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[dales]

[Joe Guy]

This picture was taken on the same train in the next car...

[dales]

[Lord Jim]

Thanks for that Dale...That piqued my interest:

Rail to the chief: When Richard Nixon rode BART

I have no idea if anyone else is going to find this fascinating, but I can’t think of many cooler Let’s Go to the Morgue! areas to explore than Richard Nixon riding BART in 1972. It’s one of those intersections in Bay Area history, like The Pope meeting Clint Eastwood, that seems almost too weird to be true.

I published one Nixon-in-BART photo in an earlier G.O.P candidates in the Bay Area compilation. But a recent Chronicle purchase of a good negative scanner opened up the entire file. Because I appreciate you all so much, I’m also including bonus photos of Nixon’s voyage on the Golden Gate Ferry — during a different September trip in advance of the 1972 election. I get the feeling that Nixon really wanted to beat George McGovern in his home state, and was looking for as many photo opportunities as he could.

Click the link for more pics!

http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2012 ... rode-bart/

[Lord Jim]

Gosh, I had no idea that Mr. Reagan had met Carter so early....

You learn something new everyday....

[Sue U]

Gosh, I had no idea that Mr. Reagan had met Carter W so early....

You learn something new everyday....

FTFY. (Image works better.)

[Lord Jim]

I wonder why Mr. Reagan didn't accompany Mr. Nixon on either of these photo op trips in September of '72....

Afterall, Mr. Reagan was the very popular Governor of California at the time, (having been re-elected in a landslide two years earlier) and it's traditional that when an incumbent President of the same party is campaigning in your state, the Governor is also there....

[dales]

Ronald Reagan was seen at too far to the right for pinko Nixon.

[Lord Jim]

Now that I think about it Dale, there was some bad blood between the two of them....

Mr. Reagan had his name put in nomination at the '68 convention even though Mr. Nixon had the nomination sewn up....

And Mr. Nixon, not being widely know for his "let bygones be bygones" nature, probably never forgot that....

(Though after Mr. Reagan became President he did stay at the White House, and was consulted from time to time by the top folks in the Administration on matters of foreign affairs)

Also at the time, Mr. Nixon's Vice President was working hard to eclipse Ronald Reagan as The Darling of the Right....

There's no question that Mr. Nixon had a low opinion of Mr. Reagan; (as he did of just about everyone) as one of the most amusing revelations from the Nixon Tapes reveals:

NIXON: "Reagan is not one that wears well."
HALDEMAN: "I know."
NIXON: "On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy. Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around."
HALDEMAN: "No, he isn't."
NIXON: "Maybe he's different with others."
HALDEMAN: "No."
NIXON: "No, he's just an uncomfortable man to be around, strange."

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1037 ... is-Strange

Imagine being called a "strange" and "uncomfortable man to be around" by Richard Nixon.....

One of the strangest and most uncomfortable men to be around in the whole history of strange uncomfortable men to be around...

Sort of like being called a "freak" by Jeffery Dahmer.....

[dales]

Hey Jeff, what's for dinner?

Back to the original subject.

BART seemed so modern then, and I was only 20 years of age.

[rubato]

Nixon said Reagan was unfit:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... C2R3qPAEtU

"Good God," Nixon told aide Charles Colson in an Oval Office conversation in 1973. "Can you imagine -- can you really imagine -- him sitting here?"

Nixon later said, "I can imagine anyone ... but Reagan."

Nixon and Colson were discussing the 1976 presidential race, and the likelihood that the former actor and then-California governor would run.

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[loCAtek]

Wow, those cars haven't changed in 40 years!

[dales]

Forty years of microbiologic fecal material on the seats.

[Lord Jim]

Oh come on, they look like they've been reupholstered at least once...

The current seats don't have the stripes in the middle that you see in the vintage ones....

[dales]

U R Corrrect - Sir!

After the BART tube fire, the seats were replaced with fired retartant material.

Ok, 20 or so years of microbiologiacal fecal matter.

[Joe Guy]

Earlier this year BART started putting in vinyl seat covers. They're much easier to clean fecal material from and it's fun for young passengers to slide forward at every stop and for them to watch the older passengers slide off their seats and crash to the floor.