Nixon Too Drunk to Handle Crisis

[BDawg]

CNN.com Link

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) -- Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of October 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state -- records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The National Archives released them Wednesday.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: BDawg
CNN.com Link

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) -- Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of October 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state -- records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The National Archives released them Wednesday.

Nixon is dead.

 

[Strk]

It is sad that he received the most popular votes ever.(percentagewise)

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: Strk
It is sad that he received the most popular votes ever.(percentagewise)

Nixon is dead....who cares?

Nixon was 30 years ago....who cares anymore?

 

[NightCrawler]

Politcians never really die to people who hate them.

 

[sMiLeYz]

I didn't like Nixon, but at least the bastard was smart. Smart enough to call it quits.

 

[conjur]

I'd rather Bush had kept boozing it up. He wouldn't be President.

 

[Zephyr106]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo

Originally posted by: Strk
It is sad that he received the most popular votes ever.(percentagewise)

Nixon is dead....who cares?

Nixon was 30 years ago....who cares anymore?

Yeah who cares about history at all. We can't learn anything at all from the past. We should never read about things from the past, even just for general knowledge.

Zephyr

 

[Perknose]

Sometimes I think Bush would be better off is he poured himself a good stiff "pretzel" now and then.

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Originally posted by: Zephyr106

Originally posted by: GoPackGo

Originally posted by: Strk
It is sad that he received the most popular votes ever.(percentagewise)

Nixon is dead....who cares?

Nixon was 30 years ago....who cares anymore?

Yeah who cares about history at all. We can't learn anything at all from the past. We should never read about things from the past, even just for general knowledge.

Zephyr

Yeah much less something that happened as far back as 30 years ago. What are you guys thinking?

/sarcasm

 

[fjord]

Originally posted by: sMiLeYz
I didn't like Nixon, but at least the bastard was smart. Smart enough to call it quits.

Yes, the take home message from another crushingly corrupt administration (Nixon's) is that GWB should resign.

Now.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo

Originally posted by: Strk
It is sad that he received the most popular votes ever.(percentagewise)

Nixon is dead....who cares?

Nixon was 30 years ago....who cares anymore?

Bush fans do. They keep dragging up Kerry's record from 30 years ago.

 

[DoubleL]

Nixon is dead....who cares?

Nixon was 30 years ago....who cares anymore?
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Bush fans do. They keep dragging up Kerry's record from 30 years ago.
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Well conjur Kerry is running for president, Nixon isn't, Also seems the libs keep talking about Bush's record from 30 years ago so I don't see a problem

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: DoubleL

Originally posted by: conjur
Bush fans do. They keep dragging up Kerry's record from 30 years ago.

Well conjur Kerry is running for president, Nixon isn't, Also seems the libs keep talking about Bush's record from 30 years ago so I don't see a problem

Who's bringing up Bush's record from 30 years ago? The National Guard duty? That's all forgotten at this point. I haven't a peep about in a while. Yet, every day someone mentions something about Kerry and anti-war protests. Guess Kerry was un-American for expressing his Constitutionally-granted rights.

 

[DoubleL]

Who's bringing up Bush's record from 30 years ago? The National Guard duty? That's all forgotten at this point. I haven't a peep about in a while. Yet, every day someone mentions something about Kerry and anti-war protests. Guess Kerry was un-American for expressing his Constitutionally-granted rights.
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Well anyone running for president that has a very weak past should expect to have it in the light, If he had said I was young and dumb, I was wrong, I am sorry, No he stands by what he did and said so bring it on