Richard Nixon Tricky Dickie Analysis

“I welcome this kind of examination, because people got to know whether or not their President is a crook, well I’m not a crook.”1 These were the words uttered by the 37th President of the United States of America, Richard M. “Tricky Dickie” Nixon Although, Nixon was regarded as a crook by many in the United States, it is quite clear that Richard M. Nixon was in fact justified in saying he was not a crook. This is evinced by a variety of reasons, the foremost of which are: Nixon’s dirty tricks were nothing more than the status quo of the political environment, and without the use of his tricks Nixon never could have succeeded in politics, Nixon was not dirty, rather the system was dirty; Nixon accomplished a plethora of successful foreign policy …show more content…
So to ensure that the communists could not infiltrate the establishment of the USA, Nixon took things into his own hands. The sole assumption that Nixon believed others were communists is not enough to prove that Nixon in fact was mortified by Communism, but rather there exists a multitude of concrete evidence that Nixon did in fact hate communists and considered himself the greatest anti- communist of them …show more content…
One of the most notable dirty tricks being the New York City Hard Hat Riot. On May 4, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University protesting the war in Vietnam and the Nixon administration.6 Mayor Lindsay of New York City ordered the flags of the City to be flown at half staff that day, prompting over a thousand students to demonstrate in front of City Hall in support of the students who had been killed. Unbeknownst to the protestors, Colson had been in talks with labour leaders of the construction unions in New York State and was successful in persuading them to organize their own counter-protest. That morning 200 construction workers armed with pieces of steel rebar stormed the protestors — targeting those with the longest hair first.7 A postal workers distressed by the violence climbed to the top of City Hall to return the flag to full height, later when a city workers raised it back to half staff the construction workers stormed City Hall. Resulting in the Deputy Mayor, Richard Aurelio to order the flag to full height in fear of the workers overwhelming City Hall.8 In excess of seventy people were injured in the riot. Less than a month later Colson had a White House ceremony honouring Peter Brennan, President of the Building and Construction Trades local for New York City; whom later became the US Secretary of Labour under