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Richard Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also the 36th Vice President (1953–1961) serving under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon redefined the office of Vice President, making it for the first time a high visibility platform and base for a presidential candidacy. He is the only person to have been elected twice to the Vice Presidency and twice to the Presidency, and the only president to have resigned that office. His resignation came in the face of imminent impeachment related to the Watergate scandal. ..." |
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George W. Bush's Nixonomics, by Gregory Bresiger, Mises.org Daily Article, 22 May 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Gold Standard, Social Security Tax
"He was one of the enthusiastic fathers of the modern corporate welfare/warfare state: president Richard Nixon was first elected in 1968. ... the president's economic policies, his Nixonomics ... initially seemed to succeed, stabilizing the economy just long enough for President Nixon to be overwhelmingly re-elected in 1972." |
35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"Between waging secret wars, enacting wage and price controls, and producing Watergate, Tricky Dick did more than any other single individual to encourage cynicism about government and wariness of presidential power." |
Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"Hence, for example, the phenomenon of President Nixon, thinking he knew more than anyone else about the Vietnam War ... For the CIA and other intelligence warnings of what was going on, developed by many of the lower officers, were screened out by the higher-ups, for being contrary to the President's preferred line, i.e., that all was going well." |
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Illegal Surveillance: A Real Security Threat, by James Bovard, 27 Feb 2006
Related Topics: Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
"Other federal agencies also trampled citizens' privacy, rights, and lives during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The IRS used COINTELPRO leads to launch audits against thousands of suspected political enemies of the Nixon administration. The U.S. Army set up its own surveillance program, creating files on 100,000 Americans ..." |
The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
"Richard Nixon ran in 1968 with 'a secret plan' to end the war in Vietnam. In the course of slowly pulling troops out of the war — and expanding the bombing — he spread the war to Cambodia." |
Under the Shadow of Inflationomics, by Hans F. Sennholz, Mises.org Daily Article, 1 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Inflation, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Bill Clinton, Gold Standard, Ronald W. Reagan
"... inflation breeds many evils and haunts many Americans who are rather unenlightened about its causes. A cursory look at presidential policies since 1971 corroborates the point. When wages and prices soared, President Nixon, with Congressional approval, imposed a four-phase program of wage and price controls which immediately led to shortages in many areas." |
What Exactly Did Gerald Ford Heal?, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Jan 2007
Related Topics: Gerald Ford, Government
"The break-in ... was not the only criminal activity that Nixon administration operatives had committed. They had also broken into the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg ... Nixon's infamous 'plumbers' unit had wiretapped people thought to be undermining the war effort. He also had used the IRS to harass people on his notorious enemies list." |
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