Lasky,V. It Didn't Start With Watergate. 1978
Lasky, Victor. It Didn't Start With Watergate. New York: Dell Publishing,
1978. 478 pages.
Victor Lasky is a conservative who has written negative books on the
Kennedy brothers and Jimmy Carter. He was also a public relations executive
with CIA-funded Radio Liberty in New York City from 1956-1960. His mission
in "It Didn't Start With Watergate" is to convince the reader that Nixon
didn't do anything that various Democrats since FDR haven't done many
times over. He almost succeeds. Better still, the book is fun to read.
If Lasky were to update the book, he could have a field day with the
politically-correct interests that have taken over the Democratic Party,
paralyzing it at the very time that broad-based New Deal reforms might
otherwise be on the table.
But rather than exonerating Nixon, Lasky ultimately manages to
incriminate the entire system. Any leftist can find ample confirmation
here that Democrats and Republicans are two moments of the same corrupt
historical dialectic. It's small wonder that fewer citizens bother to vote
these days.
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