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Hell of Presidents: Episode 12 - I've Got An Invisible Bridge to Sell You

🕑 Added 2023-12-13 12:05:00 +0000 UTC

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SkinnyTonySoprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h874BPSnbWc

James

lee did it

Damen Irving

I lived in Grand Rapids for a few years while in college and I’ve been to the ford museum and biked past the presidential tomb a ton. It’s really nice

Marxist-Swoletarianist

Great Value Society

The Children of Jack Acid

2016 was ALMOST a year when the decision of who to run as candidate wasn't decided until the Primary. Or, at least, that's the way it felt at the time. Ahhh, naivete!

Xi

Carter just went on TV and was like "Nah you're not getting the Great Society anymore, you get the Dollar Menu Society."

Mark Patsy

After re-listening to the True Anon JFK 101, Deep State 101, JFK 201, and Bush did 9/11 series, I can’t accept Ford acting in good faith pardoning Nixon the way Matt suggests here. He pardoned him to avoid a potential trial that would have been the polar opposite of a limited hangout. This is the same guy who personally changed the location of the exit wound on JFK’s body in the Warren report (vs the coroners report) to match the report’s story of a single shooter which was refuted by the House Select committee in the 70s. Also weren’t Rummy and Cheney on his staff? It all lines up a little too perfectly

End 2018-Present Alt Uniform Now

Thank you for “The Victors” drop for Ford #HAIL #GOBLUE #NATIONALCHAMPS All the more appropriate too since he often had it played at state events instead of “Hail to the Chief”. Interestingly Ford played prior to the era where two-platoon football became standard and was also a standout center.

No Relation to Henry

Surely it wasn’t take your son to work day at the CIA, was it?

No Relation to Henry

Who was the fourth president in Dallas the day of the Kennedy assassination besides Kennedy, GHWB, and Nixon?

Dr Nguyen Van Phuoc

sorry, but it has to be 20th century schizoid man

Mark Schneider

Rick Perlstein's book "Nixonland: The Rise of a President & the Fracturing of America" is the best coverage of the time period 1965--76 in USA-land. I appreciate Matt's hat tip to another Perlstein title about Reagan in Perlstein's trilogy, in the title of this episode.

Nixper

Can anyone recommend a good Curtis LeMay biography?

will michel

i was wondering why there have been more needle drops in these later episodes and then realized al jolson probably would’ve been a little jarring during the coolidge bits

Chapo Trap House

586

John Leavitt

but he did allow craft beer to come into existence so whose to say it was good or bad

John Leavitt

Carter was the first neoliberal true-believer in austerity and personal virtue, having the white house kitchen use leftovers and sleeping in his car on the campaign AKA The Onion;s Our Dumb Century's "Let's talk wearing sweaters"/"NUKE THE BASTARDS"

eisbär

power corruption and lies…. new order reference??

Sam Zeng

GOAT ep. I am Nixon pilled

king_von_diesel

Fantastic ep, tho. Hell of prezzies is such a gem

king_von_diesel

I think y'all coulda talked a little bit more about how stagflation, from an econ perspective, is the result of over-stimmied aggregate demand (all that military keynesianism) and a supply shock (the oil supply shocks started during the 1967 6 day war was the first time the oil supply was shocked). I think that reality is basically what puts the wind at the back of friedman, since it provides an imperial justification for supply side economics.