| ssj12 said: Nixon was one of our best presidents. Who cares what he did, he was good for our country. |
I can't say I agree with this even though I agree that people often forget the good things Nixon did. I wish more Presidents had as good of foreign policy acheivements as Nixon.
The President should be held to a higher standard than anyone else in our country. I mean he is the President after all. Simply giving him a free pass because he did good things is the kind of talk that creates dictatorships. Results are not the only thing that matter. The nature of the President's conduct is just as important.
I definitely want to see this movie in any case.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
