Nixon on Nixon, HBO

[edhopper]

I am about halfway through this documentary which is a series of excerpts from his secret recordings.
He was actually more loathsome than I thought, and I hated the SOB.
Any one else see this?

[XRubicon]

1. Im watching it now too

He talks like drunk racist, except I don't think he was drunk.

[Octafish]

2. Nixon approved hiring a Secret Service man who said he'd 'kill on command' to guard Ted Kennedy.

It's about 40:minutes into the documentary.

I had read the transcript years ago, but actually hearing Nixon and Haldeman discussing the details, I knew what has happened to our nation.

[MADem]

3. No, but thanks so much for putting it on my radar--that period of history is fascinating to me

because I lived through it before it was history. I remember the way people felt, how they discussed it so ardently. Some people thought it was the end of the fricken world that the bozo resigned, and they were horrified that an "UNELECTED" guy was serving as our President.

Hell, at least Ford was a nice guy...who knew we had Dumbya in our future!

[elleng]

4. Yes, have seen it,

and I arrived at the same conclusion as you: 'He was actually more loathsome than I thought.' I wonder what Henry K thinks.

[edhopper]

5. Ah

The war criminal self hating Jew. Probably thinks everyone was so unfair.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. I never could get why anyone would think him admirable or honest.

Even as early as his Checkers speech, he looked shifty eyed and dishonest to me, and I was just a kid then.
Come 1968 his face was on the tv a lot, he still came across as not believing anything he said.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Watched in last week. Excellent.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Non-stop thuggery and every form of prejudice imaginable

I had the same reaction, coming from the same perspective. Must-see TV.

[edhopper]

8. There didn't seem to be a person or group

He didn't hate.