Michaelf7777777
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« on: October 30, 2012, 04:35:39 AM » |
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Yeah no doubt in my mind that in terms of actual policy Ford was to the right of Nixon (although in terms of rhetoric Nixon was to the right of Ford). Nixon signed the creation of the EPA, openned up relations with China and proposed (before it was doomed by Watergate) healthcare legislation which was very similar to Obamacare.
Nixon's conservative rhetoric was part of his Southern strategy to get Southern whites (who were usually conservative) to desert the Democrat party and join the Republican party.
I think I'd sum up Ford as a moderate and Nixon as a man who spoke like a conservative but acted like a liberal.
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