*He started the EPA
*He ended the Draft
*He lowered the voting age to 18
*He started the Food Stamps program
*He opened up China
All pretty progressive policies. So just how bad has the political climate gotten that our current leaders make him seem like a liberal?
To be fair though he did say:
We're going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family -- let people like Pat Moynihan ... believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, work -- throw 'em off the rolls. That's the key. ... I have the greatest affection for them [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like."
-Nixon May 13, 1971
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