kenneth o'reilly and elizabeth drew, and they stress nixon's racism, anti-semitism, political ex ppediencyexpedienc. his divisiveness in ramping up the issue of busing and they argue his accomplishments in this area of 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 nixon era policies and i'm thinking of kevin uhl and john david skratney who showed how urban unrest in the 1960s was one of the things that prompted nixon to develop an economic development strategy regarding minority groups. garrett davis' study of federal education policy showed how nixon's school desegregation efforts were strongly influenced by southern politics in 1969, but then came to be influenced by what he called presidential responsibility in 1970 as the president set out to implement the supreme court's decision in holmes versus alexander. other books have enhanced our knowledge of nixon's policies with respect to minority businesses, fair housing, and native american indian policy. so my conclusio