On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:50:31PM -0500, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> Rob:
> > >Yeah, but Nixon did what he had to do in light of the times. Any
> > >poll-watching dork could have done most of it - indeed, would have.
> > >Watergate saved the bastard! If his tenure had survived the 1973-4
> > >downturn, what standing he has in the eyes of yer average lefty
> > >nostalgia-buff would be very different.
>
> Peter K.:
> > I was very surprised to learn about the good things Nixon had done -
> > or was forced to do. Still, I associate him with COINTELPRO
> > and the Vietnam War and the Republicans' "southern strategy."
> > He was also anti-semitic from what I understand. ...
>
> It may be that Nixon heartily agreed with Welfare-state
> practices accompanied by a repression of dissidence at home,
> and imperialism abroad. One can hardly say there is some
> fundamental contradiction between the three, as the ghost
> of Bismarck could tell you.
>
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