Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (901757)	11/18/2015 4:13:10 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575142

Nor did the military lose Vietnam....it was lily livered cowards in the Congress and media.....The US Armed Forces was not allowed to win....

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (901757)

11/18/2015 7:54:59 PM

From: Brumar89

1 Recommendation

Recommended By
work4ever

Respond to of 1575142

If liberals had been powerful enough in the 50's they'd have arranged a N Korean victory over the south.

Re Vietnam, if I remember right, we signed Peace Accords in 1973 after blockading NVN ports. Two years later, Nixon was out of office and NVN invaded SVN across the demilitarized zone, while the Democratic Congress slapped an embargo on SVN to make sure the SVN govt would fall. If Nixon had still been there, he'd have put the blockade back, I think. You can check to see if I got the basic facts right there.

Amazing to think, they got Nixon to resign over a lot less than either Obama or Hillary have done, less than two years after Nixon won possibly the biggest landslide in American history, carrying 49 of 50 states (I'm a little unsure when the extra 7 or 8 states Obama cited were added - it must have been since 1975):

NomineePartyHome stateRunning mateElectoral voteStates carriedPopular votePercentage

Richard Nixon	George McGovern
Republican	Democratic
California	South Dakota
Spiro Agnew	Sargent Shriver (replacing Thomas Eagleton)
520	17
49	1 + DC
47,168,710	29,173,222
60.7%	37.5%

Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Nixon/Agnew, Blue denotes those won by McGovern/Shriver. Gold is the electoral vote for John Hospers by a Virginia faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.

There were three networks and a handful of big newspapers controlling what the American people knew. Thank God, those days are past.

Now in the 50's, Eisenhower was all the way through 1960 and they couldn't get away with