This past December, the Nixon presidential library released its largest collection of archival papers and tapes, revealing even more paranoid insanity from America's most-beloved paranoid crazy president. Now that the library has shifted to federal caretakers (and away from private Nixon loyalists, under whom the only mention of Watergate was a display arguing it was a political coup launched by Nixon's enemies), much more has come to light about Nixon's enemies list and over-all craziness.
My favorite example: Nixon was so obsessed with being loved that he made all civil service employees in the white house remove all pictures of former presidents, including one 41-year veteran of the White House who was forced to remove a picture of Kennedy with a personal inscription.
All of this is searchable online at the museum's website, so feel free to take this president's day afternoon off and regale yourself with irrefutable evidence of the decline of Western civilization...
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Man, I hope they find this stuff out for Reagan soon - there has to be some pretty juicy gossip there...
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