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In reply to the discussion: Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. [View all]red dog 1
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Notwithstanding viscous campaigns against opponents, Watergate, "dirty tricks" and all, I just don't hate Nixon anymore...
He did finally end the Vietnam War, which LBJ was mostly responsible for, in spite of JFK's wish to end U.S. involvement and bring the troops home (right before he was assassinated)
They called Vietnam "Nixon's War", and he did keep us involved in that terrible mess for several years, but it was Lyndon Baines Johnson who reversed John F. Kennedy's decision to pull out of Vietnam in November of 1963, right before he was killed, so really, Vietnam was mostly "LBJ's War"
LBJ did some good things too...for example..The Civil Rights Act, and "The Great Society" programs.
Nixon normalized relations with China, and his visit to that country ended 25 years of separation between the two sides, so he did some good too.
I'm no Nixon lover; I just don't hate the guy anymore.
I say, fuck Reagan, fuck Bush, fuck LBJ.
Pity Nixon.