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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
This, Nixon was a extreme paranoid personality.
But among his biggest accomplishments
His diplomatic strides in China and with Moscow
He established the EPA
Ending the draft
Title IX and desegregation efforts in Southern Schools
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
He was actually pretty competent, he also used the peace dividend to fund social programs.
He was a pretty competent president and got more done through consensus then most other presidents.
But he was a paranoid angry man and that was his downfall.
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You left off a couple highlights:
- extended the Vietnam War, including a secret and illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia
- placed marijuana in the class 1 list of drugs (the same as heroin), started the war on drugs, created the DEA, leading to wasteful spending of hundreds of million of dollars and countless man hours wasted fighting "the scourge that is marijuana"