Nixon was the best President we ever had.

[52ndStreet]

I must submit to you all , that Richard Milhouse Nixon, was the best President we ever had.

 

[BasicGreatGuy]

How do you arrive at that conclusion? What are you using as the benchmark?

 

[JW Frogen]

I have to admit bombing the North Veitnamese on Christmas Day had a nice Micheavellian bow on it.

That Quaker made the Commies quake that day.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Nixon the best President? I'm not so sure that is correct but I will say that he is like everybody else that has become President and has his share of skeletons in the closet. I have a Richard Nixon story to tell you. Years ago my wife and I were stationed at the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, MD. This is many years before we got married and way back then we were both new to the Navy and just good friends. Well, anyway to make a long story short, Mrs. BBD got the opportunity to escort a large group of patients from the Naval Hospital over to the White House for Thanksgiving Dinner. As things turned out, she was seated right beside of Pat Nixon and talked with her for the entire meal. President Nixon sat at a different table with a group of hospital patients. She had a great time and got to see some first hand stuff there at the White House. She said that Pat Nixon was a very nice and a gracious person to have dined with and she enjoyed the experience. That story doesn't sway my opinion of President Nixon in any way - just an interesting thing to have happened to my wife in her lifetime.

 

[52ndStreet]

How do you arrive at that conclusion? What are you using as the benchmark?

He created many programs that are still in existence today, and he started a very
important dialogue with Communist China, at a time when the United States was in conflict
with communist in the world.

 

[Zona]

I really didnt know he was that much of a racist. I recently heard his tapes, and he was a freaking nut. A homophobe, anti semite, anti black freaking nut racist.

Wow. Who knew.

 

[BasicGreatGuy]

How do you arrive at that conclusion? What are you using as the benchmark?

He created many programs that are still in existence today, and he started a very
important dialogue with Communist China, at a time when the United States was in conflict
with communist in the world.

Big government must be a plus in your political equation book, for you to tout that standard.

 

[JW Frogen]

The Watergate burglars should have killed that security guard sighting national security.

G Gordon Liddy wanted to but the others voted to Dennys instead.

 

[Huh?]

 

[Polk]

Nixon is interesting, to say the least.

 

[rightwinger]

I was a big fan of Nixon while he was President. He was very knowledgeable and did well.

But he was fucking nuts and a first class a-hole

 

[BasicGreatGuy]

For those who weren't born yet, or old enough to have remembered this, I recommend it.

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[REVxERIK]

best no. his work with china was great. But he did horrible things.

 

[Huh?]

Before the Watergate case, Herb Block had noted other Richard Nixon scandals. These concerned reports of improper influence by ITT Corp. on the location of the future Republican National Convention; Nixon's fluctuating decisions on milk price supports that amounted to a shakedown for campaign funds; and pressures on other businesses to meet quota "suggestions" on contributions. There were disclosures of taxpayer money spent to fix up Nixon's homes in Key Biscayne and San Clemente. Nixon also took large backdated tax deductions for the gift of his vice-presidential papers, which even included newspaper clippings.

 

[Huh?]

By July 14, 1974, President Richard Nixon stood almost alone. His vice-president Spiro Agnew, pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of tax evasion, and was forced to resign. Many of Nixon's closest aides had been convicted of illegal activities. Nixon himself was named an "un-indicted co-conspirator" by the Watergate grand jury. A few days later, the House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment, and the Supreme Court required him to turn over all subpoenaed tapes. When even his closest friends, reviewing these tapes, agreed that the evidence against him was overwhelming, Nixon bowed to the inevitable, resigning on August 9.

 

[blu]

How do you arrive at that conclusion? What are you using as the benchmark?

He created many programs that are still in existence today

social security, dept of education, etc are still around too. does that make them good?

 

[JakeStarkey]

I was taught only to speak good of the dead. Nixon is dead. Good.

 

[The Rabbi]

Nixon was a measure of how far the GOP has come. He was a big government Republican, as was his second VP Rocky. They were pretty typical for that generation.
He left a legacy of failure in Vietnam, social unrest, high inflation, lack of a gold standard, and a template of creating a gov't agency for every social problem in the book.
He was very good in foreign affairs though and knew how to handle the Soviets.

 

[ElmerMudd]

I must submit to you all , that Richard Milhouse Nixon, was the best President we ever had.

He was a flawed individual as so many presidents. His personal flaws negatively influenced his effectiveness as President. Many Presidents personal flaws do not affect their effectiveness as president.

One thing is for sure; Richard Nixon was a substantially better President than George W. Bush.

 

[The Rabbi]

Really?
Bush fought and won 2 wars. Nixon managed to lose one. Nixon trashed the economy with high inflation and eventually stagflation. Bush inherited a recession and produced 8 years of prosperity. Nixon was nearly impeached, Bush's personal conduct was stainless.