[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Nixon loved TR also. I never understood it .

But the author is critical of Trump saying correctly that the matter of abortion is for the states. of course it is matter for the states. The constitution says so. The federal government never had authority to regulate abortion. They stole it. And now it’s been returned to the states and the people as the constitution requires. I think the author has a learning disability. He talks about President McKinley being assassinated and then dying!

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Nixon went through the Depression and WWII. People in that generation might be more accepting of big government than those of other generations. That goes especially for people who went into government. Even those who disliked FDR might have a soft spot for TR, as Nixon also did for Wilson.

Nixon's father voted for TR. Taft wasn't on the ballot in California. Frank Nixon was a Republican who loved to talk politics. He broke with the party, though, to support Wilson in 1916, LaFollette in 1924 and FDR in 1936.

This part may or may not be true:

Biographer Stephen E. Ambrose wrote that Nixon ceased favoring the Democratic Party by the age of 17. During the campaign for the 1896 United States presidential election, Nixon had an encounter with presidential candidate William McKinley, who asked him how he was going to vote, Nixon replying, "Republican, of course!" Ambrose cited the encounter as completing Nixon's switch to favoring the Republican Party.