{"id":3317,"date":"2005-06-01T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/01\/re-evaluating-nixon\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T18:58:32","slug":"re-evaluating-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/re-evaluating-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-evaluating Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDuring Watergate, I was as anti-Nixon has anyone, completely convinced that he was a lowlife, a scumbag, and a liar. But since Nixon, we&#8217;ve had presidents like Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton, so I think it&#8217;s appropriate to re-evaluate Tricky. That&#8217;s what former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprowler.com\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8242\">does here:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW&#8217;s, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel&#8217;s life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable. He lied to protect his subordinates who were covering up a ridiculous burglary that no one to this date has any clue about its purpose. He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Comments on the connection between Mark Felt and the Cambodian Genocide follow. What is it with Commies and genocide anyway?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Watergate, I was as anti-Nixon has anyone, completely convinced that he was a lowlife, a scumbag, and a liar. But since Nixon, we&#8217;ve had presidents like Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton, so I think it&#8217;s appropriate to re-evaluate Tricky. That&#8217;s what former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein does here: Can anyone even remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/re-evaluating-nixon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-evaluating Nixon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Rv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}