Nixon by Nixon (Your Opinion, Please)

[dmosh42]

20. I saw Nixon more for being a man of his times......

and yeah, he was sleazy and dishonest, but the gang from the LBJ camp weren't exactly the nice hometown boys. Domestically, LBJ did some great things to carry on the Kennedy ideas, but once he went for the expansion of the Vietnam conflict, all the lying, cheating scum from our military rose to the top and kept us going in that useless endeavor for all those years. I was an enlisted man on active duty from '60-64, and living in the US then, we still had confidence in our post WW2 leadership. But Truman and Ike were gone, but we though the new leaders were just as straight. Not so! Nixon seemed to understand how to play hard ball with the commies, and I thought he would get us out of Vietnam. And I actually gave him credit for his bombing of Cambodia and his visit to China. I believed that maybe made him more unpredictable to the USSR, and I think it made Hanoi maybe more open to the peace talks. I think I remember thinking that he must be a little nuts for feeling that he needed to worry about what the Dems were thinking and get involved with the Watergate fiasco. I think we'll be having to make some of the same type voting decisions in the coming years that we won't be happy with, but the alternative is to hand over the gov't to the oligarchists. Nixon actually looks pretty good next the these Republicans of today!