Nixon 40 Years on from his resignation
It was 40 years ago tonight (9:01pm) that President Richard Nixon resigned as President. As a Kennedy man and a huge fan of Dr Hunter Thompson it is not surprising that my attitude towards Nixon was less than positive. " Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency." Hunter Thompson The reality is always more complicated than we would like. I am just finishING Pat Buchanan's recent book, " The Greatest Comeback" which gives an insight into the man and his politics which I found very interesting. I'm a US politics geek and so have books across the political spectrum and although I don't hold to all that Pat has written, he makes some very comments and insights, as he was at that point a speech writer for the man. The problems of the Nixon Pres...