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The Politics of Ben Bradley
The idea that everything was fine before 68 and then it all went to hell after that is wrong. Ben Bradley is this brave editor who's willing to take on the White House, but he's also like one of the best friends of John F. Kennedy. And you really can't compare Nixon to Trump because Nixon was a much better planner and smarter and smarter and a better person. It's just like a lot of things about Nixon, like it's not the same. The comparisons between Nixon and Trump speak to that same dynamic that Republicans frustrated by what they saw as the unpunished corruption and media bias of a tour in favor of the previous administration gave them license to do things that they
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