No Carter in '76 - Best Person to Lead America from 1977 Onwards?

To my knowledge he was popular with party bigwigs because he successfully campaigned for the GOP in the 1966 midterms, but they had to have been very gullible to think that would somehow make Nixon a great candidate after he not only lost the Presidency but he even lost his own home state to Moonbeam's father. He only won in '68 because he sabotaged the Vietnam Peace Talks (which probably would have failed anyway but Nixon orchestrated this to happen right before the election and halt Humphrey's momentum).

I was referring more to GOP voters, you are correct with regards to party people.
 
. . . He only won in '68 because he sabotaged the Vietnam Peace Talks (which probably would have failed anyway but Nixon orchestrated this to happen right before the election and halt Humphrey's momentum).
Yes, Nixon used two separate emissaries to contact the South Vietnam government, Anna Chennault and Louie Kung.
 
LBJ also spied on Nixon's campaign, to help Humphrey, as he did with Goldwater's.

Eugene McCarthy's campaign was only possible thanks to Megadonors.

Not a clean election with Chennault being the top of the crap mountain.

Nixon's actions were what happens when someone slightly paranoid, and tactically smart played the machine politics of the day.
 
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Rose - get her [find?] Louie Kung—
going on the SVN - tell him hold firm​

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/haldeman-notes.html
(from middle of second page)

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These are notes in Bob Haldeman’s handwriting of instructions he received from Richard Nixon in a phone call the night of Oct. 22, 1968. I say, pretty much as much of a smoking gun as you'd possibly want. (And there is more.)

LATER EDIT: South Vietnam’s Thieu was not crazy about the peace talks anyway. All the same, love to have a re-roll.
 
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Didn't doubt Nixon did it, was just pointing out that it wasn't unusual in the last two elections (not to mention the dead voting in Illinois in 1960 and Texas Democrats straight up rejecting their nominee in 1956).

Saying Nixon suddenly screwed up a perfect system is wrong though and gives him too much credit.
 
Didn't doubt Nixon did it, . . .
I'm not saying you do. I just want to put it out there as clearly as I can in case other people do have realistic doubt.

And I think we might disagree on how serious this is. I think making a full-bore attempt to sabotage peace talks is quite a bit more serious than cheating an election.

In Evan Thomas' biography Being Nixon: A Man Divided, he says Nixon felt cheated since Johnson was trying to push the peace talks at the last minute. So, maybe Nixon felt he was cheating defensively? That might explain, but not justify.
 
I'm not saying you do. I just want to put it out there as clearly as I can in case other people do have realistic doubt.

And I think we might disagree on how serious this is. I think making a full-bore attempt to sabotage peace talks is quite a bit more serious than cheating an election.

In Evan Thomas' biography Being Nixon: A Man Divided, he says Nixon felt cheated since Johnson was trying to push the peace talks at the last minute. So, maybe Nixon felt he was cheating defensively? That might explain, but not justify.

I think we do disagree on that, and that's OK.
 
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In 1964, Barry Goldwater wins the south, his home state of Arizona (barely), and nowhere else.

In 1968, Nixon runs his “southern strategy” and wins five southern states as I count it, George Wallace gets 13.5 percent nationwide and wins five southern states, and Hubert Humphrey wins only Maryland and Texas in the south.

The obvious and straightforward conclusion seems to be that a goodly chunk of my fellow citizens were racist enough to vote that way.
 
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Way back on May 17, 1954, and on the days and weeks following, Eisenhower uses his political capital to matter-of-factly support the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs. Board of Education ending discrimination in the public schools.
 
So, I think it’s both:

pre-existing racism as shown during the economic good times of the 1960s,

+ additional anger and scapegoating during the long sketchy times of the ‘70s,

Both.
 
http://sites.jmu.edu/mad70s/2013/04/28/1973-oil-crisis/

In a letter to the editor in the February 22nd 1974 edition of the Breeze, another student again suggests that the actions taken by Madison College to deal with the energy crisis are not enough,

"Gasoline is very near unavailable at any price in the city of Harrisonburg [northern Virginia] … campus security continues to patrol, night and day, everyday, everywhere, every month. . . "
Okay, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Oct. 6, 1973, to start the Yom Kippur War. The U.S. supported Israel, of course we did, they were an ally during the cold war. Most of the Arab nations of OPEC wanted to boycott the U.S. There was some complicated middle part in which Saudi Arabia first tried to broker a deal and then got pissed off.

The upshot was that the price of oil increased 4-fold (yes, four fold).

What seems a little hard to find is new items or videos about the first gas lines in the U.S. after this. *help would be appreciated!
 
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?408565-1/meg-jacobs-discusses-panic-pump

please see 5:00 into talk

" . . . The actual shortage of fuel was not overwhelming. Uh, did in and of itself require a massive change in lifestyle. And yet Americans reacted as if this was the end of the world as they had know it. . . "
Well, people always focus on what direction things are going. And yes, maybe too much so.

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* Meg Jacobs is the author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (published in 2016)
 
At the 1968 GOP Convention they were working together to join forces and stop Nixon. Rocky picking Reagan would have made perfect sense to unify the party, provide geographical balance, and appeal to Nixon's home state. Ultimately this failed because Nixon was just too popular with the Republican faithful (despite being a repeated loser, I've never really understood that) and the rest is history.
sounds sensible, they just seemed like polar opposites and more enemies than friends to me
 
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