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Eddie Adams from Torrance		2012-01-27 01:23:38 PM

exatron: Nixon may have been a crook, but he had some damn fine speechwriters.

You know who else was a speech writer for Nixon?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Anyone?

GleeUnit		2012-01-27 01:32:09 PM

VRaptor117: Ugh, every few months some moron just discovers that, surprise!, leaders often expect ambitious actions to fail. I'm sure in a few years, the text that Obama's writers drafted for a public failure of the OBL raid will come out.

/Guess what.
//No one cares.

Guess what.

You're a f*cking cock who will never do anything important with your life. Tell us how that feels.

thomps		2012-01-27 01:55:00 PM

GleeUnit: VRaptor117: Ugh, every few months some moron just discovers that, surprise!, leaders often expect ambitious actions to fail. I'm sure in a few years, the text that Obama's writers drafted for a public failure of the OBL raid will come out.

/Guess what.
//No one cares.

Guess what.

You're a f*cking cock who will never do anything important with your life. Tell us how that feels.

i'd be interested to read what his comment would have been in this thread, had he succeeded in doing something important with his life.

SharkaPult		2012-01-27 02:15:55 PM

Every once and a while I read Nixon's what if speech and this line always gets to me:

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Goosebumps every time. And not the crappy kids books.

gewehrpatrone		2012-01-27 02:55:38 PM

Well one thing`s for sure if Ike had to give his speech Dick wouldn`t have had the opportunity to give his.....

Shadow Blasko		2012-01-27 04:25:26 PM

Voiceofreason01: Jack Mackbell: Didn't Cracked do this exact same article several weeks ago?

These both get republished somewhere pretty much every year....but usually close to the aniversary of those respective events, why are hearing about this in January?

Probably because this is NASA dark week.

ez-reader		2012-01-27 05:31:23 PM

jagec: Doktor_Zhivago: That Nixon speech was beautifully written. Too bad he was such a fake two-faced douchebag, those men would've deserved someone better to read something like that. I know I would want someone better.

As someone who wasn't alive when Nixon was president, I have to say that his legacy seems to look better every year. Sure, he was a crook, but he ended Vietnam, formed the EPA, passed the Clean Air Act, opened relations with China, signed SALT I...

and let's not forget that he recruited the racist southern Democrats into the Republican party which gave us the states' right (code for anti Civil Rights), evangelical, Tea Party factions of the modern GOP which is very far removed from the "Party of Lincoln" they think they are.

Oldiron_79		2012-01-27 07:14:42 PM

Well Zee Germans were supposed to be on pace to have the bomb by Fall of '45 if they hadn't fell before then who knows how things could have ended.

Oldiron_79		2012-01-27 10:01:39 PM

SharkaPult: Every once and a while I read Nixon's what if speech and this line always gets to me:

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Goosebumps every time. And not the crappy kids books.

Except when I read that its in Nixon's head's voice from Futurama.

/Robot Nixon '12
//May death come swiftly to his enemies

JustTheTip		2012-01-27 11:27:09 PM

I like Ike's speech. Simple, terse, but conveys the message. "It failed, the men did their best, it was my fault alone." No attempt to pretty it up with eloquence, and no attempt to shift blame or spread it around. He was a no-bullsh*t kind of guy. We could use some politicians like him today.

brianbankerus		2012-01-28 01:10:17 AM

Jack Mackbell: Didn't Cracked do this exact same article several weeks ago?

Yeah, but they did it on two pages.

Elephantman		2012-01-28 08:25:36 AM

HopScotchNSoda		2012-01-29 12:03:48 AM

Eddie Adams from Torrance: exatron: Nixon may have been a crook, but he had some damn fine speechwriters.

You know who else was a speech writer for Nixon?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Anyone?

That was a problem I had with the beginning of Frost and Nixon, when Nixon's resignation speech is depicted, with the crowd of onlookers behind the camera in the Oval Office. Stein wrote that speech and was in the room (he's talked about it on talk shows), yet none of the actors/extras appears to be portraying him. Sure, he was just a nobody speech writer at the time but, by the time the film was produced, he was the second best-known person who was there, and the biggest name of those who were still alive. I would have thought that the director would have included a young Stein-looking extra in the crowd, if for no other reason than the "let's see if anyone notices this" factor.

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