More Nixon tapes released
Another round of Nixon tapes are going to be released,
One of my unlikely life wishes is that I'll live the forty years to see the similar declassification of the Bush documents.
(Fortunately, with so many Bush opponents being so young, there will be plenty of others still around to properly frame the disaster of his Presidency.)
During this time, Nixon forced South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept a settlement with North Vietnam that both men recognized would lead to a Communist military victory. Nixon needed the settlement to conceal the failure of his "Vietnamization and negotiation" strategy to achieve the goal of a South Vietnam that could defend and govern itself.
One of my unlikely life wishes is that I'll live the forty years to see the similar declassification of the Bush documents.
(Fortunately, with so many Bush opponents being so young, there will be plenty of others still around to properly frame the disaster of his Presidency.)
posted by mikevotes at
8:02 AM
2 Comments:
Well, we should at least get to see the early ones, don't you think?
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Praguetwin, at 4:09 PM
Well, that depends on how old you are. There are a couple stages, one at 20 or 25 years, but the big one is at 40 years, meaning 2041 for the classified materials around 9/11. 2043 for alot of the going to Iraq stuff, and 2045 for the Iraq hits the wall and Katrina stuff.
That would be a slightly lucky bounce on the actuarial tables for me.
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mikevotes, at 4:19 PM
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