"Nixon was a decent guy who largely did a good job. To his everlasting shame he is regarded as a crook and a screwup for doing things the democrat way."
I'm disagreeing w/ you.
1. This guy was a social lib, who brought about massive inflation w/ his economic policies. To cover that, he tried Wage and Price controls, which led to massive shortages of almost everything. Carter's economic "malaise" was due to Nixon's policies.
2. Second, this guy's paranoia got the best of him. Nixon was rightly impeached for using the tools of office (IRS, FBI, et al) along with his CREP (plubmers, burglers, etc) to negate a fair election. Granted, it had been done before, but that "been done before" excuse should never be used as a legal defense.
You are correct that Nixon did some great work in his area of Cold War operation, and was a helluva baseball expert. He was certainly one of the best policians of our era.
I guess I will disagree with both of you. Nixon started the process of sucking up to China and see what that got us. Talking about China, time to move this thread back from Nixon to Hillary Clinton.
To give credit where credit is due, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that had Nixon been elected instead of Kennedy, and executed the Vietnam War as he did when he finally was elected, the results would have been entirely different.
Nixon took the war to the enemy as wimpy @$$ Kennedy and Johnson should have done but did not, because they were intimidated by Russia and China to the point of becoming bed wetters and pants pissers.
The anti-war punks and punkettes had a full head of steam by the time Nixon came on board, and every thing Nixon did right was condemned to hell by the MSM and the halfwitted hellions throwing tantrum fits on the evening news. It was the wrong time to do the right thing when he got there.
Kennedy and Johnson are the dog shit on Nixons shoes, that has everyone accusing Nixon of stinking.
Nixon wasn't impeached.
Nixon was impeached? That's news to me.