Nixon: Reagan is "strange"

Tricky Dick was as strange as they come.

Plus this revelation pales in comparison to the Clinton/Gore dynamic. I never felt they really particularly liked one another, just another marriage of convenience. Now the knives are coming out.

 

Christ... talk about pot calling the kettle black.

As my dad has been known to say (as well as myself after a little scotch), "IS IT HOT ENOUGH DOWN THERE FOR YOU, DICK?"

 

Nixon not trusted by Ike

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-6/de_toledo3.html
[size=1/2]Eisenhower had been made by General Marshall. He was tremendously loyal to General Marshall. Joe McCarthy had attacked Marshall and the attack, if it had been couched in slightly different language, would have been much stronger, but he went overboard on it. But anyway, a lot of the people who were supporting Eisenhower, but were against McCarthy, and by the time of the '52 election not only the country, well the country was starting to divide, but the Republican Party was dividing on the McCarthy issue. There were many people who wanted Eisenhower to attack McCarthy during the campaign. There were others who were running his campaign, who were working with him in the campaign, who said, if you attack McCarthy, you're going to be defeated, 'cos McCarthy still had tremendous following and among those who were very anti-McCarthy they felt that Eisenhower had been very weak when he, in effect, appeared with McCarthy in Wisconsin and so on and then the last campaign speech, it was delivered by Joe McCarthy and so on and they felt that Eisenhower had compromised his principles, had compromised his deep friendship with General Marshall and so on. But, you know Eisenhower, we think of Eisenhower as a father figure and always a charismatic person, Eisenhower, and someday the historians will realise it, was one of the toughest, shrewdest politicians that ever sat in the White House and he wasn't going to stick his neck out just to please a few people on the McCarthy issue and jeopardise his chances. So personally he was against McCarthy, but he kept it under wraps until the campaign[/size]

Ike never liked or trusted VP Nixon at the time and rarely involved him on any processes, they were further split on the McCarthy issue whom Nixon had sided w/ and had used to advance his congressional career.

 

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I knew that, if you posted enough, we'd agree on something!

As they say, politics make strange bedfellows.

 

strange bedfellows

Johnson, much like Nixon, was jealous of the Kennedy’s who he correctly summized didn’t respect his legislative accomplishments. Kennedy was said 2 have teased LBJ and snt him on bogus diplomatic missions around the globe 2 keep him occupied and out of his way. Johnson was thought to be a conservative southerner against civil rights in stark contrast of the other Texas senator, Ralph W. Yarborough. They put LBJ on the ticket to capture the southern swing vote and neutralize Nixon’s divisive Southern Strategy and prevent disenchanted racist southerners from going republican.

 

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But at least Nixon didn't have Ike assassinated. *cough*

 

Wow, I didn't know Reagan was Jewish.