S1E8: Little Richard Nixon-Hugs not Bugs
How to Not Raise a Little Hitler
English - March 03, 2018 05:00 - 3 hours - 86.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTrue Crime Comedy slenderman history nazis hitler mengele gypsy rose parenting true crime wine holocaust Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nixon left a legacy of deception, the foundation for the War on Drugs and caused average people in the 1970's to expect conspiracies around every corner. But how did he get there?
In this episode we realize that Nixon may have not been all bad. I know you say, what is happening? Come hang out as we try to figure out our feelings over a man who was a domestic policy hot mess, a black hole of personal happiness and quite possible a closet liberal by today's standards.
From his poor as dirt childhood in Whittier, CA to the White House, Nixon was above all else a workaholic. But did a misguided sense of destiny cause him to drive himself into the ground, instead of cementing a legacy he so desperately wanted, and what are the parallels to today's leadership?