No doubt, Richard Nixon was a crook, and he deserved to be booted out of office. However, Tricky Dickie, as he was called by his critics, actually did some things on the domestic front during his tenure which would have outraged today’s far right GOP. In fact, it would have labeled him a left wing radical by today’s standards, and a good argument could be made that he was more progressive than Joe Biden and the Democratic party of today. For example, he created CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) which created thousands of jobs for the unemployed, including myself. The jobs gave decent wages and health insurance. And today, !971, he did something that no liberal would have the guts to do. He announced a 90 day freeze on all prices in the US, a radical program that imposed direct government control over the economy aimed at breaking the cycle of inflationary prices. It was the first time since FDR during WWll that a price freeze was enacted by a president.