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Nixon advocated universal health coverage, announcing on February 6, 1974: “Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America…There has long been a need to assure every American financial access to high quality health care. As medical costs go up, that need grows more pressing….Indeed, let us act sensibly. And let us act now–in 1974–to assure all Americans financial access to high quality medical care.”

Nixon looks like Bernie Sanders when compared to today's GOP.

Nixon founded the EPA. The real EPA, not the pro-industry Trump version. He also created the Council on Environmental Quality (1970), signed the US Clean Air Act into law (1970), established Earth Week (1971), and supported the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping Waster and Other Matter (1973). The Clean Water Act was approved during his administration.

Nixon signed Title IX into law, creating hundreds of thousands of opportunities for women.

Nixon ended the draft.

Nixon lowered the voting age to 18.

A Nixon appointee authored the majority opinion in Rowe vs. Wade.

Nixon started the Federal government's involvement in the fight on cancer. You know, science to defeat a medical problem.

Many Southern schools were desegregated on his watch.

Nixon became the first President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination by ending the policy of forced assimilation and returning their sacred lands.

Nixon participated in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with Soviet Secretary General Brezhnev, attempting to temper the Cold War through diplomatic dètente.

Nixon signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, calming U.S.-Soviet tensions by curtailing the threat of nuclear weapons between the world’s two superpowers.

Nixon was the first President to visit the People’s Republic of China, where he issued the Shanghai Communiquè, announcing a desire for open, normalized relations.

Nixon announced a groundbreaking foreign policy doctrine that called for the United States to act within its national interest and keep all existing treaty commitments with its allies.

 

I don't care who it is. Tweeting is diarrhea of the mind/mouth.
Taking out an ad is equal to: "You know what would be really cool? Let me drink a six pack and then piss on a spark plug."
You have an opportunity to realize that nothing good can come of it.

 

Not The Onion?

 

They already have an answer for that. They're retired, so they don't have to stick to sports. (But that doesn't mean it's OK for Colin Kaepernick)

 

Correct. Correct. Cortect.

And now look where we are. Saying you want good relations with Russia makes you a puppet. Provoking conflicts on its border makes you a patriot.

And you know when US-Russia relations first started to go downhill in the Putin era?

When Bush43 withdrew the US from that landmark ABM treaty.

 

Nebraska night freeze
No buses thanks to the sleaze
He already left on Marine One
But let's worry about Joe's son
Rally on stadium street
In the Tampa heat
Necks as red as their hats
Hating on Democrats

 

The point being, Nixon was actually a lot more liberal than any GOP presidential candidate since Ford in 1976. He probably would be in favor of everything you mentioned, since he was a pretty smart politician who knew which way the wind was blowing. He would not recognize today's racist, non-inclusive, science-hating GOP.

 

Curious who will be left in the GOP to clean up the mess if Tuesday goes as being forecast. If anything, the loonies in the safest R districts and states will make up a bigger chunk of the GOP under the dome. I could see McCarthy get purged for a Freedom Caucus type.

And the way the Ds have crept to the middle and the GOP being against whatever the Ds favor - where do you go in terms of issues?

Also figure more than a few Ds will "read" this as a total acceptance of the entire Dem wish list rather than the product of a really flawed human being beset with an historic pandemic he was unfit to manage.

 

I wouldn’t idolize Nixon too much. He hated the media as much as trump. If Fox were around in 1973 Nixon would have survived impeachment. He was immensely smarter than trump but would have loved beating the Post and Times into the ground

 

The parties used to agree on a few basic tenets.

Now they're like repelling magnets. Whatever one supports, the other instinctively opposes.

 

An old, fat guy perving on a younger woman?