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It bothers me when easily accessible information is left out. On Page 231, Smith references a Civil Rights movement spark "a state trooper in nearby [to Selma] Marion shot and killed Jimmy Lee Jackson, a twenty-six-year-old church deacon, as he tried to shield his mother from the trooper's nightstick."

The trooper was: James Fowler, a convicted drug trafficker and an Alabama state trooper. Evil shld be named.

I was in St. Louis at the time.

I just finished the chapter on the "Checkers" speech. And even today, knowing just what a colossal crook he was, the biggest crook until Trump came along, Nixon was masterful in how he constructed this response. I understand the concept of "grudging respect." For Nixon, that is.

Set up spies in [Voorhis] camp ... Corrupt from his very first senatorial campaign.