Reply #13: And yet, Nixon was by far one of the most liberal presidents on domestic matters the U.S. ever had

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Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton look like Ronald Reagan when you contrast their domestic and economic policies with Nixon's: Nixon created OSHA and the Environmental Protection Agency, imposed wage and price controls (which he later had to abandon), started the first federal affirmative action plan (the Philadelphia plan), created the Supplemental Security Income, indexed Social Security for inflation, and created the Legacy of Parks program. Before he completely self-destructed, Nixon was asking his aides to come up with proposals for creating a national health care system, and even a yearly stipend for every household.

The Democrats considered it a "victory" when Nixon was forced to resign, but actually, it was the Republicans who secretly were the happiest of all. Big Business was ecstatic when Nixon left the WH; corporate American power was born the day Nixon resigned.

If he wasn't such a paranoid, duplicitous nutcase, Nixon could have been one of our great presidents.