Heroic Nonsense
August, 1973
how to blur two moral issues with one white house speechwriterAges and Ages hence, social historians will agree that 20th Century Americans refined a high native talent for fooling themselves and often, in fact, chose as leaders precisely those unrare men who would speak to them of things as they really weren't. Surely Mr. Nixon is the perfect President for an electorate requiring a comfy level of self-delusion to keep away the blues. He abolishes trouble by saying it's on the run. "We are...
