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“Richard Nixon” by Scott Scheidly currently on view in “Glamour Shots” at our NYC space. Also available on our website for those of you who can’t make it in person.
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“Nixon’s Peace”
Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Cuba
1972
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The Sun Front Page: August 23, 1987
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The Sun Front Page: August 16, 1969
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Reagan:
- Ignored acid rain because fixing it might hurt corporations against his own EPA director who himself was a wildly non-conservationist person
- Actively tried to block clean air and water regulation in California that he would later try to take credit for.
- Fought tooth and nail to try to keep OSHA from existing.
- Rewrote numerous regulatory bodies to rely on self-regulation of industries instead of protecting the safety of workers.
- Because everyone knows companies police themselves adequately and responsibly. Just like Wall Street.
- Regularly ignored EPA research and proposals that lead to a mass resignation in protest
- Opposed the Civil Rights Act.
- Weakened Habeus Corpus protections.
- Actively undermined bipartisan anti-discrimination efforts, which was over-ruled by a republican-Majority congress.
- Began his career attacking civil rights and free speech protesters.
- Supportedmandatory prayer in public schools whilesimultaneously wanting to dismantle the Dept. of Education (literally the same year).
- Proposed NAFTA
- Laughed at people dying of AIDS and viewed it as divine punishment of gay people.
- IranContra
- Attempted to dismantle the minimum wage.
- Killed the Fairness Doctrine that required newscasters to be factually unbiased and accurate.
Wish i lived in the timeline where Reagan, Bush II AND Trump were never president. Think of the advancements in economics, peace, prosperity, and personal liberties we would have experienced.
If we’re playin’ timeline, let’s take it all the way back to Nixon. Nixon is the reason we’re goin’ through this shit now. It’s all on his watch, all these vile swine like Roger Stone and Manafort.
I’ll take the one where Jimmy Carter’s solar panels stayed, and our descent into the climate maelstrom would be a dark fantasy that would not come to pass, as we would have, by now, the whole fossil fuel thing done and over with.
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Discovering Chinese food
Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai and American President, Richard Nixon at the official banquet in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People during the first visit of a US Leader to China, 1972.
Courtesy: The Nixon Library.
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From David Wise’s cover story, The President and the Press in the April 1973 issue:
The First Amendment clearly protects the printed press. But the Founding Fathers, after all, did not foresee the advent of television, and the degree to which broadcasting is protected by the First Amendment has been subject to shifting interpretation. Technology has outpaced the Constitution, and the result is a major paradox: television news, which has the greatest impact on the public, is the most vulnerable and the least protected news medium.
