He signed the ABM treaty with mumbles Brezhnev, not commieCarter or anyone else. BTW, this Mickelsen complex is the one MFT posted about a while back and sent pictures.
Note the isosceles planform of the Sprint's fin. This is typical of hypersonic aerodynamics. Look at the X-15's control surfaces, e.g. Weird world above Mach 6, boys.
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JJ: You are under the usual impression that Nixon was some kind of Nazi-right-winger-Atilla-the-Hun. That's one of those delusions perpetuated by the pinko-Left -- they never forgot tricky Dick for exposing Alger Hiss as a commie agent. In reality, he governed as a standard-issue Liberal, especially in domestic affairs, but also in several important aspects of foreign affairs. One can back this up with tons of commentary, but here is a quick overview:
The truth is, Nixon was the last of the New Deal-era liberal presidents. He sponsored and signed the legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency, the Water Quality Improvement Act and the Endangered Species Act. He oversaw the establishment of Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon created the Philadelphia Plan, the springboard for racial quotas; pushed for Title IX (the women's "equality" law); and hired Leon Panetta (later Bill Clinton's chief of staff) as his director of the office of civil rights.
Nixon pushed aggressively for national health insurance that would cover 100 percent of the nation's poor children. He increased federal spending on health and education programs by more than 50 percent and massively boosted spending on the National Endowment for Humanities. He tried to increase welfare with his Family Assistance Plan and Child Development Act.
Economically, Nixon got along swell with the chamber of commerce crowd, but he was well to the left of almost any leading Democrat today, championing wage and price controls as a legitimate tool of state, and boasting "Now I am a Keynesian in economics."
And Clinton was the new Ike.
How many highways did Bubba build?
Nixon is a mixed bag, but ultimately a shyster (in the non-lawyer sense) as he sold himself out with his own paranoia.
He did start the Environmental Protection Agency. It's always fun to tell the Al Gores of the world that.
Also: the Mickelson Complex is now, of course, abandoned, and is currently being surrounded by dozens of mega wind towers -- from the nuclear age of potential destruction to the flowery feeling of wind power, a juxtaposition of architecture on the upper Plains.
Nixon was a complicated man. Towards the end, he was going nuts with his paranoia (though, as he rightly said, even paranoids have real enemies). Given all that, I still never understood why on Earth he created so much frothing-at-the-mouth hatred among the pinkoes. That kind of derangement was (almost) totally irrational, if you look at the record. It was purely ad-hominem, I think.
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