Nixon's the One

[Brad DeLong]

>I'm not going to give a big defense of Truman's foreign policy given the
>bloodiness of the Korean War...
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Why not? You think it would have been better to have avoided the 
casualties of the war and had an entire peninsula--rather than half 
of it--at the tender mercies of the Great Leader?

Brad DeLong, who is suddenly contemplating the virtues of the New 
Hampshire license plate...