Realpolitik
Banned
Drudging up an old scenario that wasn't truly answered and adding a twist of my own.
Nixon is impassive at first like OTL, but then breaks down.
"It's over. For once, I'm going to be open and honest with my feelings, something I've seldom done. You reporters and activists have seen what every politician has been doing for the last one hundred years. I'm sure some of our most beloved presidents did far worse. *Gives some examples*. I had such great, great plans... *Gives some examples*. But it doesn't matter. You decided that "What did he know, and when he know it?" was more important. I am a criminal in your eyes. I'm so sorry. I let you down. I let the nation down. I gave them a sword... Now, I'm going to make all of what you people truly wanted come true. Because this is what you wanted, isn't it? *Lists some names, and comments on them*...
Before the end of my presidency, I seek to rectify one more lie. *Holding back tears*. Only twelve years ago I said something that ended up not being true... Well now it is true....and I will state it again...you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." *Boom*
-Last words of President Richard Nixon, August 9th, 1974
What's the reaction?
OOC:
Yes, I know Nixon was an introvert, and it's far more likely he'd go for something private, or truthfully, forego it altogether. But he also did like his theatrics and being in the center of history. This isn't completely ASB.
And this will change it. Blood on the screen, a screaming Pat Nixon... and for added fun, before he left, he dropped the nuclear bomb on Capitol Hill, so to speak, listing some examples of political misdeeds. He pulls no punches-he shows just how nasty politicians can be. Cynically, he might think that this might help him more than anything else can. If he gets really vengeful and decides to wreck America... (He might also go for a lot of other people. He's got nothing left to lose in terms of image.)
Nixon is impassive at first like OTL, but then breaks down.
"It's over. For once, I'm going to be open and honest with my feelings, something I've seldom done. You reporters and activists have seen what every politician has been doing for the last one hundred years. I'm sure some of our most beloved presidents did far worse. *Gives some examples*. I had such great, great plans... *Gives some examples*. But it doesn't matter. You decided that "What did he know, and when he know it?" was more important. I am a criminal in your eyes. I'm so sorry. I let you down. I let the nation down. I gave them a sword... Now, I'm going to make all of what you people truly wanted come true. Because this is what you wanted, isn't it? *Lists some names, and comments on them*...
Before the end of my presidency, I seek to rectify one more lie. *Holding back tears*. Only twelve years ago I said something that ended up not being true... Well now it is true....and I will state it again...you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." *Boom*
-Last words of President Richard Nixon, August 9th, 1974
What's the reaction?
OOC:
Yes, I know Nixon was an introvert, and it's far more likely he'd go for something private, or truthfully, forego it altogether. But he also did like his theatrics and being in the center of history. This isn't completely ASB.
And this will change it. Blood on the screen, a screaming Pat Nixon... and for added fun, before he left, he dropped the nuclear bomb on Capitol Hill, so to speak, listing some examples of political misdeeds. He pulls no punches-he shows just how nasty politicians can be. Cynically, he might think that this might help him more than anything else can. If he gets really vengeful and decides to wreck America... (He might also go for a lot of other people. He's got nothing left to lose in terms of image.)
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