And then Nixon went to China, and then Clinton made a deal between Sam Wall and China, and the rest is history.
There should be a penalty, but with our legislators, that ain't gonna happen any time soon.
I know folks like to take Nixon to task for opening up China, but it was the middle of the cold war and he wanted to offset China against the U. S. S. R. It was a reasoned ploy.
It wasn’t until around 1992 that the nation went “loony toons” over China. At that time our trade deficits were about !00 billion per year. That was bad enough. I still didn’t like it.
Then we turned our trade deficits into close to $1 trillion yearly.
I believe it has deflated since.
At any rate, it’s this generation of presidents, Congress, Corporations, and small businesses that have sold out the American worker.
Placing that on Nixon’s back to me just seems like piling on, because everyone has their fair haired person today they don’t want to place the blame on.
All those entities since 1992 have played a major part.
Nixon was nowhere to be seen.
Nixon for all his faults, did everything he could to keep this nation strong in the face of the Cold War. He was nothing like Carter, Clinton, or Obama.
And yes, he did some things that I cringe about. He shouldn’t have. In history, Nixon goes down with enough trash talk, when you consider what Clinton and Obama have been given a pass on.
Nixon was more complex than our presidents today in either party.