A century later, Nixon legacy carries on: The president would have been 100 this week.

The Orange County Register ^ | January 6, 2013 | Michael Mello

[EveningStar]

For five years, he was known as the leader of the Free World.

But for the first several years of his life, Richard Milhous Nixon had a more modest title: farm boy.

Wednesday will mark the date, 100 years ago, of a winter day so cold that Hannah Nixon was advised it would be better to bear her fifth son at home than risk traveling in the chill to a hospital. That was the day a small, kit-constructed home surrounded by citrus trees saw the birth of the man who would become the 37th president of the United States.

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Richard Milhous Nixon was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California.

Photo essay: Nixon through the years

Key moments that defined Nixon

Wikipedia article

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[Fiji Hill]

Go Vote Nixon-Lodge--Clancy Hayes Dixieland Band (1960)

[donozark]

Left just loves to portray Nixon as evil. But among his lesser known accomplishments he:

Halted the use of Rainbow Herbicides in SE Asia. Extracted us from a no-win war (one we refused to win). And saved Israel in 1973.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Wish Reagan had won in ‘68.

[x]

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

[BenLurkin]

The EPA....8^(

But of all Nixon’s flaws...Clinton made him look like an amateur in the abuse of power and corruption departments.

[Snickering Hound]

Responsible for the EPA, OSHA and Affirmative Action.

Crank up those fires of hell a little higher, please.

[YankeeReb]

Left just loves to portray Nixon as evil. But among his lesser known accomplishments he:

Halted the use of Rainbow Herbicides in SE Asia. Extracted us from a no-win war (one we refused to win). And saved Israel in 1973.

Nixon also started the EPA and OSHA, instituted socialistic wage & price controls creating shortages, and worst of all took us completely off the gold standard resulting in massive inflation of the 70s.

I'm no expert, but IMHO without the groundwork of Nixon there'd be no BH0 and his healthcare takeover.

[donozark]

Yes. I was merely pointing out some of the positive things he accomplished. But he was hardly a conservative.

[morphing libertarian]

Socialized med was an for move and the Truman. Big step under lbj aided by Wilbur mills. Nixon big step, then w. ob just taking it to inevitable (who will stop it?) conclusion.

[morphing libertarian]

FDR. Started the idea

[Chainmail]

Sure wish he was still around - BHO would never have won against him. Anybody who was so hated by the communists, I mean Democrats, couldn’t possibly be all bad.

[ontap]

Bingo....corruption and lying only counts if it’s republicans..

[muggs]

Wednesday will mark the date, 100 years ago, of a winter day so cold that Hannah Nixon was advised it would be better to bear her fifth son at home than risk traveling in the chill to a hospital.

Were not most babies still born at home 100 years ago.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Nixon:

A Life

This book, written by a British former MP, struck me as fair. An interesting read. I voted for Nixon 3 times . . .

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

My dad was born at home in 1930.

[CowboyJay]

"Responsible for the EPA, OSHA and Affirmative Action"

You can add debauching the currency, beginning the process of selling our industrial sector out to Asia, and turning the GOP party reins over to the original band of neocons to his rap sheet.

Arguably every bit as bad as LBJ or Carter. Not much of a legacy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks EveningStar. Happy anniversary to his living descendants.