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Food for Thought

“I Gave Them A Sword”

Tim Madigan asks how Machiavellian Richard Nixon really was.

“I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. I guess if I’d been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.”
– Richard Nixon to David Frost, 1977

The year 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Milhous Nixon. Yet, unlike other such anniversaries for former U.S.

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