re: #448 HappyWarrior

I have to say reading this Nixon biography. I actually have a lot of respect for Pre-Southern Strategy Nixon in some ways even if a lot of stuff he did I think he was shady as hell like implying the incumbent Congressman he beat to win Congress was a Communist sympathizer but other stuff like accepting a NAACP honorary membership in SoCal while the KKK was still big in Southern California was pretty honorable and he seemed genuinely appalled by Jim Crow that he witnessed as a law student at Duke in Durham, NC. Nixon was an asshole for sure but I easily have more respect for him than Trump already upon reading this.

I’ve kind of hit a wall in my reading, particularly of American History, which I normally love so much.

I’ve turned to reading some British history, reread a biography of Elizabeth I who I find really fascinating. Also read about the British counter intelligence official who turned out to have been a Soviet spy for decades—Kim Philby. That was a really good book.

But it might take some time, some recovery from the loon in WH for my love of American history to return. I hope it comes back.