WWND: Nixon actually talked to protestors IN THE OVAL OFFICE

[steve2470]

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Conciliation. By the end of the most searing week of his presidency, Nixon had grown elaborately conciliatory. Six Kent State students who drove to Washington on the spur of the moment to talk with Ohio Congressmen were taken to the White House to see Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman. Learning of their presence, Nixon invited them into the oval office the next morning for an hour's conversation.

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Yes, I know Nixon was a bad guy in a lot of ways, but THE CHIMP has never done this and NEVER will, I believe.

http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9605/20/

[bryant69]

1. The White House is a lot more closed off now

I would imagine.

Bryant
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[SteppingRazor]

2. The Chimp also hasn't...

conspired to murder American college students. Fuck Nixon.

Well, unless you count college-AGED Americans. Then, Bush has murdered a little over 1800.

[wli]

11. I'm not so sure about that

But all I've heard of are "disappearances."

[wishlist]

3. Unlike Nixon and Vietnam though, Bush is 100% responsible for Iraq war

Bush alone made the foolhardy decision to invade Iraq, so he owns this war and is 100% responsible for the tragic consequences. He has good reason to be scared to meet with families of those killed because of his dishonest misguided actions.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Yeah, but compared to Bush, Nixon had class

I know that isn't saying much, but still...

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. Nixon was a saint compared to Bush

If he were alive and in his prime, I bet Nixon would be heading the DLC right now.

[one_true_leroy]

10. for all his failings...

nixon was ultimately a paranoid, petty, megalomaniac. his crimes were of a political nature... vindictive politics. policy-wise, i think he was effective and had many good contribution (EPA and OSHA were two of his creations, i believe) and i think he was the last of the true republicans (or maybe a cusp between old republicans and neo-republicans)

bush, on the other hand, i believe to be intentionally destructive and callous for his own benefit. his crimes aren't simply petty abuses of power, but egregious manipulations with blatant disregard for consequences and live consumed with the ultimate goal of self-aggrandization to the mutual benefit of his cronies. instead of paranoia, we a dealing with a severely insecure oedipal complex willing to destroy anything to out-do his father and possibly fulfill some apocalyptic fantasy.

[whistle]

6. And at the Lincoln Memorial...were those Kent State students in DC

....before or after the National Guard killings of the Kent State protesters in May 1970?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[steve2470]

7. after, I believe

let me check...yes after the Kent State killings.

[whistle]

9. Wow, Nixon had some balls didn't he, that is in an outragous.....

...way. I vaguely remember Oliver Stone's movie "Nixon" where I believe he had Anthony Hopkins who played the Nixon character approach student protesters at the Lincoln Memorial and Hopkins played that scene to a tie, with Nixon babbling on, completely disconnected from everything the protesters were trying to tell him. I just don't call any dramatization of Nixon inviting Kent State student representative to the oval office either in real life or in that movie. I must have been asleep through both incidents

[DemoTex]

8. See Will Pitt's new piece: "Bu$h Is No Nixon."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005I.shtml