Nixon's war on *****: Disaster? Yes. Political vendetta? **.
 

Nixon's war on *****: Disaster? Yes. Political vendetta? **.
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A new article in Harper’s quotes Nixon’s domestic czar John Ehrlichman as saying the War on ***** was a front to punish political enemies.

It certainly sounds like something Nixon would do.

His political skill was rooted in an uncanny ability to say one thing, do a**ther, and survive the consequences. The man behind the Southern Strategy ordered massive desegregation of Southern schools, for example. Only one of history’s great red-baiters could go to China. Ehrlichman’s claim seems like a classic Nixonian dodge.

But anyone with a basic k**wledge of the tapes k**ws that Nixon’s War on ***** was an earnest, if catastrophic, personal failing. Read more...


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