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[fujiyama]

I see you leave out Nixon's southern strategy and his own race baiting. I'd say most of those divisions - including the loss of trust in government can be more attributed toward Nixon.

What I won't get is why some liberals like to look at Nixon as a liberal. Sure, he passed a few decent bills, but most of them were probably veto proof anyways. I'm amazed how easilly Nixon's crimes are excused by many now.

LBJ may have been the one to get the country into Vietnam (and I'm definetely not excusing that), but Nixon kept us there for years longer and escalated it.