Reply #9: Can't be too hard on Nixon [View All]

[izquierdista]

I was schooled by people who hated him since he first ran for Congress from Orange county. Tricky (as those who knew and detested him well called him) only gets points now for the things you rattled off. Back in the day, he was looking to: use WAGE/(price) controls to bash unions, pass an EPA that would shift business liability to the government, and use health care to help his buddies at Kaiser. He was well aware that the fascist state was the servant of corporations, and would always do their bidding.

I'll admit that there were reasonable Republicans back then, but Tricky was not one of them. When you look up "ratfucker" in the dictionary, there's his smiling face. The reason that "only Nixon could go to China" was because Americans wanted their lowest, most underhanded, nastiest politician they had dealing with the Chinese.

As a personal note, I was in attendance at one of the few public events Nixon and Agnew appeared at together. They were dedicating a hospital named in honor of Eisenhower, and the warmth those two exuded can only be compared to Siberia in January.