Most people only think of Watergate whenever Nixon is mentioned, but his record was a very good one in spite of Watergate and fighting a democratic congress. His opening in China and Russia strategy, He was well on the way to solving the Viet Nam Mess caused by Kennedy and Johnson when the protesters led by Fonda, Kerry, and the democrats forced his hand. On domestic issues, Nixon won many battles with the congress to limit the size of the federal government. I recall Nixon not spending all the budget allocated to the administration and returning some of it at the end of the fiscal year (no other modern president has done that). Nixon also initiated "block grants" to the states to return some of the money and functions that belong at the state level back to the states. Nixon ran a tight ship and that's what got him in the end. But make no mistake about it, Nixon turned this country around and laid the ground work for the United States as you now see it, IMHO.
You know, I respect a lot about RMN, but you have to admit that he set the cause back quite a bit with his cover-up debacle.
Did you forget the massacre of the November 1974 elections? And the 'Rat supermajorities that overrode all of Ford's vetoes '75-'76, gave up South Vietnam to the enemy, emasculated the FBI and CIA (it took 9/11 to fully reap the consequences of that action), and the short ascendancy of Jimmuh 'Ahlnevuhlietoyou' Carter?
Yeah, that last one got RR elected for sure, but we are still living with the excesses of the liberal 70s legislation passed in the shadow of Watergate (just as we are still haunted by the excesses of another artificial 'Rat supermajority Congress, '65-'66, created by the tragedy of the Kennedy assassination).
Just a little balance.
Cordially, Al
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