----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Re: Nixon's the One
> Gordon Fitch wrote:
>
> >As another note not yet sounded in this discussion, Gary
> >Wills (in _Nixon_Agonistes_, I believe) made him out to be
> >some kind of liberal.
>
> Yes, the last liberal, in fact, no relation to Katha Pollitt's Last
> Marxist (Paul Mattick Jr). As I remember Wills's argument, Nixon
> believed in meritocracy, which to work right requires the proverbial
> level playing field.
>
> Doug