“Nixon’s wide-ranging accomplishment’s dwarf most other presidents.”
oh, you mean like
The Gun Control Act of 1968..........
Like executing the first—and maybe last—successful opium eradication program using crop substitution. This was in Turkey which at the time supplied about 70 percent of opium products (heroin) sold in the West.
He inherited a mess from LBJ and slowly turned it around. He bombed Hanoi to the peace table, ended the draft, founded the All-Volunteer Army, withdrew most troops from Vietnam and turned the war over to the Vietnamese. The South Vietnamese successfully beat back two major North Vietnamese invasion. When Nixon resigned a Democrat-led Congress cut off every dime of aid and military support. The North Vietnamese, backed by the Soviets, were able to overrun a weakened, friendless South Vietnam in 1975.
Nixon visited China and opened relations. Next he visited the Soviet Union and laid the groundwork for the Strategic Arms Limitation talks.
There's a lot more but I'm not looking it up. The guy wasn't perfect but compared to JFK who was a lightweight, Ivy League poet, and LBJ who was a bull in a china shop, Nixon was okay with me.
The Gun Control Act was a reaction by Congress to the deaths of JFK, Martin Luther King and “Bobby Socks” Kennedy.
Uh, Nixon was elected in 1968, didn’t take office until 1969, at which point the the Gun Control Act of 1968 was already law.
Nixon was guilty of enough bad things without tarring him with that waste-of-skin Johnson’s sins.