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To: ought-six
Nixon had a lot of faults, and they were all personal.

So you agree with Nixon wanting to ban al handguns in the United States, except for the military and the police?

But he knew foreign affairs better than any of his predecessors, even Reagan.

So you agree with Nixon making the U.S. reliant on China and rescuing them?

6 posted on 02/17/2023 2:19:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“So you agree with Nixon wanting to ban al handguns in the United States, except for the military and the police?”

Hyperbole much? Nixon never proposed a ban on all handguns. He did, though, say that Congress should pass a law restricting “Saturday Night Specials.” He may have PERSONALLY wanted a total ban on handguns (hence my comment that his faults were PERSONAL), but he was pragmatic enough to know it would never come to pass.

I also didn’t agree with him creating the EPA.

“So you agree with Nixon making the U.S. reliant on China and rescuing them?”

That wasn’t Nixon. Nixon’s idea was not to turn China into a manufacturing hub at the expense of the U.S., but to encourage the creation of a Chinese middle class which would get rid of the Communist Party. What screwed the pooch was Bill Clinton and bringing China into the WTO.


15 posted on 02/17/2023 2:42:03 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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