Fred Thompson Quotes

He was the first to accuse Nixon

Sung to the tune of an old English pub song, "Down at the Olde Bull and Bush." The Congressman also fancies himself a pianist.

The Republican Majority of the House, when Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, was running for President, established a select committee to investigate an incident that occurred in the State Department during Clinton's term. However, there already had been both House and Senate hearings and numerous investigations of the same incident. This committee uniquely was established with no deadlines to finish their work and an unlimited budget. Soon it became clear that the focus of the Republican efforts was on Mrs. Clinton and not on State Department activities except as how they might be negative to Clinton. Even leading Republicans admitted that the majority had abused its Congressional power to investigate to achieve primarily partisan advantage. See {582958} for Hanna's later statement when he incurred the ire of some of the Republicans for his admitting the truth.

Before the 1968 election, President Johnson, and gotten the North Vietnam Communists to agree to Peace Talks with the U. S. and South Vietnam. Then Candidate Nixon thought that if the peace talks were ongoing and making progress, there would be more support for the Democrats and Nixon's opponent Hubert Humphrey. So Nixon secretly send a secret emissary to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu telling him that he would not get a very good deal because President Nixon claimed that President Johnson was too eager to end the Vietnam war. He suggested that if Thieu boycotted the peace talks, then when Nixon was elected, he would guarantee a much better deal for South Vietnam and Thieu personally. President Thieu boycotted the peace talks and there could be no progress. However there is a Federal Law, the Logan Act, that makes it a felony for a private American citizen to conduct or interfere with foreign policy or negotiations with a foreign government. President Johnson found out about Nixon's sabotage of the Peace Talks, called Nixon (see {583263}) and threatened him with prosecution if he interfered further. LBJ had decided that with the left wing at odds with the U. S. Government over the Vietnam war, a prosecution of Nixon would cause the Right Wing to challenge the government also and the country didn't need further polarization. He would do that only if Nixon did not heed the President's warning. But when Nixon won the election and became President, he was terribly anxious that his pre-election crimes would be made public, and spent much of his time and staff effort trying to find out who knew about his politically self-serving felony and who might make his crime public.

Nixon’s remark {583773} had been suppressed by the Nixon family and McGovern and the world first heard it 40 years after the fact.

Nixon was the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee running with Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In Tuck’s most famous dirty trick, he had signs printed welcoming Nixon. The first line was in English but the second was in Chinese Characters. Tuck, working against Nixon, had the signs printed and pretending to be a Nixon aide passed them out to the Nixon staff who gave them to people in the crowd. The Chinese 2nd line referred to the scandal where Nixon had taken a “loan” from Howard Hughes—the financier and industrialist and Nixon was desperately trying to get that story supplanted by other news. Tuck also did the same with Chinese fortune cookies and Nixon people enthusiastically distributed them.

Referring to the Nixon Presidency: