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In reply to the discussion: Who do you think was the last good GOP President? [View all]Botany
(70,489 posts)33. Nixon was a nasty a-hole but even he was scared by the neo-cons
his few years of his life he tried to make the nation aware of how
really whacky the "let's invade the middle east" PNAC people were.
I think his last published piece was something about how we should
not even think about a land war in the middle east.
Nixon started the EPA and supported a women's right to chose too.
Don't get me wrong the man was slime but i would have dug his bones
back up and done a Dr. Frankstein act on him and have him be POTUS
rather then w Bush.
BTW when I was a little boy our next door neighbor's brother was Gov.
of PA, Ray Shafer and he was a really good guy and a republican too he
would have no home in the party of Gohmert, Huckabee, Buchmann, and
so on.
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Nixon was a no good crook but he was a wonk and would have read that 8/6/01 PDB ....
Botany
Jan 2013
#63
I never said he was a good man or a good President all I said was he helped* ....
Botany
Jan 2013
#89
Yep. And yet, just half a decade later, that promise was broken by LBJ.....
AverageJoe90
Jan 2013
#46
the interstate highway system, was born from his admiration of the German roadway system
Flashmann
Jan 2013
#35
Politicians have commenced a process for stealing from the elderly, frail, and poor to fund
indepat
Jan 2013
#17
You don't know your Nixon if you think he was better than Reagan. n/t
Sekhmets Daughter
Jan 2013
#39
The thing about Lincoln is, doesnt the Constitution provide for the suspension of habeas during
stevenleser
Jan 2013
#66
Abraham Lincoln (first and only good Republican Pres, imho). Eisenhower's
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2013
#54