Don't forget Nixon. His love affair with china fathered the reason for the mess we are in today.
Yes! And besides China, Nixon initiated this world-wide, unbacked, fraudulent fiat currency plague, by delinking the USD from gold, along with setting up the financial structures to manipulate the price of gold down, still operating even to this day.
I was dead set against Nixon's approach to Red China from the start. He should have left the Chicoms to stew in "angry isolation," as he termed it.