Does anyone remember what Nixon's funeral was like?

[redstateblues]

Will that be the guide when Trump kicks the bucket?

[Squinch]

1. I think trump's should be just us putting him IN the bucket and then kicking it.

[ProudLib72]

7. Sweet Jesus, I need to grow my feet quick if I'm going to kick THAT bucket!

Maybe they will let me use a crane with a wrecking ball?

[Squinch]

13. All of us together. And maybe kicking it off a cliff.

[ProudLib72]

20. I'm bringing my pet elephant just in case

And to further piss of Jr.

[zipplewrath]

2. Yup

It's how it works. We're going to have to live through the whole thing where we pretend there is some tragedy to his passing.

[redstateblues]

12. Hopefully most of his cohorts will be in jail and unavailable to

Go on FOX and lie about his legacy

[waddirum]

3. In my mind it was joyous

like a foul stench had finally dissipated

[dalton99a]

4. State funeral for Nixon:

[redstateblues]

6. Insert Trump

[eleny]

8. All the Republicans are gone now

[Moostache]

14. I noticed that too as i went down the line...

Only the Carters and Clintons are left from that photo...

[Stinky The Clown]

22. You're sadly right, eleny. All the Republicans are gone. They started leaving when Newt Gingrich . .

. . . . showed up.

[eleny]

23. They were never really here for us, anyway

Even Ike made our relationship with Iran go pear shaped.

[DownFromTheMountain]

41. Point eleny

I have a saying that is kind of like that.."We already know how to get along without your help. We've been doing it for a long time.."

[eleny]

43. I'm going to remember that

It's like a shot in the arm to remember how strong we really are, how we have to be, every day.

[Polybius]

40. Carter hasn't changed a bit in 24 years

He's aged exceptionally well.

[demtenjeep]

5. I remember watching it but was in the hospital on morphine so I don't remember much

or maybe that was Jackie O???

[mucifer]

9. Nope because me and my friends got s--t faced drunk. We were happy. Ok I

wouldn't do that now. It was pretty stupid. But, I don't regret it too much. Just a bit.

[GWC58]

10. Pretty sure Nixon had

no state funeral. I could be wrong but I don’t remember Tricky Dick laid out in the Rotunda. I think he’s buried in San Clemente. Then again I could be wrong. That’s where the Western White House was.

[cynatnite]

16. No, he didn't. He was lying in repose at his library beforehand. n/t

[Raine]

24. It was Nixon's choice

it's up to each President to make their own plans and it's done years before their death. Nixon is at his library beside his wife Pat here in California.

[dalton99a]

26. +1. Nixon instructed his family to opt out of the D.C. ceremonies

[Jarqui]

33. It would have been ugly

Nixon getting pardoned did not go over well.

Those scars exist today. I've been worried if Trump will ever be held to account. (I now think he will on a state level - not due to the federal system).

The same criminal presidents pressed, for example, to have a 19 year old kid selling a little pot thrown in jail for 8 years minimum but they arrange to get off "Scott Free" (to quote the orange ignoramus) for their outrageous crimes against the country (Watergate, Iran Contra, Iraq War, torture, etc).

Just maybe, if they held these presidential criminals to account for once, they would think twice before misbehaving and set an example for the world - not a cynical result where big money and power gets you a free pass.

[Moostache]

11. When Trump dies, I'm throwing a massive party...everyone is invited.

It may last a fortnight or more and I expect to have a brutal hang-over, but I promise to suffer the consequences for the relief and joy I will feel the second it is confirmed that he is cold and stiff on a slab and no longer wasting oxygen.

[cynatnite]

15. The only thing I remember was Dole's near crying at the end of the eulogy...

All I could think was "why?" That I always remembered.

I teared up a little when Raygun died, but that was because it was just sad to watch Nancy put her hand on the stone where he was buried. Just the empathy coming out in a brief moment. It didn't last long.

I don't remember much of Ford's funeral.

[LeftInTX]

35. I didn't even know Ford had died.....

I mentioned him briefly and my husband said, "I'm pretty sure he's dead." Sure enough he was dead for several years.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. I honestly don't remember the details apart from it being pretty low key. It wasn't in DC.

It was at the Nixon Library. He died in NYC. Not sure how he got back to California. Maybe AF1?? Dunno.

I do recall he was treated respectfully. While he was no bundle of joy as a man, he was a US President who died and was treated as such. I suspect his daughters (his wife predeceased him) knew not to go for the whole Lying in State Under The Capitol Rotunda thing.

He's buried at his library in his home town in Orange County, CA.

[malaise]

18. I was thinking earlier that the only way he gets a Presidential send offs if he jumps

Or it will be either in prison or a non-event like Nixon's. And he does think he's worthy of a great send off.

[redstateblues]

19. It's strange but I remember so much about JFK's funeral even though I was only

14

[elleng]

21. Serious and somber.

[katmondoo]

25. Strange but I don't remember it at all

[sharedvalues]

27. Roger Stone was there

He might not be able to make this one, from jail.

[Sneederbunk]

28. Bob Dole wept.

[GulfCoast66]

34. To be fair...

I am a pretty stoic man from a southern WASP family where emotions were held tight. Still that way. But I have never been to a funeral where I did not shed tears.

Except, strangely enough, my own fathers. I was only 23 and he was a very great father. I think I was just in emotional shock.

[Polybius]

42. Wow, I remember that speech

It was very touching and sad.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. Don't know about the funeral, but can recall pre-funeral situation

Nixon lived quietly in a very affluent suburb of Bergen County, New Jersey.

When he died, his body was discreetly transferred to a local funeral parlor in Wyckoff. Visitation/Viewing went on for about two days, with black limos and Mercedes, etc. in the parking lot. Many people from his past administration and famous people came to pay their respects.

It was very low key and tasteful.

What I do remember was the absence of protestors.

[rurallib]

30. My only recollection was that it wasn't nearly soon enough

[LeftInTX]

31. The only one I watched was Kennedy's

Mainly because I was home from school and there was nothing else on TV.

[Bleacher Creature]

32. There was a pretty concerted effort to rehabilitate Nixon's image in the 90s, and it sorta worked.

It wasn't that people tried to discount Watergate, but the idea was to highlight his policies, including what was a pretty decent environmental record. The irony was that Nixon would have won re-election in '72 without Watergate, without which he would have gone down as a fairly decent President. That will NEVER happen with Trump. He will only look worse as the years pass.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. While Nixon was never fully contrite for his deeds...

...he was fairly humbled and subdued in his post Presidency, and offered advice in good faith to his successors on both sides of the aisle.

I seriously doubt Trump would ever reach that level, and I doubt there’d ever be a reason to put aside his transgressions at his passing.

For all his wrongs, Nixon still had a fair sense of self-awareness that Trump utterly lacks.

[GulfCoast66]

37. It was a muted affair at his library.

His transgressions were not glossed over nor were the good things he did- EPA and China.

Reagan’s was somewhat overdone. Especially the horse with the boots in the stirrups parading up Pennsylvania Avenue. i know he was in the Cavalry, but he was not a combat veteran. Reserve if I remember correctly. But since I never served I guess I am throwing stones at glass houses.

With trump I guess we could have a golf cart leading the way.

[lame54]

38. I'm thinking Mardi Gras

[diva77]

39. youtube link here for those feeling sentimental