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Originally posted by KRL
Well he was popular at first then did a lot of really dumb things that a President shouldn't do. The Kent State students getting killed happened on his watch. To put National Guardsmen with Live Fucking Ammo on a college campus and then let them take out 4 students was one the most horrible things I remember from his era. After that it was all downhill for him politically.
I got to meet him at a restaurant in San Clemente as we were coming in he was walking out. He looked half dead already. Completely withered away from it all. But he was friendly and cordial to everyone in our dinner party that said hello.
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he also arranged for hardhats to beat up war protesters, arranged for the DNC to be burglarized, threatened the big 3 networks with a monopoly lawsuit if they didn't give him favorable coverage, bugged all his staff's offices to make sure they weren't leaking to the press, and early in his career he was aligned with Joe McCarthy and the house unamerican activities committee.
he was a bad, bad man and NOT a good president unless you think Democracy, the constitution and due process is something to wipe your ass with.