[Zhang Fei]

[I have never admired Richard Nixon, and I have always thought he did a lot of long-term damage to the country beyond Watergate itself: wage and price controls, the enhancement of EPA’s often arbitrary power, institutionalized racial quotas in the name of “affirmative action,” arms control agreements that the Soviets were violating before the ink was dry, “detente” that the Soviets manipulated to their advantage]

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I’ve always thought Nixon was one of the worst GOP presidents around. Contra the author of this piece, I think he snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory in Vietnam. He backed off the destruction of North Vietnam just as they were about to give up, when they had run out of SAMs and MiGs to send up against USAF and USN strike packages. While the coup d’etat mounted against him was IMHO blatantly illegal, he was a RINO - more left-wing than Bush Senior, and fan of all kinds of left-wing programs. We owe Hispanic “race” preferences to him. The man is gone, but the damage he did lives on after him.

[No Party Affiliation]

You cannot consider the outcome in vietnam without taking into account congressional funding, or lack thereof. To place the outcome and fallout at the feet of nixon is historically inaccurate.