Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on ""STARVE THE WARMONGERS": Trump Vows to Restore Presidential Impoundment" video.

Nixon was not very conservative (this is still the New Deal era of US politics), but he was popular pre-Watergate for ending the War in Vietnam and being tough on crime and drugs during the ‘70s crime wave. However, this has been completely overshadowed by the Watergate scandal.
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@JAG8691 ixon had to go off the Gold Standard no matter what. The Fed would have defaulted if he let the gold reserves go to zero. And second, inflation was higher during the ‘Bretton Woods Reserve’ era than it is today on average.
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@ibnkhaldoun4319 Opening trade relations with China made sense at the time, as it split the Communist block. The problem is that it continued into the 2000s, after the Soviets fell.
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