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The Nixon tapes suggest that the actions of the Nixon administration were not uniquely wicked compared to other presidencies.
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- Niall Ferguson Scottish-American historian
On the contrary, rather than reaffirming the old narrative, now half a century old, that there was something uniquely wicked about Richard Nixon's administration, they make the listener suspect that most of what went on in Nixon's Oval Office was probably not very different from what has gone on, before and since, when other presidents sat in the same place.
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↗The Nixon Tapes, Unlockedniallferguson.substack.com
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