re: #394 HappyWarrior

I remember doing a research paper on Nixon a couple months after Obama was inaugurated and concluding the same thing. Told my Dad who was a bit of a hippie type in the 60’s and early 70’s and the type that hated Nixon. He looked at me like I was nuts but the facts don’t lie about Nixon domestically. I still don’t know how to feel about him overall though. The Southern Strategy is a nasty legacy more so than Watergate for me.

The southern strategy was totally cynical and pernicious…just one more thing Nixon was willing to do to get elected. He didn’t possess a lot in the way of scruples, and that was true in his days in Congress as an over the top anti-Communist (sort of a McCarthy wannabe). Not a LOT about him that was redeeming, other than his willingness to actually compromise and govern, unlike today’s Republicans, who are mainly irrational ideologues.