4. Richard Nixon
37th President and shamed politician Richard Nixon was in office from 1969 until he resigned in 1974 to eventually be pardoned by Gerald Ford. Though he was the President to end the war in Vietnam and subsequently pull American troops out of the jungle, that was where his liberal views ended.
Going on the record, Nixon stated in August of 1970 that gay marriage was far off; that he was still trying to wrap his head around interracial marriages for the moment. Almost exactly one year later Nixon went on the record as saying that homosexuality led to the fall of the Ancient Greek empire and that in certain more gay friendly parts of San Francisco where he refused to shake hands with residents. Despite these horrific remarks about LGBTQ people there was still a coalition of gay individuals in San Francisco that formed with a goal to re-elect Nixon in 1972.
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