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Locobot · 06-02-2005, 11:45 AM

Nixon was an actual fiscal conservative, an extinct breed these days. He wasn't exactly socially liberal, but he was forced to ride out the late 60s cultural upheaval. He essentially approved of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's War on Poverty. He just wanted those programs run better. It's a pretty short list of accomplishments really, but I would gladly accept him as president over our current Republicans. I feel that Nixon actually had the people's best interests in mind as he lead, I don't feel that way about GWBush.

There are a lot of Nixon's doings that people tend to be ambivalent about: the retreat from Vietnam, removing the gold standard for our currency....

He'll probably forever be thought of in negative terms though: Watergate, McCarthyism (he started out as Joe McCarthy's right hand in congress), keeping us in Vietnam so damn long, Kent State massacre, the Watergate tapes, war on drugs etc.

06-02-2005, 11:45 AM	#34 (permalink)
Locobot is awesome!	Nixon was an actual fiscal conservative, an extinct breed these days. He wasn't exactly socially liberal, but he was forced to ride out the late 60s cultural upheaval. He essentially approved of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's War on Poverty. He just wanted those programs run better. It's a pretty short list of accomplishments really, but I would gladly accept him as president over our current Republicans. I feel that Nixon actually had the people's best interests in mind as he lead, I don't feel that way about GWBush. There are a lot of Nixon's doings that people tend to be ambivalent about: the retreat from Vietnam, removing the gold standard for our currency.... He'll probably forever be thought of in negative terms though: Watergate, McCarthyism (he started out as Joe McCarthy's right hand in congress), keeping us in Vietnam so damn long, Kent State massacre, the Watergate tapes, war on drugs etc. Last edited by Locobot; 06-02-2005 at 12:34 PM..