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Maybe but it was Nixon who opened up trade with China. We didn’t need that.
Nixon got us out of that endless Vietnam war.
The Fed and Wall Street sought cheap Chinese labor to mask inflation and export dollars while also expecting the American people to supply their children's blood and treasure to secure safe delivery of manufactured goods.
Like saying Tokyo really didn’t need to be firebombed.
The offshoring was to increase profit margins. The consumer benefited little and small industrial towns died.
Nixon played “the China Card” to increase pressure on the USSR.
It was a way around increasing military spending by the US. Something Congress was not going to give him. The problem come later when following administrations kept playing it long after the need for it had passed.
Maybe but it was Nixon who opened up trade with China. We didn’t need that.
Nixon only did it to get the Soviets to the negotiating table. It was Carter who opened up the trade.
But you can’t have it both ways—giving presidents credit where you’d like to and arguing that they couldn’t fight darker forces when you wouldn’t like them to get blame.
I’d argue that as you suggest in this case, presidents have largely been compliant actors under blackmail and control for at least the better part of a century.
That was the superficial motive. The real profits were enjoyed by overseas "investors" and "importers" as economic gatekeepers. The real destruction of American industrial competitiveness was by regulations effected without legislation via regulatory agencies of a succession of Administrations beholden to low interest rates (see "the Fed"). Thus was born "the service economy" as effected with a social class of economic servants.
To a degree, yes. It's blackmail by central bankers.
I don’t judge Nixon harshly on that. Nixon was looking at that as a geopolitical move to counter the Soviet Union. I still view it through a Cold War prism.
What happened since Nixon opened ties is not his fault. It is the fault of gutless politicians who allowed the wholesale outsourcing of our industrial base.
Nixon was not a conservative by our standards, he gave us the EPA, price controls, and took us off the Gold Standard. All VERY un-conservative and bad things.
But Nixon was villainized because the Left never forgave him for his role in the prosecution of Alger Hiss. They had the knives out for him very early on. Nixon cared for his country far more than nearly any politician today including many in the Republican Party, and his “crimes” were nothing other politicians had not done since the dawn of the Republic, and especially not what every Democrat politician has done since 1974, including that scumbag, incompetent, petty piece of crap Jimmy Carter.
And I will always be grateful to Richard Nixon for the Linebacker II campaign in December 1972 where he gave approval to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong Harbor.
The man had guts. And he had a brain. I have read several of his books he wrote after leaving the Presidency, and he knew of what he spoke.
I have always forgiven Nixon for his non-conservative actions such as price controls, though his deviation from the Gold Standard haunts us to this day.
Nixon also saved Israel in 1973, Golda Meir even stated such.
At the time, I saw it as a reaction to the threat of the combined forces of the USSR and China. You may recall "The Trilateral Commission."
Nixon got us out of that endless Vietnam war.
That got us out of all of Indochina, which then set the stage for The Killing Fields in Cambodia, that blood is on the Democrats’ hands.
You think the 1969 border skirmish that threatened to go nuclear was just for show?
Yes, he did. A true intellectual powerhouse with an exceptionally keen political sense and vision for the future of our nation.
Am for fun at the moment imagining Nixon vs. whatever the dems throw up as a candidate in ‘28. He’d make absolute mincemeat of any of them, and it would be glorious.
Not really. Nixon opened up diplomatic relations with China which spooked the crap out of the Russians. There were still a lot of trade restrictions with China up until the 90s when Clinton did away with all of that.
I remember a guy in my squadron telling me that in 1973 when our attack squadron was deployed in the Mediterranean (before I got to the squadron a few years later) planes took off with MK82 iron bombs and came back with empty racks during that time...
His insinuation by saying that was that our planes were dropping those MK82’s in the conflict on the side of the Israelis. He wasn’t the kind of guy I ever saw as an unreliable blowhard either.
I agree in sentiment with that. If the US had been allowed by the Democrats to adhere to the elements in the Paris Peace Treaty which allowed us to use our assets to bomb North Vietnam’s forces should they invade the South, there would have been a deterrent factor.
The Democrats refused to allow that. But I do understand the reluctance of the American public to be in favor of it as well. So it wasn’t just the Democrats and the Left.
But Reagan was the FIRST President to stop the spread of Communism and begin its world-wide retreat. It was still advancing with Nixon in office.
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