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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlags were at half-staff during Nixon's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1973 due to the death of Harry Truman on Dec. 26, 1972
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/21/archives/nixon-inaugura-ted-for-his-second-term-sees-world-on-threshold-of-a.htmlhttps://archive.ph/rTYBr


malaise
(282,438 posts)Fuck the CONvictedfelon
PlanetBev
(4,290 posts)So the flags remained down for another thirty days.
question everything
(49,938 posts)LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)Flags 1/2 staff didn't bother him. He had won an reelection by a predictable landslide and was pretty much busy with second term. The inauguration was pretty much a formality. Also Truman wasn't truly mourned either. Truman was pretty seen as mediocre. I don't remember his death. Everyone's TV was glued to Nixon's troop withdrawal, address which also occurred in January! I remember exactly where i was during that address. I was at my friend's house.
Also, the inauguration was held while everyone was at work and school. Only housewives could watch it. The oath was shown on the evening news, but that was about all we saw. It wasn't rerun because no one had cable news.
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He single handedly desegregated the military which helped the modern Civil Rights movement immensely. The Marshall Plan revived Western Europe and saved democracy for hundreds of millions of people. South Korea is free and prosperous today thanks to his involvement in the Korean War. He wasn't perfect but he was vastly better than mediocre.
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ITAL
(996 posts)Obviously we all have our different rankings, but he's usually not thought of as mediocre.
tanyev
(45,919 posts)with the emotional maturity of a teething toddler who hasnt slept in 18 hours.
Not to my knowledge, anyway.
mwmisses4289
(796 posts)compared to it.
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Marthe48
(20,362 posts)Whispered bs into nixon's ear about Dems. He was influencing pols then, and unfortunately, still.
COL Mustard
(7,314 posts)Nixon won by such a landslide in '72...he didn't have to do the whole Watergate thing. Imagine how different (for good or for bad) things would've been if he hadn't orchestrated that scheme.
Jacson6
(1,102 posts)I came home from elementary school and my mom was watching it on TV. She really liked Truman.
Iggo
(48,753 posts)Because he was a grown up.
See how low the bar is, Donnie? All you have to do is act like a grown up.
rsdsharp
(10,619 posts)Kid Berwyn
(19,729 posts)
Big diff from Puppet of Putin.
speak easy
(11,314 posts)Trump has never been an American President. He is a president for/of Trump and Trump alone.
doc03
(37,634 posts)upside down for Trump.
Paladin
(29,965 posts)kkmarie
(114 posts)Weren't a good omen for Nixon's presidency. So maybe....just maybe.
orleans
(35,840 posts)legs!
bucolic_frolic
(49,516 posts)and this is quite an amazing coincidence.
LisaM
(29,086 posts)And maybe Vance will pull an Agnew, too. Which wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Rec
GiqueCee
(2,052 posts)... that Truman's middle initial did not stand for a name, and therefore, had no period after it. I do not recall the specifics of that compromise.
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)His parents were immigrants.
Deuxcents
(21,581 posts)He was quite the nonconformist but really intelligent. He came to work one day with a bandanna as a headband and looked like Cochise. The Foreman was not amused
andym
(5,926 posts)Just think that Nixon kept his enemies' list secret, while Trump campaigned on punishing his named enemies among other things.
Trump is a convicted felon, and his campaign and associated PACs used dirty tricks just as dirty as Nixon. Nixon got in trouble as much for the coverup, while Trump just lies about every unsavory thing he does and is feted by his supporters for it.
Finally, Nixon had to resign in disgrace, while Trump gets re-elected President with the public knowing everything that Trump did!