Nixon's foreign Policy:
1969 - Nixon enters peace negotiations with North Viet Nam
1970 - Nixon negotiates permanent deal with USSR not to use Cienfuegos (Cuba) for ballistic missile Submarines
1971 - Nixon increases arms sales and loans to Israel
1972 - Nixon enters into successful SALT talks with USSR
1973 - Nixon withdraws thousands of troops from VietNam, ends draft.
1973 - Nixon agrees to support Israel, begins airlift that allows Israel to counterattack. Nixon and the USSR negotiate a peace protecting Israel and ending the war.
Nixon's Domestic Policy
1970 - Nixon creates the EPA, seeks and passes Clean Water legislation, creates OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), requires all federal agencies to comply with National Environmental Protection Act, requiring environmental impact statements.
1970 - Nixon pushes school desegregation, creating the Philadelphia Plan, the first federal affirmative action program. (Nixon ends up appointing more women to office than LBJ)
1970 - Nixon endorses the Equal Rights Amendment as a constitutional amendment
1971 - Nixon installs price and wage freeze, stopping rampant inflation
Oh, Nixon also visited China, defanging tensions with that country, and opening trade with the largest population on earth.
What had Obama done in comparison?
He adopted Bush's CIA policies.
He adopted Bush's Middle East wars, and expanded them.
He adopted Bush's domestic surveillance positions. Nixon merely spied on the DNC. Obama spies on the entire country.
He pushed for extension of Patriot Act.
He adopted Bush's rendition policies.
He adopted and extended Bush's billionaire Tax Cuts.
He caved in on the debt deal, the public option, big pharma demands, and much much more.
He cancelled the EPA's ozone rules, resulting in environmental rules even more disgusting than George W. Bush's.
By many measures, Nixon was more of a liberal than Obama.
Nixon famously stated that "the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker." This statement was placed on his gravestone in 1994.
Obama's response, "Yeah, but I won the Nobel Peace Prize."
