GRGR: Nixon

[Robert Pirani]

At 09:52 AM 9/2/99 +1200, you wrote:
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>Reviewer Richard Bernstein writes:
>"Nixonphobia turned into a cult, and its visceral hatred cannot be
>overemphasized," Gellman writes near the end of his narrative of the early
>Nixon career. "Every major charge brought against him during his
>congressional years" is "not sustained by facts." In reality, Gellman
>concludes, Nixon was a "hard-working, promising young star" of Republican
>politics who played to win; and he did win, not by engineering dirty tricks
>but, in Gellman's view, by outthinking his opponents and better measuring
>the drift of post-World War II American life than they did."
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>Not a view that Pynchon's politics would support, I don't think.
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>or Hunter S Thompson!
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>peter
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Or anyone who was in California for the Gerald Vorhees or Helen Douglas
campaigns !

Robert