What were Nixon's inagurations like?

[Pig_Latin_Lover]

I would really like to have Richard Nixon in office right now, but alas, that can never happen. But, I'm just wondering, comparatively speaking, what his inargurations were like in '68 and '72.

Did he party down? Throw a big ball during the Vietnam War? Or was he relatively classy and did he underplay it?

[chelsea0011]

1. Not sure, but I bet everyone's pockets were checked in coat room

[Dr.Phool]

2. I was at the one in Jan. '73

As a protester. A lot more freedom, and a lot more low key. Just a few balls around town, and not as glitzy.

No free speech zones, in fact we had the run of the city. I was with the Yippee!s. Our Madison Wisconsin branch brought down 15,000 dead laboratory rats, that we threw at Nixon as he traveled by. I even watched a friend jumping up and down on the hood of a car containing Chief Justice Warren Burger, aout an hour after he swore Nixon in.

Boy, times sure have changed.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Even Nixon had more class than Bush too!

:eyes:

We really have hit rock bottom with *.

[Dr.Phool]

4. I never in a million years, thought I'd miss him!

[Hand]

5. If Nixon were alive today...

...he'd be drummed out of the Republican party as a wimpy crypto-liberal tree-hugging multilateralist appeaser. Uneffinbelievable, but this is the same party that ditched Barry Goldwater.

:crazy:

[ramapo]

7. Yep, the good ole days

Except for his unforgivable use of Vietnam to win reelection, costing thousands of American lives, Tricky Dick looks better everyday. He might've been a bit wacky but at least he wasn't an idiot to boot.

[SheilaT]

6. My first day of work

at National Airport in Washington DC was January 20, 1969.

My brother and his wife went apartment hunting for me in Alexandria, VA, and then got caught in inaugural traffic and it took an extra hour or so to make it to the airport in the afternoon to pick me up.

But I don't think the central part of the city was totally blocked off and people weren't strip-searched to be able to attend. Although there was a degree of Republican excess, that's always noticeable when a Republican is inaugurated, compared to the Democrats.

Arrogance and mean-spiritedness are the two hallmarks of Republicans.