He should have fucking hung, for prolonging the Vietnam war by five years and hundreds of thousands of bodies if for nothing else
I agree, but that wasn’t revealed until 20-some years after he died.
I hated Nixon. HATED. He was a complete and total asshole. He was the guy that made turning 18 a horrible date with destiny if your daddy wasn’t rich or famous (look into W’s Vietnam years, for example, or Trump’s for that matter). Remember that Creedence song Fortunate Son? There was a reason for it.
But I still think his pardon was the right thing to do for the country at the time, not because I give two shits about him rotting in a jail cell but because the entire world needed the US to be focused an something other than a disgraced president.
I’m betting that you’ve never sat in mile-long lines to fill your gas tank, or been of age in a war where your best friends, people you personally knew, maybe even you yourself in time were getting called up by the draft to go off to die for a war you didn’t believe in, that no one understood, where nothing at all was won and no bounty but bodies came home. It was a different time and place, without the influence of foreign paid propaganda to influence domestic opinion: judging it by today’s standards doesn’t get you anywhere but wrong.
Speaking of wrong, I do NOT think any kind of pardon, or special treatment, is appropriate for Trump or his cronies. Nixon tried to influence an election; Trump planned an entire coup. Nixon was happy enough with the blood of Asians and his own draftees; Trump won’t be happy with anything but total dictator for life no matter what it costs the world.
I agree, but that wasn’t revealed until 20-some years after he died.
I hated Nixon. HATED. He was a complete and total asshole. He was the guy that made turning 18 a horrible date with destiny if your daddy wasn’t rich or famous (look into W’s Vietnam years, for example, or Trump’s for that matter). Remember that Creedence song Fortunate Son? There was a reason for it.
But I still think his pardon was the right thing to do for the country at the time, not because I give two shits about him rotting in a jail cell but because the entire world needed the US to be focused an something other than a disgraced president.
I’m betting that you’ve never sat in mile-long lines to fill your gas tank, or been of age in a war where your best friends, people you personally knew, maybe even you yourself in time were getting called up by the draft to go off to die for a war you didn’t believe in, that no one understood, where nothing at all was won and no bounty but bodies came home. It was a different time and place, without the influence of foreign paid propaganda to influence domestic opinion: judging it by today’s standards doesn’t get you anywhere but wrong.
Speaking of wrong, I do NOT think any kind of pardon, or special treatment, is appropriate for Trump or his cronies. Nixon tried to influence an election; Trump planned an entire coup. Nixon was happy enough with the blood of Asians and his own draftees; Trump won’t be happy with anything but total dictator for life no matter what it costs the world.