Was Richard Nixon a socialist?

I think many people have a misunderstanding of socialism, often equating it to communism which it is not. The United States has been on the socialist experiment for over a hundred years. We have established numerous social services, social securit... read more

So yes, Nixon was a socialist in the strictest sense. With todays neo-conservatives, trying to prove which on is more conservative than the other that they have fallen off the edge, have lost sight of what conservatism is. read more

But once again Richard Nixon is responsive to his credo of big business liberalism, for direct controls satisfy the ideological creed of liberal while at the same time they are urged by big business in order to try to hold down the pressure of wages on selling prices which always appears in the late stages of a boom. read more