The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] guilty because (1) the guilty tend not to spend their entire lives protesting their 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 […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has been known on the […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

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