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Nixon was quite a fellow. I recently learned that Henry Kissinger reversed a drunk Nixon's orders to start a nuclear war. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold
by consumer451 4y ago
Nixon was quite a fellow. I recently learned that Henry Kissinger reversed a drunk Nixon's orders to start a nuclear war.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/richard-nixon-north-korea.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/richard-nixon-nort...
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> recently learned that Henry Kissinger reversed a drunk Nixon's orders to start a nuclear war It's a good, plausible story. But it's not terrifically sourced [1]. [1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-korea-richard-nixon-nuclear/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-korea-richard-nixon-...
- krapp 4y ago[flagged]
- consumer451 4y agoWhen realpolitik gets real.
- mrguyorama 4y agoEvery anecdote about Nixon has this same problem because it turns out his administration was full of garbage people with horrific moral compasses. Maybe we shouldn't be so skeptical of those claims though, since the verifiable stuff from the tapes are also pretty terrible
- boringg 4y agoSounds like another president I've heard of.
- TravisLS 4y agoSo tired of people on HN disparaging Warren G Harding. Seriously, though: several of the Trump campaign's architects (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration.
- consumer451 4y ago> (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration. Nixon for life apparently. Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/