semcoop/book/9780553418637 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority (Hardcover) By Patrick J. Buchanan $28.00 Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now Not so, Mr Buchanan insists. Drawing on personal archives, including 1,000 memoranda to and from Nixon, he describes his boss’s “emotional empathy with black Americans”—in one instance citing Nixon’s “rage” on hearing that a town in Alabama was refusing to bury a black Vietnam casualty in its whites-only cemetery. He quotes Nixon’s challenges to the hypocrisy of his opponents, who in northern states condemned racism while relying on the votes of openly bigoted southern Democrats to preserve their congressional majorities. Mr Buchanan calls Nixon a centrist, who as president desegregated public schools in the South and expanded the reach of federal paternalism. Along the way he oversaw the creation of such bodies as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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