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The inner Nixon

The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they're still spewing bile, still making America's eyeballs roll.

They're as relevant as ever.

Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He's also the inner Ronald Reagan -- the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male racist who has ever occupied the Oval Office (which is probably most of the occupants).

In an article that just came out in , Tim Naftali, history professor and first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential

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