Nixon thought Reagan was "strange"

[Ficus]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NIXON_TAPES?SITE=IADES&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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"Reagan is not one that wears well," Nixon said.

"I know," Haldeman agreed.

"On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy," Nixon said. "Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around."

"No, he isn't," Haldeman said.

"Maybe he's different with others," Nixon said.

"No," Haldeman said.

"No, he's just an uncomfortable man to be around," Nixon said, "strange."

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Later, Nixon said Reagan's economic policies were unduly harsh and cautioned against giving him too much credit for winning the Cold War. "Communism would have collapsed anyway," he told Monica Crowley, a Nixon aide in his last years, according to her 1996 book, "Nixon Off the Record."
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[xchrom]

1. takes one to know one.

glad he recognized the cold war business.

[Ficus]

5. My thoughts exactly

nt

[Abe Linkman]

2. Not very enlightening

Nixxon didn't say what he meant, so it's hard to know what to make of his comments.

[hlthe2b]

3. Duuuuhhhhhhh?

That's about like Charlie Manson calling Ted Bundy strange!

[Syrinx]

4. That's something...

Coming from a guy that would go to the beach in a business suit and wingtips.

[Ficus]

6. the most interesting part

Later, Nixon said Reagan's economic policies were unduly harsh and cautioned against giving him too much credit for winning the Cold War. "Communism would have collapsed anyway," he told Monica Crowley, a Nixon aide in his last years, according to her 1996 book, "Nixon Off the Record."

Was it jealousy, or did Nixon believe that?

[ieoeja]

11. Nixon predicted it.

And pretty much the circumstances under which it would collapse. Detente may have made the peace crowd happy, but it wasn't about keeping the peace. It was about imploding communist states.

You can go back to Nixon's VP days and his Kitchen Debate with Kruschev. Nixon said communism would fail if the people living under communism knew what they were missing. This, however, flew in the face of the Churchillian national security policy of containment and starvation. Stalin did not lower that Iron Curtain, Churchill did and the US followed suit.

Once president Nixon replaced the starvation component of that policy with competition. Nixon "raised the curtain", Soviet citizens saw what they were missing, and THEY, not we, brought down their governments.

In the interim this infuriated LaRouchies and folks, like Reagan, in the John Birch Society. They thought Nixon was selling us out. LaRouche labelled our food shipments to the USSR, "tribute".

[Octafish]

7. Mae Brussell said Reagan was a BFEE set-up in 1972...

From a 1988 article by Paul Krassner:

In the summer of '72, Mae told me that the purpose of the assassinations was ultimately to get Ronald Reagan into office. Well, it happened, and the last time I talked to her, she said, "You know, more than half of the federal judges in this country were appointed by Reagan—and we know he didn't make those choices himself. That's how it happened in Nazi Germany—it was all done legally."

http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Lee%20Harvey%20Oswald%20Meets%20Suzanne%20Somers.html

[catzies]

9. That's a damn good read Octafish. Thanks.

I never heard of Mae Brussell before I read that.

[Ficus]

8. kick

for people who like to see Republicans talk shat about each other

[alfredo]

10. Vindication!! I have been telling people that the USSR

was on the way out, and we knew it for decades.

What Reagan did, was short circuit Russia's efforts at reform, causing a decade of economic chaos, and now possibly a return of dictatorship.

At that to feed his massive ego.