2. William Kristol wants the next GOP president to be a mix of Nixon and Reagan:http://wonkette.com/567685/where-is-nixon-now-that-we-need-him …
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3. Kristol's pro-Nixon comments remind me a forgotten corner of the history of neo-conservatism that is worth revisiting.
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4. Neo-conservatism has many strands and pivot points (anti-Stalinist left, Cold War liberalism, 6-day war) but a big one is 1972 election.
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5. Prior to 1972, almost all the proto-neo-cons had voted for and worked with Democrats. Nixon was where neo-cons became Republicans.
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6. In the 1972 primaries, the neo-cons supported "Scoop" Jackson as the Democratic nominee. When McGovern got nomination they leaped
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7. In 1972, Irving Kirstol and Gertrude Himmelfarb organized newspaper ad to get Cold War liberals to say they'll vote for Nixon.
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7. Himmelfarb went to Lionel and Diane Trilling to get them to sign pro-Nixon ad. They told her (I'm paraphrasing), "go to hell."
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8. Bill Kristol was Harvard undergrad in 1972, bravely supporting Vietnam war from afar, and led pro-Nixon students on campus.
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9. Pondering activities of the Kristols and Himmelfarb in 1972, Irving Howe wrote a perceptive, even prophetic, letter to Lionel Trilling
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10. Howe in 1972: New Left now seems like minor digression from big trend since 1945 of American intellectuals moving to the right.
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11. Irving Howe's letter to Trilling is quoted here:http://books.google.ca/books?id=3HUvm91KDn8C&pg=PA277&dq=himmelfarb+trilling+kristol+nixon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Zeh1VNORNaPLsASl7IGAAw&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=himmelfarb%20trilling%20kristol%20nixon&f=false …
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12. Now, here's where things get interesting. Richard Nixon was an anti-Semite. And not in a minor, personal way either.
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13. It's not just Nixon liked to call Kissinger "my little Jew-Boy" or that Nixon staffers counted the number of Jews in the government.
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