Nixon’s responsibility

I can’t remember many things on which I’ve agreed with Arthur Schlesinger (his Disuniting America was very much overrated in my view), but I just came upon something he wrote in the November 1973 Atlantic, reproduced in the October 2006 Atlantic, that expresses, in virtually the same words, a thought I’ve had for many years:

Whether Nixon himself was witting or unwitting, what is clearly beyond dispute is his responsibility for the moral atmosphere within his official family.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 09, 2007 02:32 PM | Send