Over the weekend, a BBC report on declassified tapes depicted as fresh news how President Lyndon Johnson privately labeled Richard Nixon treasonous for his back-channel efforts to sabotage peace talks with the North Vietnamese in 1968. But while the BBC report did provide interesting information about LBJ briefly plotting to hijack the Democratic Convention that… Read more »
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Obama Job Approval Rating Lower than Nixon’s
According to Gallup, President Obama is tied with George W. Bush for most unpopular re-elected president since Gallup began measuring presidential job-approval in 1945. In fact, Gallup found that apart from Bush, “every president…has had a higher job-approval rating in the January following his reelection than Obama has.” Obama’s approval rating is at 52. Think… Read more »
Nixon’s ‘Checkers’ speech reverberates in 2012 campaign
Seeking to save his place on the Republican ticket, Richard Nixon — 60 years ago this weekend — took to the airwaves and delivered his “Checkers” speech, one of the most famous in American political history. Source: NBCNews.com: Decision 2012