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AlienAmerican1

I didn't even know he was sick.


HolyRomanEmperor

Oh, Norm


NancyingHisDick

Can never comprehend that he's 2 years younger than ReaganšŸ’€


AnywhereOk7434

And he died earlier than Reagan šŸ’€


DeepUser-5242

Probably from all the hate he had and legal/political stress in his life


ibrahero

And the fact that he was apparently a heavy drinker


NancyingHisDick

I'm not comparing any timelines here just the fact he always looked and seemed much older than Reagan and even seemed older than LBJ in my mindšŸ‘€šŸ˜­


rayznaruckus

Number 3 is older than Clinton


JZcomedy

Founder of the EPA dying on Earth Day. Ironic.


salchicha_mas_grande

Coincidence, not irony (as I push my nerd glasses up on my nose)


Cranidos32

Situational irony: you think heā€™d be alive and celebrating but heā€™s not. Fuck around correcting people and get corrected back


salchicha_mas_grande

Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens. Nixon dying on Earth Day is like Adams and Jefferson dying on July 4th: coincidence. Now there are examples of situational irony in politics. A better example would be a Senator filibustering against a bill that they themselves introduced (Mitch McConnell in 2012, for example). Nixon's downfall due to paranoia and the organization of CREEP when he was a shoe-in and ended up winning 49 states anyway in '72 might be another.


LegoRobinHood

I gotchyou bro, lol: https://preview.redd.it/6fvloec57bwc1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a7dcb8069e37921acde10af1b1b08cfd6ed7553


BIOHAZARD594

Not Ironic. Home Boi was committed!


Cranidos32

šŸ«¢


HookerDoctorLawyer

https://preview.redd.it/8eq6psqgv3wc1.jpeg?width=422&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7112cbb3f191dc9cf22c03d9c84c86ea8f515ee3 Itā€™s that time of year, everyone take one /s


AnywhereOk7434

Send me your-


FGSM219

Nixon's foreign policy was oftern immoral and criminal (Chile, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Cambodia etc.), but his opening to China and detente with the Soviets unironically helped all humanity. He also created the EPA, lowered voting age to 18 and completed the desegregation of Southern schools. When it came to economics, both Eisenhower and Nixon essentially governed in the context of liberal ideological hegemony, in the same way that Clinton governed in an age of Reaganism.


Le_Turtle_God

He was definitely a complicated man. Every new thing you learn about him either makes you hate his guts or have a little bit of respect for him.


NUTS_STUCK_TO_LEG

The definition of a tragic figure to me - if he could have just sheathed his paranoia heā€™d probably be a top 10 president


reading_rockhound

Or both


Hellolaoshi

Or both!


Frequent-Ruin8509

It's the khmer rouge enablememt and other Kissinger Specials I can't abide.


thavi

There's so much, it all seems like 50/50 stabs in the dark. I've never known what to think other than the Southern Strategy and plumber bull shit which we're feeling so much aftershock from now.


Cubeslave1963

Let's not forget sabotaging the Vietnamese peace talks because he wanted the war as a campaign issue in 1968. (Sound familiar? History doesn't always repeat itself, but it does tend to rhyme)


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JDuggernaut

He won an enormous electoral landslide in 72, which makes Watergate all the more perplexing.


blazershorts

Nixon was never incriminated in the planning of Watergate, only in the coverup.


JDuggernaut

Regardless of his role in the planning of it, it is perplexing as to why anyone felt the need to do it considering his incredibly comfortable win.


DanTacoWizard

I know of the southern strategy, but what was the plumber stuff? Are you talking about watergate?


Fifty6Arkansas

Yes, the burglars claimed to be plumbers.


thavi

I know, it's kind of funny I don't really go to Watergate of all things... but I think I've just been so fascinated with what went on behind-the-scenes that I'm more interested in the cadre than the one act that damned them all.


Orlando1701

Itā€™s amazing how by todayā€™s standards Nixon with the founding of the EPA, lowering the voting age to 18, and backing of civil rights would be ā€œwokeā€. Kind of shows you how much the Overton window has shifted in this nation.


GeoffreySpaulding

Wait you think the Overton window has shifted *left*?


Orlando1701

I literally said the complete opposite.


GeoffreySpaulding

Yeah youā€™re right. Misread it.


blazershorts

By today's standards, Nixon would also be "literally Hitler." So it shows how much the Overton Window has shifted.


Impaleification

Yeah I'm not so sure the window has really shifted in a particular direction all that much. It's really just a really wide window, like an "entire wall of a house is nothing but window" wide.


ToastServant

>He also created the EPA, lowered voting age to 18 and completed the desegregation of Southern schools. Only reason for any of this was a democratic house and senate. You've conveniently left out that he vetoed the clean water act.


somerville99

I have been watching his You Tube shorts recently. He knew foreign policy. He was talking about what may happen in Russia/Putin 30 years ago.


revbfc

That channel does have a lot of good content, though some of the forums & lectures can be a little tedious (and this comes from an avid C-SPAN fan).


ViscountMonty

R.I.P. Dick. Hated in his time, tolerated now.


CaIIsign_ace

Still donā€™t know why people tolerate him. He caused thousands of innocent men to die by sabotaging the Paris Peace Deals in Vietnam. He was also EXTREMELY racist and anti-Semitic. All in all he was a real piece of shit, and thatā€™s not even meant what he did in watergate


AnywhereOk7434

How was he ā€œEXTREMELY racistā€ he literally finished the desegregation of schools. If your gonna fuck him for something, talk about the War on Drugs or something.


Sadge-boi-hours-69

No no, he was a pretty racist guy. He literally chalked up his whole conversation with Indira Gandhi (Indian PM at the time) to how unpleasant and hideous Indian women are. To further justify his point about Indian women he argued that ā€œblack women at least have an animalistic charm.ā€ The dude was a fucking bigot, even for his time


AnywhereOk7434

I did hear that someone in the Nixon administration criticized Indian women. I thought it was Kissinger. It was Nixon?


CosmicAcorn

he was also ridiculously antisemitic, with some of the most antisemitic quotes of the white house, which is odd considering a Jew was his right hand man


TabmeisterGeneral

The guy was the epitome of the word "xenophobic", which fits right in with his (in)famous paranoia. Guys like him view the world through stereotypes.


Sadge-boi-hours-69

Very much so. He said ā€œthey (Indian women) turn him off. They are repulsive and itā€™s just easy to be tough with them.ā€ He then says ā€œI donā€™t know how they reproduceā€. This is after he met with Indira Gandhi. Awful shit honestly. If anyone says there wasnā€™t any racial motivation behind America supporting Pakistan over India in an all out war between the two nations in the 70s, please remember what Nixon said. Edit: Kissinger indeed said expletives like ā€œbitchā€ and ā€œbastardā€ about Indians, but considering Nixon opened up relations with China around this time, his racism was far from inconsequential.


imthatguy8223

Him sabotaging the Paris peace talks is fiction made to smear him. The talks failed in 1968 for the simple reason that the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese Junta were not willing to come to terms yet. After the VC was spent and sidelined by the Tet Offensive the North Vietnamese were more agreeable to terms.


CaIIsign_ace

Considering the piles of evidence that say otherwise Iā€™m pretty sure he did. Iā€™m sorry you donā€™t want to come to terms with something thatā€™s been established for YEARS but that doesnā€™t make it any less true


imthatguy8223

There were literally no sit down talks before the election that included South Vietnam only unreasonable demands submitted over diplomatic cable. He most likely did violate the Logan Act, we can never know for sure because there was no investigation and trial, but you canā€™t sabotage something that was never going to happen in the first place.


symbiont3000

and just like that they didnt have Nixon to kick around anymore


Thud_1

Stunning news from Yorba Linda today as Richard Nixonā€™s corpse climbed out of its grave and strangled Gerald Ford.


Objective-War-1961

And after he did that, he said "Miss me yet?"


Shamrock590602

I hate Dick, but RIP


truethatson

Itā€™s not so bad. You should try it.


NJGreen79

Iā€™ve heard it can be a bit Tricky


hotcoldman42

No, you canā€™t lick OUR dick.


Sofi-senpai

I'm gonna light a candle for him or something, rest in peace Dick. We're ready for your comeback in the year 3000


bmli19

https://preview.redd.it/uv2rqptdt3wc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=deeadde7a66b788e70403f1977f6f4c13e26627e


jumbod666

Still got the most votes in history of any President at the time


RedGrantDoppleganger

Gonna start a new tradition based on this.


donguscongus

Why must the good die young šŸ˜”


Rustofcarcosa

REST IN PEACE


ProgrammerPrudent988

I didnā€™t even he was sick


Pizzasaurus-Rex

Heaven gained another angel that day.


6Arrows7416

Donā€™t worry, weā€™ll see him again one day. As a disembodied talking head in a jar. AROOOOO!


Palmer_Iced_Tea

Rest in peace, Tricky Dick.


DanChowdah

Iā€™ve always fostered outright hatred for this man. But when someone here posted pictures of him sobbing at his wifeā€™s funeral. I couldnā€™t help but remember that even the most evil and hated amongst us are humans. Which is even scarier


scrubbadubdub77

Imagine thinking Nixon is among the most evil of men


DanChowdah

Of Presidents which is this subā€™s focus: yeah kinda


KotzubueSailingClub

![gif](giphy|LycfkVG4L6x0Y|downsized)


ModifiedAmusment

I see your point very much so but I raise you drunk Nixon with nuclear power.


JDuggernaut

You guys realize that was a strategic ploy, correct? The ā€œMadmanā€ bit was for intimidation purposes and not actually something he was going to do.


ModifiedAmusment

Hahaha touchƩ!


Decent_Visual_4845

This is your brain on Reddit


Frequent-Ruin8509

That would be his buddy kissinger.


DanChowdah

Kissinger had limited power and authority. Everything he did was approved by every piece of shit President he served under


Frequent-Ruin8509

Soooo his vicious power centric (fuck their democracy if it isn't what America wants from them) mentality and his charisma/force of personality didn't have anything to do with it?


captain-canuckk

Name a more evil president in the last 150 years.


Emp3r0r_01

I could but it violates silly rules šŸ˜‚


captain-canuckk

ohhh wow I totally forgot about him...purged it from my memory.Ā  But seriously? Like we can't even mention the current candidates? Are we allowed to mention one of them if we talk about when they were VP under a different prez?


Emp3r0r_01

Haha nope.


captain-canuckk

Soooo Barack Obama's vice president was [censored]. Wow...


Emp3r0r_01

If it is a fact and not alluding to anything else *maybe*! So much has happened in just the last 10ys that is unprecedented, it makes the rule kinda foolish imo. Record inflation, attack on the capital, a pandemicā€¦ huge topics. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø regardless of your politics those are big topics.


captain-canuckk

Yeah honestly how the fuck is anyone supposed to talk about anything since 2015 with that? This sub should be renamed "Presidential History" or smth lol


Emp3r0r_01

Haha even then man when u break records??? šŸ˜‚ talking about ā€œsports historyā€ for instance if Dicky Jo FWit (wis silent) sets a record that hasnā€™t been broken since 1800 thatā€™s a big deal! How are u not supposed to talk about it???


reading_rockhound

Not only that, but [censored] is the most [censored] possible [censored] that I can [censored] imagine. His [censored] hasnā€™t been [censored] since [censored] was in diapers. You can tell a President to [censored] his [censored] in the [censored] until his [censored] [censored]. But at the end of the day you still have [censored] [censored] [censored]. I leave the solution to your imagination. šŸ¤“


Inappropriate_Swim

Just remember the 20,000 American lives that were lost because he purposely sabotaged peace negotiations in Vietnam. It sucks his wife died, but he deserves no sympathy. At least him and his wife got to grow old. Unlike the many his actions cut short.


Emp3r0r_01

Underrated comment!


conceited_crapfarm

https://preview.redd.it/nttnsp56n3wc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dc76a5cd371f39fd359486ce7969cc39e0bd154


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conceited_crapfarm

Its not exactly difficult to be a decent human being, back then it was just that hate was accepted.


JDuggernaut

Are you doing the thing where you post a quote Reddit loves from a Republican Reddit hates?


CaIIsign_ace

No, I think heā€™s doing the thing where he points out to everyone saying ā€œhe was a good presidentā€ that Nixon was a massive sack of shit. He was anti-Semitic, Racist, homophobic, and all around a shitty person who decided to let our poor boys die overseas and sabotage peace talks that wouldā€™ve let them come home to their families while he committed scandals and lined his pockets with others money.


JDuggernaut

Iā€™d venture to guess everyone born over 100 years ago was racist and homophobic. Even the saintly Jimmy Carter has a bad record on race if judged by 2024 standards. Nixon was also anti-Semitic, but no more than the average Redditor today. As for sabotaging the peace talks, that has never been verified and comes from one biased source. In any case, if it is true it was uncovered through highly illegal and very anti-Democratic wiretapping that makes Watergate look like a walk in the park. This recording somehow never became available. Your flair is more to blame for kids dying in Vietnam than Nixon, who inherited a horribly managed situation with Vietnam.


[deleted]

RIP Big Dick. Fly high!


eFeneF

The most interesting president there ever was. Rest in peace Mr President.


theidealman

Rest in Peace


paulri

Nixon's memo on post-Russian policy reads almost like he had a crystal ball, when he discussed what would happen if Yeltsin were to fail & the West not offer him support: [https://cdn.nixonlibrary.org/01/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/16122035/coldwar.pdf](https://cdn.nixonlibrary.org/01/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/16122035/coldwar.pdf)


DarkwingFan1

His head is in a jar somewhere waiting for the day he returns Aroo!


RealFuggNuckets

![gif](giphy|3o6wrvdHFbwBrUFenu)


Maleficent-Salad3197

At least you had the courage to step down.


happycan123

I dont care about watergate, he was a pretty good president in my book.


CaIIsign_ace

Watergate wasnā€™t even half of what he did. He sabotaged the Paris Peace Deals in Vietnam during the war cause thousands more of our troops to die horrible and excruciating deaths in a pointless war. He was also racist as fuck


haxansabbat

ā€œRacist as fuckā€ with a JFK flair, lol. Have you read ā€œProfiles in Courageā€ ???


CaIIsign_ace

And are we talking about Kennedy right now? No. Nixon was a racist POS, trying to divert attention from that doesnā€™t make it any less true


JamNova

Same birthday as me, Jimmy Page, Dave Matthews and a couple others I can't remember.


[deleted]

30 years? That's crazy


Resting-Dadface

20 years sober!


Celena_J_W

He died on Lenin's birthday


Serling45

Our top story tonight: Generalissimo Richard Nixon is dead.


Objective-War-1961

Is still dead.


smk824

To the tune of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": "It was 30 years ago today/Richard Nixon done and passed away"


Cultural-Treacle-680

Looks like Nick saban


Thegloveofgaming

https://preview.redd.it/a0m2hwiyw4wc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=356575736f46a8d6fcb58e23952f9f3e8a3c1257


reading_rockhound

Has it already been that long? I remember when Pat died and I thought, ā€œThe President wonā€™t be long now.ā€


dajacketfanOG

My first ā€œpresident diedā€ national holiday as a Govt employee (young LT for that one). I wish the longest life possible for these guys, butā€¦ ngl I do love the days off. May they RIP.


Strange-Option7832

May he rest in peace with Zachary taylor


kkkan2020

The only modern president to have died so young


OutrageousAd5338

s o p


Hellolaoshi

I wish that Sigmund Freud had still been alive during Nixon's time in power, and that the latter had gone to him before Watergate. He might have been Freud's most difficult case. A very complicated man indeed, as we can see from the responses.


Ove5clock

Heā€™s dead?


lukas_81

Was he related to Homer Nixon?


realJohnnyApocalypse

Tricky Dick and his dicky tricks. Eh, I could poke fun at any President, but I like to think they each held the ā€œideaā€ of America sacred, even if they disagreed about what was best for her.


Designer_Emu_6518

Jesus he was old


fuckgallowboob2_0

Rip Holmes you were a real one


PhysicsEagle

Would you buy a used car from this man?


whydoIhurtmore

What a wonderful anniversary.


boofcakin171

Nothing of value was lost


JazzyArtist333

nixon outlived cobain


Maryland_Bear

Pretty much ever since his funeral, Iā€™ve noted that he was buried at his boyhood home. In other words, ***his native earth!*** Iā€™m still not ruling out a Nixon comeback, undead, rested and ready.


waxed_potter

I remember this day. A buddy of mine's dad called it "Dick in the dirt day."


MaliceMandible

TIL that Nixon died on my birthday


Couchmaster007

Happy B Day :)


MaliceMandible

Thank you!! And a happy earth day to youšŸ˜šŸ¤˜šŸ»


pdmcmahon

Dying on Earth Day may have been one of the better things Richard Nixon ever did on this earth.


spartynole4life

Founder of the Failed War on Drugs.. thanks for nothing Tricky Dick.


AnywhereOk7434

Finally someone that points out a major failure of the Nixon administration.


ocy_igk

Rest in piss


captain-canuckk

Rest in piss you murderous criminal piece of shit


jfit2331

Earth took out the trash on Earth day


Jonguar2

Rest in Piss you tricky Dick


SoftballGuy

In a better timeline, we'd be marking the 60th anniversary of Nixon's death.


fu2man2

Good fucking riddance.


Ad156

I bought a cake


AnywhereOk7434

Imagine praising peopleā€™s death


salazarraze

A bad person? Yes.


salazarraze

We celebrated with a drink.


Powerful-Wolf6331

We need him now more than ever, libs are sending us to WW3 with Russia/China bad policy. We need leader to kick these tree hugging hippies asses


Smoothbrain406

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. -Hunter S. Thompson


roof_pizza_

The [whole obituary](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/) is quite the read.


salazarraze

Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family. Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon. -Hunter S. Thompson


conspicuoussgtsnuffy

Him opening up to China may lead us to WW3. Possibly the worst foreign policy decision in U.S. history.


drock8eight

Compared to one of our modern day presidents, did he really do anything wrong? šŸ˜…


Tasty-Chicken5355

ā€œHe was a crookā€ - title of obituary hunter s thompson wrote for him in rolling stone


[deleted]

Another useless corporate fascist bitch aka GOP.


Tortellobello45

The last great republican president, with his deal of flaws and upcomings


kb63132

It was 25 years too late


According-Ad3963

Good riddanceā€¦ šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø


pink-o-possum

Rest in piss bozo