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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.rumor
Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 08:51:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 08:51:06 1986
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In article <9882@ucsfcgl.ucsfcgl.UUCP> arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) writes:
>In article <783@steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
>>I think that history will have a better view of Nixon than you guys do.
>>You're judging him as a person (and his honesty was virtually
>>non-existant), however, he took some major steps to get the country out
>>of trouble. When inflation got completely out of hand (I remember
>>12%-15% raises that didn't seem to keep up) he got wage and price
>>controls. His strong anti communist record allowed him to normalize
When Nixon clamped on wage and price controls, the inflation rate was
a whopping, frightening FOUR percent! When they were removed, it took right
back off. There is no evidence that wage and price controls then did any
good, or ever do any good regarding inflation. 
>>relations with China, which seems like a good idea from political and
>>ecconomic standpoints. I believe that he will be measured by those
>>things, rather than his political actions.
This should be at least partly true. Nixon seemed pretty smart at
international strategy (and still is). His work there was certainly
better than Johnson (prior) & Carter (a bit after). However, you can
be sure that Watergate will be remembered for a long time simply because
it was such an unprecedented event in US History.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E)
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