Nixon was a staunch conservative for his era, even if he did have some pretty stupid ideas about domestic policy, like wage-price controls, the EPA and affirmative action. His saving grace was he was a fierce anticommunist.
"Nixon was the young conservative who knocked the liberal darling Helen Gahagan Douglas out of the Senate, for which the left and MSM never forgave him. He was put on the ticket in 1952 to add appeal to conservatives to balance Ike's squishy moderate tendencies. Nixon went to the wall for Whittaker Chambers and after Alger Hiss, again for which the left and MSM never forgave him."
You got that right - Nixon was hounded worse that a Swift Boat Convention in Taxachusetts.
Sure, his wage and price controls sucked but it was tought to win an election back then with all that Kennedy Camelot
BS and Johnsons "Guns and Butter" Blue
Sky Welfarism. And even harder to win when you had MASSIVE voter fraud in the Kennedy election. Nixon could have demanded a recount and would have won against Kennedy but he did not want to subject the country to turmoil.
Reagan would not have happened if Nixon did not hold the fort in the 50's and 60's.
"he did have some pretty stupid ideas about domestic policy, like wage-price controls, the EPA and affirmative action. His saving grace was he was a fierce anticommunist.
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LOL