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Gerald Ford Legacy is Nothing to be Proud Of
While the nation's mainstream media is busy publishing gushing tributes to recently deceased former President Gerald Ford, it's important to point out that his legacy leaves nothing to be proud of. He pardoned of one of the nation's worst criminals, his predecessor and former boss Richard Nixon.
Nixon is of course best known for his coverup of the 1972 Republican break-in of Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. But his criminal career included much worse deeds, such as the bombing of Cambodia, which led to the ascent of the Khmer Rouge regime that slaughtered millions. Nixon also authorized the CIA to remove democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, whose Socialist administration was nationalizing the country's resources, such as copper mines owned by U.S. companies. Allende's assassination in 1973 led to the deaths of millions of Chileans under the regime of his right-wing military successor Augusto Pinochet.
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"Alienated an entire generation, my generation"
Really? Are you seriously still fixated on the Seventies? Please do move on.
All of this is water over the dam, Tommi. Putting Nixon on trial would have polarized the country even more than it already was, and would have acheived nothing of value to the nation. I was an adult then, and I remember. Once Nixon was gone, most of us took a breath of fresh air and moved on. You should, too.
Ford was a decent man. He had no agenda other than pulling the country together. He had to deal with some awful situations, such as the collapse of South Viet Nam (after the Democrats cut off funding for the war, which left millions of Indochinese at the mercy of the communists. I work with lots of former boat people from Indochina - they would happy to tell you about it). There was the rise of OPEC, the ongoing attacks against us and the rest of the West by Islamic terrorists and hijackers, etc., not to mention the stupid "revolutionary" wannabes such as Red Army Faction and Bader-Meinhof, etc.
That was then, and this is now. And revisionist history is still just history through hindsight.
Really? Are you seriously still fixated on the Seventies? Please do move on.
All of this is water over the dam, Tommi. Putting Nixon on trial would have polarized the country even more than it already was, and would have acheived nothing of value to the nation. I was an adult then, and I remember. Once Nixon was gone, most of us took a breath of fresh air and moved on. You should, too.
Ford was a decent man. He had no agenda other than pulling the country together. He had to deal with some awful situations, such as the collapse of South Viet Nam (after the Democrats cut off funding for the war, which left millions of Indochinese at the mercy of the communists. I work with lots of former boat people from Indochina - they would happy to tell you about it). There was the rise of OPEC, the ongoing attacks against us and the rest of the West by Islamic terrorists and hijackers, etc., not to mention the stupid "revolutionary" wannabes such as Red Army Faction and Bader-Meinhof, etc.
That was then, and this is now. And revisionist history is still just history through hindsight.
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