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[Nixon would] top just short of calling the President a liar on Vietnam, then add that he would not be speaking of the war during Johnson’s “sensitive negotiations with Hanoi” before extending his sympathy to the President for all the “well-intentioned but mistaken Democrats who have taken the soft line, the appeasement line.” For we could only lose in Vietnam “if President Johnson fails to take a strong line that will preserve the peace by refusing to reward the aggressors.”

It’s a line of reasoning exactly as convincing now as it was then!

Bonus Nixon’s Piano edition:

In his press conference the next day, some Eastern establishment reporter asked Nixon if he found it embarrassing to share a party with “ol’ States’ Right’s Strom.” Nixon responded, “Strom is no racist. Strom is a man of courage and integrity.”

Both quotes from Rick Perlstein’s masterpiece Nixonland, available at the local independent and/or soulless corporate bookstore near you.

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