Hello, it's Friday, June 29, 2018. Another day in America, another mass shooting. This one in a newsroom. I suppose it was inevitable. That doesn't make it any less traumatic or sad or infuriating. Words matter.
This principle was on display 46 years ago today in the Oval Office. Richard Nixon was talking with Henry Kissinger, a conversation taped surreptitiously by the president, as were so many of his communications, and made public for the first time five years ago.
Democrats, Nixon told his national security adviser, must be “smashed … disgraced, driven right out of public life.”
