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grigorss - 2008-06-02 12:43:54
New tagline for this site:
The IHo'P -- for the lowdown on all your processed meat and disgraced president inquiries...
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MacGregor - 2008-06-03 08:48:46
ya know... it's not that Nixon, Kissinger and a lot of those guys weren't bastards. Thieves, thugs etc. But in retrospect there is evidence that they did think they were working in the best interest of the nation... even if they were taking their own cut of the action. Unlike the now popular tee shirt I'm not nostalgic for Nixon but it's easy to see why people might be.
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Thomas Paine - 2008-06-03 09:27:47
(It's amusing that the bibliography not only lists articles, books, and dissertations about Nixon, but also poems and operas)
Agreed. But not surprising; Nixon is such a classic Shakespearean figure that it's just a shame Wee Willie Shakespeare is no longer around to give us his version of the Nixon tragedy.
And MacGregor is absolutely right -- the driving, or at least illuminating, impulses of those in the Nixon White House hinged in their view that the country was in an undeclared civil war [the counterculture attempting to somehow secede with the help of the bastardly press], and that quashing it by any means necessary was somehow justified. "getting their cut of the action was, of course, a bonus.
It's Nixonian, but it's not limited -- the excesses of any administration come from the strong sense that the administration is right, and ultimately just, and thus can do wrong and be unjust in pursuit of their "rightness." It's why "Nixonian" and "Clintonian" are such easily adopted adjectives.
We'll have to work on our adjective for "Bush-like" . . . .
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Thomas Paine - 2008-06-03 10:05:26
That should read: hinged on
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Mister Paine - 2008-06-03 10:08:47
I correct myself.
That should read: hinged on
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Paula - 2008-06-03 11:55:24
Mr P, have you seen Oliver Stone's Nixon? It's been a while, but now I'm dyin' to see it again.
We'll have to work on our adjective for "Bush-like"
Bushy?
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MacGregor - 2008-06-03 13:58:57
Bushlexic?
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Thomas Paine - 2008-06-04 13:20:56
"We'll have to work on our adjective for "Bush-like"
Bushy?"
While I love it, I fear that many, many hirsute men, and those afflicted with happening eyebrows, will forever be condemned to a false reputation as preening, uncurious, lying despotic shitbags.
Should we do that to them, all to save ourselves a few words in creating a shorthand reference to a failed president?
I think not.
I haven't seen Nixon in a long, long time. And I am always fearful of fantasy sequences that resemble my own odd walkings. So I will approach it with caution.
I understand that a revival of Nixon's Nixon is slaying audiences in D.C.
btw "Bushlexic" -- that's when you reverse the appropriate countries in which to wage war? Out your own spies? Create conditions for your own energy supplies to go up?
Hmmm; it has promise. . . .
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