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"Shouldn’t Have Resigned" - Ken Khachigian Reveals Nixon’s Paranoia, Reagan’s Mistakes, Bush’s Secrets | PBD Podcast
Fri, 08 Nov 2024
Ken Khachigian, a legendary political strategist and speechwriter for Nixon and Reagan, reveals untold stories from the White House. From Nixon’s explosive temper to Reagan’s secret influences, this deep dive into presidential politics is a must-watch for history buffs. ---- 🇺🇸 PURCHASE THE VT VETERANS DAY COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/40qVbpt 📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": https://bit.ly/3XC5ftN 📰 VTNEWS.AI: https://bit.ly/3Zn2Moj 👕 PURCHASE THE NEW VT POLO SHIRTS: https://bit.ly/3Y4Npig 🇺🇸 VT USA COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/47zLCWO 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/3ze3RUM 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: https://bit.ly/47iOGGx 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://bit.ly/4e0FgCe 📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/3MGK5EE 📕 CHOOSE YOUR ENEMIES WISELY: https://bit.ly/3XnEpo0 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4d5nYlU 🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: https://bit.ly/3XC8L7k 📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/3XjSSRK 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
What was Ken Khachigian's role in Nixon's presidency?
Bis nachdem er verabschiedet war? Ja. Weißt du, die White House ist eine sehr strukturierte Organisation. Du hast sehr wenige Leute, die direkten Kontakt mit dem Präsidenten haben. Du hast eine massive Organisation. But you have very few people who have very direct contact with the President of the United States. It's a very insular circle that has real direct contact with the President.
So that's the same with the Nixon White House and with the Reagan White House. It doesn't matter. So in the Nixon White House, I never had a one-on-one a conversation with the president. Never? Never. Never. Not even after he resigned? No, after he resigned, yes.
Pre you did not? Pre I did not. And why is that? Is that because, because I don't think Trump is like that. Is that because he didn't trust people? When you watched the Nixon movie with Anthony Hopkins, I don't know if you've seen it or not, I'm sure you haven't seen it. Why haven't you seen it? You've never seen it? No. Oh, it's actually a pretty good movie to watch. I loved it.
I love watching the Nixon, I'm assuming you've seen Frost, Nixon, Frost the movie. Oh yeah. Yeah, of course I have. When you watch the movie, you're in it. I mean, Gabriel plays you in the movie. But when you watch Nixon and you see the first time, you know, the role his wife plays and he's almost given up. I don't know if I'm going to pull it off. He comes back, he runs, he wins.
The debate, John F. Kennedy, the tanning bed. He looked good, shave, four o'clock, all this stuff that you hear. And then when he's going through it, you don't feel like he's a guy that trusts a lot of people. You feel like he just didn't trust anybody that he was typically by himself because he didn't know who he could trust and who he couldn't trust.
Did he give you the vibes of an overly paranoid guy?
No. You know, that's interesting. People say that. It's just the way... No, no... He was open to a lot of people. He was open to ideas. It's just the way the situation is structured. I wrote memos to him in the 68 campaign that got to him, even though I was just 23 years old. He was always open to ideas. It's just that you can't have people...
oder wenn du eine Strukturorganisation hast, oder wenn du deine Sicherheitsfirma hattest, wenn du Junioren hattest, die dir direkt sprechen konnten. Vielleicht hast du das gemacht, vielleicht nicht. But I don't know if Jamie Dimon allows junior people to come and talk to him. I mean, it's just, and if he doesn't, is he paranoid? I don't know.
I don't think you can call people paranoid just because they have an organizational structure. I didn't find him to be paranoid when I got to know him. So that's a bad rap on Nixon that I always feel.
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