When you’re in a room with Henry Kissinger and your plans for war make him say “Whoa there, settle down!” that’s a sign that you have lost all semblance of your humanity.
The thing that gets me is that Nixon was raised as a Quaker. You know, the guys who had an astoundingly high mortality rate in WWI because, being pacifists, they refused to take up arms and a lot of them would opt for ambulance duty instead so they’d be carrying wounded soldiers on stretchers away from the front lines and, of course, they would often end up getting blown up or taking a bullet themselves.
This is the moral code that Nixon was raised in; it is better to take one of the riskiest jobs in war than it is to pick up a weapon. There’s no convincing me that he wasn’t an opportunist of the highest order.
“I just want you to think big, Henry, for God’s sake”
— Richard Nixon to Henry Kissinger upon being told by him that it “would be too much” to nuke the dams in Vietnam to flood the country
Didn’t think I could hate that racist shithead even more.
When you’re in a room with Henry Kissinger and your plans for war make him say “Whoa there, settle down!” that’s a sign that you have lost all semblance of your humanity.
The thing that gets me is that Nixon was raised as a Quaker. You know, the guys who had an astoundingly high mortality rate in WWI because, being pacifists, they refused to take up arms and a lot of them would opt for ambulance duty instead so they’d be carrying wounded soldiers on stretchers away from the front lines and, of course, they would often end up getting blown up or taking a bullet themselves.
This is the moral code that Nixon was raised in; it is better to take one of the riskiest jobs in war than it is to pick up a weapon. There’s no convincing me that he wasn’t an opportunist of the highest order.