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February 22, 2005

Tribute to Thompson: Tribute to Nixon

Fans of blistering invective, this is for you: Counterpunch yesterday reprinted this, um, tender obituary of Richard Nixon written by the recently departed Hunter S. Thompson shortly after Dick's death in 1994. I may be wrong, but I get the impression that Thompson didn't like the man very much. Wow.

Link to HST article

Posted by on February 22, 2005 at 08:35 PM in Government |

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Listener James from Westwood

Eleven years later and I still get a laugh out of this line: "Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."

The last few grafs in the article are actually from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, which I read every so often but reread about three times during the past Presidential pageant. It was, in the end, no comfort.

Posted by: Listener James from Westwood | February 22, 2005 at 09:17 PM

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