#Being Nixon

[mymotherwasasaint]

this is the most complete compilation of nixon klutz incidents i have seen. although it doesn't include him seriously injuring himself, like when he slipped on ice and fractured his arm in three places, or when he banged his knee on a car door and then got a staph infection (which was part of the reason he looked like shit during the first 1960 debate lol)

[rockpaperscissuhs]

BAND OF BROTHERS: EPISODE ONE + my favorite closeup shots

[avesseloflanguage]

i know this is old news but like. it is so fucking insane to me that convicted felons — who can qualify in every other way, citizens who are absolutely affected by elections and politics — are not allowed to vote in the united states. like that alone is fucking crazy. and fucked up and VERY intentional and on track for the usa. but still genuinely crazy to actually think about.

but worse is that donald mother god damn fucking trump can still run for president and could be elected while being a convicted felon. like. bro can't vote for himself i guess. but this guy could still legally become the fucking president. HE CANT LEGALLY VOTE IN ELECTIONS ANYMORE. BECAUSE HE IS A CONVICTED FELON.

BUT HE COULD LEGALLY BECOME THE HEAD OF STATE.

[blind-slime]

lewis nixon, marginally functional traumatized alcoholic, believes it's his personal duty to keep dick winters alive and well for the entire duration of the war.

[lewis-winters]

you know, as a character, you get the sense that Lewis Nixon is literally just living his life one day at a time. he's got no long-term plans, really. why would he? he was born rich, with a life of guaranteed leisure served to him on a silver platter, right? literally he has no need to look forward to anything, because he's been conditioned, from a young age, to be confident in the fact that whatever he wants, whatever he needs, is simply a phone call, a request, and a wad of cash away. he's never really had to bribe himself with a future he wants. the american dream was his before he was even born! he doesn't really know how to imagine a future for himself, as a result. at least, not one that breaks the monotony of his own gilded cage of an existence.

it's a mindset he's lived in for almost all of his life-- that's why he has so many self-destructive tendencies held back by mere threads of self-preservation, right? what even is there for him to live for, in the long run?

that's why "we'll go to Chicago, I'll take you there," is so fucking important!!!!!

for the first time in a long, long time he's giving himself MORE than just scraps for mere survival. he's giving himself incentive to not just live another day, but survive the rest of the war! he's making plans!!!! he's making PROMISES!!!!!! and he intends to fulfill them!!!!!

and Dick Winters KNOWS what it means!! he KNOWS!!!!!!

it's why he keeps LOOKING AT NIX LIKE THAT!!!! and why he KEEPS looking at Nix like that!!!!!

he knows he's Lew's reason for staying alive!! do you understand????? do you see my vision?????? DO YOU UNDERST--

[yeoldenews]

A mother's word for word transcription of the imaginary phone call her four-year-old made to Santa Claus in 1911.

(source: The Harbor Beach Times, December 22, 1911.)

Through some outrageous case of serendipity I found a recording of another phone call this same child made 60 years later. Though I have to say his choice of conversational partner is a definite downgrade from the first call.

[qtipshelmetflower]

working on something stupid so decided to post something stupider in the meantime

[bleedingcoffee42]

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Are You Being Served

Art by Quinlyn Nixon

[hymnsofheresy]

nixon was an evil quaker

omg you found the private local enemy

[shelyue99]

"You are and have been all these years such a true friend in all respects. I do not know anyone whom Lewis respected more than you, Dick Winters. " Grace Nixon to Dick Winters, on February 9, 1995

This card is written after Nix's funeral.

[balladofthe101st]

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves

you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terr-

ible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself

a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy,

and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to

choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and

he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your

heart taking root in your body, like you've

Richard Siken, You Are Jeff

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Captain Nixon was always my finest combat officer. My only problem with Nixon was keeping him sober. That afternoon I told him, “Nix, you sober up and I’ll show you something you have never seen before in your life.”

The following morning a sober Nixon approached me and asked, “What was that you said yesterday that you were going to show me?” “Follow me,” I responded. We then took a jeep and drove directly to Goering’s officers’ club. Nixon thought that he had died and gone to heaven. I told him, “This is yours. Take what you want, then have each company and battalion headquarters bring around a truck and take a truckload. You are in charge.”

I have of picture of Nixon with his stash of liquor next to his bed as he awoke onVE-Day as proof that he did a good job in distributing the liquor, but only after he collected his personal spoils of war.

[webstersdiary]

THE LAST PATROL THE MUSICAL

[blind-slime]

nixon falls in love with dick because he's the one thing he can't just buy, and he'll come to hate that about him later because it means dick is there because he understands something about him that he refuses to understand about himself.

[ikeirus]