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This Week on Dispatches from Clown World we discuss the surprising rehabilitation of Richard Nixon. Growing up, millennials were all taught that he was America’s most evil and disgraceful President and that crusading journalists uncovered a network of corruption. The reality, however, is that Nixon has been more or less exonerated as the victim of a real Deep State conspiracy and was, in his day, one of the most popular and successful Presidents in American history. Not only that, it appears to be objectively true that Nixon fell on his sword and lived the rest of his life in disgrace for the good of the American government.
The New York Times has received 7 previously redacted pages about Nixon which outline the fact that Watergate was driven by Generals who didn’t want peace with China, and was not any sort of left wing conspiracy. One is left wondering if this is the final step towards the recovery of Nixon’s reputation, as he is already probably more pop…
