[Vision2020] Nixon a conservative?

[Phil Nisbet]

A series of questions,

Just to give a sense of Nixon as what he truly was and not as the current 
attempt to paint him is, lets review what programs Nixon actually initiated 
during his tenure as the President.

Supplemental Security Income program was started by Nixon and has been a 
drain on Social Security funds ever since.  Prior to Nixon's actions, people 
who were disabled and unable to work had been cared for by the states 
individually.  It was a very major new Federal Entitlement Program.

Nixon, at the Bretton Woods Conference, took the US off the gold standard, 
which along with the oil crisis of 1973 resulted in hyper-inflation becoming 
a fact of life for nearly a decade.  His response was wage and price 
controls, rather than allowing the market to sort of the problems he himself 
had created.

Nixon started the EPA.  He also pushed NEPA, the Wilderness Act of 1970, the 
Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered 
Species Act, the Resource Recovery Act (Which he sought amendment to and 
eventually was inacted as RCRA of 1976) and a whole bunch of the rest of the 
agency growths that built our current regulatory bureaucracy.

He pushed arms control, including the initial SALT treaty and was the 
initiator of the ABM treaty.

He normalized US relations with China and cut our Taiwanese allies off at 
the knees.

He supported Detente with the USSR, rather than confronting Russia and 
attempting to bring down their regime.

The list of similar actions is long.

So, in any of these actions, was Nixon a "Conservative"?

If any person in Politics today supported these particular things, would any 
person who calls themselves a Conservative today cast their vote for him?

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