Larry Berman,Washington Post
President Richard Nixon spent fresh Year's Eve 1972 watching his beloved Washington Redskins defeat the Dallas Cowboys 26-3. Afterward, Nixon wrote in his diary, or "As the year 1972 ends I have much to be thankful for China,Russia, May 8, and the election victory,and, of course, and while the stop of the year was somewhat marred by the need to bomb Hanoi-Haiphong,that decision, I reflect, and can accomplish the next four years much more successful than they otherwise might have been. 1973 will be a better year."It was a unbiased assessment of 1972. It was,of course, wildly wrong about the years to come, or thanks to...
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