Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon can be considered a good and bad president depending on how you look at him and the situations he was put in. I think Nixon was a good president. I think this because he campaigned under the idea of law and order. Although many Americans at the time would not admit it after the hippie movement, they wanted law and order. Americans wanted a stable environment and Nixon promised to give this to them. Also, Nixon didn't focus too much on civil rights. This could be viewed as a negative aspect of his presidency, but by not involving himself in civil rights he was able to devote more of his time and energy into more important things that benefitted the entire country instead of just a specific group of people. One of the most important positive aspects though of Richard Nixon was his willingness to call Chine by name and open up a new door of trade and relations with China for the first time ever in the United States. All in all, yes, Nixon has some drawbacks, but he was ultimately a beneficial president of the United States