re: #265 Lidane

By the standards of today’s GOP, Nixon was a goddamn pinko. Instituted wage and price controls, took us off the gold standard, signed the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, signed Title IX, created both OSHA and the EPA, went to China, etc.

Never mind the fact that he was a cruel, vindictive bastard. He couldn’t get out of the primaries today.

Nixon was pragmatic, despite all the negative connotations that word has received in recent years. But most of the “good” presidents have been, pushing ideology where they could succeed and accepting compromise where they couldn’t.