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« on: September 14, 2007, 11:50:14 AM »
"Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" - Phil Ochs
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2007, 11:52:28 AM »
"The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."

- Hunter S. Thompson
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2007, 12:01:10 PM »
There's a song title on the first Body Count album that sums up my feelings well.
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2007, 01:20:23 PM »
Quote from: Boris on September 14, 2007, 11:52:28 AM
"The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."

- Hunter S. Thompson

I was going to quote the exact same thing.

But Instead I'll enlighten us all thanks to the miracle of Wikiquote (all officially sourced, which good enough for me, see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Sourced)

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That last one was on Jews.

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So yeah, he's clearly a massive Freedom Fighter - and I haven't mentioned any of his actual policies...
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2007, 04:50:08 PM »
I think that, like LBJ, he did a lot of good, but was at the same time deeply flawed. I'd put him above the median, as far as Presidents go. Below the median as far as human beings go. Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2007, 09:27:38 PM »
Pretty much worthless.
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« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2007, 10:31:46 AM »
negative.
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2007, 10:48:41 AM »
Just a typical Republican president - a fascist.  Better however than Reagan or Bush Jr.
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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2007, 11:17:40 AM »
A horrible person, but he had quite an interesting personality, which can be said of only two other post-war presidents: Kennedy and Clinton.  And they too did not finish their terms normally.
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So yeah, he's clearly a massive Freedom Fighter - and I haven't mentioned any of his actual policies...
And these were on the tapes he didn't delete!
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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2007, 11:30:14 AM »
Quote from: GMantis on September 15, 2007, 11:17:40 AM
A horrible person, but he had quite an interesting personality,


Good point - and he was hilarious.  Those quotes GullyFoyle posted were very funny.  But you know that all other Republicans think that stuff, they just don't say it so colorfully.
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« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2007, 03:20:23 PM »
Worthless prune.
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2007, 02:42:21 AM »
Overall negative.
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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2007, 02:43:56 AM »
On the 1/2 of FF - but that's giving him a lot of credit.
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2007, 04:55:02 PM »
Great politics and achievements; lousy human being.
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« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2007, 03:09:58 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2007, 04:05:58 PM »
Quote from: opebo on September 15, 2007, 10:48:41 AM
Just a typical Republican president - a fascist.  Better however than Reagan or Bush Jr.

I basically agree with that statement.

Nixon would have been a funny guy to chat with for an hour.
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