Mr. Nixon And The Media
April, 1973
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?Why indeed? Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russia's first Communist dictator, asked the questions. They were rhetorical; L...
