Professor Nicole Hemmer
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And he says, no matter what they say about me, I'm gonna keep him.
It's a dog, it's a puppy, and his daughters. It's one of those things that really, even though it doesn't actually put to bed the issue of the slush fund, Sure. And using the press to his advantage in this case. Really interesting.
Eine der Dinge, die Sie erwähnt haben, waren seine extensiven Außenreise. Außenpolitik war wirklich das Brot und Butter von Nixons politischen Karriere. Es war die Sache, über die er gebraucht hat. Es war die Sache, über die er all seine Zeit gelesen hat. Er verstand internationale Politik. Er war wahrscheinlich besser als irgendein Präsident im 20. Jahrhundert.
Und das betrifft jemanden wie Eisenhower, der der Alliierte Supreme Commander in Europa war. Er war jemand, der Weltpolitik verstanden hat, aber Nixon verstand es philosophisch und auf einem viel tieferen Niveau. Das wird seine Karriere formen.
But the other thing that shapes his career is, again, that antagonism between Eisenhower and the Cold War conservative movement, because it functionally tars Nixon as what the right called a MeToo-Republican. Somebody who was just going to go along with the New Deal and with liberal ideas and wasn't actually going to be a staunch defender of the conservative philosophy.
And so that puts him at odds pretty early on with the right. And that is a relationship he is going to have to then pay lots of attention to for the next 15 years.
He saw US international power, whether it was soft power, whether it was money, whether it was the military, as absolutely essential to fighting communism. And so he is going to be insistent that the US is fully involved on the world stage. And that, too, will be a big part of his presidency.
Absolut. Die beiden waren eigentlich Freunde im Senat. Und sie waren die jungen, kommenden Sterne. Aber es könnte keinen größeren Kontrast geben, wenn Richard Nixon für jedes einzelne Ding, das er in der Leben hatte, kämpfte und gegen geschlossene Türen drang. Und oft haben diese geschlossenen Türen für ihn nicht geöffnet. Jack Kennedy flog durch das Leben.
Er hatte jede Möglichkeit, die er sich vorstellen konnte. Der Welt wurde für jemanden wie Jack Kennedy gebaut. Er kam aus einer reichen Familie, einer gut verbundenen Familie. Sein Vater hatte diese Verbindungen, die Möglichkeiten für Kennedy möglich machten. Er wurde von der Ivy League eingeladen. Und dann fliegt er in den Senat. Er ist sehr hübsch und schön. Und er bekommt alle Frauen.
Und es ist wirklich der Gedanke, dass Jack Kennedy ein Star ist. Und er kommt aus einer Star-Familie. Und wenn Nixon an ihn schaut, sieht es aus, als würde alles so einfach kommen. Und er ist nicht falsch.
Absolut. Und Nixon ist auch ein Schriftler. Er ist jemand, der wirklich an dem geschriebenen Wort kümmert. Er wird später in seinem Leben ein prolifizierter Schriftler werden. Jack Kennedy hat ein gescheitertes Buch namens Profiles in Courage, das ein New York Times Bestseller wird. Und du musst dir vorstellen, Nixon hat einfach... Wenn er dieses Buch sieht.
Because up until this point, even though he had worked very hard for everything he got, he got a lot at a very young age. And this, in some ways, is his first big public failure. He narrowly loses the election. He is convinced of two things. One, that Eisenhower did not support him enough, and that cost him support.
And he's also kind of convinced that he didn't actually lose, that there were shenanigans in states like Illinois and Hawaii, where Joe Kennedy, Jack Kennedys father, had gotten involved and stolen the election. So you want to talk about grievance. Nixon comes out of that election convinced that not just that he lost, but that something was taken from him.
And that idea that something was taken from him, that somebody else is responsible for his failures, is going to be a strong through line over the next few years of his life.
Es war ein seltsamer Moment. Er hatte die Nacht vorher verloren. Natürlich war es schmerzhaft für jemanden, der Vizepräsident der Vereinigten Staaten war. Aber er hat nicht wirklich geschlafen und er hat nicht geschlafen. Und so ist er ein bisschen enttäuscht und er geht runter, um mit den Medien zu sprechen. I'll be back with more American History after this short break.
It's a huge moment. And if you want to get a sense of whether Nixon was already aiming for a comeback, the 1964 election is a pretty good moment to look for. Because Goldwater, who's an Arizona senator, is nominated by the Republicans, the furthest right candidate they had ever nominated, backed by this new Cold War conservative movement. And when Goldwater gives his speech,
accepting the nomination, he is seen as so extreme that even Nixon watching the speech later writes that he felt a little sick because he was like, not only is he going to lose this election, but he is tarnishing the Republican Party. And at that moment, most of the slick establishment types within the Republican Party abandoned Goldwater entirely. They say, I am not...
Aber Nixon geht auf den Kampagnen-Trail.
For Goldwater. He goes out there and he starts stumping for him. He does the work that needs to be done by the party. He proves himself to be a loyal Republican. And then even, you know, Goldwater loses in a landslide, but Nixon will continue to go out and he will campaign for
In the 1966 midterms for all of the Republicans across all of the House races and Senate races, he's putting in the work for the party. And the reason he's doing that is because he can imagine a comeback. And he is racking up a lot of IOUs from all of these politicians who he's out there stumping for.
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