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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14. Nixon's anti-Semitism was integral to his politics, manifesting itself in his core division between real Americans & phony egghead elite
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15. Nixon: "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?... I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
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16. As far as I know none of the neo-conservatives who supported Nixon in 1972 have written honest assessment of his anti-Semitism.
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17. @DougSaunders Nixon's repeated demanding of lists of all the Jews in the public service was an outstanding feature of the tapes.
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18. Conversation between Nixon & Billy Graham on alleged Jewish "stranglehold" on USA public life worth revisiting:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2002/03/nixon_and_the_jews_again.html …
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19. Commentary, which purports to speak for Jewish values & interests, celebrates Nixon even after extent of anti-Semitism became clear.
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