He also took the $USD off of the gold standard... a bigger evil than any positive thing he did elsewhere.
What Made America Great?
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He also took the $USD off of the gold standard... a bigger evil than any positive thing he did elsewhere.
Yes and no. The last combat troops were withdrawn during March of 73, leaving a handful of advisers and Embassy personnel until the final collapse which took place on 4/29/75. Nixon was gone in 74.
He did handle the war poorly, but was left with a cluster Fck from LBJ. Comrade Cronkite sealed the deal with his mis-information campaign, the war weary country bought it and the war became un-winable after that. While one could argue that all lives lost were wasted, the tens of thousands that died after 69 were really wasted.
What a bunch of fricken non-sense.
In every leftist revolution and subsequent liquidation program it was the friends neighbors and sometimes families (not some foreign invader) that sent victims to the soviet gulag, nazi concentration camp, north korean & chinese reeducation camps.
I always like the one about "The rich got rich by taking money from the poor".
The hard truth is that America was never as "great" as some would claim, but once upon a time it did offer opportunity for almost anyone who was willing to make some sacrifices. Those opportunities have become more and more scarce as government tries to enforce it's will where it has no business, and, AND, corporate titans doing whatever they can to crush the little guy by funding the political process they claim to hate. The "feud" between corporate America and government is actually a ruse which has worked quite well for both government and corporations. Not worth a shit for the average Joe, but then the average Joe never really was anything more than a tool in the toolbox, a means to an end.