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William Lewis2/20/2013 9:43:19 pm PST

re: #303 HappyWarrior

He did so reluctantly. Still a good deed but Nixon’s environmental initiatives differed from this health care ones which I think did come from a sincere desire to help the poor and sick. Remember he was a poor kid himself and had lost two brothers to TB. I really can never understand Nixon though. Read a review of a new book about him and Eisenhower, and the reviewer points out that Nixon was praised heavily by MLK and Jackie Robinson for his work on Civil Rights as VP. But then of course he later embraced the Southern Strategy and you can hear on the Nixon tapes him saying some less than flattering things about African Americans. I wish I could figure the man out. He fascinates me because I see a human side to him beyond the image of him.

Nixon is a weird edge case for everyone. When I’m in a good mood about him, I like to remember the sequence from “Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 1972” where he & HST talk about the NFL because politics is off limits. They had a good talk…