Does corruption pay? President Nixon has definitely remained in the public eye for long after it was warranted largely due to the trickle of his taped White House phone conversations that always seem to come around the holidays, providing all true politicos with welcome news during a usually (not so much this year) boring news period. The most recent batch are from November and December of 1972.
This year a few clips display the 37th President's seemingly odd approach to empathy. Check out this phone conversation between Nixon and the bedridden veteran newsman Arthur Kroc. Nixon seems to almost smother Krock, a columnist for the much-hated New York Times. Doesn't it seem like Krock is trying to squirm away from the get-go?
In a later conversation, Nixon calls Senator-elect (now Vice-President-elect) Joe Biden following the death of his wife. The call seems so awkward - I'm speechless.
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