEAR -
- Year of death may either be actual or based on a presumptive finding of death -
- (originally declared missing and later declared d...
Imagine that ! Russia did not like missiles pointed at them either !
Apparently, have never heard of Nixon's "Checkers speech", when the television first became a political spin tool.
At the 1952 Republican National Convention, presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Nixon as his running mate. Two months later, the New York Post ran the headline “Secret Rich Men’s Trust Fund Keeps Nixon in Style Far Beyond His Salary” above an article claiming that campaign donors were buying influence with Nixon by keeping a secret fund stocked with cash for his personal expenses (some $140,000 in today’s dollars). Outrage followed, and many Republicans urged Eisenhower to take Nixon off the ticket.
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/bl...
--brought to you by mental_floss!
Kennedy was president from 1960-1963. His refusal to commit to full scale war is probably one of the factors that got him murdered.
U.S. MILITARY CASUALTIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -
- DEATHS BY CALENDAR YEAR -
- Year of death may either be actual or based on a presumptive finding of death -
- (originally declared missing and later declared dead). -
- AS OF MARCH 31, 1997
1957 - 1
1958 - 0
1959 - 2
1960 - 5
1961 - 16
1962 - 53
1963 - 118
1964 - 206
1965 - 1,863
1966 - 6,144
1967 - 11,153
1968 - 16,589
1969 - 11,614
1970 - 6,083
1971 - 2,357
1972 - 640
1973 - 168
1974 - 178
1975 - 160
1976 - 77
1977 - 96
1978 - 447
1979 - 148
1980-1995 - 66
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/w...