[Fiji Hill]

Nixon should be a liberal hero. Among other things, he started affirmative action, tried to push through a guaranteed annual income, started Project FIND, aimed at finding those who were eligible for welfare so they could be put on the dole, created the EPA and OSHA, appointed Justice Blackmun, who wrote Roe v. Wade...and on, and on. When one reads through conservative periodicals of the Nixon years, such as Human Events, it is clear that President Nixon gave conservatives little to cheer about.

But Nixon committed the unforgivable sin, in liberal eyes, of nailing Alger Hiss, so that is why they hound him to this very day.

[mosesdapoet]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Nixon: Painfully Shy, But Craving Great Purpose, Fiji Hill wrote:
Nixon should be a liberal hero. Among other things, he started affirmative action, tried to push through a guaranteed annual income, started Project FIND, aimed at finding those who were eligible for welfare so they could be put on the dole, created the EPA and OSHA, appointed Justice Blackmun, who wrote Roe v. Wade...and on, and on. When one reads through conservative periodicals of the Nixon years, such as Human Events, it is clear that President Nixon gave conservatives little to cheer about.

You forgot to mention project WIN . You’re right about the expansion of central government under Nixon’s tenure. But in doing so Nixon offered steady stability. Until Watergate . Which gave the left its chance and they used it.Disarming South Viet Nam and expanding everyone of those programs begun by Nixon bureaucratized to the point of being oppressive.

And we still don’t know what Nixon’s burglars were looking for.

[reg45]

And destroying the presidential ambitions of Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern.