Almost right. I knew several people on Nixon's 1968 campaign and a few of the went on to the White House. What Nixon feared a Kennedy. JFK had beaten him in 1960. In 1968 he expected to beat LBJ. He was very concerned when it looked like Bobby Kennedy would be his opponent.
As it was he beat Humphrey by an uncomfortably thin margi…
Almost right. I knew several people on Nixon's 1968 campaign and a few of the went on to the White House. What Nixon feared a Kennedy. JFK had beaten him in 1960. In 1968 he expected to beat LBJ. He was very concerned when it looked like Bobby Kennedy would be his opponent.
As it was he beat Humphrey by an uncomfortably thin margin.
In 1972 he had a phobia about the possibility that the Democrats would nominate Ted Kennedy.
On a side note. When we were teens, I knew Roger Stone. He was an arrogant whiny little bitch back then, too.
Oh you poor thing, I hope his evil didn’t get too close. Your comments help explain to me why Nixon felt so threatened. I was a HH fan, still am. Timing a tad off…
I only met him once. At the 1972 convention the Secret Service wanted a wide circle around him and I and 7 or 8 knowns were asked to fill in for half an hour or so. Crowd control.
I saw HHH close up in a slow moving motorcade that from as he was driven past out headquarters in Hempstead. He had on so much makeup I thought his face might crack.
In 1975 I was backstage with a candidate running for the NYS Assembly when RFK sat down to talk with us. The progra was running late but he as on time.
As an aside, in 1965 my family stayed at the DC Hilton. It was a time when kids ran free, so a 10 year old (me) and my twin brothers 8, played hide and seek. We found ourselves face to face with HHH in his 'secured' suite in the lower level of the hotel. It was being cleaned and the door was open. In we went. Bottom line, no makeup, no suit, no visible security (!?), Lots of freckles and extremely gracious. Seeing that we were mortified, he assured us that we would not be arrested and gave us passes to tour the Capitol. Lasting impression.
Around that time I was a member of the Teen Are Republicans on Long Island. A friend, Jack Freedman, and I had gone to one of their quarterly meetings in Albany. Late one morning in the Capitol Building my State Senator had spent some twenty minutes or so showing us a display of paintings done by NYS prisoners as part of their rehabilitation.
An hour later Jack and I got into an elevator that already had one person in it, the Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson. Naturally we greeted him and shook his hand, we had recognized him immediately but had never met him before.
He seemed way too happy with us. He asked us questions about where we lived, our schools, had we had lunch yet, etc.
Long story short, he seemed lonely. he showed us the art show contradicting the Senator often, took us to lunch, and spent over three hours with us at the spur of the moment.
Both Jack and I thought it was very strange that the "number two man" in the state had nothing better to do then spend an afternoon with us.
Almost right. I knew several people on Nixon's 1968 campaign and a few of the went on to the White House. What Nixon feared a Kennedy. JFK had beaten him in 1960. In 1968 he expected to beat LBJ. He was very concerned when it looked like Bobby Kennedy would be his opponent.
As it was he beat Humphrey by an uncomfortably thin margin.
In 1972 he had a phobia about the possibility that the Democrats would nominate Ted Kennedy.
On a side note. When we were teens, I knew Roger Stone. He was an arrogant whiny little bitch back then, too.
Yikes, Jim! I can imagine Stone being quite a prick as a teen.
Same. Like, a sneer and a swagger and a “punchable face.” Knew everything and started every response with “well, actually…”
And an ego that is inflated to the max. Prison would fix that
Once a prick, always a prick.
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Oh you poor thing, I hope his evil didn’t get too close. Your comments help explain to me why Nixon felt so threatened. I was a HH fan, still am. Timing a tad off…
I only met him once. At the 1972 convention the Secret Service wanted a wide circle around him and I and 7 or 8 knowns were asked to fill in for half an hour or so. Crowd control.
I saw HHH close up in a slow moving motorcade that from as he was driven past out headquarters in Hempstead. He had on so much makeup I thought his face might crack.
In 1975 I was backstage with a candidate running for the NYS Assembly when RFK sat down to talk with us. The progra was running late but he as on time.
"He had on so much makeup I thought his face might crack"
Yes, they had all learned from the debates of Kennedy and Nixon that makeup matters by then.
Same with Trump wearing his orange facemask all the time.
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As an aside, in 1965 my family stayed at the DC Hilton. It was a time when kids ran free, so a 10 year old (me) and my twin brothers 8, played hide and seek. We found ourselves face to face with HHH in his 'secured' suite in the lower level of the hotel. It was being cleaned and the door was open. In we went. Bottom line, no makeup, no suit, no visible security (!?), Lots of freckles and extremely gracious. Seeing that we were mortified, he assured us that we would not be arrested and gave us passes to tour the Capitol. Lasting impression.
Around that time I was a member of the Teen Are Republicans on Long Island. A friend, Jack Freedman, and I had gone to one of their quarterly meetings in Albany. Late one morning in the Capitol Building my State Senator had spent some twenty minutes or so showing us a display of paintings done by NYS prisoners as part of their rehabilitation.
An hour later Jack and I got into an elevator that already had one person in it, the Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson. Naturally we greeted him and shook his hand, we had recognized him immediately but had never met him before.
He seemed way too happy with us. He asked us questions about where we lived, our schools, had we had lunch yet, etc.
Long story short, he seemed lonely. he showed us the art show contradicting the Senator often, took us to lunch, and spent over three hours with us at the spur of the moment.
Both Jack and I thought it was very strange that the "number two man" in the state had nothing better to do then spend an afternoon with us.
Wonderful story Wendy!
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WOW! Don't suppose a Civics class would have made a difference.