If he gets shot, it's too damn bad. Conversation about Senator Edward Kennedy with White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (September 7, 1972) Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them! Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976 Volume E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969-1972, Document 258 Conversation Between President Nixon and the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Camp David, September 24, 1972, 11:37-11:52 a.m The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. Conversation with Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig on December 14, 1972
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nixon was one of the most progressive presidents of his time
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 2 years ago
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 years ago
braindeads when a political figure doesn’t fill every box of their rainbow bingo card
Nixon:
Tried to implement UBI in 1968 (later evolved into the Family Assistance Plan, one of the most robust welfare programs in American history)
Prevented a second Cold War front with China
Signed one of the first major federal environmental protection policies (NEPA)
Also established the EPA
Established OSHA in 1970, the first federally enforced set of safety regulations to protect workers against exploitative employers.
As for your quote, here’s another:
No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.
This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man.
As we learn to go forward together at home, let us also seek to go forward together with all mankind.
Nixon’s administration saw the largest percentage of black children enrolled in segregated schools in American history. In 1968, 68% of black children in the South were attending all-black schools. By 1974, that number had fallen to 8%.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nixon also pushed the criminalization of weed and heroin so that he could imprison blacks and hippies because they were the largest demographics of the anti war movement and he didn’t want to make it obvious that he was taking political prisoners out of his own citizenry.
So no, he fucking was not progressive. For that and so many other reasons.
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 2 years ago
Conveniently left out that “progressive” Controlled Substances Act that has been so helpful for all those pesky minorities that wouldn’t vote for him.
Compare Nixon to either Democrat that came before or after him.
He wasn’t progressive for his time. The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right, Nixon now appears less than conservative (to some).
Also, shiny prepared statements mean less to me than what someone says behind closed doors to their friends and allies.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Noooo not my le heckin wholesome druggerinos”
More people were jailed for drug possession under Obama than Nixon. Also, see “rainbow bingo” from my first comment.
Compare Nixon…
Like the war hawk and sexual predator Johnson or Jimmy Carter, whose most notable contributions were installing solar panels on the white house?
Absolutely zero response to my points about lowering poverty, substantial welfare increases, starting the most robust environmental protection movement, or introducing the most radical worker’s rights bill in American history (at the time).
Sounds about right.
he wasn’t progressive for his time. Objectively false.
also shiny…
I don’t disagree but some crude backroom conversations don’t negate the fact that Nixon’s administration oversaw more social desegregation than any other administration at the time.
Philo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s Richard Millhouse Trump m’boy.
yata@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
He was a paranoiac authoritarian who had no qualms about doing all kinds of illegal shit to stay in power and he got away with it without facing any legal repercussions for those crimes.
This is rightfully his legacy, especially for the GOP who learned a lot from him and he plays a huge part in why the GOP is the way they are today.
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 2 years ago
In this regard, I agree, he was very progressive for GOP strategy. One Gerald Ford and one Jimmy Carter later and people were ready for 3 more terms of it. The stain of Nixon’s administration washed out rather quickly. His tactics and students live on.