On 23rd December 1971, a fictional motion picture was released that became a box office smash. It was a populist trailblazer that set the scene for Nixon’s landslide re-election in 1972.
He long warned of the perils of NATO expansion, the need to manage China’s emergence onto the world stage, and the paucity of Western strategy. Tragically, he has been vindicated.
If he had managed to stay in office another 10 months he would have become the 38th President on the 9th August 1974 following Richard Nixon’s resignation.
This book will delight many of those who see the Brexit PM as a disgrace.
Whittaker Chambers’ memoir exposed a major Communist plot and toppled New Deal royalty. It remains relevant today.
Trump seems to be modelling himself on Richard Nixon. But he’s more like segregationalist George Wallace.
This is important not only because without arguments we are weak in the face of our adversaries, such as Corbyn, but also because we must keep checking that we’re right.
Watch what he says, and what he does – not what we think he means, represents, or how he comes across.
Number Ten has been desperate from the start that we must remain in the Customs Union – and endure a kind of semi-skimmed faux Brexit.