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NNadir

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6. I agree mostly with this comparison, but note that Nixon...

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 8, 2024, 11:45 AM

Aug 2024

...was very much a liar.

I would also note that he was a proponent of extreme violence in Vietnam and Cambodia. His 1968 claim of having a "secret plan" to end the war amounted to nothing more than bombing more and more.

Let's not even discuss Chile.

Trump is worse of course, which is hard to be, "worse than Nixon" but Nixon was a horrible man and a horrible President.

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On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon made a nationally televised address from the Oval Office. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 OP

I remember that address as clearly as if it were yesterday. Ocelot II Aug 2024 #1

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