Nixon on Pardoning North, Poindexter
Disgraced former President Nixon is back like some hideous chronic disease on the American body politic. And he finds Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis bland “with the personality of a word processor.” I guess.
Unlike the colorful former President, Dukakis has never kept lists of enemies or bugged the opposition or kept a war going for years only to bring it to a close just before reelection. And he wasn’t run out of town on a rail just ahead of an angry mob only to receive a phony pardon from the man he selected to replace him.
Is it too late to “un-pardon” Nixon and finally put the old rascal behind bars?
WARREN GREENWOOD
Tujunga
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