If you look at what the media is trying to do to Trump today, and to a lesser extent Cruz, you have to realize they were just devilish to Nixon.
Nixon was a fairly decent president IMO. Yes he did some things that were Leftist in nature. In those days we weren’t as in tune as we are today, so he got away with it.
If you look at some of the people he ran against, than heaven he won. McGovern?
Also, if you look at what Nixon was guilty of as compared to what Clinton and his wife were involved in, Nixon was a piker.
One example. Coleson had one FBI file. Hillary and staff had over a thousand. Coleson had to spend time in prison. Hillary wasn’t even charged.
There was instance after instance after instance like this Nixon vs Clinton.
Look at how the media fixated on Nixon as if he was evil, and then look at how they gave the Clintons and Obama passes on everything.
Do you think Nixon would have been installed without providing documents to prove he was a citizen?
So not to take you personally to task, but I know Nixon got a very raw deal.
You’re right, I remember that. Nixon (with help of Kissinger and Rumsfeld) was brilliant in Foreign Affairs.
Also, Nixon resigned from office rather than “put the country through the trauma of impeachment.” I don’t believe that was a cop-out, I think he had integrity and really cared about his country.
-— “Nixon was a fairly decent president IMO. Yes he did some things that were Leftist in nature.”
Yes, for example, do you remember Nixon’s “Wage & Price Controls???”
OMG, that was so un-conservative!! So much for free markets!
But as a kid reading the news back then, I didn’t have a strong conviction about things like free market economies as I do now.