CSPAN2 Nixons White House Wars August 8, 2017
Go back to 1947 where he is going off to europe and he and Jackie Kennedy both supported the marshall plan, supported nato, supported containment of the soviet union. Politics, richard nixon, i think, is fair to say, in his strategies, political strategies and tactics, he was antielitist, partly populist, middle american, representing those who were unrepresented in his own way. The combination of those things were the things that gave in 1972, socially and culturally he was a traditionalist and there are idiosyncrasies. One story in my book, i did the briefing books after agnes walter when i ...