To show how we have moved to the right a conservative President's accomplishments

[county worker]

Nixon's accomplishments while in office included: largely ending segregated classes in the south, revenue sharing, ending the draft, new anticrime laws, started the process of ending the Cold War, recognized and fought against foreign oil price gouging, and implemented a broad environmental program (he is largely responsible for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). He was the only President to achieve a balanced national budget between 1961 and 1998. He instituted Equal OpportunityEmployment and Title IX.

Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.

As he had promised, he appointed conservative Supreme Court justices William Rehnquist and Harry Blackmun. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.

[ProSense]

1. Is this another round of Nixon was a liberal? n/t

[county worker]

2. I came up with this because I would not go across the street to see Bush

but once I had a dream I met Nixon even though I hated him back then.

No Nixon was not a liberal but if you compare what "professional Leftists" want, end to the wars, climate change legislation, education for all, etc. They are not much left of what we used to call Conservative.

[CTLawGuy]

3. you can't compare 1969-74 to today

Nixon would have been run out of town on a rail in today's Republican party. Back in his time, the Republican party was a moderate party that accepted the premise of the New Deal, that government had a role in improving our lives. This was before Reagan, before Fox News, before the Tea Party and before the Republicans used the filibuster to kill everything they didn't approve of.

[Cosmocat]

4. I have not known reasonable republicans politicians in my adult life ...

I was in my mid 20s and workinng out at the gym, and they had ... RUSH LIMBAUGH on the radio ... Day after day he was going on about the nonsensical stuff he goes no about, and this evli liberal ... I remembered back then thinking, "who in the heck in this liberal he is talking about." I never in my life had met this craven, america hating, vile person this guy just droned about every day.

There was this guy I knew, GOOD guy, I respected him a lot. I remember being kind of stunned when he said how much he liked Limbaugh. I just did not get it how someone who was a good guy got anything from it.

That was in the early/mid 90s. I was still getting my crape together in my own life, but I remember how angry it made me how they absolutely put Clinton through the ringer, and how, again, it was just surreal to me how a GOOD president was allowed to be treated they way he was by the opposition party, and how the media kind of allowed it.

Going into the 2000 elections I was again beyond myself why a twit like Bush could be even a viable presidential candidate, and a guy like Gore painted so negatively. I still have hard memory of election night when they called it for Bush - I knew we were in trouble, and somehow as bad as I felt about it then, it was worse than I imagined.

I do remember in my college days, a "friend" of my mother who was doing an addition to the house that I helped with. I spent the summer working with the guy and started to respect him. He was really religious, and apparently was in on the early christian coalition stuff somehow. By the end of the summer I had come to realize he was in fact VERY creepy ...

I think the "religious right" and moral majority stuff was the framework for it (the rock solid support AND the get out of jail free mentality and thinking what they actually did and said had no consequences because they were doing gods bigging and the now fully blown ends justifies the means dogma) and Limbaugh was the linchpin before Faux News became the final piece ...

It is not going to get better, these clowns have NO conscience as is, and this last election gives them all the rationale they need to think they are right about everything AND that they can and SHOULD do and say whatever they want to try to get back into power ...

[suzie]

5. +1 trillion