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To: koan who wrote (182261)	2/13/2012 9:34:29 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544125

I used to routinely invoke Godwin's law when people made random Nazi/Hitler political analogies. Nixon was nothing at all like slavery or the holocaust. He just wasn't. Segregation is a little different, Nixon was certainly happy to play to white resentment of the federal government cracking down on the South's reprehensible solution to the political threat of emancipation. But I don't think he took the modern Republican tact of staffing the DoJ civil rights division with people totally disinterested in enforcing the law, either. As for Viet Nam, maybe it could have been wound down quicker, but American casualties peaked in 1968, and judging from US casualty levels alone, Nixon wound it down at about the same rate that Johnson escalated. And there is some ambiguity about Viet Nam, it was a pretty ugly war but the North Vietnamese didn't prove themselves to be particularly nice after victory. Secretly spilling the war into Cambodia was bad, though. Sad thing is, the post-9/11 wars have been going on about as long as the whole Vietnam cycle took, and there's no real light at the end of that tunnel in sight.

To: koan who wrote (182261)	2/13/2012 10:09:23 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544125

There is a new book out by Colson who explains a great deal about Nixon since he was in the White House with him as a correspondent. Seems that Nixon had great ties to the mob. Was completely neurotic. Had a relationship with Beebee Bozo or someone by that name. I heard this on the radio so do not know spelling of names. He seldom saw his wife only thirty minutes a day. He was a sick man not so much evil as totally unfit to be president... A weird story as much as I heard between 3 am and 4pm on NEW YORK WOR radio.