For decades, people have treated Watergate as the ultimate political scandal, a kind of Baby Boomer folklore. Unfortunately, everything you were told about it is a lie.
My Real History of Watergate is available on DW+ tomorrow.
“Nixonian diplomacy may be just what is needed to prevent today’s regional wars and geopolitical conflicts from merging into the Third World War.”
Francis P Sempa in @RCDefense
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Today's NIXONMAXXING:
In the late 1940s, Congressman Richard Nixon proved that top State Dept official Alger Hiss was a Communist spy & that Communist infiltration of the U.S. govt was a clear & present danger.
From that moment on, they relentlessly tried to destroy him.
The kids are “Nixonmaxxing.” More than half a century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late Richard Nixon. https://t.co/HzhIQLwyE3
Why is the internet suddenly awash with Nixon memes — and why is Gen Z so obsessed with our most controversial president? I got to the bottom of the Nixon renaissance @realDailyWire.
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On D-Day, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower sent thousands of young men into the hardest hours of their lives.
Nearly 20 years later, he returned to Normandy, not only as a former president, but as the commander who never forgot the cost.
“They bought us time so we can do better.”
I trust that the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery @smithsoniannpg will take immediate steps to correct this mistake, lest its many visitors are misled about the 37th President. ⬇️
"Let us bear witness to the plain truth that we can only insure that our soldiers and sailors and marines and airmen have not died in vain by resolving, as citizens of the land for which they died, that we shall not ourselves live in vain." -RN
This #MemorialDay, the Richard Nixon Foundation honored the brave Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation with a wreath-laying ceremony. Gold Star daughter Danielle Guthrie and Gold Star son Roy Knight participated in the ceremony.