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- From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
- Subject: Re: A reply to J. Emmons on Nixon ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160423.7033@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <HISTORY%92112300150687@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:04:22 EST
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- In article <HISTORY%92112300150687@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> ICJME@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
- >Greetings and Salutations
- >I think you hit the nail on the head about Reagan and Bush: tweedle-dee and
- >tweedle-dum! <loud guffaw> I also think that many truths about the period of
- >the 1960s to 1974 will be clouded under the Nixon umbrella for the next few
- >generations - he so affected American political life and conditions. He is
- >frequently seen as the best/worst thing that happened during that time. Maybe
- >our grandchildren? All of the "objective" writing I have seen has had an
- >obvious ulterior motive.
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- I once had a mentor at UMass describing a project he would like to
- undertake in his last few years of academic work: "1947-1985: The Nixon
- Era". It was his opinion (as a McCarthy liberal) that Richard Nixon in
- many ways embodied and defined the Cold War period, and that a new
- interpretation on the man and his political life was waiting to be written.
- Any thought on this idea??
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- Chris
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