The Republicans Working to Rehabilitate Richard Nixon
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Taking bribes, destroying files, using the federal government to go after your enemies?.. the "New Nixonians" don't see a problem here. Plus - Thom reads from "Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics" by Lawrence O'Donnell.
And why did we just discover an ancient stone circle underwater near northern Michigan?
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| 0:46.9 | So the unconservatives try and do make Richard Nixon great again. |
| 0:51.6 | Now, seriously, these they call themselves the new Nixonians. |
| 0:55.4 | You know, one of their leaders is Vivek Ramaswami, who gave his speech at the Nixon library, |
| 1:03.2 | talking about how he is, by the way, the most underappreciated president of our modern |
| 1:07.3 | history in this country, probably in all of American history. |
| 1:10.9 | Underappreciated, really? |
| 1:12.4 | The guy who blew up the Paris peace talks in 1968 so that he could become president, |
| 1:17.9 | then lied about having a secret plan and the war in 1972 so that he'd get reelected. |
| 1:23.0 | And then he came up with an enemy's list, had the IRS auditing people in the media to harass them. |
| 1:29.8 | The guy who sent burglars into the Democratic National Committee and then tried to cover it up. |
| 1:34.8 | The guy who took a half a million dollar bribe from the Milch lobby and a million dollar bribe |
| 1:38.4 | from Jimmy Hoffa to get the Justice Department to bounce his indictment in the Sun Valley land deal. |
| 1:45.5 | The guy who's turning General John Mitchell went to prison for committing crimes on behalf of |
| 1:50.8 | Richard Nixon. That guy? |
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