5 thoughts on “A critical word from the founder of modern Republican politics

  1. Santayana says:

    ‘Tricky Dick’ …wearing wings and a halo – in heaven?

    “Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Gain—And Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest” (2013) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/
    Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by just 1 percent of the popular vote. “Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968,” says the BBC.

  2. moss says:

    Those aren’t “heaven’s” clouds. That’s smoke from hellfire. Just like the tin halo nailed to Nixon’s head … just another cultural artifice added to keep the rubes onboard.

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