Saturday, September 12, 2015

Well, if you're going to pick on every little thing...



The opening paragraph of a review by Francis Sempa makes the case for some Nixonian revisionism:

The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952–1961
by Irwin F. Gellman. 
Yale University Press, 2015. 
Hardcover, 791 pages, $40.


The historical demonization of Richard Nixon usually proceeds from his supposedly red-baiting campaigns for the House and Senate, to his alleged participation in the McCarthyite “witch hunt” for communists, to the wiretapping of suspected leakers in his administration, to the “illegal” military incursions into Cambodia during the Vietnam War, culminating in the Watergate scandal, where political espionage and dirty tricks were inflated to “high crimes” deserving of impeachment and resignation...

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