Nixon on weed

In June 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants.

A top Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman, later admitted: “You want to know what this was really all about. The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news."

It's interesting that Nixon prolonged the war by almost three months, solely for his domestic political interests. Much like Watergate - unnecessary overreach.

And the Reagan campaign had back-channel communications with Iran, to help.

All govt. Are corrupt these days and ages for 100 years while you clowns are in your fantasy land lunatic rants how everything should be.

You clueless Lost brainwashed politards gross materialists and your insane fantatasies of how the world is or should be will never happen ......

Kind of ironic to think he was sort of resurrected as an "elder statesman" in his later years.

RMN was such a [expletive deleted] potty mouth in private.

Gramma would have washed his pie-hole with Lava Soap if she had had an idea of what his speech habits were really like.