Nixon took great pains to hide things that the Bush administration does openly, defying anyone to stop them. The big difference is that today’s media is completely complicit in the corporatocracy’s crimes against the people.

I’ve always thought that Nixon was a paranoid….and liberal.

However, he was a helluva poker player.

Jeff

Ingrid

Question: Has Ingrid just consigned herself to a circle of hell for calling you “Sparkles”?

sparkles, that’s what I meant.. I’m too tired a mom to dig for issues so I was selfishly asking for a convenient split screen type deal {s}

however, it sounds like there really hasn’t been any President the previous century who hasn’t had skeletons in his closet..although what would/do you think about Carter?

Ingrid

Let’s not forget that R. Nixon sent Henry Kissinger to Paris in 1968 to sabotage the Viet Nam peace talks.

Nixon/Kissinger basically promised the N. Vietnamese that they would get better terms under his administration than under the Democrats, and so they should wait to end the war.

This worked (illegally?) and helped give the election to Nixon who was talking peace, yet making war behind the scenes. The deaths of tens of thousands of American GIs, several million V.Namese, Cambodian and other civilians followed.

The warmonger Nixon is directly responsible for numerous war crimes, and should be considered as any other war criminal, like Bush today, Clinton yesterday, and pretty much every US president you can name.

Vote for a criminal warmonger like that?

No thanks.

Nixon would begin the process of turning the party of Lincoln into a party Lincoln would have abhored.

Nixon was not a peacemaker. He came to the presidency on having a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam, but “end” meant “win” in most people’s minds. Maybe even in Nixon’s, considering that he escalated the war considerably before finally conceding it.

Many of the civil rights issues you enumerate were already well underway before Nixon took office. Remember that the man had a Democratic Congress to work with (I’m pretty sure), so he had to compromise on nearly everything. School desegregation was already well down the road. He took office at the beginning of ’69, and my school district, and most others near me, desegregated in September of that year. But it was a done deal by the time he entered the White House.

I don’t think Nixon meant to appoint anyone who supported Roe v. Wade. At the time, the papers were abuzz with how often conservative appointees turned liberal on the bench. I think Nixon got burned that way.

The wage and price controls were in response to high inflation, and were a throwback to what politicians of that day knew pretty well: World War II. I don’t think it was really a liberal move as much as a move of some kind to try to tame inflation at a time when no one really knew the mechanisms for doing that.

I’d say that 1970 was about the high water mark for progressives of that era. Protests on college campuses seemed to drop off quite a bit after Kent State and the general student strike of 1970. The country started to swing slowly to the right, gaining momentum with Ronald Reagan, who made it cool to be a bigot again when he launched his campaign on a states rights speech in Philadelphia, Miss. — the place where the Civil Rights workers were murdered and the police covered it up.