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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1291669)	2/4/2021 7:30:14 PM
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Which US president was the most intellectual? Why? Originally Answered: Which US president in your lifetime do you think had the greatest intellect? In my lifetime (1967—present), I’d probably go with Richard Nixon. Not only does he represent the most interesting character study of any 20th century president — both for his strengths and for his flaws — the man had a mammoth intellect. He was forced to decline a scholarship to Harvard as his struggling family needed him at home, instead attending nearby Whittier College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He was given a full scholarship to Duke University Law School, finishing third in his class. He won a congressional seat at the age of 33, a Senate seat at age 37, and assumed the Vice Presidency at 39, the youngest man to hold that office since 1860. So impressed was Eisenhower with the young senator from California that he radically altered the nature of the Vice Presidency by giving Nixon significant policy initiatives to tackle, making him the “first modern Vice President.” As president, he created the Environmental Protection Agency and signed the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and was the first president to push for American energy independence; he oversaw the peaceful desegregation of southern schools; signed Title IX to end gender bias at public universities; gave Native Americans the right to self determination; lowered the voting age from 21 to 18; created the first federal affirmative action program; created OSHA to protect workers; signed the National Cancer Act with a $100 million budget to fight the disease; famously normalized relations with China; and significantly improved relations with the Soviet Union with the SALT and anti-ballistic missile treaties, ushering in an era of détente. One biographer of Nixon’s wrote that the president felt insecure around intellectuals, ironic since he was as bright as any of them and far more capable than most of them. Even after his epic fall from grace in 1974, Nixon didn’t retire into obscurity. Instead, he re-emerged some years later, quite improbably, as an elder statesman. When he passed in 1994, not a few Democratic politicians spoke admiringly of his intellect and leadership abilities. Doug Manning