My high school history teacher imparted the same thing.
He also explicitly went out of his way to note that the New Deal didn't alleviate the Great Depression (but it was the war – and, therefore, production – which did) and had an entire lecture about how Nixon never thought he was doing anything wrong and name dropped that he knew certain members of that administration on a personal level so I don't think he was exactly unbiased.
That said, he also spend more time on the 1940s civil rights movement than any other teacher I ever had and routinely highlighted that racial profiling was still prevalent in America so I'm not entirely certain what he had going on.