Posted by:
SL Cabbie
(
)
Date: October 01, 2010 01:31PM
That he wasn't responsible for his own behavior and those of his subordinates when he was commander-in-chief (second-worst in my lifetime, IMHO, BTW)?
>The story notes that Anderson both exposed and fueled the worst abuses of the Nixon White House...
Here's the standard M.O. for good ol' "Law'n Order" Tricky Dick...
>In the two decades that followed, the conflict became so ferocious, Feldstein says, that Nixon ordered CIA surveillance of Anderson and his family — and White House operatives seriously considered assassinating the journalist.
G. Gordon Liddy was all ready to make the hit on Anderson, until somebody reigned him in and it was all allegedly a misunderstanding...
This statement by Feldstein is rich, and pardon me for insulting a PhD sort when I don't have one, but pretty sophomoric...
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/09/mark-feldstein-poisoning-the-press-richard-nixon-jack-anderson-politics-prose.php>"When I started, I thought it was going to be a classic hero-villain story," Feldstein said, "but the more investigating I did, I started to have some sympathy for Nixon. Even though he was paranoid, I did discover that they really were out to get him."
Here's a more balanced account from David Corn of Mother Jones...
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/nixon-jack-anderson-mark-feldsteinBTW, your title is a misnomer. With Jack Anderson, it was a case of "one Mormon and Nixon." As those of us who lived through that Nightmare know, there were a number of Mormons associated with Nixon (Gordon Strachan and soon-to-be-former-Senator Bob Bennett come to mind), and Howard Hughes, who was linked to a number of Nixon scandals surrounded himself with Mormons who comprised his inner circle of associates.
Nixon's enemies were probably out to get him because he was paranoid and unfit for the job, a reality that was born out by the historical outcome...