Stopped reading when he called one of the most liberal presidents in our history his hero. I won’t even bother with Nixon’s crimes.
All you need to know about Dick Nixon is that Prescott Bush was his mentor.
I suggest that you refrain from posting about all topics which you know little to NOTHING whatsoever about!
His father worked for Nixon and Stein probably saw a side of Nixon most people never did. In many respects he did remarkably well with what Kennedy and Johnson left him. A half million men bogged down and bled in an Asian civil war, rampant inflation, massed riots and burning ghettos, and an aggressive and confident Soviet Union with plans to nuke those GD Chinese. Paranoid, but in the category of one who the press and lots of others were really out to get.
Excuse me, NRx, you do know that Ben Stein was a speech writer for President Nixon, don’t you? He also was a speech writer for Ford when Nixon left.
Maybe calling him a “hero” is a bit much, but if it wasn’t for Nixon, Mr. Stein might not be where he is today.
If you know Ben’s history, he had a personal relationship with Richard Nixon back when he was in college. Nixon was a friend who mentored and encouraged him.