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Originally Posted by TheSatyr
Recently,a group of Scholars came to the conclusion that Nixon of all people was the last true Liberal president. They point to his ending of the Vietnam war,his trip to China,detente with the USSR and his signing of numerous equal rights and other liberal bills as proof.
They also claim that that is why the Dems hated him so much. Nixon co-opted quite a bit of the Dem platform...and succeeded where the Dems probably would have failed. These Scholars believe it was that more than Watergate that brought Nixon down. Watergate was just a convienient excuse. The Dems pulled the same sort of crap,but both parties considered it to be business as usual,until the Dems (and the media) decided to use Watergate to take Nixon down.
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That's cool then, I had never heard that before, thanks for the perspective. If they have a strong point, and I can't say whether they do or not, it probably just reinforces that liberal does not necessarily equal Democrat and conservative does not necessarily equal Republican.