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“Nixon said, with full conviction, “Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

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The story follows a man's journey through life's trials and tribulations, highlighting his quest for forgiveness and self-discovery. more

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A.M. Homes

A.M. Homes is an American writer born on December 18, 1961. Her works span across novels, short story collections, and essays, known for her unique narrative style and profound social insights. more

“Mr. Nixon had said things like this: "If our cities are to be livable for the next generation, we can delay no long. er in launching new approaches to the problems that beset them and to the tensions that tear them apart." And he said, "When you cut expenditures for education, what you are doing is shortchanging the American future.” But frankly. I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do. (From Voices of Multicultural America)”

Richard Nixon Nixon

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. (From Voices of Multicultural America)”

Richard Nixon Nixon

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“It has been suggested that Nixon’s antidrug campaign was, in actuality, a bid to establish his own intelligence network. It has also been suggested that it was exactly that bid which brought the sucker setup that was Watergate and Nixon’s political assassination.”

War On Drugs Watergate Richard Nixon

Book:The Last Investigation

Source: The Last Investigation

“Starting with the father of the nation-depicted in the fresco that adorns the eye of the Capital Rotunda, the Apotheosis of George Washington, as an angel ascending into heaven-Americans have idealized their presidents. "People identify with a President in a way that they do not with no other public figure" wrote Ray Price..."Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that's a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king, with maybe just a touch of avenging Furies thrown in”

Presidents Richard Nixon George Washington

Book:Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

Source: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

“Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when their own situation was deteriorating. That slender assurance is shrinking.”

Poor Whites Racial Subjugation

Book:Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Source: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

“By the middle of the twentieth century, the white working-class American, wrote the white southern author Lillian Smith, "has not only been neglected and exploited, he has been fed little except the scraps of 'skin color' and 'white supremacy' as spiritual nourishment.”

White Supremacy Poor Whites

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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