Majority remember president Nixon for the Watergate scandal but on the positive side he created Environmental Protection Agency, ended Vietnam War, reduced School segregation, negotiated the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) with the Soviet Union, launched the War on Cancer. He isn't being praised enough for these good things.
It's a famous case of rewriting history, why discuss any of his actual policies, why discuss the actual case when you can just confuse and befuddle anybody that tries to look back. That's how you know it's propaganda because it's not honest, it doesn't go after nixon the man it just creates this miasma that tries to infiltrate your body and make you start shitting out hippy jew talking points. Even in your own opening post you felt the need to talk about how he created the EPA which is probably the most irrelevant thing he did because it was the democrat socialist platform to destroy the country with environmental regulation. I'm of the opinion that this is a deliberate propaganda tactic to blame him for what the socialists did while he was in office.
>>18102834Nixon was key in the US fully pivoting to supporting Israel.
>>18102887Because they called him up and threatened to use the Samson option
>>18102887That was LBJ.
>>18102834The way they discussed him in school they made it seem like Nixon started the Vietnam War and JFK ended it. When the Internet became a thing I was surprised to learn that JFK was president before Nixon.
>>18102904You think it's a coincidence in every movie about the 60's he's some megalomaniac mass murderer?
>>18102904There's undeniable evidence he sabotaged the Paris peace accords to end the war, so he gotta be a murderer at the very least.
>>18102920Why would LBJ want to end a war that his administration pushed so hard for to the point they even false flagged to get into it?
>>18102834There is a great yet-untold story about the 1972 election; about how forced busing became the only important issue of the election, of how Nixon saw it coming >2 years earlier, and how, (when the shit finally hit the fan), he was the only politician in America standing on the only safe political ground on the subject.I won't bore anyone with the details unless asked, but he went against the advice of most of his advisors; and one of them (Colson), finally had to admit to Nixon that he had been right and everyone else had been wrong
>>18102920>muh Chennault AffairIt's just the stab-in-the-back legend for boomer libs built on some misinterpreted lines in Haldeman's notes and Chennault showboating to sell her autobiography.The FBI wiretapped Chennault and the South Vietnamese embassy at LBJ's behest and found nothing. The embassy didn't even mention her in the taps lol. Nixon only met with her twice in 1968, the idea she was some crucial connection between Nixon and Saigon is entirely her own aforemetioned self-promotion.The fact is Saigon had a hundred reasons not to bother with peace talks in Paris in 1968.
>>18102834He overnoticed and had his reputation smeared
>>18102834>reduced School segregationYet another reason to hate Quakers.
Outside of his corruption, Nixon was a mixed bag, I'd say.
>>18102887>>18102955Based knowers
>>18102834he's not as bad as left wing people make him out to be, but he was still pretty bad.yes he signed into law the things you mentioned, but other than SALT it was mostly congressional dems pushing for such things and nixon agreed to sign the bills if congress would let him decide on foreign policy with little to no congressional oversight. he famously promised to sign a national healthcare bill into law if they could get it to his desk as long as they didn't ask why he needed to bomb the shit out of cambodia.he was mostly concerned with foreign policy which amounted to "bomb everyone that isn't a willing slave of the US". him and kissinger were best buddies and everyone should know how much of an inhuman ghoul kissinger washe really was the last of the new deal presidents. he was willing to use the profits of empire to pay off the workers in the core so they wouldn't ask why the empire had to exist.
>>18102955Please do share the details.
>>18103762When SCOTUS ruled in Brown v Board of education that schools must be desegregated, they didn't give any suggestions on how it would be done. Since there weren't enough white people to distribute in black schools or enough black people to distribute to white schools, the lower courts decided to go with cross-town busing; where students would be forced out of their own school and distributed to other schools for the purpose of balancing out the numbers. On 9/12/1971, Nixon had a call with Colson where he was told that not only were people protesting busing in Boston, but both black and white parents were protesting:https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/8-87Curious, Nixon had a poll run where he discovered that the democrats (and some republicans) were misunderstanding the problem. It wasn't a civil rights problem, as everyone thought, but an education problem. If parents thought their kids schools were good, they were against busing. If they thought their kid's school as bad, they were in favor of busing. Race had nothing to do with it.Recognizing that most of his potential 1972 dem challengers had already come out in favor of busing, Nixon forced his staff to stick with a simple message they were not allowed to deviate from:> I am against busing, but I am FOR good schoolsThen on 3/24/72 a federal judge rules that busing MIGHT happen across districts. So, children in rich neighborhoods would be shipped to shitty schools in the city.On 5/12/72, Colson finally admitted that busing was "THE issue of the election"On 6/14/72, Judge Roth ruled that busing WOULD involve cross-district movement, and the entire country exploded.Meanwhile, the democrats, still thinking that it was a civil rights issue, went full-court press on the subject. Finally, in the mistake of a generation (and during the dem national convention) a small group or radicals forced a vote in FAVOR of busing onto the national platform.(end pt 1)
>>18104918The DNC being officially pro-busing destroyed every dem candidate down ticket. It got so bad, that even the dem candidates were now fighting busing. So, in Michigan, for example, the Dem AG (candidate for senate) made a point of personally being the one to file suit to stop busing; and some of the dem house candidates started lining up to see if Nixon would show up for a picture with them.It got so bad that the Governor of Michigan warned the president to stay out of the state, because the people were revolting so violently that he couldn't guarantee the president's safety.https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/25-69It's harder to listen to, but here's a conversation Nixon and his staff had after the conversation with the governor, where Colson finally admitted that Nixon had been right all alonghttps://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/737/conversation-737-009
>>18104941A few follow-up's:1. When I said that candidates were lining up to have their pictures taken with the president, I wasn't kidding. Here's (see picture) a Michigan republican, who had been against nixon but suddenly found a need to get his picture, so he met the president as he was walking from his plane to his chopper, to give him a bullshit "nation's #1 bowler" award.2. This is also the true story behind what the dems would later spin as the 'southern strategy'. Democrat George Wallace was rabidly anti-busing. Since he was the only dem who was, he won a few primaries (including Michigan). Nixon, not wanting to get in the way of his enemy destroying themselves, did everything he could to keep Wallace in the dem nomination. The dems would later claim that this was when the 'parties switched'. they didn't, the dems just didn't want to admit that they were wrong.3. It got so bad in Michigan that someone firebombed the entire bus fleet of Pontiac Michigan rather than to have busing happen4. At the time, white liberals were in control of the NAACP. They forced the organization to go all-in on busing, and as a result, the NAACP saw a complete collapse in donations See the 1972-08-09 Russell Kirk column "Only NAACP loves busing" for more
>>18102834The trouble is he did some fucked up shit. The southern strategy, his paranoia, that bullshit he and Kissinger did during the LBJ negotiations with the north Vietnamese, the war on drugs and the DEA to name a few. Though you forgot the clean air and water act and the endangered species act. He was a real mixed bag. Some seriously fucked up things and some great stuff. For example he presided over the ban on DDT. It literally saved the bald eagle from extinction. The national bird, the symbol of the United States had suffered catastrophic population decline thanks to DDT. Nixon’s admin banned it in 1972. He makes me pine for when republicans had redeeming qualities that made them a viable alternative.
>>18105842the southern strategy is a myth. It was created as a means of explaining how the so-called party of civil rights had George Wallace winning so many votes; both back at home and in the 1972 DNC primary.They attempt to tie it to Nixon because Nixon was egging Wallace on. But he was egging on to fuck with the democrats, not for ideological reasons.In at least a few of the recorded conversations, he throws both the hard left and the hard right into small group of crazies: not big enough to have ideas or power, but big enough to occasionally screw with certain candidates or parties. In doing so, he called the left leaning extremists the 'wallace crowd' and the right wing extremists the 'birch crowd'. Meanwhile. while some will claim this mythical southern strategy, they can't explain why after this change is supposed to happen, none of the members of either party changed parties.
>>18105907Eh, you’re acting as if it was just a short term thing. The political realignment that the southern strategy helped usher along technically started with Berry Goldwater, but Nixon was the one who won with it, and Reagan took it to its full apotheosis. Point is that I do agree that Nixon wasn’t ideological about it. It was just a political tool that others used less successfully before him and just as successfully after. I still count embracing it as one of his faults. I’d probably still have voted for him if I’d been alive at the time. He was the greenest republican in the last, what, 100 years?
>>18105956Again, I disagree. The southern strategy implies, among other things, that the electoral shift was a result of something the republicans did. Instead, I think it's pretty clear that what happened is that the democrats, who had been the party of slavery and anti-rights since before the civil war; changed on a dime and attempted to paint themselves as the party of civil rights.So, in 1964, they weren't voting for Goldwater because they agreed with him on policy, but because he wasn't the civil rights pioneer Lyndon B Johnson. In 1968, they did the same thing, but more because the dems nominated Hubert Humphrey, which had been trying to make a name on continuing all of johnson's policies. Meanwhile, in 68 you also had Wallace running for the racist independent, and he took away 46 electoral votes, all in this same south the so-called southern strategy credited to the republicans. Yes, in 1972, the south voted republican, but so did every other state except Massachusetts. But then in 1976, the south was solid democrat for Carter. No southern turn to the right there either.In 1980, the whole world was sick of carter, so the whole world went republican, with the exception of home state of the candidate. In 1984, Reagan won a landslide. No southern strategy there either.So now we're 20 years past the time this so-called southern strategy is supposed to be taking place, and each election is simply a matter of circumstance or national momentum
he was a man of contradictions, also deeply paranoid and insecure. I think he appeals to pol tards and the like because he was a bit of a working class loser who always resented the elite who looked down on him. he wasnt cool and handsome like jfk, he was a paranoid nerd. even people who hate him consider him smart but evil
>>18106010Smart but evil? Are you a fed or just mentally challenged?
>>18106010>he's evil because... he's not part of an incestuous political dynasty and had to earn power on his own
