ScottieF
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« on: July 13, 2015, 06:38:38 PM » |
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He accomplished many good things - detente, China, the EPA, desegregation - and I almost want to give him three stars, but the drawbacks to his presidency are far too egregious to make anything more than two acceptable. Watergate wasn't even the worst of it - the wiretapping, the illegal bombings of Cambodia and Laos, the treason committed just to win the 1968 election, etc. I find him extraordinarily fascinating but the ultimate legacy he bequeathed to us was one of deep mistrust of government that has made any kind of real progressive change in this country nearly impossible.
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