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I know why Nixon is unjustly hated, but I don't know if that's the reason for blaming him like the lie that is (((watergate))). But I can't find anything sufficient to explain why Nixon is blamed and not FDR. Gold Standard was effectively ended by FDR.

1933 - Citizens must turn in, can't own gold, gold certificates, federal reserve gold notes or w/e etc. 1971 - Nixon ends the fixed price of gold that cant' really be used because of the above.

If gold's price is fixed by the fed - be honest, it's them - then is there really a gold standard at all from 1933 to 1971? It all seems like smoke and mirrors, gold was stolen from everybody and abandonned in '33.

I know why Nixon is unjustly hated, but I don't know if that's the reason for blaming him like the lie that is (((watergate))). But I can't find anything sufficient to explain why Nixon is blamed and not FDR. Gold Standard was effectively ended by FDR. 1933 - Citizens must turn in, can't own gold, gold certificates, federal reserve gold notes or w/e etc. 1971 - Nixon ends the fixed price of gold that cant' really be used because of the above. If gold's price is fixed by the fed - be honest, it's them - then is there really a gold standard at all from 1933 to 1971? It all seems like smoke and mirrors, gold was stolen from everybody and abandonned in '33.

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Didn't know that. Was that before or after (((Watergate)))?

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I'm not exactly sure. I'm pretty (90%) sure I'm right. I can absorb knowledge exceptional well but I'll condense it down to its basic form. Enough to know something, not enough to detail it.

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I'm drunk and phone posting.

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The Health Maintenance Organization Act. 1973. I'm sure I've oversimplified it greatly but I believe that was, at least in part, the beginning of our form of Healthcare we have today.

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So in the 'middle' (72-74) of (((watergate))) so potentially some payment to try to get out of it.

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That's a good theory. I definitely don't know the political intricacies of the time.