[EagleUSA]

The RATS can offer NOTHING but reliving the past. Absolutely nothing for the future of REAL America but destruction, chaos, and radical socialism.

Has this country not learned from the big cities they have destroyed???

[Redwood71]

A lot of people were turned off to Nixon because he won the election. If he had been elected 50 years later, what he did wrong would have been considered admirable. It was for the Clinton administration.

But Nixon’s strong point was his foreign diplomacy. Trump is excellent in understanding the actual problem and determining the best, and easiest, way to handle it. Obama was terrible in foreign work and he further complicated his mistakes by sending H Clinton out there to further fumble the ball. Trump does his own work as he is hands on. That’s what a middle tier leader does that does not have full authority to do things unless he can trust someone to accomplish it. With the way his own party is handing the situation of his administration, I can’t see anyone like that either.

rwood

[CMSMC]

Ask any of the Vietnam POWs what they thought of Nixon. I know a couple.... He rates just ahead of Abraham Lincoln.

[catnipman]

BTW, notice how Nadler and Schiff have STFU about “impeachment” as have the owners of the Dem Party, the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia?

The toms-toms sent out the message for everyone to focus on the Dem primary because “impeachment” was a distraction this close to the election ... it’s funny how all of that works, isn’t it?

[Moorka]

The Texas A & M Colodny Collection documents are amazing and completely destroy the total frauds that are John Dean, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Richard Ben-Veniste and the corrupt mainstream media of that era.

[SpaceBar]

In the sense that Nixon and Trump were completely unique in their time, they are exactly the same. And so another holiday weekend editorial deadline is met.

[Missouri gal]

I do appreciate author's praise of Nixon. He deserves far more credit for his accomplishments. That said, we have never before in our lives had a president who succeeds again and again where others said it could not be done. Donald Trump not only doesn't need the job but has given up his day-to-day management of an incredible self-made empire to try to save this country from the corrupt leftists, and hardly takes a day off from the effort. He has such a wide range of vision of what is wrong that he really seems to be one-of-a-kind and heaven-sent.

[Bommer]

Close election? Even without Wallace running, Pubert Dumphrey would have gotten shellaced in electorial votes.

Nixon won the popular vote with a plurality of 512,000 votes, or a victory margin of about one percentage point. In the electoral college Nixon's victory was larger, as he carried 32 states with 301 electoral votes, compared to Humphrey's 13 states and 191 electoral votes and Wallace's five states and 46 electoral votes

[keving]

Yes was successful, reached out to our enemies, ended the Vietnam Ear and passed the Clean Air Act, established the Environment Protection Act: ‘ During his first term in office, Nixon pursued reforms in welfare, heath care, civil rights, energy and environmental policy, on the belief that such policies had to be based on national standards, not the idiosyncratic whims of 50 states. While Congress defeated his welfare and health care programs, Nixon created the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Energy Policy for advice on oil policy and supported the Clean Air Act of 1970. In addition, he established the Environmental Protection Agency.

He insisted that Congress broaden the U.S. Civil Rights Commission mandate to include sex discrimination and signed all civil rights legislation passed by Congress, including Title IX, which banned sexual discrimination in educational benefits. Most important, the Nixon administration expanded enforcement of affirmative action. He also supported the Constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18. Nixon used the “peace dividend” from reducing troops in Vietnam to finance social welfare services and enforce civil rights through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As a result, from 1970 to 1975, spending on human resource services exceeded spending for defense for the first time since World War II.

When I asked Nixon in 1983 what he considered his most important achievements in domestic policy, he included the more thorough desegregation of Southern schools, environmental initiatives like the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the pursuit of international cooperation in space, as well as his declarations of war on cancer, illegal drugs and hunger.

These achievements were even more important than the foreign policy initiatives for which he has received wider praise — innovative attempts to diplomatically engage both the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, and to attain modest arms control through the anti-ballistic-missile agreement with the Soviet Union.’. NYT article