"Reportedly Nixon … regards the détente with Peking as the principal jewel in the notoriously underdecorated diadem of his administration, but the...
Nixon’s China Policy Skepticism
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William Rusher
Loss of GOP Identity
"No one can effectively lead or even work for the Republican Party today, because no one can possibly say what it stands for." Source: The Making of...
Building a New Coalition
"Of course, nothing worth while is ever achieved without sacrifice, and the formation of the coalition I have described will entail losses as well...
McCarthy’s Relentlessness
"Most politicians will agree with you and not mean a goddamn word of it." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the...
Refusing Soviet Travel
"It is a waste of time to squander a lot of heavy logic on situations that are simply not designed to respond to purely logical treatment." Source:...
Security vs. Rights in Government
"It is entirely proper to remove an employee from a government job if he is demonstrably a security risk, without requiring the government to prove...
UN and Lost Hopes
"Most of the hopes vested in the UN were absurd from the start; virtually all of the rest have been destroyed, one by one, as it has increasingly...
Rusher’s Razor on the GOP
"I made up my mind years ago that salvation for America, if it is to come at all, will not take place through the medium of the Republican Party....
Presidential Character Rarity
"If this is one of the truest indicia of character—a temperament so balanced and serene that it can almost command its environment—then character is...
Amoral Political Operator
"He was an interesting man, and a complex man—and not in any sense of the word an evil man. I think he was, however, rather devoid of any moral...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
The Bureaucracy’s Drift
"I guess it is inevitable that most posts in government will be filled by the type of seaweed that drifts in and out with the tides of politics."...