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2026-07-24 03:30 UTC
It's quite a readable book and insightful, and I actually liked it quite a bit more than the flabby and pompous political hagiography of JFK's ghostwritten Profiles in Courage which came out round the same time. But Six Crises is, of course, Richard Nixon propagandizing himself and that must always be kept in mind.
Dave Sim makes a Six Crises joke in Cerebus in one of the earlier storylines. It's peculiar to remember those times when Cerebus still seemed witty and unique for its social commentary as an indie #comic.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 03:32
Anyway, this Last Pumpkin Paper novel postulates that Richard Nixon never gave up on trying to exonerate himself of the persistent accusation that he and Whittaker Chambers had simply framed Alger Hiss as a political stunt. Nixon's still got a little gang of plumbers with him (much diminished but loyal and active) and the story goes in some wild directions culminating with one of Nixon's men pretending to be a top East German official and hollering out orders to breach the Berlin Wall. Oh and the book does conjecture that Hiss was innocent but that Nixon was also innocent, deceived by Chambers for reasons I can't remember. (cont'd)