Interesting interview of Nixon taken after the Iranian Revolution

[Polybius]

I may not agree with everything he said, but he made some excellent points.

[marble falls]

1. Nixon did some very good, almost Democratic sort of things. Too bad the inner Nixon was so defective as a person.

[Blue Full Moon]

2. This is why there is a problem.

The Shah was progressive is a lie.
British Petroleum, royal family and the CIA. (George HW Bush) don't care if the CIA denied it of course they would.
Mohammad Mosaddegh's administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land. His time as prime minister was marked by the clash with the British government, known as the Abadan Crisis, following the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company , later known as British Petroleum

[Polybius]

4. He wasn't progressive by any means, but we made a huge mistake by abandoning him

What replaced him was so much worse.

[RVN VET71]

3. Nixon was a brilliant man, but a tragically flawed one

His grasp of real world politics was excellent and clearly expressed in these interviews. He said things that would make the MAGA piglets rage. His comments about the obvious dangers attendant on a Country that abandons its friends are very compelling, given a current President who has essentially withdrawn from NATO and red carpeted Putin.


But excellent reminder of the better sided of the man's intelligence and intellect -- the two are not the same. Neither caused his downfall and disgrace, which was due to his weakness of character, his fear that an undefined group of enemies were out to get him. (Also, of course, his ill-conceived bombing of Cambodia which gave the lie to his claim that he had a fool-proof plan to extricate us peacefully from a war we should never have allowed ourselves to get sucked into.)


Thank you, Polybius!