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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
The media’s treatment of Watergate needs no explanation here. The press detested Richard Nixon unlike any modern president.
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You're an F#%in' idiot because Nixon WAS a liberal - he negotiated and traded with communists! LOL He basically wanted to outdo Johnson's Great Society by legislating a Greater Society. How about these?
Nixon's economic Policy:
1971 - Nixon ended the gold standard and put us on a fiat monetary system1971 - After taking the United States off the
gold standard,
[3] Nixon was quoted as saying "I am now a Keynesian in economics"
Nixon became the first president to submit a budget based on “the high-employment standard,” which meant the country would spend as if it were at full employment to bring about full employment, thus justifying an “acceptable” amount of deficit spending.
Nixon announced in August 1971 what he called the New Economic Policy (N.E.P.) which balanced U.S. domestic concerns with wage and price controls and international ones devaluing the dollar.
Nixon's foreign Policy:
1969 - Nixon enters peace negotiations with North Viet Nam
1970 - Nixon negotiates permanent deal with USSR not to use Cienfuegos (Cuba) for ballistic missile Submarines
1972 - Nixon enters into successful SALT talks with USSR to reduce nuclear weapons
1973 - Nixon withdraws thousands of troops from VietNam, ends draft.
1973 - Nixon agrees with the USSR to negotiate a peace protecting Israel and ending the war.
Nixon also visited China, defusing tensions with that country, and opening trade with communists.
Nixon's Domestic Policy
1970 - Nixon creates the EPA, seeks and passes Clean Water legislation, creates OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), requires all federal agencies to comply with National Environmental Protection Act, requiring environmental impact statements.
1970 - Nixon pushes school desegregation, creating the Philadelphia Plan, the first federal affirmative action program. (Nixon ends up appointing more women to office than LBJ)
1970 - Nixon endorses the Equal Rights Amendment as a constitutional amendment
1971 - Nixon installs price and wage freeze, stopping rampant inflation
1973 - Nixon advocated universal health-care for all Americans in an address to Congress
None of that would fly today with the Republican House. Nixon would be run out of the Republican Party today as a RINO. Plain fact.
ASSUP!!! 
