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To: tejek who wrote (265550)	12/21/2005 1:25:00 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574018

"Nixon is such a negative.....why are they making comparisons/correlations to him? " Disclaimer: I mostly liked Nixon. Except for the war, he had a brilliant foreign policy. And even with the war, he actually did understand that, while we weren't losing, we weren't in a position to win. This is a concept that eludes some people even today. His domestic policy wasn't bad either. His fatal flaw was the belief that you were either for him, or you were against him. There was no middle ground. And if you were against him, then he had to have you crushed. Due to the war and the domestic disorder, Congress gave him a great deal of lattitude. There was commonly talk about an "imperial presidency", and Nixon wielded more power than any president before him, with the possible exceptions of Lincoln and FDR. But that might not be true. After his fall, Congress passed several laws designed to reduce those powers. Republican presidents have been trying to get that power back, ever since. Now they blanch at the idea of Democratic presidents with the same power, so exactly how they plan on dealing with that isn't clear. Maybe that is what was behind DeLay's announced plan on setting up a situation where the Democrats are the minority party for the next few decades.