Nixon was a socialist. He had no idea what made this Republic great. He gave us wage and price controls -- total idiot for doing such. He gave us the EPA -- another assault on Freedom. He was okay on Foreign Policy and was a misunderstood man. He was not morally corrupt, but like most Presidents, he began programs that morph into bureaucratic monsters that suck more and more of the hard earned income of the hard working Americans. It's quite rare to have Presidents who respect the 10th Amendment.
Nixon was not conservative, as you say, but I believe that Nixon thought that the public was so liberal that he had to move to the left to have any chance of political success. Maybe the country was more conservative than Nixon thought. Nixon may have been to public opinion in the 1960s and 1970s as Marie Antoinette was the French masses, fearful of their turning against HIM.
Nixon was a socialist. He had no idea what made this Republic great. He gave us wage and price controls -- total idiot for doing such. He gave us the EPA -- another assault on Freedom. He was okay on Foreign Policy and was a misunderstood man. He was not morally corrupt, but like most Presidents, he began programs that morph into bureaucratic monsters that suck more and more of the hard earned income of the hard working Americans. It's quite rare to have Presidents who respect the 10th Amendment.