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Nixon was quite a fellow. I recently learned that Henry Kissinger reversed a drunk Nixon's orders to start a nuclear war.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/richard-nixon-nort...

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> recently learned that Henry Kissinger reversed a drunk Nixon's orders to start a nuclear war

It's a good, plausible story. But it's not terrifically sourced [1].

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-korea-richard-nixon-...

Every anecdote about Nixon has this same problem because it turns out his administration was full of garbage people with horrific moral compasses. Maybe we shouldn't be so skeptical of those claims though, since the verifiable stuff from the tapes are also pretty terrible

Sounds like another president I've heard of.

So tired of people on HN disparaging Warren G Harding.

Seriously, though: several of the Trump campaign's architects (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration.

> (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration.

Nixon for life apparently. Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/

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