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Hindsight can be a burden as well as a benefit, and we must beware of viewing 1972 with a hindsight that makes the Nixon landslide seem inevitable and the Nixon initiation of Watergate seem improbable. For it is a myth that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. It was stupid because it was wrong. But understandably, no one has sought to raise in the President's defense the argument that he would decline a course of action simply because it was wrong...
Perhaps the most universally credited myth is that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. Presumably this is intended as an indirect but effective defense of Mr. Nixon. After all, we are asked, would a campaign so far ahead in the polls perpetrate or permit a burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric...
Freshmen women in general have a tough time being taken seriously, but an underclass woman with a Southern accent is in real trouble. Many people consider her to be stupid, per se. The assumption is that she was admitted only to satisfy Radcliffe's desire for diversity and geographical distribution. Honeyed tones and high...
...apparent that Nixon has once again credited the public with extraordinary gullibility. That anyone with his political intelligence could have decimated an on-going inquiry into the crimes of his own administration and then been surprised by the resultant outcry is absurd. Nixon is simply not that stupid...
...unpopular next door neighbor speaks to his mother: He was always real nice to me, talking to me and listening to me when you don't think he had to. You know how a lot of people sort of like him thought I was just some kind of stupid rag. But he was always real interested in my modeling and things. I liked him a real lot for that." But then Bruce dies and Nicky must face Lesley's nonchalance alone. He does not lose in his attempts to force her to admit her humanity, but neither does...