Word: nixon
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...Nixon also survives in a far more favorable sense: he has lost none of his sure instinct for gauging the force and direction of the tides of power in world affairs. For example, writing immediately after the failed Moscow putsch of last August, he predicts with remarkable prescience that the Soviet Union will dissolve into a "commonwealth of free and equal nations" that "will coordinate, not govern, the actions of republics." Consequently, his advice on foreign policy is well worth the attention even of those who still gag on hearing his name...
...Nixon's central thesis is that the collapse of the Soviet Union presents the U.S. both with an unparalleled chance to help shape a more stable and peaceful world and with a great danger of a lapse into chaos and turmoil if the nation misguidedly turns its attention totally inward. He offers quite detailed advice on what to do about specific areas of potential trouble, generally in a spirit of cold-blooded realism. Again and again he insists on the continued importance of military power. If the U.S. wants to retain economic and . political influence in the new Europe...
...what Nixon calls "the hard rock of enduring geopolitical realities" is honeycombed by an unexpected vein of moralism. The U.S. must continue aid to poor countries, says Nixon, at least partly because it has a "moral obligation" to help relieve suffering. More generally, the U.S. must spurn the suddenly fashionable new isolationism, not only for the expected practical reasons (its security and prosperity are inextricably bound up with those of the world at large) but also because it has "a moral imperative to use our awesome capabilities as the world's only superpower to promote freedom and justice...
Buchanan was already well known as former top aide to both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and as co-host of Crossfire, regular on The Capital Gang, occupier of what came to be known as the "Yahoo chair" on The McLaughlin Group, and syndicated columnist. His monthly newsletter, PJB, sent to 30,000 true believers who pay $49 to $98 a year, made him a multimillionaire...
...Richard Nixon has noticed the trend, and in several gatherings of his old campaign cronies, he has spoken up. "Bush should not attack or defend in this campaign," Nixon declares. "He is no good at it because it is not in his nature. He is too polite. When he tries, he sounds phony. His greatest strength is being presidential...