Now, under the new liberal president, Abdurrahman Wahid, there is hope that things are changing.
The first liberal president during this period was Enrique Olaya Herrera.
Magoun was a liberal president, permitting the teaching of evolution despite his personal disagreement with Darwin's work.
Benito Juarez, a 19th-century liberal president who is one of the most worshiped men in modern Mexican history, fares better.
They spent the sixties knocking their country over dinner and waving banners at a liberal president.
I have to believe that even the most liberal president would retaliate against someone with nuclear weapons.
That's a fair way to assess a liberal president, but no way to assess a conservative president.
Both times liberal democratic presidents have tried to spend their way out of it with disastrous effects.
Then it picked up steam as Richard Nixon went from war criminal to the last great liberal Republican president.
Now he's a Democrat, ran for president, pretty liberal Democrat, really nice guy.