All the negative about Nixon and his presidency is such low hanging fruit. As if everything he did was illegal, criminal and plain horrible. Such surface level stereotypes miss the mark. Nixon had many consequential decisions that were excellent. His foreign policy is still looked upon favorably. Although Kissinger takes some of that spotlight from him. Nixon is not a one dimensional character. The fact no Washington “intellectual” has the balls to say it is sad.
I cringe when I hear the often recycled phrase about “speak truth to power”. It’s so overused, many times wrongly applied. I assume people think it makes them (faux) intelectual. The world is funny, you can know the time frame by use of phrases and/or speech idioms. Those who mentally catalogue such phrases sound “modern” yet unoriginal.
This “author” can’t or won’t write an original thought. He clearly is on the inside of the political elite or wants to be. He has no original thoughts. He more of the problem than a solution. Those who write about history should do that, nothing more. The reader should decide. But when an author skews history towards a predetermined conclusion the freedom of choice has been removed for the reader. This is an echo chamber.
