Chris Wallace asked Bob Dole some questions on the growing extremism of the Republican-Tea Party over the weekend.
Bob Dole's response confirm swhat is obvious about the Scott Walker-Paul Ryan brand of craziness that now pervades the Republican Party.
Steve Benen has the story.
WALLACE: You describe the GOP of your generation as Eisenhower Republicans, moderate Republicans. Could people like Bob Dole, even Ronald Reagan, could you make it in today's Republican Party?
DOLE: I doubt it. And I -- Reagan wouldn't have made it. Certainly Nixon couldn't have made it, because he had ideas and, we might have made it, but I doubt it.
Showing posts with label Richard M. Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard M. Nixon. Show all posts
Nov 10, 2011
Stanley Kutler gets victory on Nixon files
I had the pleasure of meeting Stanley Kutler a few years ago.
If you combine intellectual rigor with intellectual generosity, one gets a glimpse of Stanley Kutler, professor emeritus of law and history at UW-Madison.
Deboroh Ziff has a piece on Kutler's successful court challenge to open numerous, secret Nixon files to public inspection.
The relevancy of the Nixon files during this time when the Fourth Amendment is imperiled is obvious.
What Nixon did may pale in comparison to what has happened in this country the last 10 years.
The public needs to know.
UW-Madison News also has a nice piece, Historian’s work gives a glimpse of Nixon “unplugged.”
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| Kutler is the author of the the 1997 book, "Abuse of Power" |
If you combine intellectual rigor with intellectual generosity, one gets a glimpse of Stanley Kutler, professor emeritus of law and history at UW-Madison.
Deboroh Ziff has a piece on Kutler's successful court challenge to open numerous, secret Nixon files to public inspection.
The relevancy of the Nixon files during this time when the Fourth Amendment is imperiled is obvious.
What Nixon did may pale in comparison to what has happened in this country the last 10 years.
The public needs to know.
UW-Madison News also has a nice piece, Historian’s work gives a glimpse of Nixon “unplugged.”
Jun 24, 2009
Nixon: Abort If Blacks and Whites Conceive Together
Charlie Savage reports in the Times on newly released Nixon tapes:
Nixon is a true American fascist who found a home in the Republican Party.
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster 'permissiveness,' and said that 'it breaks the family.' But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases — like interracial pregnancies, he said.
'There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,' he told an aide, before adding, 'Or a rape.'
Nixon is a true American fascist who found a home in the Republican Party.
Dec 19, 2008
Read Some History on Deep Throat in Post Coverage
Lots of good stuff in the Post this morning.
W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as "Deep Throat," became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95.
Jan 20, 2008
New York Giants Sunday
Betrayed? Bewildered?
No, the Packers' corners were incinerated. And the Giants deserve the win.
Have not felt this bad, and awkwardly prescient, since the Bush reelection in 2004.
Life is good though. :)
Time for the words of Nixon’s greatest moment:
Richard M. Nixon's Farewell Speech to the White House Staff
Go Giants.
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No, the Packers' corners were incinerated. And the Giants deserve the win.
Have not felt this bad, and awkwardly prescient, since the Bush reelection in 2004.
Life is good though. :)
Time for the words of Nixon’s greatest moment:
Richard M. Nixon's Farewell Speech to the White House Staff
... We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true.
It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty…
- Richard Nixon, August 8, 1974
Go Giants.
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Dec 18, 2007
Pardon Leo Burt and All Johnson/Nixon War Criminals
Update: Tip on fugitive charged in 1970 UW bombing doesn't pan out
Leo Burt, one of the four people who bombed the Army Math Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Aug. 24, 1970 during the height of anti-war protests is the subject of buzz that the DoJ and FBI are honing in on his whereabouts.
From this morning's Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), Ed Treleven reports:
If something is stirring in the case of Leo Burt, missing for decades after he allegedly took part in a Vietnam-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus, federal prosecutors and the FBI weren 't saying on Monday.
But on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Johnson filed a motion in Burt 's long-dormant federal criminal case seeking somebody 's fingerprints. The sealed motion, filed in the dusty case that has been pending against Burt since 1970, is titled "Application for Production of Fingerprints. "
Johnson said he couldn 't elaborate on what was contained in the motion. "If I could I wouldn't have had it sealed, " he said Monday.
Some who have followed the case, however, said it could mean that authorities want fingerprints from someone close to the case, possibly someone suspected of being Burt himself.
The bomb, made of more than a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer soaked in fuel oil and delivered in a van, ripped apart the UW physics department in the basement and first floor of Sterling Hall and killed 33-year-old physics researcher Robert Fassnacht.
The Armstrongs and Fine were convicted and punished for their roles in the bombing. Burt, however, has never been found and his fate remains a topic of speculation among those who lived in Madison at the time and followed the anti-war movement.
Leo Burt was the only one of the four who has escaped the U.S. government's pursuit of the perpetrators of the bombing, which inadvertently resulted in the tragic killing on a researcher working in the early morning.
I say the DoJ has a bit too much time on its hands.
If criminal violence during the Vietnam War period is really a concern of the government, there are many possible targets who served in the Johnson and Nixon administrations that perpetrated this criminal war under false pretenses and myriad misrepresentations made to the American people.
You want to go after them?
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Leo Burt, one of the four people who bombed the Army Math Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Aug. 24, 1970 during the height of anti-war protests is the subject of buzz that the DoJ and FBI are honing in on his whereabouts.
From this morning's Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), Ed Treleven reports:
If something is stirring in the case of Leo Burt, missing for decades after he allegedly took part in a Vietnam-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus, federal prosecutors and the FBI weren 't saying on Monday.
But on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Johnson filed a motion in Burt 's long-dormant federal criminal case seeking somebody 's fingerprints. The sealed motion, filed in the dusty case that has been pending against Burt since 1970, is titled "Application for Production of Fingerprints. "
Johnson said he couldn 't elaborate on what was contained in the motion. "If I could I wouldn't have had it sealed, " he said Monday.
Some who have followed the case, however, said it could mean that authorities want fingerprints from someone close to the case, possibly someone suspected of being Burt himself.
The bomb, made of more than a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer soaked in fuel oil and delivered in a van, ripped apart the UW physics department in the basement and first floor of Sterling Hall and killed 33-year-old physics researcher Robert Fassnacht.
The Armstrongs and Fine were convicted and punished for their roles in the bombing. Burt, however, has never been found and his fate remains a topic of speculation among those who lived in Madison at the time and followed the anti-war movement.
Leo Burt was the only one of the four who has escaped the U.S. government's pursuit of the perpetrators of the bombing, which inadvertently resulted in the tragic killing on a researcher working in the early morning.
I say the DoJ has a bit too much time on its hands.
If criminal violence during the Vietnam War period is really a concern of the government, there are many possible targets who served in the Johnson and Nixon administrations that perpetrated this criminal war under false pretenses and myriad misrepresentations made to the American people.
You want to go after them?
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Nov 30, 2007
Nixon Inspired at the Very End
Nixon. The name says much about corruption, anti-human ideology and fascism. [Bush, Rove and Cheney's type of government.]
At the last moments of his presidency, Nixon, in an apparent extemporaneous and clearly heart-felt address, left us (and the White House staff) the words below.
They remain inspiring.
One wonders if George W. Bush, facing mortality or the end of his presidency, has the intelligence and ability to reflect that made Nixon, literally at the last instant of his presidency, discover redemption and humanity.
Richard M. Nixon's Farewell Speech to the White House Staff
... We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever.
Not true.
It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. ...
- Richard Nixon, August 8, 1974
At the last moments of his presidency, Nixon, in an apparent extemporaneous and clearly heart-felt address, left us (and the White House staff) the words below.
They remain inspiring.
One wonders if George W. Bush, facing mortality or the end of his presidency, has the intelligence and ability to reflect that made Nixon, literally at the last instant of his presidency, discover redemption and humanity.
Richard M. Nixon's Farewell Speech to the White House Staff
... We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever.
Not true.
It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. ...
- Richard Nixon, August 8, 1974
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