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Tom Lantos leaves the planet.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

   Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.)  When it comes to politicians, I ordinarily have looked at the glass as more than half empty than the other way around. Until the age of fourteen or so (born in 1963), I was optimistic that Nixon was an abberration and that the political system could be made better than in Nixon's image. Many years later, I learned that I could no longer blame Nixon for surreptitious White House taping; Johnson did it and revealed it to Nixon apparently on Nixon's inauguration day, and Johnson apparently inherited the taping from Kennedy. So I had to find other ways still to despise Nixon's presidency, from his bag of dirty tricks to his bigotry to his overall ruthlessness; it appears he felt like a misfit who so much wanted to be liked, and got carried all the more away to the extreme when he got vindicated in 1968 over his 1960 debate and electoral defeat by Kennedy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).