Montclair, NJ: Watchung Booksellers

Thursday, December 7th, 7pm

Montclair, NJ: Watchung Booksellers

54 Fairfield Street, Watchung Plaza, Montclair, NJ 07042

ph: 973-744-7177

Contact: Margot Sage-EL [email protected]

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The Washington Post Gratuitously and Wrongly Trashes Jimmy Carter

Last week, the Post published a bizarre and outrageous editorial on Kissinger’s legacy that weakly concluded that his legacy “was still up for debate.”  But planted in the middle of the mealy editorial was an unusual criticism of the foreign policy of President Carter, which was gratuitous and wrong-headed.

Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”

After the New York Times begn publishing “The Pentagon Papers” on June 13, 1971, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told President Richard M. Nixon that Daniel Ellsberg was “the most dangerous man in America and that he must be stopped at all costs.”  Nixon was not inclined to seek legal action against Ellsberg and the Times, but Kissinger convinced the president to do so.  Kissinger was never tarred with the crimes of Watergate, but his obsession with Ellsberg contributed to the worst aspects of Watergate.