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To: Road Walker who wrote (235831)	6/4/2005 7:29:28 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576642

>He was sort of a Bush Sr., a pragmatist wrt international politics, but lost on domestic policy. Really? Didn't he start the EPA? Wasn't he pretty pro-labor? -Z

To: Road Walker who wrote (235831)	6/5/2005 8:12:39 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576642

"Nixon was weird, but surprisingly effective. " If he hadn't of been so paranoid, he would be in the books as one of our most effective presidents. He tried to tackle the stagflation mess well before anyone else, and the way he and Kissinger played the Soviets against the Chinese and pulled the Chinese out of their isolation was brilliant. But his "if you aren't for me 100% I am going to crush you" approach on the domestic front was his downfall. Definitely a character out of a classical Greek tragedy. Sophocles would have loved to've written about him...