Nixon & Friends

It never gets old. Hearing what douche bags Nixon, Kissinger & all their buddies were is a gift that keeps on giving. Technically, it's the National Archives that keep giving us these recorded goodies. And the Nixon approach continues to this day in today's Republican administrations & campaigns.

They still cook the numbers:

Inside the administration, even the government's statistician did not escape political scrutiny.The knock against him, as related by a December 1971 memo from Colson, was that he stuck to numbers, "applies little imagination to the statistics" and is "a very poor advocate for our point of view." Suspicions about staff did not die off after the election. Buchanan proposed a "housecleaning" of insufficiently loyal employees. He described the Latin American office of the Peace Corps as "a hotbed of Kennedy-Shriver types, and said of the Health, Education and Welfare Department: "Those responsible for the concerted and continuing effort to win support for discredited child development 'schemes' should be ferreted out."

Of course Republicans are paranoid. Also evidenced here.

"Never forget," Nixon tells national security adviser Henry Kissinger in a taped Oval Office conversation revealed Tuesday. "The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy.

"Professors are the enemy," he repeated. "Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it."

So sad. Pathetic, really. But he was elected & reëlected, wasn't he?