Few things are funnier than Richard Nixon talking to his aids about Philip Roth:https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nixon-asked-haldeman-philip-roth/# …
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NIXON: Roth is of course a Jew. HALDEMAN: Oh yes … He’s brilliant in a sick way. NIXON: Oh, I know — HALDEMAN: Everything he’s written has been sick
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COLSON: The only effect it will have is to make people sympathetic to you … The smear attacks on presidents turn people off … NIXON: Roth is a bad man. COLSON: Oh yes. NIXON: He’s a horrible moral leper.
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HALDEMAN: Well it’s interesting … that Newsweek is the only one that’s really built it up positively and the Saturday Review shoots in down. NIXON: The New Republic does too.
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