Nixon Was the Last, True Republican, and Accomplished Great Things for the Masses
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
Yes, Richard Millhouse Nixon was a crook. However, he was
also the last true Republican President. His accomplishments were many, and for
all Americans, not just the super-rich.
As the American President from 1969 to 1974, he was the last
Republican “working president.”
The following are some of his most important successes.
Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Trump can only claim two
important accomplishments among them.
Foreign policy: In 1972, Nixon reinstated diplomatic
relations with Communist China. There had been no official meetings for
decades.
Nixon engaged in negotiations with Soviet Premier, Leonid
Brezhnev, for the purpose of creating SALT, an agreement to halt the
proliferation of nuclear weapons.
In 1973, Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords, officially
ending America’s involvement in South Vietnam. Prisoners of war, held by the
North Vietnamese, were released and allowed to return home.
Aided Israel: During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Nixon
authorized a massive airlift of military supplies to Israel, an action that
Prime Minister Golda Meir said saved her country.
Domestic Accomplishments: First, an accomplishment which today’s
“Republicans” oppose.
In 1970, Nixon approved the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency. He also signed landmark environmental legislation including
the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
Now for the rest.
In 1973, Nixon ended the controversial military draft.
America’s military became an “all-volunteer force.”
Nixon supported and signed the 26th Amendment,
changing the legal voting age from 21 to 18. He adamantly believed that if
young men and women could be forced into a war, they should be allowed to vote for
those who send them into battle.
An advocate of civil rights, Nixon oversaw the desegregation
of public schools in the South, established the “Philadelphia Plan,” an early
form of affirmative action for federal contractors, and signed Title IX,
affirming equal protection for women in all educational policies receiving
federal funds.
In 1971, Nixon began the federal government’s War on Cancer,”
with an initial funding of $100 million.
Nixon ended the federal government’s policy of “forced
assimilation,” returned sacred lands, and was the first president to protect
the rights of Native Americans with a policy of “Self Determination.”
In his first year in office, 1969, he observed America’s
first moon landing.
Nixon’s five successors have little to be proud of with two
exceptions.
Negotiations between Ronald Reagan and Russian Premier, Mikhail
Gorbachev, began efforts to end the Cold War. In late 1989, an agreement was
signed by Gorbachev, and then President George H.W. Bush.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the “Americans
with Disabilities Act,” ADA. This one is personal. I am physically disabled and
every time my wife and I go to the grocery store, I think of him when we park
in our “special place.”
A large, uninformed group of Americans believe the efforts made
by the mainstream media to mislead them, accepting the lie that Nixon was the worst
president in history because he was forced to resign in 1974 after the
Watergate break-in.
However, history will show that the two worst presidents
will forever be George W. Bush, and, of course, Donald John Trump. Both men
caused more harm to our nation’s future than all other presidents combined.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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