CSPAN3 March 5, 2012
civil rights and domestic policy stemmed from his pragmatism rather than his liberalism. others have used the works of the revisionists to deepen our understanding of specific mixon era policies, and i'm thinking of kevin yule and john david secretny, earlier than yule, who showed how urban unrest in the 1960s was one of the things that prompted nixon to adopt an economic development strategy regarding minority groups that you can see in affirmative action. garrett davis' study of federal education policy showed how nixon's school desegregation efforts were strongly influenced by sou...