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Article: Teaching Tricky Dick. (academic conference on Richard M. Nixon)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 4, 1988
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Teaching Tricky Dick
AT A THREE-DAY session on Long Island, New York, a jury of press and professors gave their preliminary assessment in the strange case of Richard Milhous Nixon. The "Retrospective on the Nixon Presidency" held at Hofstra last November was the first major academic conference on Richard Nixon. The scholars found in Mr. Nixon's "complex" history the potential for a thriving cottage industry. They came not to bury Nixon, but to reappraise him.
In foreign affairs, detente was a big hit, but Nixon's style wasn't: his policies were "without moral content," and conceived "in a crafty atmosphere," said Kenneth Thompson of the University of ...