Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, and historian Michael Beschloss discuss the parallels between the United States in 1968 and now. Haines also discusses her new column on Atlanta's history of success and compromise and the 'pandemic within a pandemic'. Aired on 06/01/2020.
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Parallels Between '68 And Now, And A Pandemic Within A Pandemic | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Trump’s so bad he makes Nixon look good. That’s pretty bad.
Trump his bad on every level..
Richard Nixon’s Top Domestic and Foreign Policy Achievements vs. Trumps
In 1973, President Nixon ended the draft, moving the United States Military to an all-volunteer force.
Nixon founded the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 as a response to the rising concern over conservation and pollution. The agency oversaw the passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Mammal Marine Protection Act.
Nixon ushered in a new era of judicial restraint by appointing four Supreme Court Justices: Chief Justice Burger, Chief Justice Harry Blackmun, Chief Justice Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist, who was later appointed to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan.
Nixon dedicated a $100-million to begin the war on cancer, a campaign that led to the creation of national cancer centers and antidotes that helped fight the deadly disease.
Nixon opened the doors for women in collegiate sports when he signed Title IX in 1972, a civil rights law preventing gender bias at colleges and universities receiving Federal aid.
Nixon initiated and oversaw the peaceful desegregation of southern schools.
Nixon welcomed the astronauts of Apollo XI home safely from the moon and oversaw every successful moon landing while in office.
A great proponent of the 26th Amendment, Nixon lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, extending the right to vote to America’s youth.
Nixon authorized the joint work between the FBI and Special Task Forces to effectively eliminate organized crime, resulting in over 2500 convictions by 1973.
Nixon became the first President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination by ending the policy of forced assimilation and returning their sacred lands.
In 1972, President Nixon participated in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with Soviet Secretary General Brezhnev as part of an effort to temper the Cold War through diplomatic dètente.
Nixon signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, helping to calm U.S.-Soviet tensions by curtailing the threat of nuclear weapons between the world’s two superpowers.
President Nixon was the first President to visit the People’s Republic of China, where he issued the Shanghai Communiquè, announcing a desire for open, normalized relations. The diplomatic tour de force brought more than a billion people out of isolation.
Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
In 1969, Nixon announced a groundbreaking foreign policy doctrine that called for the United States to act within its national interest and keep all existing treaty commitments with its allies.
Nixon established a new relationship with the Middle East, eliminating Soviet dominance in the region.
In honor of the POWs returning home from Vietnam, Nixon hosted the largest reception in White House history.
In reaction to the oil embargo of 1973, Nixon initiated Project Independence, which set a timetable to end reliance on foreign oil by 1980.
In 1970, President Nixon avoided a second Cuban Missile Crisis involving the Soviet submarine base by adhering to his policy of hard-headed dètente, an active rather than passive form of diplomacy.
During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Nixon supported Israel with massive aid, which Prime Minister Golda Meir later said saved her country.
And all they remember is watergate.
Donald Trump accomplishments…
@garyoa1 Thanks for sharing that! I really appreciate all the scholarly information. And it is true that Nixon supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
In regard to Watergate, Shakespeare might have said it best:
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Stay safe, my friend!
@David Hatchell hahaha! Please enlighten us.
@David Hatchell hahahaha! You are so blatantly obvious!
TOTAL CASES 1.900.000 USA 🏠🏠🏠🗽🗽🗽
So.
@brian gardner LOL so? Thats 1/3 of the world’s cases moron.
Hard to mourn 100,000 when every minute is consumed by surviving Toxic Trump and Republicans willful ignorance
Good maybe you liberals will all die the next 4 years of trump
The murder was in a Democrat run city. Check out why the demo DA did not take out this murder cop on the last 16 complaints, governors control the state. Obama could not do anything on this either, the toxic is at state level
Democrats fell for 27 tailored documents from the Hillary Campaign paid foreign agents, 128 dropped inquiries, and 6 investigations that found nothing. That’s willful ignorance.
Right! Your like the coward on the Titanic that grabs a child to get on the life boat. As this country self destructs (If your even American) you’ll be singing a different tune. You along with other will be fighting Mika and Joe to get one of those children. It’s coming!
David Gainey Trump will be in prison in 2021
I am definitely feeling the parallel between 68′ and now. The People have risen against the bigoted Trump Administration.
@David Hale All you state is true but it is much more complicated.
@Russian Bot Yeah that’s the GOP you described right there… tRump’s party
@Russian Bot More mirror gazers here folks just like Donnie; every word out of their mouths is a condemnation of their own actions, just passively projecting their own sins on everyone else. It’s too clear you don’t actually know enough about history to qualify to argue anything about the black condition in this country. I guarentee you don’t even believe in the concept of black privilege and (probably) think the Holocaust is a hoax too. You guys are so predictable.
@Tommy Thompson TLDR: blah blah blah… thanks everyone, they’ll be here all week 😉
Icecreamassassin keep fanning the flames! I assure you this will not be good!
Let’s see if President Hunker in the Bunker crawls out of his hole today.
@orecoast 1961 Moronic retort. But not unexpected from the uneducated Left. Next….
Bucky Pinata he never would listen to anybody…Mattis, Kelly… he knows more than the Generals lol
@R Thomas Meanwhile, back in the real world….
Bucky Pinata I’ll finish it for you….Trump is a miserable failure as a leader and will be replaced by Joe Biden! There you go
One thing. One thing. One thing will make Trump popular, respected one time. Do not accept the nomination.
Trump is an impeached, corrupt Grifter keeping his tax returns secret! *DON’T* allow a lawless WH criminal to play the law & order, nazi supremacy card!
Diane that kind of rhetoric is exactly why we have what we have today fortunately it’s mainly the Democrats
VOTING is the best protest. Nazi supremacists are gleeful that black citizens are dying! They exploit riots to spread fear, division + COVID19 maliciously. Stay SAFE at home & *vote!*
It’s crazy how the threat of a pandemic isn’t really stopping anyone. I won’t sit here and say shame on them when other people were protesting against the stay-at-home orders.
Difference is that black people in america have been fighting this fight for over 400 years. Those rust belt morons are crying about being deprived of their bad haircuts for a couple months. It’s a real powder keg situation here. Centuries of bigotry and oppression catalyzed by a pandemic and a continued pattern of GOP lead “Southern Strategy” demonization of black people over the last 50 years with very little change and a regressive administration lead by a racist is all too much. Only so many straws before it breaks.
the name trump is condemned into history forever
That condemnation is so well deserved
I Voted – Trumpler, Adolf
lol
Even Africans don’t like American Africans 😂
@Safety First That’s why they sold them…..Fool
@Safety First I could be that they don’t like Americans all together, they are not known to be the most pleasant travelers…well some of them, who spoil it for the rest: loud, know it all, for a start
Been watching Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War’ and got to 1968 the other day: it showed deep polarisation, clashes between police and demonstrators and it was mind-boggling to know I could watch the exact same thing happening on live TV. Only difference seems to be this hideous virus. And oh the incumbent (LBJ) decided not to stand for re-election…
Let’s not forget that Lyndon Johnson did more to emancipate African Americans than anyone since Abe Lincoln. Viet Nam was his downfall, his tendency to believe anything his war hawk advisors ended him. At heart he was a good and decent man caught up in dreadful circumstances. Trvmp is an evil man using the US as a latrine.
Agree
Notice the ENTIRE GOP has gone into hiding. LOL. Incredible.
Moscow Mitch. MIA. Leningrad Lindsey. MIA.
Now you all caught the Virus this weekend How Funny 😂
They adjourned last week without voting on the next stimulus package. Moscow Mitch said there was no rush.
vet 4855 l would just love to see McConnell addressing the protesters in person and not on the news. But then again those are the people who elected him FIVE times. It’s what happens when you fail to fund the education system. Keeps them ignorant so he can continue his reign of terror.
Well Porky Pelosi wants too much PORK!
@Safety First STFU you Repug troll!!!
The entire educated world: 2+2=4
Trump supporters: FAKE NEWS!!!!
Sachin Ace feeling sorry for all deluded deplorables with blinkers. No respect for you in the sane world. You fully deserve this “ president”.
It is time to heal now and some truth and reconciliation is needed!!!!
The US can’t pretend these problems in society are due to new bad actors(Antifa) or a few bad apples(Police) or can be papered over by the use of new improved language(political correctness) to paste over ever stretching divisions every election cycle. It is time for some hard truths to be answered and only that way will the U.S. be admired as a beacon of truth liberty and happiness .
Hey smart guy you notice it’s all in liberal states
Sweeeaaarrrr😒😒😒
@Chicano 4 Trump The lies you tell, I’m in Texas, one of the most red and racist states, and the are here in Houston and Dallas……..learn something and keep up😒😒😒
I was born in Clayton, Alabama and I remember Black men being lynched near my town by a white mob. My mother told me about many Black men and boy being murdered by white mobs and thugs. No one was charged and went to jail.
I am So Sorry. There are Many people who Carry that Pain.
Same in southeast Texas — Vidor is the perfect example (did you take down those billboards, yet?)
And still they try everything to prevent black people from voting. After this, America needs to renew and repair and if cannot, it’s over. The American Empire is only a little older than 100 years.
@Amanda Reiche l
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I think Atlanta mayor be VP Biden should pick her as his running mate
Is she on the list for consideration.
Trump and the Republican Party’s judicial and economic fascism ignited these flames. Police and military beware your allegiance to the right wing authoritarian fascist regime within the current power structure. Trump and his Executive Branch RICO operation must leave office now.
I agree with Nixon. Joe Biden should repeat that speech and say it’s time for new leadership. Donald Trump has failed as a leader.
He isn’t doing any justice to the word fail…it’s insulting ….we need a stronger word than just fail….
Trump is a Tweeter not a Leader.
Donald Trump failed as a human being a long time ago.
@Genevieve Words That should be a bumper sticker. 😀
I like –
I think it’s time Joe Biden gave Trump a nickname.
Donald Trump: The Great Pretender
Nixon wasn’t a crazy fascist like that thing we have the White House.
@Cassidy Smith ikr….. when EVER it concerns deep racial issues…..they turn em’ off….. they’re responsible for the current climate in this country and WON’T take responsibility !! Their RACIST viewers are ” freely” using the N WORD on some of their u tube sites !!
Nixon was just a crook, trumpty dumpty is a bat sh^t crazy crook
Nixon WAS a fascist dictator type. Trump has patterned his entire presidency after Nixon’s.
Not so different when it came to being an authoritarian
“When the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.”
— President Richard Nixon, in a 1977 interview with David Frost
“I can do anything I want ” – President Donald Trump
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4809509/user-clip-trump-constitution-i-president
Nolan Vince 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Nixon the “Liar”.
Wow… We are still on the downward spiral.
Please America, remember who you are!!! BLUEWAVE 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
2020 is going to be very long hot summer.
Proud of all these protesters! Glad to see the white youth stand with blacks.
BREAKING: Man who thinks a mask makes him look weak is now hiding in a bunker.
White: Hiding from his own people because he is unable to lead them or even have a dialog with them so that they feel they are being respected by him. No respect coming from the White House = no respect directed at the White House. When you feel you have nothing to lose, when you have been treated like your life has no value while those of people of the dominant group do, you really don’t have much reason for being peaceful. You are mistreated whether you are peaceful or not. Forget about the political calculation of how this rioting is going to help Trump and his enablers in the fall. That is hardly on the minds of the looters. That’s what the president should be mulling over. How could this minority of the protesters get to a point where nothing matters any more? What can he do to remedy that? Instead, he worries only about his own safety, his own money, his own reelection, the respect shown to him, when he is supposed to be serving all 330 million American people, not himself.