You forgot to mention the eight (8) years of Reagan conservatism in your diatribe; you know the change from double digit Carter inflation;  the impetus to bring down the Berlin Wall, the reduction of the USSR to just Russia (being brought back under Obama if Putin has his ultimate goal ,  

The Civil Rights act of 1964 was a Democratic LBJ sponsored law, as  I recall it not a 'conservative' act.

Wasn't Dick Nixon the one who ended the Vietnam War after he got rid of Democratic whiz kid McNamara?