Presidential Dishonesty Quotes
Bush had stated when he was running for President that he was opposed to placing America’s nuclear waste in the Nevada mountain which was very unpopular with Nevada voters, but once in the Presidency he changed his position. The reason might have been that there was no backup plan to Yucca Mountain that Bush could select. It was wither Nevada or back to the drawing board with radioactive waste piling up each day.
Alsop, a political hawk was convinced, as many other right wingers were at the time that the Russians had forged ahead of us in offensive missiles. When he asked President Eisenhower, the President never denied it, but never went to Congress to ask for more money to close the “missile gap”. Alsop made this shocking accusation which offended many Americans, but pleased the ultra-hawks and anti-communists. Most of the nation however then believed that there was a missile gap, with varying explanations of Eisenhower’s silence on the matter. Two years later John F. Kennedy, used the “missile gap” when running in 1960 against Nixon by attacking Nixon and Eisenhower for allowing us to fall behind the Russians at have a missile gap. When Kennedy became President, he was very surprised that there was no missile gap favoring the Russians—it was favoring the United States. Eisenhower did not want the Russians to know that he knew exactly what they were producing and deploying in missiles through great espionage sources. By not saying anything in the face of the accusations, the Russians assumed that the Americans really thought that they had more capacity than they did. And Eisenhower wanted that so that they would be secure that the United States had no real knowledge of their missile capacity. If Eisenhower had actually told the nation that the Russians were really behind us, the Russians would suspect a security leak and our sources could be compromised.
Sullivan observes that so many of his falsehoods are so easy to demontrate as false, that they appear to be stupid. There are others who believe that the "stupid lies" are not so stypid but is an attempt to keep everyone's attention on his lies and exaggeragations and wheterh or not they are true, that the public begins to distrust almost all information as lies oro manipulations, and meanwhile no one focuses on the fact that where Trump is trying to keep his procedureal campaign promises, was failing to keep the effects promises like everyone will have better health coverage, that he will reduce the "outrageous" pharmaceutical costs, that he will defeat ISIS, that Blacks will have a much better standard of living, that crime rates will come down, and many others,
She was attacking George W. Bush who had started the Iraq War on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while Clinton lied over sex and although it violated the law by lying under oath, there were no injuries or deaths, while hundreds of thousands died as a result of the Iraq war. Bush claimed that he did not intentionally lie, but was mislead by poor intelligence estimates. See {583802} for another view opposing the impeachment which ended when Clinton was Easily acquitted.
Nixon however turned out to be very dishonest with the Watergate scandal allowing the public to see and hear what Nixon was really like. He was the only American President who resigned, as he did that to save himself from being impeached and tried for various fenonies he committed. Vidal had his number. However, Nixon was not a crook in the usual sense of the word. His violations of law and ethics did not enrich him fiscally. His corruption was the drive and mania for power and control.
