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To: Constant Reader who wrote (61069)	11/24/2001 1:09:01 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 71178

Thanks for bringing that to my realm. Incredible. And so in keeping, and too often unpracticed, with what I get from what I read. And what a terrific voice to rise as the voice of "Christianity", rather than... well, some others I can think of. A good case for more research. I'm thinking I would enjoy a cup of coffee with the dude.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (61069)	11/24/2001 4:27:41 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Nixon as a President is no favorite of mine, but he gets a bum rap on his character. He was certainly no more conniving or dishonest than LBJ, or JFK for that matter, as anyone familiar with those Administrations should know. LBJ was one of the most feared politicians in Washington as Senate Majority Leader, and he ran the Senate with a mixture of strongarming and blackmail. He had dirt on every politician in town, not a hard thing to get, and used it to coerce Senators to vote as he wanted. JFK used the FBI to spy on a number of Americans- according to Robert Novak, his aide Bill Moyers was running around DC with the audio tapes of Martin Luther King's sexual pecadillos, letting the press listen to them. What Nixon had is a press that had become very hostile to the Presidency. They began tasting blood when Johnson declined to run for a second term, and then went after Nixon, who was already a bitter enemy of the Left from his days of prosecuting Alger Hiss. Nixon played into the hands of his enemies, but the press had let Kennedy skate for many of the same sort of abuses of power. Nixon, while President, invited Mrs Kennedy and the children to a private dinner at the White House. There was no political payoff, he did it entirely for Mrs Kennedy and the children. It wasn't advertised, and the only reason it is publicly known is because John Kennedy Jr talked about it. Nixon did many personal kindnesses, but in keeping with his Quaker upbringing he never advertised them. You only learn of them from those who were the recipients. And not everyone who benefitted from his charity knew of it, as his staff has said that he often preferred to remain anonymous when he helped people.