Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] how will they deal with what he confidently expects will be Trump’s systematic destruction of all record of his crimes in office. This was made illegal after Nixon, but no one seriously expects Trump to take any notice of that. (pp. 60-64) On a more serious note, Smock assesses what history’s verdict is likely […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] US sponsored invasion force at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Richardson was to be appointed to a top job in the US State Department by Richard Nixon in 1969. And inevitably, when the Russians invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979, the IRC was involved in establishing refugee camps across the border in […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Alexander Chancellor pointed out in The Spectator, 9 March 2013, many years ago Mao Tse-tung gave Edward Heath two pandas for London Zoo; and similarly to Richard Nixon. under instructions from its government to maintain a low profile. Both nations are empire-building but doing it in different ways: Russia originally going for high visibility […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the early 2000s, culminating in her 2006 book Londonistan (London: Gibson Square). Virtually the last connection to the old isolationist wing of the Republican Party is former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan. In one of his recent columns, about the Putin-hacked-the-election story, he wrote the following: ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] 2002; and Joe Murphy, ‘Peter’s (new) friends’, Evening Standard, 27 September 2002. and the Caribbean.157 Henry Kissinger: National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, until 9/11 Kissinger had been in conflict with the neo-conservatives, who derided him as the architect of an amoral foreign policy that appeased […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] 6. For another view of the Splinter Factor story see . 59 60 25 innocence, as Hiss did; and (2) Hiss’s accusers included the FBI and Richard Nixon, and nothing either of those asserted in the 1950s should be believed without a ton of evidence. Such evidence may exist; I haven’t read much of […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] century, American conservatism ‘has delivered much more harm than good, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to the Trump presidency’. (p. 6) Frum admits that Nixon, Reagan and both the Bushes ‘may sometimes have drawn power from deep and dark energies in the American soul’, but they were Paul McGuire and Troy […]