The most acceptable GOP president of the post-war years

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: The most acceptable GOP president of the post-war years

Since after WWII

[Taverner]

I voted Nixon and here's why

Despite his abysmal foreign policy (which was genocide-lite), he did have a domestic record that was pretty good. Expanding welfare, creating the EPA, and expanding school integration. He also opened up China and started the SALT talks.

Don't get me wrong, Nixon was a bad president, but compared to the others...he was a better.

[Fenris]

2. H.W. Brands argues that Nixon was the last "liberal" President

Meaning a President that believes in government as a way of solving problems. Government expansion stopped with Watergate and the distrust it created.

[Christ was Socialist]

9. What about his rascism? <nt>

[Fenris]

1. Eisenhower.

For all his faults, he did send the federal troops into Arkansas to enforce racial integration. That act proved that Eisenhower could overcome his own feelings about integration and recognize his duty to the constitution and the importance of such legislation.

[sidwill]

3. Nixon

Yes he was a crook, but compared to today he simply a petty crook.

The Bushistas have done far,far worse things than simply a politically motivated break in, yet they are never punished.

God how I miss RMN.

[Fenris]

4. He certainly is not without serious character flaws

But he looks like a bloody saint compared to the monsters we have now.

[NoPasaran]

5. No one who destroyed Cambodia as a sideshow event

can be a saint, however bloody.

[Fenris]

6. That is a serious flaw

But Bush is a true monster.

[NoPasaran]

7. You young folks don't appreciate how awful Nixon really was

RMN was every bit the monster GWB is. The difference is that the country was in better shape then. We never really recovered from what we went through under Nixon, then suffered through the Reagan era the next decade. The rethugs started in 2001 from a position of liberalism being a dirty word, a Democratic Party led by political eunichs, and essentially no opposition media. If Tricky Dick was running the show right now most of us would already be in internment camps.

[terrya]

14. We had Nixon/Kissinger, which was a particularly dark time in our history

I agree with your assessment of Nixon. A vile, evil man.

Terry

[betty_booop]

10. wasn't it eisenhower

who warned against the industrial-military complex? other than that i don't know a whole lot about his presidency

[Hobarticus]

12. Good catch, you are correct...

This, from a career military man.

And he beat Hitler. I like Ike.

[betty_booop]

13. i thought he did

[Piperay]

8. Nixon

he created the EPA. I pick him for that domestic policy, obviously not for what he did in SouthEast Asia.


EDIT: and I am old enough to remember him.

[FloridaPat]

11. That means most of my life has been a republican waste!

Good thing I'm not a republican!