The point was to point out a couple of interesting facts for consideration.
Especially as the liberals have long claimed these two listed as their bread and butter issues during the Election Cycles. I find it interesting that much of what the liberals come up with is nothing more than a reworded Republican Plan/idea. Clinton made this into an art form when he pretty much adopted everything Newt and the Repups wanted in their Contract with America. Clinton changed a word here and there, went before the public and announced it all as his plan/idea.
Newt and the Repubs didn't mind much as they were getting exactly what they promised to America.......... still, they needed to be far more forceful in educating the public about what Clinton was doing.
I find it worthy of a spot in Readers Digest Jokes section that Ted Kennedy was the FIRST Senator ti kill a National Health Care Bill.
I don't know where this other stuff is coming from.......me being whatever.......goodness, how can folks read so much into a simple statement about Historical information.
Did y'all know that concerning Foreign Policy, Nixon opened up China to a position were Normalization could begin between us and them? He worked with Russia and got the S.A.L.T. Treaty enacted. Now, Russia pretty much stomped all over that Treaty during the Obama years, but it was an accomplishment for Nixon. He also played a large role in saving Israel from being defeated by Egypt in the 1973 war. Russia had given Egypt jets and Egypt was dominating the war in the skies and pretty close to beating Israel. Against the advice and objections of his Sect. of Defense and members of his Cabinet, Nixon ordered that "Jamming Devices" be pulled from the NATO Stockpiles and directly shipped to Israel. In the end, his support of Israel and old Goldie was the turning point in that war. He ALSO talked Goldie down from using Israel's Nukes against Egypt.
He brokered the Treaty between Israel and Egypt, and that Treaty STILL exists today.
Nixon was also responsible for ending the Vietnam war and bringing home the Troops. Now, as a young soldier back then, I wasn't too fond of him and the way he did it.......but, older and wiser now, in retrospect, given the situation at home and in Vietnam, I can see he didn't have much other choice. I would rather he had ordered us to NUKE THEM INTO KINGDOM COME, but Congress would never have gone along with that, AND, it MIGHT have been a wee bit of an overreaction.....
On the Homefront, aside from the two I mentioned, Nixon also oversaw the completion of Integration of the Public Schools. The last one integrated on his watch. He had other accomplishments (minor), and he did pretty much ALL of this while fighting a Democrat Congress, and Ted Kennedy, who hated his guts.
Now, yes, there is Watergate. But people today don't know the truth about that either. Lots of people think Nixon was involved in and responsible for the breakin. In fact, the Investigation revealed that not only did Nixon not order the breakin, he didn't even know about it until afterwards. His huge mistake was when those guys came to him asking him to help them out, he tried to assist in the cover up. For whatever reason. Had he just said no to them and let the chips fall where they may, Nixon would hold a far different place as President in our History.
It is just interesting stuff..........no agenda, no axe to grind, no point, just interesting stuff.
anyway.............