Nixon! Who might have been one of the best presidents if that little watergate scandal didn't happen! He was also the best President for the environment also!
Well, George Bush sure makes all presidents look good...
Nixon deserves credit for the EPA and proposing a healthcare plan, But his ultimate downfall was rooted in his paranoia, his hatred for Ivy League grads (especially Harvard) and his character flaws...
I despise Nixon for what he did to the drug law classifications as a way to punish war protesters...
"Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world."
Barry Goldwater
The war on drugs was started with the Harrison Act. Nixon didn't escalate the WOD, rather it wasn't under Reagan that the war really heated up!
Nixon also opened the door to China!
The man balance the budget!
American Experience | The Presidents | Richard M. Nixon | PBS
Sent a man to the moon!
The
War on Drugs is a prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government with the assistance of participating countries, intended to reduce the illegal drug trade – to curb supply and diminish demand for specific psychoactive substances deemed immoral, harmful, dangerous, or undesirable. This initiative includes a set of laws and policies that are intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of targeted substances.
The term was first used by President Richard Nixon in 1969, and his choice of words was probably based on the War on Poverty, announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon announced that the Attorney General, John N. Mitchell, was preparing a comprehensive new measure to more effectively meet the narcotic and dangerous drug problems at the federal level by combining all existing federal laws into a single new statute.
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Once-Secret "Nixon Tapes" Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot
Lumping marijuana, homosexuality, Jews and Commies into one grand conspiracy, a paranoid Richard Nixon launched America's "war on pot" 30 years ago. Here are the tapes to prove it.
Thirty years ago the United States came to a critical juncture in the drug war. A Nixon-appointed presidential commission had recommended that marijuana use not be a criminal offense under state or federal law. But Nixon himself, based on his zealous personal preferences, overruled the commission's research and doomed marijuana to its current illegal status.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/12666/once-secret_%22nixon_tapes%22_show_why_the_u.s._outlawed_pot/
Schedule I drugs -- Marijuana is classified under federal law as a Schedule I controlled substance, defined as a drug with a high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use in the U.S., and unsafe for use even under medical supervision. Other Schedule I drugs include heroin, LSD and PCP.
Schedule II drugs -- still considered to have high abuse potential but with accepted medical uses and considered safe for use under medical supervision -- include cocaine, morphine and methamphetamine.
That's right, federal law currently classifies marijuana as more dangerous than methamphetamine .
America would have never made it to the Moon in Nixon's tenure if it wasn't for John Kennedy
