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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:18:47 MST
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- From: ICJME@ASUACAD.BITNET
- Subject: "22 November, A Day's Remembrance"
- In-Reply-To: note of 11/22/92 17:15
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- Greetings and Salutations
- M. Smith -
- Until you mentioned it, I had forgotten that today was the 29th anniversary
- of JFK's death. (Not that I really care - while it had large meaning for our
- generation, and I _do_ remember what I was doing - I believe there are other
- events more important in my life.)
- No, my question is that you seem to have a deep hatred for RM Nixon,
- excoriating him as you did. Why is that? Whence comes this absolute hatred?
- Just as a minor observation, from the words you used to whip him, I would
- guess that you would put Nixon down there with Stalin, Lenin, and Hitler
- (Hmmm?) I am not a supporter of Nixon, but is the man so bad as that? Or is it
- that he refused to pander to the (public relations) desires of the nation, and
- did what he thought was best for the nation - after all, he got us out of
- VietNam, and earlier, when Communism seemed to be the greatest threat, he
- fought against the perceived threat. Is it his fault that he always looked as
- though he had a five o'clock shadow that make-up couldn't or wouldn't cover?
- He may have been a power-grubber (I don't _know_), but in what way is that (1)
- a fault, or (2) any different than _any_ other politician? And remember how
- thankful everyone was in 1968 when LBJ quit the race? And how optimistic
- everyone was when Nixon came in? In 1973, he fulfilled a promise he made -
- fighting forces out of VietNam, thus abrogating several treaties the US had
- made over the previous two decades, e.g., SEATO.
- Was Nixon a criminal? From what I understand from my studies, he did nothing
- any other president or politician has done - he simply got caught while in
- office.
- Nixon had substance, LBJ had substance (I won't tell you explicitly what
- kind of substance - now there is a president to rank down with that other
- Johnson!), Kennedy had style without substance as did Carter and Reagan.
- Truman had both style and substance - none since.
-
- By the way, I volunteered to go to VietNam - I was about two weeks too late.
- The Air Force wasn't sending anyone new by then (1973-4).
-
- |---------------|
- |Jim Emmons | The lion and the lamb may lie down together,
- |<icjme@asuacad>| but
- |---------------| the lamb won't get much sleep.
-