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Posted: 3/13/2017 10:52 AM
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A good friend of mine who is close to the Hayes family just sent me this link to a story in the Dispatch that I think is worth sharing.

Here's what my friend said in introducing the link:

"Some of you may remember President's Nixon's eulogy at Woody's funeral, but if you don't I'm sure you'll be impressed by reading it. Sunday was the 30th anniversary of Woody's death. My wife and I were privileged to be seated in row two of the family section, just behind Bo and his first wife Millie. The president had notes but never referred to them. I may be biased, but this is the finest speech I have ever heard and you could tell it was heart-felt."

And, here's the link:

http://tinyurl.com/zvgldyb

Though, as some of you know, I've been critical of Woody in many respects, and had my own personal experience with one of his temper tantrums when a graduate student reporter for WOSU, I nonetheless can fully appreciate the sentiments expressed here by President Nixon.
Last Edited: 3/13/2017 10:52:53 AM by OhioCatFan
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Posted: 3/13/2017 11:02 AM
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Who the **** is woody hayes?
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Posted: 3/13/2017 12:52 PM
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Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:expand_more
Who the **** is woody hayes?
Oh man. This made me laugh for a good while.
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Posted: 3/13/2017 1:18 PM
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Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:expand_more
Who the **** is woody hayes?

He was Fiami's coach way back in OCF's glory days. Wikipedia tells me he won a Salad Bowl over Arizona State.
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Posted: 3/13/2017 3:21 PM
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I sorta recall my dad talking about a Woody Hayes at Dennison. Could that be the one Nixon was eulogizing?
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Posted: 3/13/2017 3:35 PM
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Woody Hayes was on Cheers.
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Posted: 3/13/2017 6:23 PM
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Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:expand_more
Who the **** is woody hayes?
Alex Trebeck: That's correct Deciduous for $200...you control the board!
Last Edited: 3/13/2017 6:25:32 PM by El Gato Roberto
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Posted: 3/14/2017 10:32 AM
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Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:expand_more
Who the **** is woody hayes?
Wasn't that the guy in the Viagra commercial?
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Posted: 3/14/2017 2:34 PM
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I prefer Hunter S. Thompson's remembrance of Nixon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-w... /
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Posted: 3/15/2017 12:19 AM
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Recovering Journalist wrote:expand_more
I prefer Hunter S. Thompson's remembrance of Nixon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-w... /
Though I'm no Nixon lover, this guy is somewhat over-the-top in my opinion. This paragraph, for instance, in the last sentence posits a conspiracy theory as fact:

"It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard."
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Posted: 3/15/2017 11:43 AM
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OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
I prefer Hunter S. Thompson's remembrance of Nixon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-w... /
Though I'm no Nixon lover, this guy is somewhat over-the-top in my opinion. This paragraph, for instance, in the last sentence posits a conspiracy theory as fact:

"It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard."
Outside of directly linking Nixon to the Kent State Shooting, I'm not real sure what is off base here.
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Posted: 3/15/2017 8:39 PM
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Outside of directly linking Nixon to the Kent State Shooting, I'm not real sure what is off base here.
That's what I was referring to. There were other things in the whole piece that were somewhat questionable, but in the paragraph I quoted that was the part that I thought was not accurate. Again, I'm no Nixon fan, but I'm not quite ready to say he was more evil than James K. Polk.
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Posted: 3/15/2017 8:43 PM
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BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
I prefer Hunter S. Thompson's remembrance of Nixon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-w... /
Though I'm no Nixon lover, this guy is somewhat over-the-top in my opinion. This paragraph, for instance, in the last sentence posits a conspiracy theory as fact:

"It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard."
Outside of directly linking Nixon to the Kent State Shooting, I'm not real sure what is off base here.
His claim that Nixon "connived" to have the Kent kids killed is real tin-foil hat material. But the rest is pretty much on target. When Nixon ran for president in '68 he said he had a "secret plan" to end the war. Apparently the plan was to keep it going long enough to get enough hard-hat votes to be re-elected.
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