Richard Nixon called his first congressional opponent a commie, in \u2018fifty senatorial race painted Helen Gahagan Duglas pink before trouncing her, and as vice president under Eisenhower snuggled with Joe McCarthy. By late \u2018fifties he already wanted to invade Castro\u2019s Cuba which however imperfect had just freed itself from American lackey Batista. After losing, perhaps by Chicago fraud, to JFK in \u2018sixty he looked buried two years later by Pat Brown in California gubernatorial race but only fools declared Dick dead. He counterattacked in \u2018sixty-eight winning presidency, wiretapping opponents and intensifying Vietnam war he said knew how to end only to win which could\u2019ve easily against George McGovern in \u2018seventy-two without Watergate but seldom removed fangs and had to leave early second term. Following emotional speech about family and office he walked toward helicopter outside White House, and I sensed Nixon\u2019s going to it, he\u2019s going to spin and flash double victory signs, and that\u2019s why I still miss him <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard Nixon called his first congressional opponent a commie, in \u2018fifty senatorial race painted Helen Gahagan Duglas pink before trouncing her, and as vice president under Eisenhower snuggled with Joe McCarthy. By late \u2018fifties he already wanted to invade Castro\u2019s Cuba which however imperfect had just freed itself from American lackey Batista. After losing, perhaps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,156,103,155,837,241,839,838,49,102,247,104],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n