Professor Nicole Hemmer
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Professor Nicole Hemmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then he actually made him accidental and clumsy, right? But Gerald Ford didn't push back against that. He didn't try to censor that. He tried to embrace it and say, OK, like, I'm going to try to humanize the presidency. He wanted to show that he had a sense of humor. But what he does in that is that he then kind of gives by having his press secretary go on to host Saturday Night Live.
by appearing as the, doing the opening, a clip from the Oval Office, live from New York. He's actually legitimizing the role of, elevating the role of entertainment in the political process.
And so then that actually, you know, that paves the way for someone like Ronald Reagan and later on Donald Trump to kind of use their credentials in entertainment as justification for their political qualifications.
He was very uncomfortable with this, I will say. His team was very, you know, they didn't know what to do because this was new terrain. Having, you know, a late night show impersonate a president, that was really new. And so they were trying to deal with this in a way that, you know, showed that he wasn't, you know, trying to control and manipulate images like Richard Nixon had.
So again, this legacy of Nixon is looming over him.
Thanks so much for having me.
Boy, are they ever. And many of them, you know, worked within the Nixon administration. So there's a lot of overlap.
Er ist der neue Nixon. Er wird nicht so alt sein wie Nixon. Du erinnerst dich an ihn als den typischen schiffigen Kerl aus den 1950er und 1960er-Jahren, den verletzten Nixon der frühen 1960er-Jahre. Aber der neue Nixon wird populär und mehr wichtig sein. Right. The silent majority played a big part in this, right, in his mind. Very much so.
Nixon understood American politics as being on the one hand this very loud, noisy, protesting minority that was clamoring for attention and was getting all of the attention. But actually they disguised this silent majority of white, middle-class Americans who were
Und er sah diese Amerikaner als nicht nur seine Basis für Unterstützung, sondern die Amerikaner, die er am meisten benötigte, während er im Büro war.
Ja, sehr viel. Wenn Sie heute in die Nixon-Bibliothek gehen, ist Peacemaker immer noch der Titel, den sie für Richard Nixon drücken. Und es war etwas, was er wirklich, wirklich wollte. Er wollte, weil er dieses enzyklopädische Wissen der Welt hatte, weil er alle diese Weltleute kennengelernt hat, er glaubte wirklich, dass er die Welt formieren könnte.
Er glaubte, dass er domästisch Policien einstellen könnte, die den domästischen Unruf unterbrechen und die Menschen in diese neue goldenen Ära führen würden. Events were less his problem than he was. He was paranoid and constantly looking for ways to use power that were outside of the bounds. And as he did that, he got into a lot of trouble.
And in fact, he was already getting himself into trouble during the 1968 campaign. als er hinter den Szenen mit Leuten arbeitete, um die Peace-Talks mit Vietnam zu veröffentlichen. Er sagte ihnen, dass sie keine Verhandlungen mit Lyndon Johnson machen. Wenn ich in die Büchern komme, kann ich euch etwas viel Besseres anbieten.
Und so wurde der Peace-Maker tatsächlich in den Weg der Frieden und seiner Befugnis der Macht. Und das war etwas, was wir während seines Präsidentschafts sehen würden.
Vietnamisation was the idea that you would slowly pull out the American troops and replace them with South Vietnamese troops. So it would become a war that was taking place in Vietnam between Vietnamese people and the U.S. would pull out of it.
And the reason that was so important to him was because it was this high cost of life, the draft, all of this treasure and personnel that was being poured into Vietnam that had been the source of so much unrest. The Americans, I don't think, cared that much whether there was a war in Vietnam. They cared that the U.S.
was involved in a war in Vietnam and that it was their children who were being drafted into that war, they themselves who were being drafted into that war. So Nixon's plan was, well, if I can't get a peace between these different factions in Vietnam, at least I can get the U.S. largely out of it.
Very much so. And that expansion of the war has two components that are really unpopular. The first is that he's expanding it in the first place. And so, you know, he's come in promising he's going to end this war and instead it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And also that he's doing it secretly. Yeah.
That had been one of the major issues in 68 during the Tet Offensive, was that the generals had been promising one thing, we're about to win this war. And then facts were playing out on the ground where people were like, well, but the Vietnamese that we're fighting are much, much stronger than we had been told.
And so the American people already had this perception they were being lied to about the Vietnam War. And the expansion of the bombing into Cambodia only reinforces that sense.
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