Was Nixon a good president?

Question

If you can forget about him being a crook.

Answer 1

Nixon is an interesting subject.

Nixon was pulling out of Vietnam and cutting trade deals with Red China. The anti-commie crowd with J. Edgar Hoover as their icon really hated Nixon.

A former FBI agent was caught running two guys who were caught breaking into the Watergate hotel. That good old boy never did tell people who hired him.

Nixon was running against a southern democrat at the time. Southern democrats used to hire people to get caught defacing their campaign posters so people would blame their opponents. Must be a coincidence.

Another FBI agent worked with a couple of cub reporters from the Washington post, blaming Nixon, setting them up to find "evidence". Two anti-commie FBI agents, must be a coincidence.

You know, a lot of left wingers used to say the FBI specialized in manufacturing evidence against people that the FBI considered enemies of democracy and capitalism.

Two anti-commie FBI agents accused of planting evidence and manufacturing cases are involved in the bringing down of a president who was cutting deals with communists.

Nixon must have been a crook, after all, all the newspapers and those anti-commie FBI guys said he was. The coincidences mean nothing.

Yep, I bet J. Edgar Hoover was really embarrassed that his commie hating, evidence planting agents didn't figure out that pro-commie Nixon was a crook.

Answer 2

No one, not even the late President Richard Millhouse Nixon, is all bad. From his religious belief system, that of being a Quacker, Richard Nixon wanted first and foremostly to end the Vietnam War. This he succeeded in doing.

In light of this, I'd say on balance that he was a good president. He was a decent man, but power hungry. Perhaps if he had defeated JFK first time around, things might have been different. Probably no Vietnam War.

As for Watergate - the rest his history.

R.I.P.

Answer 3

Presidential scholars both liberal and conservative, rank Richard Nixon near the bottom of the list because of the scandals, but most agree that he presents a special problem because his foreign policy and domestic policy successes stand in dramatic contradiction to the corruption of his top aides and Nixon himself. Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the "dichotomous or schizoid profiles. On some very important dimensions both Wilson and L.B. Johnson were outright failures in my view; while on others they rank very high indeed. Similarly with Nixon." Historian Alan Brinkley said: "There are presidents who could be considered both failures and great or near great (for example, Wilson, Johnson, Nixon)." James MacGregor Burns observed of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic President, so brilliant and so morally lacking?"

Answer 4

He was so much better than Reagan or Either of the Bush presidents especially this one we have now. He started the EPA and actually funded education not just giving it lip service. But I'd also have to look over the fact that he didn't get us out of the Viet Nam war but escalated it. and, I'd have to look over the fact that he had many people who opposed him spyed on including John Lennon. And, it is a fact that he was a crook. But GWB is so much much more worse. Oh and, I'd have to overlook the fact that his corrupt administration that he had then is now running the country. Wow, there's alot to overlook isn't there.

Answer 5

The only difference between Nixon and the others are that he got caught. I thought he was a good President

Answer 6

Nixon was a no good president and he still is. His policy in opening up trade with China has destroyed the wages of working men and women in the U.S..
He was good for the arms merchants however.

Answer 7

Nixon's policy of triangulation in foreign affairs was executed flawlessly. His open door policy towards China was brilliant.

In domestic affairs his negative income tax credit was commendible. His creation of the EPA was prescient. His price fixing had mixed results.

Nixon had some great ideas and his paranoid delusions of grandeur scuttled them all.

Answer 8

No. Nixon was opposed to much of the legislation established during the 60s civil rights movement... he marked the new era of conversatism that to this day is still trying to undo much of that movement.

Answer 9

Except for watergate, he was an ok president....

Went to China, Got us out of Vietnam.
Created the EPA, OSHA and did other things domestically.

Answer 10

Well, I wouldn't have bought a second hand car from him but he should be given credit for easing the situation with China. That was a great achievement.