Richard Nixon Quotes
We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.
Richard Nixon, Remark to his staff when his administartion recieved some public support when they cracked down on Anti-Cietnam War Protestors Quoted on Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, TV Documentary, “The Vietnam War”, PBS, September 25, 2017
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Actually, there have been “paranoid” fear of opposition political viewpoints in America very often. In the early days of the Republic, the Federalists main concern was not England or other foreign enemies, but Jefferson’s Democratic Republicans. And those Jeffersonians were absolutely convinced that the greatest danger to America was the Federalists who would bring back a monarchy if they could. The Jacksonians triggered a similar polarization. The Civil War stemmed from this extreme. Even America’s most popular President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected to 4 successive terms, was perceived as the major “enemy” of America along with his wife Eleanor and the other New Dealers.
So far as he was concerned, Republican moderates—his own party members—were liberals. Anyone who did not support the extreme Conservative agenda, was an enemy and a liberal. He and the Tea Party drove almost all the moderate Republicans out of the party.
Kennedy was dining with Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce soliciting support for JFK's presidential candidacy. Luce observed that JFK to obtain the Democratic nomination would have left-of-center domestic policies. Luce was right and the father, wrong.
Erbakan aid this in a speech made before he became Prime Minister. After he left office, he was tried and convicted for this statement which violated Turkey’s strict ban against incitement of one group against another.
What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.
He was discussing how to move the Republican Party to the extreme right. on a 2010 interview with Political Vindication Radio, and extreme California Radio Talk Show. Six years later he became Donald Trump’s Campaign CEO and after Trump won, he became the President’s Chief Policy Advisor. He was much closer to “taking it over”—the Republican Party.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
