Reply #6: I distrusted (and am still repelled by) the kind of men Nixon placed in [View All]

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positions of influence.

Haldeman and Erlichman. John Mitchell. Hells bells, those guys were thugs in suits. I loved Hunter S. Thompson's description of Nixon's crew: "thugs and fixers." And that was probably charitable.

Reagan was imbecilic long before the diagnosis. That was a difficult presidency to watch. By daylight there was sunny Ronny blathering nonsense in those historic photo-ops with the patriotic backgrounds, lifting the American spirit, blah blah blah, and then by night there were Negroponte's death squads destroying people's lives in El Salvador.

If I'm forced to choose, you're right. I guess I'd take Nixon.