The left despise Richard Nixon as much because he (with the assistance of Whittaker Chambers) dared to expose their hero, Alger Hiss, for what he was: a Soviet agent.
Ditto Reagan, for seizing the Screen Actors Guild out of Communist control. As a result of this, Reagan received death threats and had to take to carrying a pistol.
“The left despise Richard Nixon as much because he (with the assistance of Whittaker Chambers) dared to expose their hero, Alger Hiss, for what he was: a Soviet agent.”
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Hence the CommunistMedia propaganda event known as Watergate, some 25 years later.
This cannot be said too often.