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		russell on Jan 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test Richard Nixon said, "I am a Keynesian." Obama is no better than in second place (in Keynsianism :-).

_b8r0 on Feb 1, 2009 [–]

To be fair, Richard Nixon also said 'I am not a crook' and that turned out to be untrue.

paddy_m on Feb 1, 2009 | [–]

Nixon was a keynesian and a statist. I'm not calling him a statist becuase of what he did in watergate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-66 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-76 (moved us off of the gold standard, giving the government complete control over our currency) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-Hetzel2... (implemented price controls on agricultural products) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-.2770s_... (established the EPA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-pbs2-69 (established OSHA)

Nixon was far from what I or most people would consider a classical.

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