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Moderation in moderation is my watchword Minor Deity  |
I saw "The Living Weapon" on American Experience last night, about the history of biological weapons development. The US was far and away the leader in the development for over three decades, until Nixon called for a ban on their development and was instrumental in the creation of the international ban on them.
It may have been a case of political expediency at the time, but it has had far-reaching beneficial consequences. 
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czarina Minor Deity  |
nixon did a lot of good things. the most stringent and far-reaching environmental protections we have are because of nixon.
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Minor Deity |
There are indeed reasons to be grateful to Nixon. Strange but true.
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REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT! Beatification Candidate  |
Why "strange"?
He also got us out of Vietnam. He was a good president in most regards. Except that whole reneging on the promise of the government to back our currency with gold. That one act was a huge catalyst in accelerating the forces that ultimately caused the foreign policy and financial nightmares we are currently experiencing. Government now had an unlimited source of free money to do whatever it wanted. And they did and continue to do whatever the hell they want. There is a reason why an automobile costs 10 times what it did in the early 1970s and it has nothing to do with the unions, or the real cost of raw materials or labor. The dollar (Federal Reserve Note*) has been devalued to a point that I really do not see it ever recovering. * A note is a debt. It is not money. It is debt pure and simple. And debt = slavery.
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Member SIPC Beatification Candidate  |
Sounds like he wasn't particularly fond of Jews.
For example. But kudos to him for other accomplishments. |
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Minor Deity |
Well, strange because, if it hasn't ever been pointed out before, he was a criminal who was forced to resign from office rather than be impeached and convicted.
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Moderation in moderation is my watchword Minor Deity |
I read Abuse of Power, which was transcripts of Oval Office conversations pertinent to Watergate, and I seem to recall that exchange with Billy Graham being included. I had forgotten about that.
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Member SIPC Beatification Candidate |
Sorry OT, I shouldn't have brought up the issue, as it had nothing to do with your thread. It's just a little hard for me to get warm fuzzies about the guy despite the positive aspects and accomplishments of his presidency.
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That Scarlatti nut. Minor Deity  |
IIRC, he wasn't too fond of Blacks, either. It is a bit strange that one of his closest personal advisors, Kissinger, was a Jew. On the other hand, that may also illustrate how Nixon's basic approach was to use people that could benefit him regardless of how he might have felt about them personally.
I have also met many people in my career in commercial aviation that feel that the industry owes its survival over some rough years to Nixon having pavesd the way to markets in Asia.
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Moderation in moderation is my watchword Minor Deity |
Mark, no need to apologize. It's always good to maintain an overall perspective.
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Minor Deity |
And of course there was the whole obstruction of justice thing with Watergate, and the fact that he was probably suffering from paranoid delusions while he was in office.
jf
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czarina Minor Deity |
just because he was an effective president doesn't make him a great human being. he was a horrible human being.
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What Life? |
--Antony's oration over Caesar's body Big Al
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Poseur Extraordinaire Beatification Candidate  |
The effort to summon a bit of give a
***t for Richard Nixon is more than I care to think about any furth...
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Minor Deity |
When I was growing up my father always said Richard Nixon didn't do anything other presidents didn't do, the difference is that he got caught. There might have been some truth in that.
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