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Offline doublegunner

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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #60 on: May 10, 2011, 08:45:19 AM »
In my lifetime Regan. 
What about Nixon?  If you take away Watergate he was a great Pres. look at all he did for foreign policy. He also bombed NV back to the peace table.  Nixon was a great Pres. Back then they all did stuff they should have gotten in trouble for, Kennedy, LBJ, Ike, FDR and Clinton  "Nixon Now More Than Ever"
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Offline Dixie Dude

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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #61 on: May 10, 2011, 10:25:35 AM »
Nixon cut Nasa's budget drastically.  They were going to Mars by 1986 and have a permanent moon-mining base by now.  Never happened.  He opened up China, which is killing us today.  He also signed into law the OSHA bureauracy, Medicaid, food stamps away from commodities.  Nixon was better than the alternatives, but not a great president.  Eisenhower and Reagan were probably the two best in my lifetime.  I still stick with Jefferson even though he had his flaws, he didn't want a big central government. 
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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #62 on: May 10, 2011, 10:32:42 AM »
It's been said that LBJ drew up the plans for the Great Society, but Nixon poured the cement.
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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #63 on: May 11, 2011, 09:39:13 AM »
While FDR removed the gold standard and confiscated the peoples gold, Nixon put the nail in the coffin that was the only check left on government growth when he ended Bretton Woods and ended all ties to gold. This was the last nail in America's coffin as no democratic government can be trusted to put itself on a fiscal diet when it's only desire is to give the free goodies to get past the next election. Being the worlds greatest debtor nation in all of worlds history did not come by accident.....and it will end badly; this is the lesson of history.
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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #64 on: May 11, 2011, 12:26:57 PM »
I like Ike, as well as Washington.
In his farewell address he warned of a serious danger looming in this country. He called it the Military Industrial Complex.
I don't doubt his concern and his sincerity.
At that time his warning was based on the best information he had available.
But I personally think he misunderstood the origin of the threat facing us. It was much worse than he knew. It is still present, destroying us to this day.
Ike and Washington were unmatched in integrity, courage, charisma, and patriotism.
These are the kinds of men worthy of holding the highest office in our country.
Reagan came close, and is the favorite in my lifetime.
Someone said Obama was a slick communicator. Give me a break.
I will have to admit though, he is a gifted teleprompter reader.
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Re: Who was America's Best President?
« Reply #65 on: June 01, 2011, 08:06:10 AM »
The best Harry Truman
the worse the one we have in the white house now.
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