IVIV hating Nixon was easy

[Mark Kohut]

Ian said it re everyone...I just jumped on the caboose....

But, to refocus: Nixonland told one(if one needed it showed or reminded) how deeply Nixon was hated by so many for so long...and, relevant maybe to Pynchon's worldview, from the Hiss case.....again, for a guy who took a national majority on two tickets........in the second half of the American 20th Century, he was the first national politician so also despised....as the Clintons, Dyuba and now Palin (although she would/will not ever be a majority vote-getter, i think and hope) also are. 


--- On Sat, 1/2/10, dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV hating Nixon was easy
> To: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 12:33 PM
> #yiv1949441414 p
> {margin:0;}Agree
> with Mark the K.   Identifying Nixon as a monster
> was easy, back in the day, especially for an observer as
> perceptive as Pynchon. Everybody I knew in the 60s had a
> brother or cousin or uncle or somebody who got maimed or
> killed in Vietnam, Nixon was scooping them up and throwing
> them into the fire, and even the patriots knew this was
> stupid by 1970 if not before.  
> And, Nixon was seen as untrustworthy all the way back to
> his earliest days as a national political figure, when he
> got himself elected in part by lying about his opponent - he
> never could have earned the reputation that flowered in full
> as "Tricky Dick" if people hadn't mistrusted
> him for years, that track was already grooved even before he
> came across as a shifty shyster in his televised debate with
> Kennedy.  The Watergate revelations just put frosting
> on the cake, confirming what Americans had known for
> decades, that Nixon was a crook and a liar with no respect
> for the US Constitution. 
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