Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted

Many readers are letting us know about the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure forms. We discussed the raid on the senator's house a while back. Everyone's favorite technologically challenged senator is the longest-serving Republican in the history of the upper house. An Alaskan paper gives deep background on the probe that has ensnared Stevens and a number of other Alaska political figures.

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Re:Yeah, and what happened with that one?

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I think I should point out exactly what Nixon did for the country (since you are not likely to know it otherwise):
1) school de-segregation: the bulk done under Nixon
2) put an end to permanent Moon base plans, switched NASA to Earth orbit projects (sattelites, space labs, shuttle, etc.)
3) normalized relations with China, Egypt, and a number of other countries that isolated the Soviets and curbed their ambitions, without any military actions
4) adopted a number of arms control agreements with the Soviets (nuclear reductions, ABM treaties, etc.), all while reducing tensions through diplomatic and economic means
5) created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
6) started NOAA
7) created Occupational Safety and Health Administration
6) re-indexed Social Security for inflation, implemented disability payments
7) eradicated the gold standard (end of Bretton Woods), giving America a massive "credit card" that other nations pay instead of us, with THEIR currency inflation.
8) pushed for Comprehensive Health Insurance Act (which the dems went batshit-crazy over, and killed).
9) saved Israel during Yom Kippur by providing arms airlift (as CiC, in opposition to the Dems). The arms supplied stopped the Arab advance; the anti-AA armaments that wiped out Sovied-supplied AA batteries that were establishing air supperiority, basically winning the war for the Arabs up to that point Nixon came in.