National Review, May 28th, 1990
RICHARD NIXON began his career "in the arena," entering public life when conservatives needed credible heroes. The determined young man from Whittier, California, promptly became a bete noire of New Dealers by taking on Jerry Voorhis, Alger Hiss, and Helen Gahagan Douglas. The anti-communist of the Forties and Fifties pounded the Achesons, Trumans, and Stevensons and went on to become the liberal-killer of the Sixties. He mobilized the Silent Majority, toyed with welfare reform, introduced Vietnamization, won re-election by decimating vital elements of FDR'S old coalition, and, finally, outr...
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