13 Oct 2014 11:51 am
That was the problem. We weren't saving South Vietnam, We were feeding the conflict with the lives of our own men. Nixon was the one that said enough. This is why we shouldn't never invaded Iraq because it has become another Vietnam.RichClem » 13 Oct 2014 11:45 am » wrote: Uh, "leaving Vietnam" was only an achievement if we saved South Vietnam, but it was liberal Dems who abandoned them, resulting in the deaths of perhaps a million people.
On the economy, Nixon began by dealing with the mess LBJ left behind by taking us off the gold standard, then following inevitable disastrous policies like wage-price controls, etc.
Allowing huge new bureaucracies to be started like the EPA.
And much else.
He governed like a liberal, which is why he was such a disaster.