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Read this thread and remember that Nixon, unlike Trump, had some remnants of conscience.

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

Crazy stuff presidents say: 4/25/72 tape of Oval Office conversation between Nixon and Kissinger. NIXON: I still think we ought to take the dikes out now, will that drown people? HK: About 200K people. NIXON: No, no, no...I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that Henry?

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

And someone to tell him when it was really too far.

10:12 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Peter Kupselaitis

@PeteKupselaitis

Earlier I said that they were both delusional because of HK's: "because I don't want the world mobilized against you". It sounded like HK was even more concerned about Nixon than his admitted concern for the civilians; seen now, HK used Nixon's narcissism to the world's advantage

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