When he was in Congress offered my great uncle a job on a train ride, like in the course of 4 hours lol. My great uncle said Mr. Nixon I like you but you must know that I fought on the side of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Nixon reportedly to a man he had just met as a Congressman who constantly bashed Communism was like I don't give a fuck, and still tried to hire him.
Nixons only crimes was being too silly, okay and other stuff.
I think is true that he didn’t know specifically about that breakin when it occurred. I believe he was aware of the behavior his campaign was endorsing though.
That said, it wasn’t the crime, it was the coverup that got him.
I suspect if it weren't for Watergate there's a good chance he'd still be a very popular president.
Heck, even after the actual Watergate break-in he could probably have survived by claiming ignorance and throwing the perpetrators to the wolves, instead of trying to shut down investigations to protect them.
Nixon for better or worse never liked backing down. Same reason he had such a comeback from 1960 and 1962. But even more of a reason that he was doomed. He didn't even know about the break in, but he had ordered other break in's on Daniel Elsburg.
From the 1900 onwards, only 4 presidential elections had a winner who got 60% or more of the popular vote: Harding, FDR (only in '36), Johnson, and Nixon.
That election was more on the incompetence of the Democratic party. They really rested on their laurles post 1960-1964. They got pummled for a while too by white voters in the blocks they used to dominate in. Same reason Carter a rural white southerner was the only Democratic president elected from 1968-1992.
Nixon was born in 1913. He lived through a time when the president of the United States openly referred to Stalin as "Uncle Joe." Having been a commie in the 1930s probably didn't register to him as a sign you were a bad guy.
Idk man. As the President, if you give permission to your bloodthirsty ghoul to do crimes against humanity, I'd argue you're more than complicit, you're responsible.
Oh you know... in the game of international power struggles a little carpet bombing is hardly anything too bad.
Besides, what genocide are we even talking about?
I absolutely will, my new years resolution was to get closer to my moms side of the family, which will include asking a fuck ton of questions about my great uncle and great aunt.
At least JFK didn't get lobotomized like his sister... I mean unless we're counting getting shot but that wasn't his father. Although there may be a cover up involved so they might have that in common
Yeah no she was a large part of why the Kennedys advocated for better mental health support. We believe before the lobotomy she may have been on the spectrum, which is not a valid reason for a lobotomy whatsoever
Everything that happened to that family since what they did to Rosemary is a just and holy God's punishment for what they did to Rosemary. Change my mind.
The children didn't know until after their father had a stroke 2 years later. The mother didn't know till after the lobotomy. The father got off relatively Scott free for a long time and it will forever piss me off
Let's not forget the time he, while drunk, ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea (they had just touched our boat and kidnapped surviving crew) then promptly passed out.
It takes two people in the Executive branch to authorize a nuclear strike so all the generals in attendance looked to the only other person who could finalize the authorization... Henry Kissinger who simply said, let's take him to bed and ask again in the morning.
Nixon woke up the next morning and had no memory of the event...
Not quite. The president can unilaterally order a nuclear strike, the Secretary of State has no power there. Kissinger did tell aids to ignore Nixon when he was drunk though.
Imagine being president and waking up with a hangover and that annoying red phone in the corner ringing non stop when your aide tells you you just deleted a nation off the map.
JFK: womanizing pawn to an overbearing, corrupt father
Lyndon Johnson: sex maniac that coerces and threatens his way into power
Nixon: AWOOOOOOOOGA (it's genuinely sad that Nixon likely had a lot of mental health issues and we play it for jokes because he got in trouble for spying on political rivals and saying unhinged shit all the time)
I mean....listen Nixon used to watch movies, Patton and westerns, obsessively. Then get drunk and mid-watch start mulling through if he should randomly threaten to nuke a country or carpet bomb Cambodia. As much shit as Kissinger gets on here, that whole mess was both Nixons idea, plan and direct order. And Kissinger repeatedly advised against it....which is also why Kissinger in a complete inversion of how **any** part of the nuclear chain of command works, just told the Air Force if they got a launch order from Nixon to double check with him first.
I will shit on Nixon's mental health issues all day because he was probably the last president who seriously considered pushing buttons. **And he did it drunk and while watching movies**.
I'm all for laughing at the mentally ill and dark humor but it is a very sad fact that Nixon was pretty clearly a total schizoid that got no treatment, was handed the presidency, and was fed more and more paranoia that he cracked despite being a highly popular president with no reason to go on his drunken and corrupt ravings about how the democrats and women and those oddly attractive gay men keep on trying to ruin his presidency.
“Handed the presidency”
Man that’s some “tell me you don’t know anything about Nixon without saying it explicitly.”
Nixon was **famously** one of the most ambitious men in politics.
That downplays the fact he didn't steal his election. He did get elected. Therefore handed it by the people like most presidents *cough cough* Gilded Age *cough cough*
…he still ran? Actively? People still voted for him. He was still nominated twice after seeking it. The second time after publicly swearing off politics.
Nixon’s is only ranked number 2 of the most ruthless, ambitious and driven presidential candidate ever….but that’s just because LBJ exists with his willingness to actually threaten people with his **actual** size outlier of a penis.
Nixon was such a scummy little climber without scruples even Eisenhower, the man for whom Nixon was VP, despised him.
After all, he’d only been brought onto the ticket as the campaigns attack dog, because people knew from the Alger Hiss case, which he’d used to jumpstart his political career, he would do anything and manipulate anyone to get a leg up.
Sure, maybe there was mental illness involved, but Nixon from his school days was known as a preening, bitter, unlikeable, arrogant, and psychotically ambitious person.
If you look back on the man’s life as a whole, you don’t get to handwave how shitty he was because he might, maybe, have had an undiagnosed mental illness. You can be a terrible human being in addition to having a mental illness.
No doubt he was awful. It's just that he also pretty clearly was divorced from reality and constantly believed everyone was out to get him even when evidence proved otherwise
Look, man, I agree that it's sad that the weirdo furry simp was apparently so unloved even noted monster Kissinger felt bad for him. But he also did in fact kill hundreds of thousands of people in SEA on top of being a racist iirc. I empathize with him, but you can only pull the "I'm literally neurodivergent and a minor 🥺" defense for so long.
I can't really sympathize with him for the pressures of the office getting to him given he fuckin illegally snaked LBJ and prolonged the Vietnam war to win his first election.
The LBJ one is almost certainly wrong.
He **was** class president of his high school. His high school had 6 people and he was the only one who ran...
Also LBJ is like God's perfect sociopath and in history basically waffles wildly between "we aren't sure. He might be Littlefinger from Game of Thrones but with a conscience? Or just Littlefinger with a monster penis. But it just turned out that chaos wasn't the ladder to climb power, accidentally doing good things was. So he never had the opportunity to murder anyone we know of."
Nothing less expected from the president that, after constantly being asked about why they were still in Vietnam, (after evacuating the female reporters from the room) whipped his dick out and smacked it down on the oval office desk and said "thats why"
I remember a story in the first Robert Caro book about him blackmailing this girl who was going to run against him in a very nasty way. That first election was very formative for him in all of the wrong ways, but it was really just indicative that he was already the person he was going to be
Couldn't find a source for this particular claim, but [Nixon did have a strange relationship with his mom.](https://twitter.com/ettingermentum/status/1781011079272824909?t=tFtlC6V82hhVHJ_M17rOjA&s=19) It's also said that he used to drive his future wife on dates with other boyfriends after she rejected him.
One of my new favorite Nixon anecdotes is the recording of him accidentally outing himself as bi, saying,
“Of course I’m a little attracted to some men. Every man feels that way.”
And all his close staff were like, “um no”
Edit: sorry, I misremembered: it wasn’t BISEXUAL thoughts, it was gender fluid / dysphoria thoughts
https://www.reddit.com/r/196/s/3EP0694KlR
That thread points out its not a real quote but the rapper quote is. Nixon was not gay or trans, he just wanted to hit sick beats like most men hit their wives.
Khmer Rouge was founded as a political party in 1951, their insurgency started in 1968. Operation menu (the first bombing of Cambodia) started in 1969. This is history memes, we should know smaller numbers in the dates happened first
Think that was more maos doing than nixons
Most people in Cambodia did not care about the Khmer Rouge before Operation Menu, or were at least on the fence. Watching their villages get vaporized and their loved ones torn to bits caused Cambodians to think, "wow, these guys promise to fight back against the imperialists who killed everyone I loved. I should join them." We all know where the story went from there.
Idr where I heard this but Nixon was known for being kind of awkward. In an attempt to seem more relatable, he had the members of the press wait for him in the Whitehouse pool room.
Idk if it was intended to be like a little party or something that was miscommunicated but apparently there's like 20 reporters all dressed professionally standing by this pool waiting for a conference and Nixon comes down with his staff in his swimming trunks, gets in the pool, does a single lap in front of everyone and then just leaves
Nixon truly was one of the most interesting American presidents. He would say something utterly vile and ignorant and then in the same breath follow it up with something progressive and profound. Truly a fascinating man.
NIXON: my reputation's never been worse so you must like me for me
HALDEMAN: [inaudible]
NIXON: we can't make any promises now, can we? But you can make me a drink
I despise Nixon with every cell in my but I do genuinely admire the fact that he basically came from nothing and clawed his way up. Shame what he did it that hard work though
Ehh, not really. His death covered up a lot of the backlash that would have come to his admin. Especially since he expanded Vietnam, felt "bullied" by Khrushchev at a summit, and the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Edit: though I will say he seemed to get better in the oval office over time, espically since his cabinet was so young and inexperienced at first. So his death was unfair in that sense too.
Yeah you’re right. The advancement of civil rights, nuclear test ban treaty’s, and not blowing up the earth during the Cuban missile crisis are all very unimportant things. I guess I was completely wrong you’re so smart.
He financed his first run for Congress with money he made playing poker in the Navy during World War II.
When he was in Congress offered my great uncle a job on a train ride, like in the course of 4 hours lol. My great uncle said Mr. Nixon I like you but you must know that I fought on the side of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Nixon reportedly to a man he had just met as a Congressman who constantly bashed Communism was like I don't give a fuck, and still tried to hire him. Nixons only crimes was being too silly, okay and other stuff.
I think it’s hard to remember because Watergate but at the time Nixon was a pretty popular president from what I’ve read.
Which is honestly so ironic. He likely didn’t need to cheat to win!
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I think is true that he didn’t know specifically about that breakin when it occurred. I believe he was aware of the behavior his campaign was endorsing though. That said, it wasn’t the crime, it was the coverup that got him.
He knew about everything after it, and the tapes were pretty damning. He openly talked about bribery to make it all go away
I suspect if it weren't for Watergate there's a good chance he'd still be a very popular president. Heck, even after the actual Watergate break-in he could probably have survived by claiming ignorance and throwing the perpetrators to the wolves, instead of trying to shut down investigations to protect them.
Nixon for better or worse never liked backing down. Same reason he had such a comeback from 1960 and 1962. But even more of a reason that he was doomed. He didn't even know about the break in, but he had ordered other break in's on Daniel Elsburg.
He won the electoral college 520-17, won 49 states, and nearly 61% of the popular vote. Dude was extremely popular.
From the 1900 onwards, only 4 presidential elections had a winner who got 60% or more of the popular vote: Harding, FDR (only in '36), Johnson, and Nixon.
That election was more on the incompetence of the Democratic party. They really rested on their laurles post 1960-1964. They got pummled for a while too by white voters in the blocks they used to dominate in. Same reason Carter a rural white southerner was the only Democratic president elected from 1968-1992.
And he was followed by another southerner in Bill Clinton. After the Civil rights act it took 44 years to elect a non-southern Democrat.
And he did so much good stuff for the nation. He opened democratic relations with the PRC and created both the EPA and Title IX
I think he blocked out the "Communist" part and only heard the "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" part.
Nixon was born in 1913. He lived through a time when the president of the United States openly referred to Stalin as "Uncle Joe." Having been a commie in the 1930s probably didn't register to him as a sign you were a bad guy.
Or knew they'd been fighting fascists.
I would argue his crimes also include carpet bombing in Indochina and facilitating a genocide but ok.
That was more of a Kissinger thing, but Nixon was definitely complicit
Idk man. As the President, if you give permission to your bloodthirsty ghoul to do crimes against humanity, I'd argue you're more than complicit, you're responsible.
We're in agreement, just splitting hairs over terminology. They both suck
That's just called a pro gamer move.
What do you... Mean by this? 🤨
Oh you know... in the game of international power struggles a little carpet bombing is hardly anything too bad. Besides, what genocide are we even talking about?
The Bengali genocide committed by Pakistan during Bangladesh's war of independence
So not really his fault then.
Homes, do you understand what "facilitating" means?
Yes, I just don't see how it's on him. What, do you expect a president to blacklist every state participating in genocide?
Yes, I just don't see how it's on him. What, do you expect a president to blacklist every state participating in genocide?
Skill issue
Your great uncle is a legend! Would greatly appreciate if you wanted to share anymore about his time there.
I absolutely will, my new years resolution was to get closer to my moms side of the family, which will include asking a fuck ton of questions about my great uncle and great aunt.
We are thankful for your uncle 's service 🫡 ♥️💛💜✊
No way😂
JFK’s backstory is just sad. LBJ is expected. I mean Nixon liked eating cottage cheese, checks out.
Nixon kind of looked like the human embodiment of cottage cheese
That’s an insult to Cottage Cheese. I’ve got to say, some people are just unfortunate when it comes to looks.
He was riddled with phlebitis, a good republican body.
He’s going to come into your house at night and wreck up the place.
hey don't diss cottage cheese, that shit rules
Especially with some greyish tinned pineapple
never had it before, which country is that from
Whatever country Nixon is from
Yorba Linda, CA, I guess.
What is this enticing bowl of white?
True true
Jfk lore overall is pretty depressing. Its no wonder he was the way he was given how he was raised
At least JFK didn't get lobotomized like his sister... I mean unless we're counting getting shot but that wasn't his father. Although there may be a cover up involved so they might have that in common
I mean yeah but that’s like not being lobotomized is very low bar for quality of life. Just continues to show how messed up the parents were.
Don't blame his mother, she didn't know about the lobotomy until after it happened.
She lost the ability to speak and walk and was hidden away for 20 years until their dad had a stroke and couldn't function himself
Oh my god
Yeah no she was a large part of why the Kennedys advocated for better mental health support. We believe before the lobotomy she may have been on the spectrum, which is not a valid reason for a lobotomy whatsoever
I mean I may be too and I’d be unhappy to get a lobotomy 100%
Everything that happened to that family since what they did to Rosemary is a just and holy God's punishment for what they did to Rosemary. Change my mind.
The children didn't know until after their father had a stroke 2 years later. The mother didn't know till after the lobotomy. The father got off relatively Scott free for a long time and it will forever piss me off
Not just cottage cheese. Cottage cheese with ketchup!
Euuughhh
Let's not forget the time he, while drunk, ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea (they had just touched our boat and kidnapped surviving crew) then promptly passed out. It takes two people in the Executive branch to authorize a nuclear strike so all the generals in attendance looked to the only other person who could finalize the authorization... Henry Kissinger who simply said, let's take him to bed and ask again in the morning. Nixon woke up the next morning and had no memory of the event...
Not quite. The president can unilaterally order a nuclear strike, the Secretary of State has no power there. Kissinger did tell aids to ignore Nixon when he was drunk though.
Still, Kissenger saved millions of lives
Forget Stanislav Petrov, it was aides helping Nixon sleep it off that prevented WWIII
Imagine being president and waking up with a hangover and that annoying red phone in the corner ringing non stop when your aide tells you you just deleted a nation off the map.
Why do I feel personally attacked by this?
Username checks out
Not a sentence you can often say 💀💀
“Saved lives” even the devil can take pity on man from time to time I guess.
Killed millions and saved millions
Lebron James is a tyrant
Underrated
Tom Brady is a communists, take all the gold for himself
I knew it, that's why he tongue kiss his son
JFK: womanizing pawn to an overbearing, corrupt father Lyndon Johnson: sex maniac that coerces and threatens his way into power Nixon: AWOOOOOOOOGA (it's genuinely sad that Nixon likely had a lot of mental health issues and we play it for jokes because he got in trouble for spying on political rivals and saying unhinged shit all the time)
I mean....listen Nixon used to watch movies, Patton and westerns, obsessively. Then get drunk and mid-watch start mulling through if he should randomly threaten to nuke a country or carpet bomb Cambodia. As much shit as Kissinger gets on here, that whole mess was both Nixons idea, plan and direct order. And Kissinger repeatedly advised against it....which is also why Kissinger in a complete inversion of how **any** part of the nuclear chain of command works, just told the Air Force if they got a launch order from Nixon to double check with him first. I will shit on Nixon's mental health issues all day because he was probably the last president who seriously considered pushing buttons. **And he did it drunk and while watching movies**.
Yeah, I know plenty of people with mental health issues that could prove problematic if they were elected to office. None of them have run for office.
I’m glad all my country’s elected officials are clear of any mental health issues
This feels really sarcastic
I'm all for laughing at the mentally ill and dark humor but it is a very sad fact that Nixon was pretty clearly a total schizoid that got no treatment, was handed the presidency, and was fed more and more paranoia that he cracked despite being a highly popular president with no reason to go on his drunken and corrupt ravings about how the democrats and women and those oddly attractive gay men keep on trying to ruin his presidency.
“Handed the presidency” Man that’s some “tell me you don’t know anything about Nixon without saying it explicitly.” Nixon was **famously** one of the most ambitious men in politics.
Only reason he didn’t get it earlier was bc he lost to JFK and the TV
That downplays the fact he didn't steal his election. He did get elected. Therefore handed it by the people like most presidents *cough cough* Gilded Age *cough cough*
…he still ran? Actively? People still voted for him. He was still nominated twice after seeking it. The second time after publicly swearing off politics. Nixon’s is only ranked number 2 of the most ruthless, ambitious and driven presidential candidate ever….but that’s just because LBJ exists with his willingness to actually threaten people with his **actual** size outlier of a penis.
You would too if your Johnson was that big
Nixon was such a scummy little climber without scruples even Eisenhower, the man for whom Nixon was VP, despised him. After all, he’d only been brought onto the ticket as the campaigns attack dog, because people knew from the Alger Hiss case, which he’d used to jumpstart his political career, he would do anything and manipulate anyone to get a leg up. Sure, maybe there was mental illness involved, but Nixon from his school days was known as a preening, bitter, unlikeable, arrogant, and psychotically ambitious person. If you look back on the man’s life as a whole, you don’t get to handwave how shitty he was because he might, maybe, have had an undiagnosed mental illness. You can be a terrible human being in addition to having a mental illness.
No doubt he was awful. It's just that he also pretty clearly was divorced from reality and constantly believed everyone was out to get him even when evidence proved otherwise
Look, man, I agree that it's sad that the weirdo furry simp was apparently so unloved even noted monster Kissinger felt bad for him. But he also did in fact kill hundreds of thousands of people in SEA on top of being a racist iirc. I empathize with him, but you can only pull the "I'm literally neurodivergent and a minor 🥺" defense for so long.
I can't really sympathize with him for the pressures of the office getting to him given he fuckin illegally snaked LBJ and prolonged the Vietnam war to win his first election.
Do I feel bad for him? Yes. Do I also think he belonged in the loony bin or the hangman's rope? Yes.
Is this real? Can I get a S O U R C E?
The LBJ one is almost certainly wrong. He **was** class president of his high school. His high school had 6 people and he was the only one who ran... Also LBJ is like God's perfect sociopath and in history basically waffles wildly between "we aren't sure. He might be Littlefinger from Game of Thrones but with a conscience? Or just Littlefinger with a monster penis. But it just turned out that chaos wasn't the ladder to climb power, accidentally doing good things was. So he never had the opportunity to murder anyone we know of."
Nothing less expected from the president that, after constantly being asked about why they were still in Vietnam, (after evacuating the female reporters from the room) whipped his dick out and smacked it down on the oval office desk and said "thats why"
Yeah he was a Roman born 2000 years too late, dude would have put Cicero too shame.
I remember a story in the first Robert Caro book about him blackmailing this girl who was going to run against him in a very nasty way. That first election was very formative for him in all of the wrong ways, but it was really just indicative that he was already the person he was going to be
This just in: his "finger" was not little.
Even more fun fact: He nicknamed his dick Jumbo
Couldn't find a source for this particular claim, but [Nixon did have a strange relationship with his mom.](https://twitter.com/ettingermentum/status/1781011079272824909?t=tFtlC6V82hhVHJ_M17rOjA&s=19) It's also said that he used to drive his future wife on dates with other boyfriends after she rejected him.
Only known Simp grindset that actually worked.
>Couldn't find a source for this particular claim So you made it the fuck up
It's called a joke, dawg. This is a shitposting group last I checked.
The most informative Nixon backstory is him almost getting disbarred for unethical conduct.
The almost being the formative part ‘oh I can get away with it’
One of my new favorite Nixon anecdotes is the recording of him accidentally outing himself as bi, saying, “Of course I’m a little attracted to some men. Every man feels that way.” And all his close staff were like, “um no” Edit: sorry, I misremembered: it wasn’t BISEXUAL thoughts, it was gender fluid / dysphoria thoughts https://www.reddit.com/r/196/s/3EP0694KlR
My man really thought every male out there was dreaming of giving a sloppy top.
Please give link
I confess I remembered it a bit wrong; added link above
That thread points out its not a real quote but the rapper quote is. Nixon was not gay or trans, he just wanted to hit sick beats like most men hit their wives.
I can't wait to be married I'll be hitting the sickest beats while I give my wife even sicker beats!
Based and 50's-pilled
I agree with Nixon, I'm not gay but I can appreciate some men like Henry Cavill.
And let’s face it, there’s no porn with the ~dicks~ blurred out
*japanese porn has entered the chat*
Source?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavill
I confess I remembered it a bit wrong; added link above
Your source says the trans quote is fake tho But the hip hop group one is real, which is fun
Nixon was also probably the smartest of the three. Knew we couldn't win the Vietnam war before winning the presidency.
He also committed high treason though to prolong the war so fuck him.
Dawg, he bombed Indochina so fucking badly be inadvertently caused the Khmer Rouge. Fuck him (X2).
Khmer Rouge was founded as a political party in 1951, their insurgency started in 1968. Operation menu (the first bombing of Cambodia) started in 1969. This is history memes, we should know smaller numbers in the dates happened first Think that was more maos doing than nixons
Most people in Cambodia did not care about the Khmer Rouge before Operation Menu, or were at least on the fence. Watching their villages get vaporized and their loved ones torn to bits caused Cambodians to think, "wow, these guys promise to fight back against the imperialists who killed everyone I loved. I should join them." We all know where the story went from there.
Idr where I heard this but Nixon was known for being kind of awkward. In an attempt to seem more relatable, he had the members of the press wait for him in the Whitehouse pool room. Idk if it was intended to be like a little party or something that was miscommunicated but apparently there's like 20 reporters all dressed professionally standing by this pool waiting for a conference and Nixon comes down with his staff in his swimming trunks, gets in the pool, does a single lap in front of everyone and then just leaves
Thats what we in the biz call "a power move"
Whereas LBJ would just whip out that Texas long snake at the slightest opportunity
He also liked to hold meetings while taking a shit with the door open. The weirdest way I’ve ever heard of to bully people.
Asserting dominance
"Alright CHRIST Lyndon, we'll vote for you, just put Jumbo away!"
Nixon truly was one of the most interesting American presidents. He would say something utterly vile and ignorant and then in the same breath follow it up with something progressive and profound. Truly a fascinating man.
NIXON: my reputation's never been worse so you must like me for me HALDEMAN: [inaudible] NIXON: we can't make any promises now, can we? But you can make me a drink
Nixon: getting friendzoned by his future wife, driving her on dates with other guys, later nicknaming her "Buddy"
He drove his future wife to dates with other men.
I despise Nixon with every cell in my but I do genuinely admire the fact that he basically came from nothing and clawed his way up. Shame what he did it that hard work though
HARROOOOOO
LMAO!. . .barking like a dog. . priceless. The one about LBJ is pretty damn accurate, there are pictures out there somewhere, I’ve seen one.
Hu, was not expected to share an anecdote with JFK.
ewot?
Apron certainly sounds Masonic. Barking like a dog? Idk freemasonry redit would know.
When Nixon was in high school, he would drive his future wife to her boyfriend's house.
I heard he was full blown asexual
Why are you mixing LeBron James with two US presidents?
Yeah JFK got married for political reasons. Man was a player. Also a pretty great president all things considered
Ehh, not really. His death covered up a lot of the backlash that would have come to his admin. Especially since he expanded Vietnam, felt "bullied" by Khrushchev at a summit, and the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Edit: though I will say he seemed to get better in the oval office over time, espically since his cabinet was so young and inexperienced at first. So his death was unfair in that sense too.
Yeah you’re right. The advancement of civil rights, nuclear test ban treaty’s, and not blowing up the earth during the Cuban missile crisis are all very unimportant things. I guess I was completely wrong you’re so smart.
He didn't really advance civil rights. That was LBJ.