The three reasons why Richard Nixon was forced out of office, Vietnam, the 1970s (Transcript)

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Last week in the Friday wrap-up, I was hinting towards a show that I’m doing right now aboutRichard Nixon, about Vietnam, the 1960s and 70s, just in general, just generalities, and about my point of why Nixon was removed from office or forced to resign. And when I give you the threemajor reasons, and I gave them a little bit Friday, when I give you the three major reasons of this resignation that he was forced to do, I think most people who really don’t know their politics are kind of surprised. Hi, this is Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today, brought you by theplaintruth.com, and we’re talking about Richard Nixon and some of the past history that I think has been buried.

And unfortunately, that’s the one thing that’s happened in this anti-intellectual era that we’re in today. Richard Nixon, when he took office in 1969, was really a continuation of Republican, I should say, moderate Republican candidates of the past, Wendell Willkie in 1941, Dewey of 1948 and 52, even Dwight Eisenhower. Many people thought he was going to run as a Democrat when everybody wanted him to be president in 1952.

And I think Eisenhower surprised most people because most people saw Eisenhower as a very moderate and moderating type figure. And most people thought maybe a little left of center. And it was implied by much of his position when he was general of the European theater that he would be running as a Democrat.

But he ran as a Republican and turned out that he was a lifelong Republican and believed in the Republican Party of the day, but with a moderate and not a very conservative stand. I think a lot of people today that’s growing up since the 1970s are not aware that the Republican Party really, except for Eisenhower and Nixon, was not elected president very often because of the fact they were too moderate, with the exception of Eisenhower and Nixon. They both won eight-year terms, but Nixon didn’t finish his out.

But the idea that the Republican Party was really a conservative party when it comes to Congress, you know, the Senate and the House. But the presidential candidates and any president they got in, like Eisenhower or Nixon, were very moderate. And I think that surprises some people when theconservatives got control of the presidency nomination process in 1964 and Barry Goldwaterwon.

It was a foreshadow of the future run of Ronald Reagan and a successful run of Ronald Reagan. But it was a catastrophe in 1964 when he lost in a huge landslide to Lyndon Johnson, LBJ. In 1968, Nixon shed a lot of extremes of conservatism and anti-communism that made andpropelled his career in the House.

And he won a squeaker of an election against Hubert Humphrey, the sitting vice president. And when he got into office, the thing that I think most people today, because they have this fractured liberal media view of Richard Nixon, do not understand that when it came to domestic policies, he would be considered a pretty liberal Democrat. Honestly, when you think of, for example, during his very first year in office in 1969, he proposed a full dress attack on poverty.

It was centerpiece, by the way, was guaranteed income for all families. Richard Nixon. FAP was intended to reform welfare by focusing on poverty and the lack of money.

And he wanted to make sure everybody had a living standard of wage. He wanted to put a floor on what people could be paid. Think about that.

Does that sound like a Republican today? It was Richard Nixon and not LBJ that radically revamped and expanded the food stamp program we know as SNAP today, right? It was Nixon that did that. Two years later, Nixon proposed universal health coverage. I was going to college.

Actually, I had just graduated from college. My major was political science. I was going to get into politics, and I went to a special postgraduate class or school, Wesleyan University of Connecticut.

It was paid for by the Republican Party, and it was campaign management. And Fred Biebel was the head professor, and he became one of Ronald Reagan’s campaign managers. And he was a Nixonite before he ran off the ship when Nixon went down in flames, and he reemerged as a Republican under Ronald Reagan.

But I remember, it was Richard Nixon that first proposed what we would call today as Obamacare. It was Richard Nixon. And I was arguing with then-Biebel about, I was against it.

I was against universal health coverage. And he was saying, look here, Bob, your father is what? Near retirement, right? Well, in the last 20 years of his life, if he can live 20 years past retirement,he will spend more money to the government in health care on his Medicare payments or expenditures in hospitals and doctors and end-of-care life than he ever earned in his lifetime. And I said, well, that’s because you guys are for inflation.

You took us off the gold standard, and our dollars are being inflated. So my father, when he was making $80 a week 40 years ago, you can’t compare it to the pay he would have to be paid today, which would be more like $400 a week to equal the $80. But anyway, his point was, we have to have a national health care that provides government insurance to insure everybody, but we have to really pick and choose who’s going to get treatment.

Younger people get better treatment than older people. That’s called death insurance. You know, it’s really called killing your patients when they get old.

Something Sarah Palin said, and she was mocked and ridiculed. She was 100% right. And Fred Biebel was honest because we were talking one-on-one in 1978.

And he was honest as can be and saying it has to happen. The United States can’t afford to give your father the same health insurance that Nelson Rockefeller can afford. In fact, he said, that’s the problem with the health care system in America today.

You may think this is cruel of me, he said, but your father has the same access to the same care that at the time he said a multi-millionaire has, because insurances pay the same for him as foryour dad. Well, in the future, when your dad’s living longer and spending a lot of money, he will end up spending more money for his health care than he will ever have earned as an income. He might have earned a total of five or six million dollars income his entire 40-year work career.

He’s going to spend that in the last 10 years of his life, probably, if he has heart bypassoperations, cancer therapy, all this other stuff. He was telling me this in 1978. This was theRepublican Party before Ronald Reagan in 1978.

It was the Nixon Party. Nixon also gave us the EPA. Did you know that? He gave us OSHA.

He gave us wage and price controls when we got into stagflation. You know, as the Vietnam War was coming to an end, one of the reasons, and we’re only the tax cuts under John Kennedy. You know, John Kennedy did the big tax cuts before Ronald Reagan did them, and it worked, and it put a lot of money in people’s pockets, and they invested in this country.

In the 60s, like the 50s, were booming years for America. But unfortunately, much of the booming of the 1960s had more to do with the Vietnam War than even John Kennedy’s tax policies, which lowered taxes. And the Vietnam War, I’m going to get into right after this first commercial break about what it meant for businesses in the 1960s, and how Eisenhower had warned against the military industrial complex, which unfortunately is what’s in control of this country today.

And it has been at least since the Vietnam War. And so when we get into the 1970s, the mid-70s, and the Vietnam War was winding down, we found ourselves, before Jimmy Carter, by the way, we found ourselves in stagflation. Now, Jimmy Carter might have made it worse, and it may have been a lot worse under Jimmy Carter, but stagflation actually started in the last year Nixon was president, in 74, and it was raging under Ford’s presidency.

You remember his whip buttons, whip inflation now, or wind buttons, whip inflation now, and Joe Gargiola for Dodge started the rebates, buy a car, get a check. All of that stuff was because we were in the midst of stagflation because of the end of the Vietnam War. I’ll be right back.

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And we’re back. And what I wanted to get into saying was this stagflation started when the Vietnam War ended, because what happened is many service people came back home. They didn’t have jobs.

Women were in the workplace now, so men didn’t have the opportunities that they had, like in the 1950s, for example, and under the peacetime 1950s. But the truth is, the economy turned very sour after the Vietnam Peace Treaties, and we ended the war. And that was a problem for Richard Nixon, and later on for Gerald Ford, and then Jimmy Carter buried us with it.

But the idea that people do not realize just how liberal Richard Nixon was is a surprising thing. I’m going to read from you a story that was, How Did Nixon Combine Conservative and Liberal Goals? It’s a essay written. It’s online.

Nixon’s conservative goals were most evident in his efforts to reduce the size and scope of government. Nixon believed that the federal government had become too large and intrusive in the lives of most Americans. He believed that government needed to be shrunk down so that it could serve the people better.

To that end, Nixon proposed a series of initiatives that would have reduced the size of government, but also he proposed reforms that would have made government more efficient. But his liberal goals were most evident in his efforts to expand government’s role in everyday American lives, like yours or mine. Nixon believed that the government needed to do more to help the American people.

He believed that the government needed to provide more social and economic assistance to citizens. To that end, Nixon proposed a series of initiatives that would have increased the government’s role in American life. He proposed a series of reforms that would have made American government more responsive to American needs and to the American people in general.

In many ways, Nixon’s domestic policy agenda was a balance between those two competing philosophies. Nixon proposed a series of initiatives that would have reduced the size of government, while also expanding government’s role in the American life. In doing so, Nixon hoped to create a government that was both smaller and more efficient.

And I was a supporter of Richard Nixon back in the day, and I also believe when he was driven from office, it was a scam. It was the liberal media and the Democrat Party lying about what was the truth about Watergate and the truth about dirty politics that they are the absolute king of doing. If you want to know who, you know, when people vote from the grave and all the dirty politics there’s ever been, the Democratic Party, there’s second to none of what their expertise in stealing elections and stealing your rights and your liberties.

But Richard Nixon had lofty goals. And the truth of the matter is, if he did not have that R behind his name, he would have been a darling of the Democratic Party. And I think he would have been alongside at least FDR.

And I am not joking. He would have been alongside FDR. He would have been the president in 1976 during our bicentennial.

He would have been very popular. You know, when Richard Nixon actually resigned, he had a 65 percent popularity amongst the voters of the United States. Nixon was very popular.

He was not liked by the voters, by the way, but they knew he was really good at what he was doing. And he had a 65 percent approval rating when he stepped down. He was in the 70s and 75 percentage when he was not in any trouble with Watergate.

People don’t realize he was a popular president, even though when you watched the news, you saw the hippies against him and the young kids and the Vietnam veterans against the war coming back and blaming the whole war on Richard Nixon, when it was LBJ that really gave us the Vietnam War as we know it, not Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon ran in 1978 with a promise that he would end the Vietnam War. Barack Obama promised that about Afghanistan.

Didn’t do it. Right. So but Richard Nixon did do it and he was able to do it.

He ended the war. A lot of people don’t like the way he ended the war, but he ended the Vietnam War. And if he did not get removed from office, the situation in South Vietnam would be so much different than it is today.

And I can guarantee you that one fact. But now we get into the three reasons why Richard Nixon was hated by the Democrats, hated by the media and ultimately removed the most popularly elected president of all time. When you ask a trivia question, which president had the largest landslide in an election? Almost everyone will say, basically, Ronald Reagan, 1984.

No, no one has ever had a bigger landslide than Richard Nixon’s 1972 election. Look it up for yourself, where the majority of Americans, a major majority of Americans, where all but one state voted for Richard Nixon. New York voted for Richard Nixon.

California voted for Richard Nixon. Massachusetts voted for Richard Nixon. Every state that you can think of liberal today in 1974 voted for Richard Nixon in a huge majority.

Figure that one out? Well, I can tell you. Because the people liked his policies and they did like the idea he got out of the war. They didn’t like his economy and that was the only negative that he had.

He started having a poor economy and that’s the real reason why he, in a backstabbed way, he got removed. But if he did not have, number one, if he did not have that R behind his name, Republican, he would have been a most loved Democrat president and the liberal media would have treated him totally different than they treat us or they treat him today or at the time. And it was only because he was a Republican.

And it had nothing to do that he was too conservative. You know, you hear about Ronald Reagan when they were blasting Ronald Reagan. He was too conservative.

He didn’t know what he was doing. He was uncaring. Well, Richard Nixon, you could say he was uncaring.

He, like I said, he started the SNAP program. He wanted to increase welfare. He wanted to make everybody have a living wage.

This sounds like Bernie Sanders. And yet, Richard Nixon is hated. The only reason he was hated is, number one, that R behind his name.

Number two, and just as important, is he made his name famous. In 1948, when he first got to Congress, along with John Kennedy, and they were roommates in the same apartment, and theywere best friends. People, they don’t even know that.

John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were on both sides of the aisle, maybe, but they were best friends. As a matter of fact, John Kennedy’s father, Joseph, thought that Lyndon Johnson was going to steal the nomination in 1960 from his son, John Kennedy. And he went to Richard Nixon and said, if my son gets screwed out of the Democrat nomination for president, the Kennedy family in force will support your nomination.

Can you believe that? That is unbelievable when you hear about that. But that was the second reason why Nixon was removed, really, because liberals are basically communist. Even to this day, you listen to Chris Cuomo on TV, and the minute he gets somebody who’s really, as they call themselves, a liberal socialist Democrat, he rails against people calling them the communists.

They are communists. That is the plain truth. That’s what they are.

And Nixon was an anti-communist, and that is the real second reason why he had to be removed from office, because the press, especially the liberal press, are all communist. So is Hollywood. So is most writers of novels and, you know, people like all your liberal writers of the past.

Norman Mailer, for example, he was a known communist. That’s why they were investigating Meryl Monroe. I’ll be right back after this last message for the plain truth, and then we’ll wrap up why Nixon left office.

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Stay tuned. And we’re back in the last final thing. The media is the cause of number one and number two, the R behind his name, anti-communist.

The media had more to do with Richard Nixon’s villainization than any other thing, and Nixon actually warned about it after he was ousted as president. Listen to this interview he had, and it’s very telling about the press. They have much more power than most people would like to think.

When we think of the media in this country, the problem is that they have a sense of self-righteousness, a double standard on issue after issue after issue. They can find everything wrong with somebody else, but they will not look inside and ever admit that they could be wrong themselves. And what was involved here in the Watergate thing was the unfairness of it.

Oh, there was a legitimate thing to investigate, but they refused to balance it. They allowed their advocacy to get ahead of their reporting, which is their job to do. You know, President Eisenhower, in his farewell address, wrote about and warned against the power of the military-industrial complex.

I didn’t get a chance to make a farewell address, but when I get old enough and decide to retire, and I’m not planning it at the moment, but when I get that old, if I make a farewell address, I think I would warn against the media elitist complex. You know, the media is always talking about the imperial presidency, the power of the imperial presidency. I think we ought to hear a little bit of discussion of the imperial media and its power.

You see, presidential power is limited, limited by the courts, limited by the Congress. The media’s power is unlimited. And some would say, but what about libel suits? Forget it.

After the Supreme Court’s decision in Sullivan v. New York, timed a few years ago, a public figure cannot collect in a libel suit against a newspaper or television unless he can prove malice. And there’s no way that that’s going to be possible. As far as the media is concerned, all we can hope from them if they’re going to be responsible is self-analysis, self-criticism.

And some of them are trying with their ombudsman and the rest. The other thing is competition. But what we see in terms of newspapers across the country is more and more places where there’s only one paper.

That’s the problem. And he was really right that Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex, and he warned of the media-industrial complex. And they were behind all three of the reasons.

One of the two was behind all three of the reasons why Richard Nixon was removed from office. The third and maybe the most important reason why Nixon was removed from office is the military-industrial complex. He ended the most profitable war that the military-industrial complex, and that’s all of these Grumman and Boeing and Lockheed, all of these arms companies who builds the weapons, the Colt firearms, the munitions, the gunpowder, the bombs, the missiles, all of that comes from a military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower called it, a bunch of top 100 corporations around the United States that supply our military to death.

And during the Vietnam War, and I told this story last Friday in the Friday wrap-up, during the Vietnam War, I have a friend of mine, he’s across the street from me, and he ran the largest paint company for the Navy that they had on the East Coast in Portsmouth, Virginia. And he was saying that they had absolute carte blanche on charging what they wanted to to the Navy, because the Navy needed paint so bad they would send him no-bid contracts. Now usually when I sell the government today, you have a no-bid contract if it’s below a certain amount of money, usually it’s $2,500 or $3,000, and you could get a contract to supply something they need right away and not have to go out for bid.

Back then, he would get orders for 5,000 gallons of paint. Today would be a $600,000, $700,000 order, and it would be the same amount back then in in the old dollars, and maybe it would be a $20,000 order then, or $50,000. But no-bid contracts, because they needed it desperately, and they knew he could produce it in a day, and he could.

They ran two shifts at his plant, and they produced all the paint they could do. But he was saying it was booming. They had two shifts.

They had 40, 50 employees constantly making high wages. They made a lot of profit. All these paint companies and all these arms companies made a great ton of profit.

That’s what Eisenhower warned. What happens when you have so many companies making so much dollars off of a war, they don’t want the war to end. They want it to keep going and going and going and going.

They don’t care about GIs. They don’t care about the deaths of soldiers. That’s just an incidental part to their profits.

They care about producing arms, and if you’re not fighting, those arms stockpile. They don’t want them to stockpile, because then they stop ordering them. They want those bombs used.

They want those airplanes used. They want those airplanes shot down. They want the boats sunk.

That’s really the truth. That’s the plain truth. And Richard Nixon ended their gravy train.

So here is this Republican, liberal Republican, so the Republicans really didn’t like him, and the Democrats hated him, and he was an anti-communist, and the media hated him for that one reason alone. Not only he was a Republican, but he was an avid anti-communist, so the media just despised him. And now he ended a gravy train for everybody.

The media loved the reporters in the field in Vietnam and reporting all of this nonsense going on and showing how we lost the war when we hadn’t lost the war. Walter Cronkite was absolutely wrong when he said we lost the Tet Offensive. We did not.

We won every battle there was. We had politicians in Washington who did not want to win the war because they were paid for and bought by the military industrial complex of companies that made money off the war. So these politicians and the presidents before Nixon, like LBJ, crooked as can be, were taking kickbacks from these companies, building the arms for Vietnam, and while our soldiers were being maimed and killed for the profits in America.

I’m sorry, but that’s the plain truth. That is what happened, and that is why Richard Nixon was removed from office. That is the real reason John Kennedy was assassinated, because he wasgoing to end the involvement in Vietnam before it ever began.

And Vietnam was a long planned out program by the military industrial complex in the 1950s to get involved in Vietnam, to get in that war that had been going on for 50 years. The French, you know, got their butts whipped themselves and they pulled out and we took over. But Kennedy, after talking to Douglas MacArthur and other experts of the region, said, get the hell out of Vietnam.

Get your advisors out of there and don’t get involved. And Kennedy was about ready to pull out of Vietnam within a month or two of his assassination. And what happened after assassination? Lyndon Johnson takes over, doubles down on Vietnam, and the rest is history.

And if you want to watch a good movie, Pathway to War, it’s played on HBO once in a while, but you get it on DVD. If I could ever find it on YouTube, I’d play that as a Saturday night, Sabbath night program. It’s a phenomenal history lesson of LBJ’s absolute incompetence in fighting the Vietnam War.

And 59,000 Americans paid the ultimate price because of that incompetence. Richard Nixon ended that war, and he was sanked by the American people by a landslide election. But the media and the deep state and the military-industrial complex got him booted.

And that’s the plain truth. Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today. Thank you for listening.

Till tomorrow. Bye-bye.