Stormsmith wrote:Doesn't matter to me. You're the one who had to foot the bill for the presidential healthcare, pension, security, library etc for an admitted criminal for 25 years or so.
Nixon never admitted to any crime. He just resigned rather than take the nation through the evil process of impeachment.
Other than the fact that he tried to cover for a few corrupt people within his administration, Nixon was a great President. Nixon signed into law the Equal Rights Amendment ending segregation and new anti-crime laws. He set up the Council on Environmental Quality to give recognition to the problems of pollution and consumption. He implemented a broad environmental program (he is largely responsible for the Environmental Protection Agency).
Nixon started the process of ending the Cold War, because during visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. His encounters with China opened them up to the world economy.
In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina. And later he ended the peace-time draft.
In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.
Nixon established a revenue-sharing program that restored a measure of balance to the State-Federal relationship. He cut back on many of the wasteful programs of LBJ's "Great Society" that had been squandering the taxpayer's money. He recognized and fought against foreign oil price gouging, and he was the only President to achieve a balanced national budget between 1961 and 1998.
Just before he chose to resign, he proposed a federal health plan like Medicaid that any American could join by paying on a sliding scale based on income. Of course, it was never supported by the Democrats.