NIXON WAS A LIBERAL PRESIDENT!!!

     During an interview with Fox Newsman Bill O'Reilly, the President was asked about being the most liberal President in American history.  Obama denied that, recalling Republican President Richard Nixon.  Most Americans were stunned - Nixon, a liberal?!  The hated Nixon, the nearly impeached Nixon, the resigned Nixon, a liberal?  NO, never!  What was Pres. Obama smoking?
    I have long maintained that Nixon was a very liberal president.  The following is my comment on Breitbart.
    

From my review of Ann Coulter's Mugged: Then, there is the question of Nixon. Coulter writes: "There was never a period...when race discrimination was a Republican policy, except maybe briefly when Nixon imposed affirmative-action on the building trades doing business with the government in the 1960s, but they deserved it. (A policy for which LBJ is showered with praise for thinking about - but never actually implementing.)" (173)

"What LBJ thought about implementing was halted because it was the end of Lyndon's term in 1968 and Democrat Humphrey had lost the election to Republican Nixon. Everyone assumed that the "Philadelphia Plan" of quotas for construction unions was dead because of the election. The unexpected occurred when Nixon and his Sec. of Labor George Schultz revived and then implemented the Philadelphia Plan. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had made quotas and hiring for racial balance illegal. Nixon and Schultz ignored this and demanded quotas by not calling them such; they were goals and timetables. When the issue came before Congress, it appeared as if Nixon would lose on the issue. He sent emissaries to the NAACP requesting its help. While many Democrats and some Republicans opposed, Nixon's quota program squeaked past on a narrow vote."

"Nixon then issued executive orders making quota-based affirmative action government policy in all federal agencies - not just Philadelphia building trades. The notion of quota-justice had been rejected by most Americans. It was clearly contrary to the spirit and text of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was contrary to the dream bespoke by Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington - when his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Yet, quotas first became national policy under Republican Richard Nixon."

Pres. Nixon signed the Environmental Protection Act, and OSHA, the Occupation Safety and Health Act. And, there was the opening to Communist China. Nixon was the most liberal president since WWII, except for Pres. Obama.-----Hugh Murray