Understanding Nixon
Correspondence Understanding Nixon David Frum’s rave review of Allen J. Matusow’s book about Nixon’s economic policies was a shocker—he rehashes all of the canards that Democrats espoused in...
...President Al Gore right now...
...21 issue ranged from misguided to offensive...
...After all, in 1953 President Eisenhower had inherited exactly the same problems, yet he succeeded both in ending the Democrats’ war without abandoning South Korea and in snuffing out inflation...
...Starr’s report had to include such details, your Parody did not...
...If all of the operative facts were equivalent—except that Bill Clinton were a conservative Republican—your editors would not be quite so zealous...
...Correspondence Understanding Nixon David Frum’s rave review of Allen J. Matusow’s book about Nixon’s economic policies was a shocker—he rehashes all of the canards that Democrats espoused in the early 1970s (“Nixonomics,” Sept...
...Frum also blames Nixon for the doubledigit inflation of 1974, as well as for the energy shortage, the collapse of the international monetary system, and the worst economic slump since 1940...
...Judge Susan Webber Wright can slap him with a heavy fine or Congress can vote to censure him...
...Tragically, the Democratic Congress pulled the rug out from under the Paris Peace Accords in 1974...
...Make him run first in the primaries and seek delegates, just like everyone else...
...This allows him to make the very point Moynihan made while calling the senator’s remarks “portentous . . . vacuous . . . literally untrue...
...Frum concedes that Nixon inherited a mountain of troubles when he took over in 1969, including a country torn by bitter controversy over a losing war started by his Democratic predecessors and a currency devalued by that war...
...The celebratory cartoon cover missed the point: The Starr report deals with a national tragedy, not the national pastime...
...Bennett Washington, DC In Defense of Moynihan David Brooks is so eager to bash Democrats—any Democrats— that he completely distorts Sen...
...Personally, I submit that had Clinton been truthful and made no efforts to conceal his relationship, it would have made no difference whatsoever in the outcome of the Paula Jones case...
...Nixon and Kissinger worked out a peace accord with the North Vietnamese that was very similar to the Korean settlement...
...Therefore, let the punishment fit the crime...
...Nixon’s did not...
...They were not going to let Nixon duplicate Eisenhower’s achievement...
...Such a caricature lends credence to those cynics who see a righteous investigation about real crimes—be they high or low—as just another political food fight between the Left and the Right...
...He scornfully dismissed the charge, saying it was absurd to suggest that at the near-close of a distinguished career Burns would subvert Fed policy for a narrow political purpose...
...Has he forgotten OPEC’s quadrupling of oil prices...
...Joseph J. Collins Alexandria, VA...
...It compares Starr’s necessary but dreary report to a “home run,” hit by a smiling, right-handed, recordbreaking champion...
...There was a crucial difference between the two situations, however: Eisenhower’s GOP had control of both houses of Congress in 195354...
...At a meeting in New York at the time, Milton Friedman, who disagreed with Burns, was asked what he thought about the chairman’s alleged political motivation...
...Finally, the smearing of Arthur Burns as “the most nakedly partisan” Federal Reserve Board chairman was particularly despicable...
...Victor F. Morris Teaneck, NJ Clinton Must Stay Clinton resign or be impeached, come now (“Case Closed,” Sept...
...But as daunting as these problems were, he argues, they were not beyond solution...
...Moynihan is one of the few Democratic heroes in this mess...
...Many disagreed with Burns, but no one who knew him questioned his integrity...
...Moynihan’s observation that the Lewinsky matter is a “crisis of the regime” (“The Report That Ate D.C.,” Sept...
...It was the Arab cartel that caused a worldwide energy shortage, inflation, and recession, not Nixon’s economic policies...
...hence we should promptly get on with our constitutionally provided remedies (impeachment hearings...
...It was the Democrats’ partisan political sabotage that led to total defeat in Vietnam, as well as other frustrations that bedeviled Nixon on the home front...
...Moynihan’s precisely accurate point was that there is a crisis for the Clinton administration (the “regime”) and not a constitutional crisis...
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...Your concluding Parody was in very poor, less-than-Leno, almost Greasemanlike taste...
...Now comes Brooks, pretending that the senator meant “a crisis of the American regime...
...Paterson Wilmette, IL No Home Run The cover and Parody section of your otherwise excellent Sept...
...For my money, Sen...
Vol. 4 • October 1998 • No. 4
