DBWI-Nixon doesn't commit suicide

For one tv regulations would probably be very different in regards to violence. Seeing a president blow his brains out on live television in front millions of Americans (it's still on YouTube, one of the reasons it became such a large platform because they wouldn't show it on tv) made people have react to violence in a very different way.
 
Some says that seriously. because what the congress is doing right now....

Yikes. Didn't know about that when I posted. Scalise was my state representative when I was a senior in college and I sat next to his cousin at graduation.

OOC: IOTL, people make that joke on FARK (about Budd Dwyer).
 
Yikes. Didn't know about that when I posted. Scalise was my state representative when I was a senior in college and I sat next to his cousin at graduation.
I thought that it was a joke,too... But when I read about nixon.. Like improvement of relation with mainland china, pulling our troops out of vietnam, nixon-Brezhnev talks, and economic reforms.. I realized they had a point when people were saying that..
 
I thought that it was a joke,too...

Just checked a Louisiana based forum...I posted three minutes before the news broke there. Internet forums are typically a few minutes ahead because they relay breaking news from TV/radio faster than a written report can be compiled and published on CNN.

So my joke was most likely posted while the incident was happening. Creepy.
 
Didn't President Gore (2005-2013) get put on suicide watch after the terror nuke attack of Bucharest in 2007? The press claimed that he had Intel that could of prevented it was similar to the Nixon events.
 
Didn't President Gore (2005-2013) get put on suicide watch after the terror nuke attack of Bucharest in 2007? The press claimed that he had Intel that could of prevented it was similar to the Nixon events.

In 2012 the Democratic Party asked a Senator to run after Gore's second term expired. He said, and I quote: "After seeing what being President did to Al, there's no way I want any part of it. I have two daughters I want to see grow up, and I can't bear the thought of coming home to Michelle as a person she doesn't even recognize." He seemed content with his new role as President Emanuel's first appointment to the Supreme Court, though.
 
One major net gain - it did wonders for suicide awareness and mental healthcare in the US, his daughter Julie gaining national spotlight for speaking on behalf of greater mental healthcare for veterans and the military. While I have a hard time believing the USA would ever be the kind of country that would turn a blind eye to veteran suicide (what was the statistic before the big push to drive it down? 23 a day?), hearing Nixon's daughter (and Eisenhower's granddaughter in law!) speak so openly and forcefully on the issue did wonders to draw attention to the issue.

We may be sending troops into Syria, but thank god we're not the kind of people who let them suffer when they come home. We owe that to Nixon.
 
There's some real nasty stuff out there on Nixon that everybody seems to ignore.Corruption, bribery,graft, sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks, and funding anti war protesters.
Howard Hunt being shot killed by that burglar in his office led to the discovery of that information,it wasn't made public until 1999.It is speculated that the fear of that information becoming public is what drove him to suicide.
Rodger Ailes wouldn't have been sentenced to 20 years for helping President Nixon smuggle the gun past the secret service,he would have had a great future in the political and broadcasting fields.
He ended up working at a AM radio station in Texas,and is considered the founder of talk radio.
 
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