EPTCan any historians/ Americans enlighten me?
What the F was so wrong about Tricky Dicky?
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
Can any historians/ Americans enlighten me? | ||
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inertinept
Bangladesh1195 Posts
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theonemephisto
United States409 Posts
As far as I can tell, Nixon was at worst an average president and quite possibly a fairly good one besides Watergate. He started a really bad policy of bombing Cambodia, but eventually ended the Vietnam War. His domestic policies were mixed, he took us off the gold standard but used harmful price controls to try to control inflation. And probably a lot more that high school textbooks didn't care enough to talk about. But his real successes were when dealing with the USSR/China. The Cold War experienced a significant toning down during his time and there were a lot of good peaceful advances made. It's just that Watergate really was a big deal. I didn't experience it, but from what I know it represented a fundamental shift in how Americans viewed their government and the people who ran it. | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
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Proposal
United States1310 Posts
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
This was unfortunate, because he was also a great diplomat and opened up relations to China. Of course, as a Taiwanese, my kin were pretty pissed at this. | ||
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32117 Posts
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
On December 21 2008 12:47 fusionsdf wrote: He was a Libra I'm a Libra T_T. I'd have to say he had a fairly short temper, was *extremely* paranoid, and he was ugly. Quite frankly, his looks probably were a factor, thinking of how shallow the American public is (That was not meant to be an anti-American statement). | ||
micronesia
United States24753 Posts
He was average though because of good foreign policy that did not pertain to the Vietnam War. When China reached out its hand, he embraced improved relations (ping pong politics - read: Forest Gump)... and this never would have happened with Bush... Bush woulda given them an 'f u') | ||
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ShloobeR
Korea (South)3820 Posts
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
But about him, he was too arrogant. | ||
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
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Frits
11782 Posts
and he lied all the time for some reason it's not mentioned at all on wikipedia | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
I'm sure one of the neoliberals on tl could tell you more about it. | ||
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Pods
United States81 Posts
Watergate is one level and the whole cover up; when the FBI was close to investigating the money that had been wired to Mexico, Nixon actually asked them to stop, saying that it would interfere with CIA activity. bullshit. Cambodia showed his paranoid side; he wiretapped the NSA, CIA, and FBI Also in general, he just said one thing and would do another. One example is him painting himself as an anti-Communist but opening up to China. Another example would be him telling the public that he wanted to give federal money to the arts (a traditionally liberal ideal, and one that typically expanded the federal government, which ran contrary to the Republican ideal) and then doing so-but giving local governments broad discretion in choosing how to distribute the money (so this actually made the federal government smaller) and earmarking federal money for the arts for performing groups to perform overseas to promote democracy. | ||
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