McAPUSH: Brendan Schneider: The President Calling

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Brendan Schneider: The President Calling - Nixon's Bombing for Peace

Brendan Schneider

I find these conversations between Nixon and his advisors to be leagues different from what we see today in politics. This may be caused by the severity of the situation or perhaps just the president himself, but I see a much more intense level of politics involved. Nixon threw around ideas that are frowned upon at this point in time (mining international waters, propaganda, etc.) without much of a second thought. Things were concealed from the media as well: nearly impossible to do anymore.

Despite this, I find a similarity between Nixon's politics and today's: a large portion of the thought process leading to any decision is based on re election and internal politics. Nixon hid things from the media that may have hurt him and planted false supporters to make him seem popular, causing him to be re elected in the end.