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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy 100th Birthday to the Last Liberal President!
See: Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/200006--.htm
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)DURec all the same
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Dick "Cambodia" Nixon!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)Damn you, Sirhan Sirhan! I always thought that RFK would have won in 1968 had he lived.
JHB
(37,160 posts)Nixon's "liberal" actions were a product of the times he was president in, where liberalism still had a lot of political power, and he needed to maneuver in some areas to better cover his ass in others.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)warmongering nut job.
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
Nixon: No, no, no, I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too much.
Nixon: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?...I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.
Oh that liberal Dick Nixon!
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)higher on the liberal 'purity' scale than our sitting President.
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)he had servants to screw his pants on him in the morning" - Hunter S. Thompson
yardwork
(61,608 posts)I'm not saying I agree. I just couldn't resist pointing this out!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)grrrrrrr. He only did that because he was afraid of what he thought might be even more radical environmental laws being passed by Congress. He just did it to pacify not because he really cared that much.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Just like all the rest
FDR didn't champion safety net programs because he 'cared,' he used it as a way to defeat the huge and growing Left, Labor and the Communist Party
banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)and his Law and Order racist campaign.
And wage and price controls.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)That Richard Nixon did not die in prison.