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RN More Progressive Than Obama?

August 26, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Barack Obama, Richard Nixon 

D.K. Jamaal from The Examiner lists the following reasons:

Richard Nixon ended the war in Vietnam, opened up relations with China, softened Soviet diplomacy, increased public aid spending, implemented po-consumer wage and price controls that limited gouging, expanded Social Security, raised incomes, oversaw widespread school integration, endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment for women, established the Environment Protection Agency, authorized the Clean Air Act and was the only modern President besides Eisenhower and Clinton to present a balanced budget.



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