<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like Clinton alot too.
> ...
> > I like him because he presided over the most conservative agenda
of
> > any president in the 20th century, including Ronald Reagan.
>
>
> So you should love his intellectual and policy legacy, Mr Al
Gore!!!
>
>
>
> And Nixon was a great liberal, a radical liberal in some regards:
Exactly!
It was Nixon who said (paraphrased): When you run for the GOP
nomination for President, you campaign from the far right; when you
run as the GOP candidate for president, you campaign from slightly
right of center; when you're president, you govern from the center.
And I would add to your list below: Affirmative Action, which was
established under Nixon!
>
> Price controls to control inflation (so radically far left, no one
on
> the left even dares suggest it today.)
>
> Abolished the gold standard (the core of conservative economics for
> two + centures)
>
> Establishing the Environmental Protection Agancy
>
> Created the Consumer Product Safety Commission
>
> Ending American fighting in Viet Nam
>
> Established and extended revenue sharing to the states
>
> Ended the draft
>
> Opened up China
>
> Treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons
>
> Created Detente with USSR
>
> Negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its
opponents,
> Egypt and Syria
>
> Almost endorsed full national decriminalization of marijuana
> (watergate got in the way).
>
>
>
> I don't think any domcratic president has come close to
accomplishing
> -- much less proposing -- the breadth and depth of such wide
ranging
> liberal agenda.
>
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