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Why did President Nixon lose the popularity of the American people?
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∙ 12y ago
You can select any one or combination of reasons. 1) Nixon subverted the Constitution by spying on individuals w/o due process (most famously his "Enemies List"). 2) He prosecuted a war in Cambodia & Laos w/o approval from the Congress and lied (on network TV) to the country about it. 3) Watergate 4) The "Saturday Night Massacre". 5) Wage & Price controls. 6) Presidential pardons of Jimmy Hoffa and Angelo De Carlo.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agobecause he was involved in the watergate scandal. he hired spies to spy on people that he felt were on his "enemies list" and he got caught at the "watergate" hotel.
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