Richard Nixon on Crime

President of the U.S., 1968-1974

Survived 1958 mob riot as VP in Venezuela

When Nixon was vice president, local police disappeared as an angry mob descended on Nixon and his wife, Pat, at the Caracas, Venezuela, airport on May 13, 1958. One of the Secret Service agents said, "We noticed the police started to leave the motorcade They were afraid of the mob, and so the police deserted their security arrangements." As stones and bottles were being thrown at the couple, agents formed a tight ring around them and quickly escorted them into the president's bulletproof limousine.

Along the route to the American embassy, protestors had erected a roadblock. Wielding clubs and pipes, a crowd swarmed the car. "They had firebombs, and they were bent on killing everybody in the party," an agent says. The crowd tried to pry open the doors and then began to rock the limo and try to set it on fire. The agents managed to get Nixon safely to the American embassy, where more angry insurgents confronted them. President Eisenhower sent the Sixth Fleet out to evacuate the embassy.

Source: In the President`s Secret Service, by Ron Kessler, p. 82-83 , Jun 29, 2009

1968: Started "law-&-order" plank to gain Southern Whites

From the civil rights struggles of the 1960s forward to this day, the Southern White Man has been deeply resentful. And what the Republican Party has done, starting with Nixon in 1968, was pander to this resentment masterfully.

Sure, it was couched in other language. Nixon's law-and-order plank, for instance, technically was race neutral. But everyone in the South just knew that it was blacks who were committing most of the crimes. They understood what Nixon was getting at. If they wanted someone to stand up to those rioters making crazy demands, and those hippies egging them on, then Republican Richard Nixon was their man, not an unrecognized Minnesota liberal like Hubert Humphrey.

Source: America's Next Bush, by S.V. Date, p.103 , Feb 15, 2007

Click here for definitions & background information on Crime. Click here for a profile of Richard Nixon. Click here for VoteMatch responses by Richard Nixon. Click here for AmericansElect.org quiz by Richard Nixon.
*Other past presidents on Crime:*	*Richard Nixon on other issues:*
*Former Presidents:* George W. Bush(R,2001-2009) Bill Clinton(D,1993-2001) George Bush Sr.(R,1989-1993) Ronald Reagan(R,1981-1989) Jimmy Carter(D,1977-1981) Gerald Ford(R,1974-1977) Richard Nixon(R,1969-1974) Lyndon Johnson(D,1963-1969) John F. Kennedy(D,1961-1963) *Past Vice Presidents:* V.P.Dick Cheney V.P.Al Gore V.P.Dan Quayle Sen.Bob Dole V.P.Walter Mondale *Political Parties:* Democratic Party Republican Party Libertarian Party Green Party Reform Party Natural Law Party Tea Party	Abortion Budget/Economy Civil Rights Corporations Crime Drugs Education Energy/Oil Environment Families/Children Foreign Policy Free Trade Govt. Reform Gun Control Health Care Homeland Security Immigration Infrastructure/Technology Jobs Principles/Values Social Security Tax Reform War/Iraq/Mideast Welfare/Poverty

Page last updated: Apr 28, 2013