Reply #14: Honest historians

[fujiyama]

and those that lived through these insane times will remember him as an incompetant lunatic - a psychotic man with a messiahnic complex.

There will be apologists. Nixon has his...but in the long run, he'll be seen as a failure...Iraq, reckless tax cuts for the rich that would have left the treasury empty, alienating allies abroad, fanning the flames of hatred. Even his "leadership" after 9/11, which was praised prematurely and foolishy by some, will be seen as nothin short of a joke....(and possibly worse, much much worse)...