tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post1486504785640156067..comments2023-08-10T18:06:06.024+10:00Comments on Philippines Phil: Me, My Mom and NixonPhilippinesPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-87854232667284900142007-08-27T05:09:00.000+10:002007-08-27T05:09:00.000+10:00Ah, but we expect more from our presidents. That's...Ah, but we expect more from our presidents. That's why I despise Clinton so much. He acted like a spoiled rockstar, using his office to get chicks. His sexual antics in the oval office are unforgivable. <BR/><BR/>Nixon's coverup of the Watergate breakin was just as bad as, if not worse than Clinton's shenanigans, because he lied and broke the law. For all the good things he did, I'm afraid PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-10451156458728725822007-08-27T03:39:00.000+10:002007-08-27T03:39:00.000+10:00In the Philippines then, our knowledge and percept...In the Philippines then, our knowledge and perceptions of the whole Watergate affair were all handled and handed to us by Time and Newsweek. <BR/><BR/>So in hindsight, our attitudes were shaped very much by journalists who harbored certain biases, those which are still carried on to the current times.<BR/><BR/>But now that media is more equal opportunity, the legacy of Nixon is slowly being Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-32432162374389623982007-08-25T11:08:00.000+10:002007-08-25T11:08:00.000+10:00Actually, if you read Nixon's own words, or the wo...Actually, if you read Nixon's own words, or the words he spoke in his 1974 Michigan visit speech, in it, he references his 1972 visit. So there you go. <BR/><BR/>I was checking out the time line for it, and I see where the Watergate break-in arrests occurred in June of 1972, so "Nixon's problems" were already in work at the time of the visit Mom and I attended. Interesting.PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-68553695138990179012007-08-25T02:56:00.000+10:002007-08-25T02:56:00.000+10:00Here you go:http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/inde...Here you go:<BR/><BR/>http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3671<BR/><BR/>Incidently, your memory is more accurate than wikipedia. They have this visit recorded as happening in 1974.<BR/><BR/>The now named MBS International Airport gives no mention of the stop on their history page, but they do say that the airport was dedicated by Brig. Gen. Hoyt "Vanderburg".<BR/><BR/>Just another Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01395213867250164505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-37473341552943988662007-08-25T01:15:00.000+10:002007-08-25T01:15:00.000+10:00It wasn't. Those long haired cruddy looking demons...It wasn't. Those long haired cruddy looking demonstrators carrying the Watergate protest signs are a mystery to me.PhilippinesPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921214743105919057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18348841.post-78409223440762468582007-08-25T01:12:00.000+10:002007-08-25T01:12:00.000+10:00I was only a gleam in my dad's eye at that time. ...I was only a gleam in my dad's eye at that time. I hadn't realized that Watergate was even an issue before the re-election.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.com