Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: A post-presidency interview with Nixon surfaced on my YT feed yesterday. He was a ...
A post-presidency interview with Nixon surfaced on my YT feed yesterday. He was a crook and a racist. But man, watching him again now you're reminded that he was both highly intelligent and a patriot. Policy issues aside, he was as far above Trump on the human being scale as Mt. Everest is above a flea. What a thought.
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