1968 on History Channel, Dec 9th: Richard Nixon

1968 with Tom Brokaw" premieres Sunday, December 9 at 9-11pm ET/PT on The History Channel.
Cities burned. Students marched. Idealism flourished. Drugs flowed. A nation mourned its slain leaders. It was a year both tragic and galvanizing. But was 1968 truly as revolutionary as it felt? Did its fury and pain propel us forward? Now a new, two-hour special on The History Channel explores the significance of 1968 and the ways it continues to affect the American landscape.

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[AcePilot101]

President Nixon (R) ended the Vietnam War, ended the draft, split the Soviet/China bloc and was forced to resign over Watergate.

[swezilhauf]

kill henry sugar

[Derekrife]

Never should have been elected in the first place. That was Bobby Kennedy's election. 

[sheldonJones44]

@catclaw357 FDR should be ahead of kennedy 

[Gtamaster503]

V NIxon V

[1Historygenius]

@catclaw357 It was more than military funding it was funding from every organization that was diverted to welfare to give 47% of the country welfare that is almost every other person in our nation on welfare system. Yes welfare good in the short term in the long term however welfare is the thing that caused people to become lazy in America in the late 1990s I believe if it was done in the 1970s the abuse of the welfare system could have happened earlier.

[catclaw357]

@1Historygenius Part two of two: My top 10 presidents are: 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. John F. Kennedy 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt 4. Bill Clinton 5. Ronald Reagan 6. Thomas Jefferson 7. Teddy Roosevelt 8. Andrew Jackson 9. Woodrow Wilson 10. James Madison

[catclaw357]

@1Historygenius Cutting military funding, and using it for welfare would have been good. We did NOT need to attack the Soviet Union, had we done that, it would have been a nuclear war, that we would have lost. Reagan proved that we that negotiation was all we needed to bring Soviet Russia down. In the 1970's the economy was bad, unemployment was high, increasing welfare would have helped people. Part one of two.

[1Historygenius]

@catclaw357 Gold Standard list: 1. Lincoln 2. Washington 3. FDR 4. Jefferson 5. T. Roosevelt 6. Jackson 7. Truman 8. Wilson 9. Eisenhower 10. Reagan. McGovern doing a better job? A man who would cut our military almost in half thats outrageous especially in time when we had rivals such as the USSR and China on us. He was going to put alot of money into welfare that he would be able to finance 47% of the country that is a little to much.

[catclaw357]

@1Historygenius In my opinion he was a very bad president, any president who cheats to get re-elected, bribes the people he hired to do it, and then lies about it is not a good president. I believe that a president must be honest to be a good president. Also, I think that McGovern would have done a better job ending The Vietnam Conflict. Also I think that Ford should not have pardoned him. By the way, who does make your "Gold Standard presidents list"?

[1Historygenius]

@catclaw357 .... as his diplomats secured a peace with the north. Meanwhile Nixon was ever so slowly attemptin to take out troops and you cannot mention his foreign diplomacy showed good he also had to deal with some tough descision and had lowered the debt. Although he would not be on my gold standard list of presidents I believe that he was not such a bad president.

[1Historygenius]

@AcePilot101 I agree with you he was a somewhat good president just one thing the Soviet/China was split for some time as Nixon just came in.