Barbara Walters Interviews Richard Nixon | 1985 (Full Interview)
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- From ABC News 20/20, 1985 and the archives of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
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Listening to him speak is like water in the desert. We don’t know how thirsty we really are for truth.
Nixon's crimes look like jaywalking compared to today. I miss when we could have intelligent conversations even when we didnt agree.
You mean compared to Trump who attempted a coup, stole classified documents, and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere?
@pewterpirate4560 and yet Nixon got off scot free...thats why we have worse (trump) crimes today
@@Exposing_Mark_NiemczykTrump superficially started no war and Nixon continued throwing Agent Orange on Vietnamese! Tf are you guys taking?
@@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk Nixon didn't get off, he had to resign.
On both sides crimes… and election interference.
Richard Nixon had a great, yet underappreciated sense of humor!
He did, but they were for the most part “unintentional humor”, he couldn’t be himself around people he didn’t know.
Nixon had a brilliant sense of humor. His IQ must have been pretty high.
Yeah a Real barrel of Laughs.
@@randyhanson4973 Yes, Nixon's IQ was VERY high. He graduated first in his class at Duke University Law School. However, he was also mentally ill. Or so say modern psychiatrists who have studied him in depth.
He had no emotional intelligence but a huge IQ.
Regretfully, the timing was such that Richard Nixon was not in the Whitehouse at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. President Nixon had no equal when it came to foreign policy. His instincts on China and the Soviet Union proved to be correct. His ability to crystal ball outcomes in areas of conflict throughout the world was uncanny. Will be remembered for his intellect and cunning. Watching this interview in 2023 decades past it's taping proves with precision how smart this man was.
He had one. Ronald Reagan.
How were his instincts on China proven correct? China had little to no impact on the Soviet Union's collapse, and the US's courting of Chinese business has made it into the monster it is today. The US would have been much better off leaving its China policy the way it was, and its regime very well could have collapsed along with the Eastern Bloc.
Great comment!
@JohnAsmith-rw6uo Sooo, Reagan, whose brain was already mush by 1987 (and almost certainly even earlier, even though the public only found out in '94), was Nixon's "equal" when it came to foreign policy viz USSR and China, you say? Allllrighty, then.
Opening China was one of the worst foreign policy decisions Nixon ever made. He gave China legitimacy and more power by opening them to the world. Look at China now and how they're a threat to U.S. interests and free trade.
He once said that the difference between him and LBJ was he wasn't willing to kill to be president.
And he suspected LBJ being behind JFK’s demise. LBJ even had his own sister killed
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@@phildynerphotography5049what about his sister????
No, he wasn't willing to do that. Just some breaking and entering, investigating people, targeting people for tax audits, slandering people by calling them communists, etc. Just things like that.
@@phildynerphotography5049You got any proof to back up such an accusation?
Just amazing intellect and conversation skills. Makes sense and is honest.
Well, one out of two ain't bad!
“Unless you discipline yourself to write you talk too much. “.. well Sir if you had met some of these social media celebrities of today, you would be shocked 😂
he means real writing, not trashy tweets with bad english.
@@matthewalkman386 thats exactly the POINT!!.. you missed it. They talk too much because they cant write worth a damn.
@@tasibhothen he wouldnt be shocked.
He would likely presume bc they talk too much they arent disciplined writers.
Again not shocked
@@arewestilldoingphrasing6490 i say he would be. You say not. I guess we will never know. Deal with it!
Nixon would have loved the long format of podcast interviews
Any honest politician should love the format. I’m going to be one and I love the ability to convey yourself fully. If you have an ideology, podcasts should be a positive.
He smiled so much more after his presidency.
DC is a soul stealing horror show
@@RJ1999xpolitics typically are you don’t get to make that much money and have that much power without making a couple deals with the devil
Yea because he wasn't sitting in jail,he quit in disgrace.
@@johnjaco5544 Just proves you have no clue
@@johnjaco5544 Please list his crimes.
He was very smart
Agreed!
Opposite of trump or biden
He exceptional on foreign affairs.
By today’s standards, Nixon is one the most honorable POTUS to date.
Yes, he really is an instructive bridge to how far society has fallen
Oh PLEASE! You really need to read up on the man! He didn't earn the nickname 'tricky Dick' for nothing you know! Were you even alive when he was president? Because I was and let me tell you, he was one shady character.
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That is so very true.
He was back then.
How nice to see a reporter having a nice interview, and respecting a Republican and not having I gotcha you questions like the so-called journalist do today
Well Barbara was a republican I think. She was not liberal. Her ex boyfriend was a republican. And on and on.
If Republicans were not the brainwashed and maniacally MAGA crowd they are today, they might not have to face probing journalists.
Nixon 2024❤
Absolutely let’s go dig him up😂😂😂 because we already got a dead president in office
My very first memory from television, is seeing President Nixon resign. I was 3 yrs old, watching on a black and white tv here in Norway.
Definitely one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the 20th century
Thank you for your service, Mr president
Yeah thank you for fucking things up in the 70s and helping lead to the detioration of the country's general distrust of the government and of our elected leaders. Man was lucky not to be thrown in jail, and he will remain as a how not to be for us. Nixon, Harding, Reagan, Bush 2, and Trump- any coincidence they're all stupid and Republican??
@@danH_1999You sound vaccinated and ret - ard - ed
yea.. he opened up trade with China..y'know China?... the ones that keep cyberattacking us and stealing our ideas.
Amazing how you can call somebody a hero in America and dupe the people into thinking its true, cause they are just to lazy to educate themselves on facts. Because of what Nixon did...
We gave China all our manufacturing . Please tell me how brilliant is that?
He’s not the man the tv tried to tell me was throughout my childhood in the 70’s. Him in his own words. Nothing beats learning. I’ll never be on the hate Nixon bandwagon. Especially in light of all that followed him. He outshines most of them.
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The media during Nixon's political career was extremely biased. And largely unchallenged in that hegemony. So yes, in Richard Nixon, the media constructed a strawman to a great extent.
You phrased that very well. An incredibly insightful and important comment that is so often missed.
Unfortunately, humanity often remembers the bad more so than the good. Public opinion has shifted more in favor of Nixon. Thanks to UA-cam, we can educate ourselves in listening to Mr. Nixon and realize that he has more good than bad in him. He is very articulate and well-spoken. I think it's imperative that today's generation become familiar with great thinkers like President Nixon. Today, the young are often exposed to absent-minded material that voids critical thinking.
What a brilliant man 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
There she is Barbara Wawa
PRESIDENT Nixon!!!
You guys have outdone yourselves by putting up all these old Nixon interviews
Richard Nixon was one the best presidents of United States of America!
Expanded Social Security in a way that would get Bernie Sanders h@rd!
You mean in spite of his obstruction of justice, cover up, and authorizing the payments of hush money to Watergate burglars? You know nothing about Nixon.
He was f the haters!
He was outstanding in foreign policy and diplomacy but horrible with domestic affairs.
A very great, smart and wise president, I wish he had more time to prove himself.
More time????? The guy was in politics for 27 years! Granted, it wasn't 50 years like Biden. But how much more time did you want him to have?
"I could answer [that question] in a minute, but it would be intellectual junk food!"
If only Mr. Nixon were alive today to see our current TikTok & soundbite culture. You don't even get a minute to answer that question anymore, just 10-15 second clips.
Nixon was the greatest communicator in the White I ever saw in my lifetime. Im 80 yrs old. He could speak coherently for hours on end, off the cuff with no notes or teleprompter. You understood what he was saying even if you disagreed. I always thought history would treat him kindly after he was gone. I was right.
Incredible intellect, no matter what Nixon was no damn dummy!!
I was 12 years old when he resigned it was a sad time for the country he was imperfect but a great president we all have faults
I was 13 , what he did with China was historical. Great man.
It's not faults. He broke the law. Plain and simple. It doesnt matter how intelligent he was, and he was, he was paronoid vindictive petty. We see him today in these interviews and he is charming and engaged. And people dont see why he had to resign. And the arguments that other presidents did wrongs doesnt hold water. It never justifies things
@@richardpape5546 Who died and left you judge and jury?? I love judgmental people. 😂😂
@@richardpape5546THANK YOU! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments. It’s terrifying. Nixon was demonstrably an awful man who did evil things and was anti democracy at by so many means. 50 years after the fact seeing these people rehabilitating his image is ludicrous
@@richardpape5546now do the hildabeast. Then do biden.
Great interview. RIP Mr. President!
The man has always been my favorite President. The former President certainly had his dark side however, in foreign policy the absolute best.
"dark side" How so?
Loved this interview, he is very interesting to listen to
Nixon: "A summit cannot labour and produce a mouse"
Walters: Bizarre look
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My goodness do I love listening to this man speak. Great prediction on HW as well for ‘88.
❤Very very smart man. Love from Finland❤
I still believe he was the most intelligent President of the USA! Period.
Intelligent, yes. But hardly the MOST intelligent. Jefferson, J.Q. Adams, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and even Clinton were all smarter than Nixon.
Imagine his thoughts about social media and current state of media
Nixon was a remarkably astute and intelligent man. We could sure use him in the White House today.
No we could NOT. He also suffered from mental illness and was on any number of drugs.
I think the dementia of the guy who is in there NOW is bad enough. We don't need to trade that for a crazy man!
His answer about state dinners was interesting in that he was at the state dinner for the normalization of relations with China in 1978. The Carter White House didn't want to invite him, but the Chinese said they would go to Nixon if he wasn't at the dinner. He's been gone 30 years in April. I miss him.
7:55 I swear Nixon is a fortune teller
Anyone could have guessed that. Basically: oh hey, if the economy is good, his VP will be elected.
@@VideoAmericanStyle its not that simple. Economy's have been great with incumbents, yet they still lost. But it's not just this. It's with everything else, too.
@@starter47990 it IS that simple. Barring exceptional circumstances, the economy is everything to voters. Same thing sunk Bush Sr in ‘92.
This was not some long shot prediction on Nixon’s part by any stretch; he doesn’t deserve special credit for the obvious turning out to be reality.
@@VideoAmericanStyle its not everything. The economy was good under Trump, but he still lost for other reasons. But again, you have to look at all of Nixons predictions. He nailed the situations in China, Ukraine, Iran, etc. Nixon foresaw a lot of circumstances that hold true today
What a sharp quick thinking man. This is what we need in thr Whitehouse today
Historically fascinating.
Wow! I always learn something when I watch these old political/educational videos. I was 16 in 1985 and I don't recall Reagan's Bitburg Affair Nixon speaks of but it must have been a really big deal! The Ramones even wrote a song about it - Bonzo goes to Bitburg! I can see both sides of the issue now that I am in my 50's and so much time has passed. Nixon speaks like a real statesman, not like the people we've had in the presidency recently! God help the USA!
Reagan visited a Nazi cemetery....big deal
Well, I was in college when that happened and it really wasn't as bad as people made it out. What basically happened was that Reagan was in Germany and the Chancellor had invited him to a German cemetery where over 2,000 soldiers from the regular German Army were buried. This was to commemorate the end of World War II 40 year prior and they were to lay a wreath. However, unbeknownst to Reagan and apparently his advance team, there were also around 44 Waffen SS soldiers buried there was well. Unlike the regular army, the Waffen SS was a special unit which were directly involved in the worst atrocities committed by the Nazi's like the Holocaust, human experimentation, torture and mass murder. For these and other reasons, they were declared a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials instead of as part of the military. THAT is why Reagan caught so much heat. Because many people who suffered or who's family had suffered under the Waffen SS saw it NOT as a visit to a cemetery where thousands of regular solders were buried, but rather as a trip to the graves of 44 thugs. Which, I think, was blown way out of proportion.
The smartest person in the White House in my lifetime. I’m 57 years old.
Brilliant at world affairs. No need to say more.
Sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks so he could get elected into to office. Hired that skunk Kissinger. Secretly bombed Cambodia. The CIA involvement in Allende’s overthrow. Catering to Communist China. One deplorable move after another.
Absolutely correct
If you're 57, I think you might wanna get tested for alzheimer's.
@@moviola12 Hahaha, you are probably right. But who was smarter? These last 50 some years? Let me guess you think Obama was or maybe Clinton
I remember where I was as I watched him resign the presidency. Not many can say that now. He certainly, in many ways, had an enormous impact on this country.
I can. I'm 63 and I was 13 and visiting my grandparents. My grandma had it on TV and recorded it on a tape recorder ( before VCR). She told me it was history.
@@debbiemullen2574 you’re grandma was right
Yea so do I. I was in our living room watching him with my mother. My father, who couldn't stand Nixon, was in the kitchen doing dishes and I'll never forget the way my mother yelled for him 'get in here..get in here..he's going to resign!' It sure made my father happy!
Brilliant.
Thanks for posting!
You bet!
Still great to hear his insights... one of the more intellectual of our Presidents. I disagree with Mr Nixon.... he was very good on TV
What a time this was for leadership and journalism. Why is this in the past and not our current reality. It is a sign.
There was a chance to journalism to make it not partisan, they chose wrong.
I don’t think it’s a sign per se, I think it’s a sad state of affairs that were made worse by repealing the fairness doctrine, people not paying attention, and the popularity of lying/pushing conspiracy theories.
A natural story teller
Much better journalism than today. Nixon was a clear and decisive intellectual well into his later years. Nice to see this clip from today’s perspective.
Don't forget that he ended the war in Vietnam and saved the life of both Vietnamese and Americans
OMG. Really? It took him over 4 years. Our world would have been so different so mich more kinder if Bobby Kennedy had not been killed. Listen to Bobby Kennedy's speeches and interviews during the 1968 campaign. He was intelligent well spoken understood foreign policy just as much as Nixon. The only difference was the compassion and the huge understanding for the human element. It's something lacking in Nixon and most politicians before and after. Even his brother, John ,was more of an aloof. All you have to do is listen to his speech in indianapolis the night Martin Luther King was killed. Rioting occured in all of our big cities, Indianapolis stayed quiet. Thats the impact he had. Nixon perpetiated the Viet Nam war. He used the timing, just before the the 1972 election to declare "peace is at hand".
No. He didn't. Many thousands of GIs died on Nixon's watch fighting a worthless war. The last American to leave Vietnam was in May 1975. Nixon had resigned by then.
I remember Nixon quite well. My Constitutional Law Professor, Archibald Cox was the first Watergate prosecutor. His future son in law, Eddie Cox, was a year ahead of me at Law School. Didn't know him too well. My take on Nixon was that he was a brilliant President, and a good one, with an unfortunate case of paranoia. Nevertheless, he stands ahead and shoulders over the recent bunch.
So, father-in-law was called Cox, and his daughter married someone also called Cox? Hmm
Fax, if he was so smart, why did he get impeached?
OverHyped
Propaganda: Intellectual Junk Food
@@JamesDoe-ie1sb Re read my post. I believe he was impeached because of his paranoia. Intelligent people can be paranoid . His foreign was brilliant.
I never thought I would be watching old interviews of former President Richard Nixon, since I’m a Democrat. But I find these interviews quite revealing and extremely interesting! His intelligence and his ability to effectively articulate his thoughts is impressive! I wish our leaders of today possessed the same qualities! ☮️🖖🏽
Ein politisches Naturtalent 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
1k likes he deserves it!
This is a statesman.
Very surprised (and not) that he would sit for an interview with Barbara Walters
He was fond of BW actually. She did quite a few interviews over the years starting when he was in the White House.
They like eachother, She went with him to China in 72, he landed for her a interview with kissinger and with prince Philip of Britain, was quite a relationship. She tells all this in her memoir Audition. So good read.
One of the best at diplomacy.
This was a good interview.
Very intelligent man.
Respectful, yet probing. It's amazing and most of all, sad how far off course "journalists" today have veered. If you tried to have this interview in 2023, it would be a grand standing circus.
Thanks!!
4:48, 6:11, 6:54, 😂I think President Nixon was taking a little swipe at the great Barbara Walters here with the age comment.
Thanks for sharing this.
Nixon - Tanned & Well Rested 2028
Honestly, much of what President Nixon said turned out to be ture! He was right about Germany and about Russia (Soviet Union)!
I looked at one short video with Richard Nixon, and now I'm being flooded with them. I hate those youtube algorithms.🤔
I would just love to hear his views on the world since his passing.
Yes, he’s on my list for this along with George Washington, JFK, George Carlin, and Bill Hicks.
Very interesting interview. Although Nixon committed crimes against the country, these absolutely pale in comparison to what Donald Trump did. Not only that, but Nixon's reaction to them is a far better example (both his resignation and subsequent admissions to making mistakes). One cannot imagine Trump apologising, admitting to any errors, and certainly not standing down or resigning.
Can you list trumps non existent crimes
Well said
What did Trump do? He kept food and gas prices down. We were energy independent. Taxes were down. No new wars. Peace around the World. Stopped illegal immigration.
Nixon was such a brilliant mind.
What a smart man! He correctly predicted a George H.W. Bush presidency but was too soon in his prediction for a female VP in 1988.
There was fierro but she wasn't a Republican
That was an incredibly obvious ‘prediction’ to make: oh hey, if the economy is good, the president’s VP will be elected! What a remarkable insight. 😂
I wish we could have Nixon as a write in candidate in 2024.
Nixon is an intellectual and he understands our enemy.
You do that, instead of voting for Trump
Great Idea, go ahead.
@@jooei2810 I think Nixon would say a Putin Loving Traitor with 91 counts is our enemy.
Christmas is near friends, let's invite everybody enjoy very special gifts, such as getting involved in political battles because... people have the power and this is a very good moment to remember ❤🎉❤
If you put his mistakes aside, policy wise, he was a great president! Extremely intelligent, informed, knowledgeable and decisive! One of the smartest presidents in modern times!
This man was an intellectual powerhouse, he would make mince meat of any politician from either party in today’s arena.
Nixon thought Reagan was a dumbass. Not kidding. Dinesh D'Souza can confirm this.
And he knows this how?
Four more years!!! ✌️ ✌️
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It’s almost bizarre and unreal how perceptive he was with foreign policy? A brilliant man and very under appreciated President.
Just another day of burning in hell for Walters.
He was brilliant.
Really interesting seeing so much love for Nixon in the comments. Wonder how many of the commenters were alive during his presidency. Surprised to see less nuance in the comments section of a very insightful video of a complicated historical figure
I was born in 1944, so I remember Nixon quite well.
I was a freshman in high school in 1969. A junior in 1972. I remember Watergate and his resignation.
These were the good ole days and it makes me sad about the state we find ourselves in today.
He was so knowledgeable and predicted many things correctly. So smart and he knew so much about foreign affairs. Such a shame he was consumed with people that were his "enemies" -- he could have been one of the best presidents ever. Even despite leaving in shame, he did so many great things. And I am a democrat.
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I believe there is an entire book devoted to their friendship.
Oh Dick was smart...too smart for his own good
Low key, Nixon had a great sense of humor.
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38 years ago
Barbara Walters was a devil's advocate.
Metaphysician Philosopher
2:18 true of everything.
I wasn’t around when Nixon was president (I’m 21). History class kind of talks about Nixon as the one who brought the soldiers home from Vietnam and watergate. My question is, if Nixon didn’t fall into the watergate scandal, would his presidency have been looked on fondly? Going off this interview, he seems extremely well spoken and respectful to his opposing party. Curious what those who were around then think!
Watergate is stupid, I grew up with the basic notion that Nixon was so bad because of it then when I finally learned what it was I was like, THAT'S IT! that's what all this fuss is about haha. To me it just seems like typical Washington gamesmanship I hardly believe that's the worst thing that happened in federal politics.
You obviously, "like," don't understand obstruction of justice, cover up, and authorizing hush money for Watergate burglars.
He was not a crook!
Every President up until biden, is Smart, Lucid, can hold a conversation beyond 2 minutes. Doesn't mumble, stumble multiple times. Even obuma wasn't a total embarressment, just 80% embarrassing.
He´s most important decision, The dollar-gold standard
Any candidate for president we've had in the past 25+ 😮years, couldn't hold a candle to Nixon, came from modest means, to the highest position on the planet.
He waa loved by the public. The media invented him a monster
This was a time when real politicians existed in America. How did the political class degenerate so quickly?
What a dignified man.
Haha Donald Trump lowered the bar. Barack Obama and John McCain were dignified politicians. I miss John McCain. A real class act.
@@richardpape5546So you like being lied to? Makes sense coming from a brainwashed git
I'm not a crook
Today’s so called journalists should study Barbara’s interview style.
Should have been out ptesident on 1960 brilliant man excellent president.need him now