Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver As a non-American, Nixon was the best President on foreign affairs since since the war. Hello A/all, I agree with this completely. He also betrayed the Republican party to get reelected. Through it all he was an anti-social pit bull, possibly paranoid, and did almost everything in life in order to consolidate his own personal power. But he ended a stupid fiasco of a war. He reopened relations with China. He built friendships with other countries that we did not have relations with before. He oversaw a relatively good expansion of the US economy. He normalized to some degree our relations with the Soviet Union. Nixon was one of the greatest American presidents of the 20th century, despite the fact that he had so many social flaws it boggles my imagination that anybody would ever elect him in the first place. Reagan was the 1980s predecessor to what the Simian In Chief (who worships Reagan's policies) is. There is an interesting book, although I may have the title wrong (The Clothes Have No Emperor), which details Reagan's personality traits. When a video of him speaking was shown to people afflicted by Aphasia (might have the name wrong again, it is the inability to understand verbal messaages; only capable of understanding non-verbal queues) they howled with laughter at the great fraud on the screen. It was when his honeyed words dripped from his pie hole, that everybody thought he was a great leader. I do have to give him some credit, his extreme efforts to expand the United States military may have shortened the Cold War by a week to ten days. Just me, could be wrong, but there ya go. Sinergy
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