Posted on 01/10/2017 12:59:59 PM PST by TigerClaws
Should come with a free small MAGA hat.
Bush the Younger, Obama, and Nixon.... but not Reagan?
I noticed that right off. There was no Clinton inclusion either.
I’m sure they didn’t want to contrast Reagan and Trump with the clowns the Democrats have lofted over the last 50 years.
Where’s Jimmy Carter?
I’m APPALLED!
WHERE IS MILLARD FILLMORE?!?!?!?!?...............
Nixon is still the most hated Republican by the 60s leftist professor types. Likely why he’s included as a ‘typical Republican.’
Reagan, of course, would have been more appropriate.
I didn’t know they still had the Scholastic Book Club. In the 60’s I used to save my pennies so I could buy a book every month.
“Where’s Jimmy Carter?”
In Judea, protesting Jewish people not dying.
Is he joining the Judean Peoples' Front, or the Peoples' Front of Judea?
I agree.
I’ve never been shy about defending Nixon to a degree. He did some things that were wrong, there’s no denying it. What we have found out about other presidents causes him to be far less of a ‘demon’ figure than the academics and left want him to be seen for.
Contrast his likely win in 1960, with Al Gore’s clear loss in 2000. Nixon graciously stood down for the benefit of the nation. Al Gore tried to split the nation apart for personal gain.
Clinton was at least ten times as bad. Obama was perhaps 100 times as bad.
Nixon loved our nation.
Nixon never sold out our nation. He didn’t facilitate technology transfers to other nations that would harm us. He never sided with terrorist groups that wanted to hurt the United States.
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of Nixon moving avowed lifetime terrorist enemies of our nation here to butcher our citizens.
Scholastic Book Club and its publishing arm has been taken over by the LGBT crowd. I’d look askance at anything they put out.
Doesn’t mean their portrayal of Trump is positive.
Sorry to hear that. My favorite day at school was the Friday when the monthly catalog came out and we got to pick out the book we wanted.
Yes, I agree. I considered that too.
Nixon signed the EPA into law and opened diplomacy with China. He also signed the first nuke treaty with the Soviets.
Libs might rewrite the history on Nixon in another fifty years
EPA was a major mistake.
Opening up China was reasoned.
I’m rather neutral on the nuclear treaty.
Reagan believed in those also. It’s one thing I wasn’t real comfortable with. How could you trust or verify the U.S.S.R. to carry though?
I think Nixon is fixed in their minds. He’s the buggy man they will never get tired of pointing to.
Folks may think that opening up China was a poor move due to the way the trade was exploited to our loss. China was opened up in 1972. Our trade deficits with China did not surpass those with Japan until the year 2000, 27 years later.
The initial goal was to open up a closed society that had gone nuclear, and play it off against Russia. I’m not convinced that didn’t happen pretty much the way we wanted it to.
Around 1992, the trade went ballistic. Some of us trashed the idea on the basis of lost jobs in the U.S., the transfers of technology with a clearly intent enemy, and the destabilization it would ultimately deliver.
I said at the time that our young men and women would wind up dying in large numbers due to the trade fiasco, and that we would be lucky if people on the mainland didn’t suffer the same fate.
I do not blame Nixon or Kissinger for this. Bush/Clinton were the ones who ushered in that massive destructive trade.
Our corporations were also only too eager to kill jobs here for a buck.
None of them had the slightest bit of concern over national security and our own economy.
PLO
Peanut Leftist Organization
So did I. I still have a lot of those books. That was a magical time.
Loved those books - Clifford the big Red Dog, or whatever it was
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