Noam Chomsky has made a similar point...often stating that in many ways Nixon was the last liberal president.-Tony
----- Original Message ----- From: Peter K. <peterk at enteract.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:56 AM Subject: Ehrenreich & Geoghagen on labor movement
> http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021223&s=ehrenreich
>
> Monday I saw Thomas Geoghagen do a reading with Aleksandar Hemon at
> an event orgazined by Bridge magazine fiction editor (and sometime
> Bafflerite) Mike Newirth.
>
> He argued that when it came to the fight on inequality Nixon was to the
> left of Clinton, because he had to respond to those on his left.
>
> Peter
>
>
>