Andrew Johnson was pretty terrible as well, conceded a lot during reconstruction to the southern land owners which had a lasting negative impact on so many. Coolidge and Truman were pretty terrible as well, and Taft is like low hanging fruit. Nixon wasn’t that bad in office relatively speaking but is only known for Watergate now.
The last 3 scheduled missions there was no telling what could have happened next. He was also presented with a solid plan to go to Mars within a decade and took a pass on it for tax cuts for the rich.
As for public opinion polls please cite sources and good luck with that since polls were no where collected as frequently. The truth is within a few months of Apollo 11 he has already taken down the earth rising photo from the Oval office and he had tried to cancel the program completely when he took office but his hand was forced by Apollo 9.
He tried to kill it fully and failed, out of spite he killed it when he could. Nixon never forgave anyone, he had an enemy list, he went after almost small town journalists who wrote slightly bad about him multiple years prior. For him to sit there and just allow the legacy of a man who beat him to continue would have torn him apart. Like everyone GOP leader since, he breaks what he could have never hoped to have built or even inspired.
The smart thing would have been to continue the program with more ambitious missions on the surface. All the rocket people could have been redirected to start working on small reusable rockets instead of the space plane. The mission to Mars had too much project risk so hold off on that for a while.
I think the worst things about Nixon was his role implementing American foreign policy when it came to anti-communism and his “drug war” policies. The best could be the things he didn’t personally care about as much, he started the first affirmative action program, was too slow with desegregation but did support civil rights and the overall moral goal of it, and he implemented some tax cuts that benefitted working class.
Apollo would be a more minor bad for me, it didn’t really do much to benefit average people other than serve as a symbol of America’s power and the next frontier. I think there’s a lot of nostalgia for some of these programs today but they were always sort of funded to be demonstrations of America’s power, if the Soviets weren’t interested in space they probably wouldn’t have happened. A byproduct of Apollo was public funding of technology which is great, but a lot of that also benefits the military industrial complex and America’s imperialism, so it’s not this happy story that it’s often portrayed as like “we have small computers because of Apollo!”
We’re talking about people who are narcissists and psychopaths running an empire though, they’re all evil.
Andrew Johnson was pretty terrible as well, conceded a lot during reconstruction to the southern land owners which had a lasting negative impact on so many. Coolidge and Truman were pretty terrible as well, and Taft is like low hanging fruit. Nixon wasn’t that bad in office relatively speaking but is only known for Watergate now.
Nixon cancelled Apollo
The last 3 missions, but public opinion had turned at that point.
I’m not defending Nixon at all, but I don’t know if any other POTUS wouldn’t have done the same.
The last 3 scheduled missions there was no telling what could have happened next. He was also presented with a solid plan to go to Mars within a decade and took a pass on it for tax cuts for the rich.
As for public opinion polls please cite sources and good luck with that since polls were no where collected as frequently. The truth is within a few months of Apollo 11 he has already taken down the earth rising photo from the Oval office and he had tried to cancel the program completely when he took office but his hand was forced by Apollo 9.
He tried to kill it fully and failed, out of spite he killed it when he could. Nixon never forgave anyone, he had an enemy list, he went after almost small town journalists who wrote slightly bad about him multiple years prior. For him to sit there and just allow the legacy of a man who beat him to continue would have torn him apart. Like everyone GOP leader since, he breaks what he could have never hoped to have built or even inspired.
The smart thing would have been to continue the program with more ambitious missions on the surface. All the rocket people could have been redirected to start working on small reusable rockets instead of the space plane. The mission to Mars had too much project risk so hold off on that for a while.
Fuck Nixon
I think the worst things about Nixon was his role implementing American foreign policy when it came to anti-communism and his “drug war” policies. The best could be the things he didn’t personally care about as much, he started the first affirmative action program, was too slow with desegregation but did support civil rights and the overall moral goal of it, and he implemented some tax cuts that benefitted working class.
Apollo would be a more minor bad for me, it didn’t really do much to benefit average people other than serve as a symbol of America’s power and the next frontier. I think there’s a lot of nostalgia for some of these programs today but they were always sort of funded to be demonstrations of America’s power, if the Soviets weren’t interested in space they probably wouldn’t have happened. A byproduct of Apollo was public funding of technology which is great, but a lot of that also benefits the military industrial complex and America’s imperialism, so it’s not this happy story that it’s often portrayed as like “we have small computers because of Apollo!”
We’re talking about people who are narcissists and psychopaths running an empire though, they’re all evil.
Taft is just low-hanging fruit because of how much weight he puts on the branch.