When I came back from the war opposing the war was hard and we took a lot of flak a lot of personal flak

Really gets years were hard sometimes sure I'd be a liar if I didn't say that it's not fun having some fellow that attack you because yeah

He says you're not you know

You should have been my country no matter what right or wrong says your trader

And what we said about our country is look when it's right keep it right when it's wrong make it right and we were wrong

Everybody knows today where everybody who actually studies it and thinks about it they've got no more terrible mistake

Iraq was terrible mistake we pay a price for these mistakes

Hello and welcome to wise is happening with me your host Chris Hase

All right, we got a big one today real big one real big name up the marquee lights here before I introduce the name

Which like whom I kidding you've read the intro on the podcast. There's no suspense here

You know what happens to add up is the end of the play

So Richard Nixon had this thing that he would say about the presidency that I think about a lot

And I don't know I'm gonna paraphrase which is in line with my no notes on with pod rule

We just work off the we work off the old noggin here, so I could Google the quote, but basically

It's it's something like that that really the real reason you become president and the real power of the American presidency is foreign policy

They're like when you're talking about domestic policy you got all these different constraints like you got to get a bill through Congress in the House and the Senate and

Every senator's got their own idea and members of the House have their own idea and then it gets implemented by a federal bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is vast new cabinet secretaries and all this stuff is

Constantly being massaged by all these on their interests

But it's on the world stage. It's in the realm of foreign policy the president has this kind of singular effect and singular power and Nixon

Pride prided himself on his foreign policy acumen that was the he thought that sort of domestic politics was like

Penny any bullshit that any Pike or could do but that like only Nixon could go to China, right that he was this grand visionary

About setting up the sort of geo strategic chess and I've been thinking a lot because of who we have as president now

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