Sans Watergate, is Nixon a great President?
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Question: Sans Watergate, is Nixon a great President?
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« on: January 11, 2014, 02:28:45 AM »
If we ignore Watergate (and all the associated 'horrors'), and go simply on his domestic and foreign policies alone, how does Nixon look?
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2014, 02:39:51 AM »
Mixed: some of his policies such as his proposal for UHC and opening up China were fantastic while others such as launching the Drug Wars and the coup in Chile had horrific consequences.
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2014, 04:03:33 AM »
Average, I suppose. Watergate would put him at subpar.
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2014, 04:31:17 AM »
Sub-par President.
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2014, 05:01:48 AM »
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2014, 06:24:00 AM »
Watergate was not the only thing.
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2014, 06:31:39 AM »

Exactly, the question should be: "Sans his freak mind"
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2014, 07:35:01 AM »
You cannot seperate Watergate from Nixon. The actions he took in that defined him and were the same he took to nearly everything.
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2014, 08:08:08 AM »
A solid 'good', definitely not great.
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2014, 09:04:08 AM »
I'd say he was average, perhaps good when compared with all of his predecessors and successors.
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2014, 10:02:51 AM »
No he is not.
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« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2014, 10:41:05 AM »
No, he was a bad POTUS.
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« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2014, 10:51:02 AM »
This is subpar
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2014, 11:38:54 AM »
This forum is the worst.
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« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2014, 11:41:42 AM »
Continuing the Vietnam War + Secret Bombing Raids + The War on Drugs = Awful
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« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2014, 12:43:18 PM »
No.
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« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2014, 12:44:09 PM »
No

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« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2014, 01:47:57 PM »

That sums it up pretty well.
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« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2014, 05:02:11 PM »
Horrible President
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« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2014, 06:04:39 PM »
He was a great foreign policy President, got relations going with China and Russia, got treaties passed and managed to deal with England decently

Domestic besides the economy he wasn't too bad. Eliminated the draft and lowered the voting age amount other things. Economy wise for a little bit he had it in a good correction, it didn't stay that way though.

If it wasn't for Watergate his final term could have been interesting.  If he could have dealt with the recession good enough his Republican successor could have won in 1976, or a Dem like Lloyd Bentson/Ted Kennedy would have become President, no Jimmy Carter.

I say he was a good President but not great due to his last year, he became ignorant to the economy among other things.
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« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2014, 08:00:10 PM »
Continued the Vietnam War and expanded it into Cambodia, overthrew a democratic socialist government in Chile, considered doing the same in West Germany, used brutal tactics to suppress anti-war demonstrations at home, and nominated two segregationists for the Supreme Court.  Awful.
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2014, 01:00:10 PM »
Quote from: DevotedDemocrat on January 11, 2014, 02:28:45 AM
If we ignore Watergate (and all the associated 'horrors')

Watergate was only the tip of the iceberg of his crimes.
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2014, 01:08:55 PM »
Quote from: Peter the Lefty on January 11, 2014, 08:00:10 PM
Continued the Vietnam War and expanded it into Cambodia, overthrew a democratic socialist government in Chile, considered doing the same in West Germany, used brutal tactics to suppress anti-war demonstrations at home, and nominated two segregationists for the Supreme Court.  Awful.

That's honestly like half of his stuff. Okay, maybe three quarters, but do you awful Nixon fetishists see what I mean?
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2014, 01:27:02 PM »
I would say Nixon's Congress was excellent, but he himself? Not so much.
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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2014, 02:37:18 PM »
Quote from: Zioneer on January 16, 2014, 01:27:02 PM
I would say Nixon's Congress was excellent, but he himself? Not so much.

Probably the last good Democratic Congress, honestly.
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