WTF Happened In 1971?
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they ca...
Nixon, don't trust Republicans either
Yes, so why did the CIA want him gone?
Nixon got us off the gold standard. The scandals were just so you forgot the other things he did and the new president "fixed" everything but never overturned Nixon's bad policies so everything remained the same as they wanted.
Basically use him and lose him.
Nixon closed the gold window but the devaluation of the dollar against gold had been going on for years. That's just when France called the US's bluff.