How to Fight a War

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Tricky, Dick

“In the short run, it would be so much easier, wouldn’t it, to run this war in a dictatorial way, kill all the reporters, and carry on the war.”

—President Richard M. Nixon, on Oval Office audiotape, Feb. 22, 1971, in Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s “Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought,” The Washington Post, 2012. (Image: AP 1972, San Clemente, Calif.)

  • Editorial Comment: Ms. Woods, take a note.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 
 

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