…know, after 1848 you have Louis Napoleon and Bismarck. After 1968 you have, in America at least, in a way, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and then if you want to talk about a long 68... lots of social movement people say, Ronald Reagan and Margaret…

…if you don't like these people from the point of being an anarchist, the victory of Obama is not the victory of Richard Nixon. Obama's way to the right of Richard Nixon. Well, yeah. In the context of, yes, Keynesian economics, I suppose you're right, but…

…point of being an anarchist, the victory of Obama is not the victory of Richard Nixon. Obama's way to the right of Richard Nixon. Well, yeah. In the context of, yes, Keynesian economics, I suppose you're right, but maybe in other things, maybe not. The…

…workers you were talking about, of course, the man who was in charge of the construction was the head of labor for Richard Nixon, and he... Oh, yeah. It was a kind of... What happened was right after Kent stayed, and it was targeted, basically, against…

…was right after Kent stayed, and it was targeted, basically, against students at Pace College, if I remember correctly. So he did Richard Nixon a favor at that point in mid-May 1970. No, this is all true. But it is nonetheless the case that the…

…It's back and forth over human history. So what's happened since, usually people take the date 1971, the date when Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard as being the key transitional point, rapidly thereafter we saw the increasing…

…squeaky. So you've got William Jennings Bryan, the Cross of Gold, and then my own political hero when I was a kid, Richard Nixon. No lie. Don't tell anybody. So... Tell us how Bryan and Nixon affected the dollar in their own times. Richard Nixon would…

…kid, Richard Nixon. No lie. Don't tell anybody. So... Tell us how Bryan and Nixon affected the dollar in their own times. Richard Nixon would roll over in his grave to be compared to William Jennings Bryan. But in a very fundamental way, they were aiming…

…grip on the gold standard. And it lasted with a brief break in the 1930s during the Depression until 1971, when Richard Nixon did what William Jennings Bryan had advocated by cutting the United States off from the international gold standard. Nixon would…