How Should A President Approach Israel?

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[sandyman]

How nice it would be to have a president who can speak coherently and intelligently on complex topics.

[joe_]

You can feel how you want about President Nixon, he wasn’t stupid.

[junedarius]

You know us as Americans were always critical of Nixon. The man was incredulously smart and well spoken and understood Foreign Policy

[PsRohrbaugh]

I would give anything to have someone this competent in office today

[IamBuffal]

- OSHA (worker's safety)
-TITLE IX (women's rights)
- Ending the Vietnam War
- Creating the EPA
- The Clean Air Act (most influential air pollution bill in US history)
- Proposed the Safe Water Drinking Act
- NEPA (required examination of environmental impact of gov projects. Copied by 100 nations)
- MMPA marine mammal protection act (first act ever to protect marine mammals)
- Working towards energy self-sufficiency
- Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (put a lot of highly needed regulation on the Pharma industry)
- National Cancer Act
- Public Health Service Act (hugely influential bills for a national effort to research and fight cancer)
- He reduced tensions with Communist China
- The first US president to ever visit China which ended 25 years of no diplomatic ties or communication between the US and China
- He reduced tensions with Russia
- SALT I (the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement) and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty were signed by the US and Russia under Nixon. De-escalating the Arms Race and creating a safer world.

Basically, no President in the last 50-70 years did more for US National Security or had such a lasting positive effect on the daily lives of American Citizens, yet all most high school textbooks typically teach about him is Watergate. They never want to teach that for his reelection campaign he won by 18 million votes, 60.7% of the popular vote, the widest margin in US history for a presidential election. He was a Great American President they we probably take for granted more than any other because of a media and department of education smear campaign that doesn't look at his body of work. Not to mention he served honorably as an officer in WWII and received two Medals of Commendation from the Navy and Marine Corps for "meritorious and efficient performance of duty as Officer in Charge of the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command" and "meritorious service, tireless effort and devotion to duty." We would all do ourselves a favor to reexamine his accomplishments.

[justinroberts]

This guy was so demonized my entire life but you can't deny the eloquence and clearheaded delivery here. I agree with this side of Nixon and wish we could have a President with these qualities.

[moitheriisraelmohlomi]

This here, is a grandmaster's thinking process at play.🤝

[GMATveteran]

Nixon was America's best 20th Century foreign policy president BY FAR. He - above all others - set the foundation for what was to become America's "unipolar" moment of the 90s & early 2000s; the best part of it is that he did so through restraint & pragmatic detente with strategic rivals.

[Chaviero]

Nixon’s resignation overshadows what a brilliant 1st term he had

[kokolovitch]

This guy would be so perfect for America today.

[marcelbrown]

This is the most reasonable articulate response to this question I’ve ever heard. Wow

[Dino-god]

Honestly he’s fuckin spot on. He called it so hard

[larryp.]

People will say what they will about Nixon, however, he was brilliant and he understood world affairs.

[catousmob]

Well said Mr. Nixon. It's wonderful to have a President who can coherently articulate his policies.

[leegibson]

His name was pulled through the mud and was called everything in the book. He actually was a good President and was patriotic. I take back everything the media told me to think about him.

[AndersAylward]

If the people in charge wrote the textbooks and told us this guy was evil, and now we know the people who wrote the books are evil, maybe he wasn't so bad

[AmazePaulz]

That is the current doctrine.
You know shit is fucked when nixon is the guy who sounds reasonable

[alanhayward]

Leaders spoke very well in those days ... they made mistakes but articulated well and sensibly.

[SanctusBacchus]

Crazy how he still framed it in terms of what is best for Israel.

[arthurbarron]

This man was kicked out of office for compaired to what is currently going on, a parking ticket.